CreativeLive: online classes Reviews

Being a Creative my whole life, and yes I believe Creative SHOULD be capitalized, the platform that is Creative Live is such a testament to whom Chase Jarvis is as the man & Creative himself.

Having it at my fingertips makes me know that at any moment, I can open Pandora’s box, and satisfy any creative needs or desires I have. How they have vetted the teachers to the subject matters they have chosen...it is all a brilliant collection for the world. I couldn’t recommend it more if I had stock in it myself. My hope is that it is with us for generations to come and only gets better, like age, or a fine wine for my kids and their kids. Thank you Creative Live for making the world a better place.

this app’s website is clean and simple to navigate. It’s great. CreativeLive , on the other hand, is kind of infuriating when I can’t get it to work. If I’m able to download 14GB of video to my phone, wouldn’t it make sense that it should be accessible without data or WiFi? Yet, I’m prompted to log in, so the massive amount of data is just sitting locked up in my phone, as useless as the website is when I have no internet access.
Another drawback is that within 3-6 minutes into a course video, a dialog box pop up box asks me if I want to share the link to social media. I have yet found out how to turn this off or prevent it from popping up.

If I can figure out work arounds for these issues or if CL updates to fix them, I’ll give it 5 Stars. As it stands now, it’s just a big block of unusable storage data.

I have struggled for years to find classes that I can take after work. It seems creative classes are for the students and the retired. With this app I have access to more classes than I could have imagined and can take them on my schedule. I highly recommend the Creators Pass if you plan on taking more than one or two classes.
The only negative is that some photography classes are outdated in terms of social media advise. But general sound business practices never go out of style so you can alway learn something from those classes.
And while you are at it listen to the podcasts they are very inspiring!
Enjoy the learning!

Tons of great content presented in a simple interface!!

Some great free live content, but also an enormous library to choose from. I’ve been a this app fan for years and bought my first course back in 2012 and have bought multiple courses since. You don’t need to pay for anything to get started, but I did mostly because the live content was so valuable that I wanted to have the content available whenever I wanted, including offline, which is important to me for my daily bus commute through varied cell and WiFi zones.

Great content! Try it!!

Creative Live is phenomenal. So many courses, so many topics, and then they went and added yoga! Happy camper here, with only one exception, and that’s a big one. Why only 3 stars, when I’m so incredible happy with the quality and breadth of the content offered? Well, the Apple TV app is phenomenally bad. You can’t access your favorites (I have the All Access pass), you can’t search for classes, and there are only a fraction of available classes displayed in each category, without fail the one class you want to watch is not pictured. Sure, I can AirPlay, but the purpose of having an Apple TV app is not having to do that. It’s kinda stupid, well, incredibly stupid, to have to tie up two devices to watch a video.

I value learning and I love the courses offered. However, CreativeLive often malfunctions by not showing any video. In my research about this, it seems like crashes have been going on for a long time but nothing has been done about it. This comes across as either your not caring about your service to us or that you have incompetent developers. I’m siding with there being a lax attitude about this issue because all other apps on my phone work smoothly.

I rate the content a 5 but CreativeLive ’s functionality a zero.

I realize that CreativeLive is free but in a way, we pay for it thru our payment of the courses that we purchase. I’m sure that if there was an ongoing glitch with your receiving our payments, you’d quickly find a way to remedy the issue. Well, our end of the interaction went well as you get our payments. We expect the service to match our devotion to learning and that your app properly presents the classes for which we pay.

I hope that you read this. Moreover, I hope that you fix the issues.

Thank you,

Marcos

CreativeLive crashes a lot more than I would like, and it spontaneously logs me out for no reason two or three times a week. Not sure why this is happening, but it’s really annoying to have to keep entering my email address and password — quadruply annoying because it doesn’t pull from my iPhone’s password autofill database. Come on guys, you can do better than this.

Also, one more bit of feedback: it would be nice if it had a 15 second back button instead of 30 seconds, or a setting that would allow users to choose between the two. I’ve often just missed something that was said, and it’s annoying to have to go back a full 30 seconds just to catch what I missed in the last 5 to 10 seconds.

I basically learned how to use Photoshop in a month. This is a complex and often obscure program that is so powerful, I would never master it in 10 lifetimes. But Ben Willmore allowed me to understand and apply many of its functions in a very comprehensive way and also made me aware of many features I wasn’t aware of as well as excellent insight on the thought process you need to have when using PS.
I am now going to go thru his Lightroom Course because even tho I am proficient in this program I am sure we will show me things I wasn’t aware of.
Thanks Ben! You are a very cool guy!

Ok so i like the one free class a day thing. It works perfectly for what i want to do. Except one thing. I wish that the free class everyday continued in the course i last focused on the day before. Because id rather be able to finish a basics course, over the span of a week before moving on to the more advanced course. Because some of us want to learn, but dont have the money to pay for every course we want to learn. Seriously one class a day for free is actually perfect. I just wish the class you got for free was the next one in the same course your focusing on. I guess what im asking for is a more personalized experience.

