Real tools, real training, and a directory that nobody can buy their way to the top of. All of it free. And it stays free, because we pay for it by printing pictures rather than by charging you to use any of this.
Most photography sites give you a blog and call it education. These are working tools: they ask what you own, what you charge, and what you’re trying to make, and they answer with something you can act on today.
Check any photo against any print size before you spend a penny. It will tell you no.
Try it below →live on this pagePhotographersThe least a day can be worthWork out the floor under your day rate from your actual costs, not from what a forum told you.
Open the calculator →/ratePhotographersWhat your year actually costsGear, software, insurance, mileage, the shoots you drove to and lost money on. All of it, honestly.
Add up the year →/businessPhotographersLet’s start with what you haveTell us your camera and lenses. We teach against that kit, not against one we wish you’d bought.
The gear door →/gearPhotographersWhere you startAnswer a few questions and get put at the right point in the curriculum instead of at lesson one.
Find your place →/pathPhotographersGo and do thisA drill you shoot on your own gear. We read the file afterwards and tell you what actually happened.
Get a drill →/drillNothing here asks for a card. Most of it doesn’t ask for an account. I already have an account
Useful whoever prints it. A print order does not check whether your file can carry the size you picked, and you find out when it arrives soft. This tells you before anyone takes your money, including us.
Pick a camera and a size. The number updates immediately.
306dots per inch at that size
This will look sharp from the distance you'd actually stand at.
At 8 × 10 a lab wants 240 DPI or better.
3,264 × 2,448 pixels · 8 × 10 in
Big prints get looked at from further away, so the honest floor drops as the size goes up. That’s why a 24×36 doesn’t need the same DPI as a 5×7.
If it passes and you’d like us to make it, here’s how that works →
Fine-art paper, canvas wraps and metal prints: made at a professional lab, checked against the file first, and refused if the file can’t carry the size.
We don’t sell leads, we don’t sell your contact details, and we don’t take a cut of what a photographer charges you. We never see that transaction at all.