Online Photoshop tutorials and training

Learning Adobe Photoshop is no easy task. Design Talkboard has taken a look at some of the Adobe Photoshop training web sites, to try and separate the wheat from the chaff. As ever, each course has its own approach.

Adobe Photoshop is the world's premier digital graphics editing application. Unlike any other design tool, it is probably the only one that has an almost endless learning curve and there are few, if any, graphic designers that can truly say that they know all there is to know about it.

For beginners, Adobe Photoshop can sometimes seem like a frustratingly complex program and many are tempted to give up, or pay for expensive class-based training programs. But there are other options.

Teaching yourself, with the aid of online Photoshop tutorials, can be a very useful way to get the most out of the program. With this in mind, the following are Design Talkboard's selected Photoshop training resources. As with our other software training resources, all of these sites offer free tutorials - although some may well also offer paid services.

Also check out our new Photoshop tips & tutorials section.

Adobe

Photoshop training from Adobe

From the makers of the program themselves. Adobe have their own series of Photoshop training resources, available as books on CD and DVD. However, very little of it is free. Users have to register as a student and they are then allowed to sample a free course.

Planet Photoshop

Planet Photoshop tutorials

A well organised and clearly laid out Photoshop training resource. The tutorials are divided up into logical subsections, such as 'Effects', 'Photography' and 'image correction'. Helpfully, there is also a section for older versions of Photoshop. A very useful resource.

Coffee and pixels

Photoshop Cafe

Photoshop Cafe's training resources are mainly in the realm of special effects and textures. If you like creating glassy orbs and 3D style frames for your artwork, then Photoshop Cafe should be a port of call.

Evangelising Photoshop

Adobe Evangelists

A series of downloadable Photoshop tutorials in PDF format. This site has tutorials that cover a number of Photoshop versions, ranging from version 6, through to Photoshop CS2. Adobe Evangelists also have training tips for a number of other Sodobe products, such as InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects.

Photoshop tutorials

Good Tutorials web site

Good tutorials claim to have, the last time we looked, 7,423 Photoshop tutorials. The home page loads with a daily tutorials section and the rest of the site is simple to navigate, divided into sections ranging from 'Text Effects' to 'Buttons'. The tutorials are basic and you need to register to get access to some of them. Good for beginners.

Other online training reviews

InDesign training courses - Adobe InDesign tutorial resources.

QuarkXpress tutorials - Web site resources for learning QuarkXpress.