One of the great things about this app is I can explore so many classes and instructors, especially with the all-access pass. There are a ton of amazing courses that I may have been hesitant to buy individually because they might not be my thing. But with the all-access pass, I try different classes and instructors and it’s really been a game changer for me. I’ve taken Brooke Shaden and Kelly Brown courses which seemed outside my typical interest, but they opened me up to a whole new level of creativity and photography. this app is amazing.

I was all set to buy a pass for this but it no longer works on my iPhone. I had an email login, which I can still use on the website, but CreativeLive will no longer allow me to type in an address. It offers Facebook and Google login, which I don’t use, and the box is there for email sign in, but I can’t actually type in it. I’ve been on both the website and the page here in the AppStore, and none of the menus I have followed offer me the option to submit this issue. If it’s here somewhere, it’s not designed to be readily accessible. Since I needed this “on the go” for my current lifestyle, I’m now passing on the pass, and relieved that I hadn’t already paid for it or bought more classes....

Most infuriating app. Been a long time creative live viewer and decided to give CreativeLive a try with my new iPad. App seems to work. A little slow to start up but then downloaded content like a pro. ...but that was it. Won’t play downloaded content no matter how long I wait. I usually end up watching from the site than wasting even more time on CreativeLive. I just can’t understand how such a great organization as creative live can have such an awful app.

I shoot with a DSLR. Recently in hiking and backpacking trips I’ve decided to ditch the gear it’s just too cumbersome but was unhappy with my phone shots, they just didn’t have the same wow factor and I didn’t understand how people were getting such great shots with their phones. I learned a lot in this little class, mostly that I was not using it to it’s full potential because I never took the time to learn the features. Great class, changed my cell photos! Thank you.

I can’t believe that I can get this kind of amazing, life-changing knowledge for such an affordable price! I get the feeling that they really care about people, and helping people, and aren’t just providing a service to make money. I’m in the middle of starting my own business, and I’m not sure I would have had the confidence to do so without unlimited access to all the education I needed. Thank you Creative Live!

this app offers great content on their site and now iOS apps! I own a couple of classes and it's great to be able to download them to iPhone/iPad for offline viewing. The lesson of the day makes watching/learning easy for those busy days when watching a full class is impossible.

Would love to see updates to quickly search through the classes you own as well as streaming support to older generation Apple TVs.

I think CreativeLive and the website are great. I love the in depth learning and the bonus materials. The only reason I don’t give 5 stars is because the classes are a little pricey and there should be more free content. Not just one free video a day but also free bonus materials. Maybe even a reward program that can earn free classes. Things like daily specials and buy one get one offers. I feel the mobile app should also be a little easier to navigate when searching for specific types of classes.

Way of learning and using your time to become a better writer or start a podcast.
Even when there’s no quarantine, I’m always taking online classes, doing creative projects, saving animals and the earth, reading, so I’m internally motivated, spending loads of time outdoors with my fur babies ,
but it’s nice to not need to leave the house to hone some of these skills.
I do want to say (write), you can take all the classes in the world (that'd be me), but ultimately it comes down to you buckling down and doing the monotonous, nitty-gritty, work that no one is ever going to see, the day-in, day-out, giving up hanging out, checking your cell phone every 5 minutes, sacrifice, and just doing it, come-what-may,baby.
It’s never going to be perfect, so just do it!
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Love CreativeLive , it works great and the instructors all seem very knowledgeable. I would and have recommended this platform to anyone looking to expand their skill set and invest more in themself. The only things that would make this nearly perfect is the ability to cast the videos to a streaming device (that’s not Apple TV) and adding split screen functionality for iPad users so you can watch on one side and take notes on the other.

I originally signed up for one $29 Fast Start class to get up to speed on my new Fuji X-T3. I was so impressed with the instructor (John Greengo) that I became interested in his Fundamentals of Photography class. When I saw an offer for a yearly subscription for all classes (Creator Pass) at just $149, I had to sign up.

To have access to all these amazing experts in a wide variety of subject for just $149/year is incredibly valuable.

I live in the Dominican Republic. Getting access to good education on creative disciplines is quite limited down here. this app has helped understand photography a lot better without leaving my country to study abroad. I’ve purchased a few courses already and my skills have improved dramatically. I’d definitely recommend their courses to anyone in the creative business.

Incredible content..only complaint is once lessons are watched on iphone or iPad they are all skipped when they are watched again. You have to manually select each lesson. I often listen to courses while driving and it makes it a real challenge to have continuity.

Wow - I must admit they’ve reacted incredibly quick and made the change. Excellent work. 5 stars!!

I love Creative Live. The classes offered are top notch. I’ve learned so much and continue to learn more. I am grateful to other photographers for sharing their experiences and knowledge with others.
It is wonderful that you can watch a class live (or a rerun) and then you make the decision to purchase.
Now more classes are being offered in different fields. This is great.
Don’t ever stop learning.
Thank you.

Creative live has amped up my photography game! I am a visual learner, and this is exactly what I always needed! And while learning what I came here to learn I bounced around each day with my free lesson, and happened upon a style of photography that resonated with me! I found my niche in that class and bought it too! I couldn’t sing your praises any higher! Y’all need Creative Live! No matter what level you’re at!