300+ Resources to Help You Become a Photoshop Expert
Adobe Photoshop is arguably the most powerful graphics and photo manipulation software on the market. You can do virtually anything with Photoshop, from fantasy image collages to complete website designs, and everything in between. Although while Photoshop is incredibly powerful, it can also be incredibly complicated, especially when trying to perform advanced functions.
pCheat Sheets and Reference Guides
Keeping cheat sheets and reference guides at hand can speed up your design process and make you a more efficient designer. Below are ten to get you started.
Black & White Cheatsheet for Photoshop – This is a great reference guide that shows the results for different methods of converting images to black and white in Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts – This site offers a collection of cheat sheets for keyboard shortcuts for each version of Photoshop (as far back as Photoshop 5).
Adobe Photoshop Cheat Sheet – This is a six-page reference guide.
Creative Tip: Adobe Pen Tool Cheatsheet – A quick-reference guide to pen tool functions.
27 Adobe Photoshop Cheat Sheets and Quick Reference Guides for Adobe Photoshop CS4, CS3, CS2 and Below – A roundup of cheat sheets and guides from All Graphic Design.
17 Productive Photoshop Cheatsheets and Reference Cards to Download for Free – An excellent roundup of cheatsheets and reference cards from Speckyboy Design Magazine, primarily for CS4.
Photoshop Cheat Sheets – This page offers a collection of general and specialized Ps cheat sheets from Scott Klarr.
Photoshop Toolbox Reference – Here’s a quick reference guide to Photoshop tools.
Photoshop Secret Shortcuts – This post offers an excellent compilation of little-known Ps shortcuts from Web Designer Wall.
10 Tips for Photoshop Beginners – This is a great place for beginners to familiarize themselves with Photoshop.
Tutorial Collections and Resources
There are tens of thousands of tutorials out there. Finding the best ones can be tough. Below are some great collections, roundups, and showcases of some of the best Photoshop tutorials out there.
100 Wonderful Photo Effects Photoshop Tutorials – Here’s a showcase of 100 tutorials for adding effects to your photos.
Tutorialsphere.com – Tutorialsphere is a huge site with more than 3,000 Ps tutorials for everything from website layouts to photo retouching.
12 of the Best Photoshop Web Design Tutorials – Here’s an awesome roundup of web design tutorials from Creative Nerds.
99 Best Photoshop Tutorials for Effect – Here’s a huge roundup of awesome photo manipulation and effects tutorials.
22 Best Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials – A collection of tutorials for manipulating text in Photoshop.
Best Photoshop Tutorials to Boost Your Skills! – Ants Magazine offers a great collection of Ps tutorials for learning new techniques.
70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials – Smashing Magazine offers this roundup of 70 photo retouching tutorials for retouching portraits.
Worth 1000 Tutorials – Worth 1000 has a great collection of tutorials, including “How I Created a Raspberry Frog” and “Lighting a Giant Elephant.”
Good-Tutorials – Good-Tutorials offers up a huge variety of Photoshop tutorials on everything from photo effects and retouching to web layouts to animation. Tutorials are rated and users can comment on them, making it easier to judge the effectiveness of the tutorial before you dive in.
28 Technically Advanced Photoshop Tutorials—For the Graphic Designer Guru – Speckyboy Design Magazine offers yet another great roundup of really advanced tutorials, mostly for photo manipulations.
35 Basic Tutorials to Get You Started with Photoshop – Six Revisions has this great roundup of Photoshop tutorials aimed at beginners.
Photoshop Tutorials – This site offers tons of tutorials for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. There are tons of advanced techniques and tutorials, as well as some basic tutorials.
2008 Most Useful Photoshop Tutorials – Abduzeedo offers this roundup of some of 2008’s best tutorials from Abduzeedo.
Photoshop Exchange Tutorials – More than 340 tutorials are included on the Adobe website, covering everything from 3D typography to creating color cutouts to creating a rain effect.
Tutorialized – Tutorialized offers tutorials in everything from creating abstracts to web layouts to photo retouching to digital art. There are thousands of tutorials included.
Psdtuts+ Tutorials – This site offers tons of mostly-advanced tutorials on things like photo manipulation, retouching and animation, among others.
27 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials to Design Decent Web Layouts – DZine Blog offers this roundup post of web design tutorials.
Photoshop Roadmap – This site aggregates tutorials from tons of other sites all over the web. You can browse by category, which includes illustration techniques, graphics optimization and text effects, among others.
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials—Best Of – This post from Smashing Magazine showcases some of the coolest photo manipulation and effect tutorials from around the web.
PhotoshopStar – PhotoshopStar is a blog offering up tutorials on a regular basis, mostly focused on advanced techniques, though they do cover some basics.
40 (NEW) High Quality Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – This post from Noupe offers up forty great tutorials from a variety of sites, mostly focused on advanced Photoshop techniques, image manipulation, and digital illustration.
PSLover.com – PSLover.com is an aggregation site of Photoshop tutorials from all over.
PhotoshopSupport.com – PhotoshopSupport.com has a great collection of practical Photoshop tutorials, including ones for image retouching, web design, and working with Photoshop scripts.
Photoshop Lady – This site offers up a ton of tutorials for everything from creating textures and patterns to UI design to abstract effects.
40 Photoshop Tutorials to Create Fantastic Art – This is an awesome roundup from PelFusion.com of advanced photo manipulation and digital illustration tutorials.
60+ Vintage, Retro, and Pop Art Styled Photoshop Tutorials – All Graphic Design offers this great roundup of tutorials for creating retro-inspired designs from All Graphic Design.
75+ Huge Collection of Stunning Photo Manipulation Tutorials for Photoshop – Tripwire Magazine has this great showcase of photo manipulation tutorials.
PhotoshopContest.com Tutorials – PhotoshopContest.com offers a small collection of tutorials exploring different Photoshop techniques, including color correction, the liquify filter, and displacement water, among others.
TutorialKit – TutorialKit features tutorials for beginners to advanced users, including video tutorials.
60+ Amazing Poster and Advertisement Tutorials – While this post includes a mix of both Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials, it’s still a great resource.