Resources
Photoshop Tutorials:
These sites can provide new ideas and tutorials on more advanced techniques. Most are decent quality and some are excellent, but beware of the low quality tutorials filled with popup ads and banners. Photoshop itself also has help files that can be accessed by going to the Photoshop Help menu on the file bar. It contains “how to tips” for fixing and enhancing photos. http://www.pixel2life.com/ - Tutorial search engine
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/designcenter/search.cfm?product=Photoshop&go=Go – Tutorials hosted by Adobe
http://del.icio.us/adobe/Photoshop - Photoshop tagged on del.icio.us
http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Photoshop/1 - another site with many tutorials to choose from
Plug-ins for Photoshop:
Plug-ins are extra programs / filters that allow users to create special effects within Photoshop. If you’re interested in learning more, you can consider investing in some of these products. http://www.alienskin.com/ - The famous Eyecandy and Xenofex series
http://www.furbo-filters.com/index.html - The Flaming Pear series
http://www.autofx.com/ - Another company I like, especially the Dreamsuite series
http://thepluginsite.com/resources/freeps.htm - Free plugins
http://www.adobe.com/products/plugins/photoshop/ - Adobe’s list of 3rd party plugins
Podcasts:
I think that podcasts are a quick and simple way to learn tricks.http://www.photoshopsupport.com/resources/photoshop-podcasts.html - A directory
http://tricks.onigo.net/ - One specific podcast I like
http://www.photoshoptv.com/ - Another popular podcast
Other Programs of Interest:
These programs are some other multimedia programs that I enjoy. If you like Photoshop and want to learn more, you can try out some of these programs.
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/flashpro/ - Adobe/Macromedia Flash is a great program for interactive environments, animation, audio, video, etc.
http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/software/bryce - Bryce 6 is a simple 3D terrain editor
http://www.autodesk.com/maya - An advanced 3D animation/create/visual effects program
http://www.autodesk.com/3dsmax - 3D Studio Max is another 3D animation/rendering/modeling program
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/ - Lightroom is the newest member in Photoshop’s family
Examples:
These are just a few sites that have examples of what artists have created using various image editing programs.http://www.deviantart.com/ - This site has various examples with different types of media
http://www.worth1000.com/ - This site is a competition / gallery
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/samples.htm - Another site with a gallery and tutorials
Miscellaneous:
These are just various resources did not fit in the other categories.
http://www.sxc.hu/ - A stock photo site (Stock photos are just good quality, but plain photos that you can work with)
http://www.freeimages.co.uk/ - A free stock photo site
http://images.google.com – Google’s image search engine
http://www.lynda.com/edu-media/educators.asp - Some sample book chapters for various multimedia programs