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If you're looking for some free photography lessons visit photo.tuts+.  They have video tutorials and articles on all aspects of photography - from hardware to capturing the image to post production.  There is a special section for beginners called basix.

photo tuts+ is part of the Plus education network.  Another one of their sites you might want to check out is psd tuts+ for Photoshop users.  The special effects tutorials look especially interesting.

After Effects (Adobe's software for "creating sophisticated motion graphics and cinematic visual effects") is covered at ae tuts+.  You could learn how to make people walk through walls.