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24 alternatives to The Bastards Book of Photography
An open-source guide to working with light A visual guide to learning your camera
The Bastards Book of Photography is an open-source visual guide that teaches photographers how to use their camera's manual controls to create quality images. It focuses on working with natural light without requiring… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Bastards Book of Photography launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Learn to build profitable startups the indie way
2018 · readmake.com · its alternatives →
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Makerbook▲767A directory of the best free resources for creatives
2015 · cursorup.com · its alternatives →
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Build your own amazing illustrations.
2022 · iradesign.io · its alternatives →
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Reproducing images with geometric primitives. Contribute to fogleman/primitive development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A collection of 100 UI/UX tips that I have collected since 2021
2021 · fifty.user-interface.io · its alternatives →
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I've had an idea for a long time to generate a cute coloring book based on family photos, send it to a printing service, and then deliver it to people. Last month, when OpenAI's Sora was released for public use I (foolishly) thought I'd manually drag-and-drop each order’s photos into Sora's UI and copy the resulting images back into my system. This took way too much time (about an hour for each of the few books I made and tested with family and friends). It clearly wasn't possible to release this version because I’d be losing a huge amount of time on every order. So instead, I decided I'd…
2025 · clevercoloringbook.com · its alternatives →
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A tiny book on how to draw at work
2016 · 5264002956444.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · thebookofmodding.ml · its alternatives →
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https://urbook.fordes.de/ …a free/libré book about UX research with qualitative methods on motivations, activities written for UX researchers, UX designers and product managers. I have been writing on this book since about 2010 and did a large rewrite during the first half of 2022. (I initally planned this with a bigger tech publisher). This is the link to the full book for online reading: https://jdittrich.github.io/userNeedResearchBook/ (it’s one long page, so it might take a bit to load)
2022 · its alternatives →
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Free ebook about all things typography
2016 · practicaltypography.com · its alternatives →
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The definitive guide to creating icons by Jon Hicks
2015 · fivesimplesteps.com · its alternatives →
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An excellent pixel art book
2016 · bitmapbooks.com · its alternatives →
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Paperback▲151Simpler and tidier alternative to wiki pages
2021 · paperbackhq.com · its alternatives →
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Advice to make any amateur look like a pro
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Everything you wanted to know about designing with Sketch
2016 · its alternatives →
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A practical guide on turning a house into a home
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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ofBook▲61Free book about openFrameworks, written by the community
2017 · openframeworks.cc · its alternatives →
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A tiny book of design exercises
2016 · 5264002956444.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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