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Free Adobe Photoshop Tutorials, CS2 Tutorials, CS3 Tutorials

Our free Adobe Photoshop Tutorials have been separated into 3 collections. You can find free Photoshop Tutorials for CS, free Photoshop Tutorials for CS2, and free Photoshop Tutorials for CS3. If you own Photoshop CS3 you can go through all 3 collections, but if you have an earlier version of Photoshop, the tutorials for later versions will include features you might not have. To upgrade visit the Adobe Online Store. If you are a student get super savings at the Adobe Academic Store.

Free Adobe Photoshop Plugins & Photoshop Plugins Discounts

On our Free Photoshop Plugins page you'll find the latest Photoshop plugins news, and links to resources and sites that offer free Adobe Photoshop plugins.

We have full product pages and special exclusive discounts on Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins, including exclusive 10% specials on onOne Software's Genuine Fractals, Mask Pro, PhotoFrame Pro, Nik Sharpener, The Photoshop Plugin Suite, and the very new and exciting PhotoTools and PhotoTools Pro Edition.

Photoshop Brushes - Free Adobe Photoshop Brushes

Our Photoshop Brushes Page has links to all kinds of amazing Photoshop brush sites, all handpicked by Jennifer Apple. We also offer some great free sets from Janita of Seishido and Kirsty of 500ml Brushes — including a very popular Valentine Brush Set filled with hearts and romantic gestures.

Also see our Free High Resolution Photoshop Brushes Directory, where you'll find an amazing collection of high-res free Photoshop brush sets, and we've collected some of Stephanie's original brushes on a special Obsidian Dawn Photoshop Brushes Page, with big preview images for each set. You'll also find her great random tips for using Photoshop Brushes.

Free Photoshop Actions & Photoshop Actions Tutorials

Find links to great free Adobe Photoshop Actions on our Photoshop Actions Page. Also look for free tutorials and free actions from Gavin Phillips. The Toning With Duotones, Tritones And Quadtones tutorial will teach you how to create duotones, tritones and quadtones inside of Photoshop. At the end of the tutorial you'll find a link to 8 custom duotone/tritones as a complimentary download.

Gavin has also kindly written up a nice Photoshop Actions Tutorial that will give you a quick course on Photoshop Actions. That tutorial ends with 3 free Photoshop Actions that produce beautiful photographic effects.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - Who Needs It?

If you have managed to live without Photoshop Lightroom up until now, what makes it so fantabulous/damned hot that you need to place it at the top of your software wish list? Read Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - Who Needs It? by Mark Galer for some thoughts on Lightroom's top features. From the intro:

Photoshop Lightroom has had somewhat of an identity crisis amongst the general population of photographers since its release in early 2007. The Adobe engineers built it to fill a gap in the Photoshop family of products (Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Elements being the other two family members) but many amongst the photographic community have not been able to identify its primary task to make it the ‘must have’ product that Adobe hoped it would become for all digital photographers. Read Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - Who Needs It?

Photoshop CS3 Upgrade Options And Bundles From The Adobe Store

Photoshop CS3 Extended is ideal for film, video, and multimedia pros and for graphic and web designers using 3D and motion. Get the full version for US $999, or upgrade for US $349. The standard version of Photoshop CS3 is available for US $649, or as an upgrade for US $199. See all upgrade options at the Adobe Store. Students get super savings at the Adobe Academic Store.

Photoshop Extended is also available as part of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, which combines all-new CS3 versions of Photoshop, Flash Pro, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat 8 Pro. Upgrade options for customers in Europe, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Asia can be found at the Adobe International Store.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials by Jennifer Apple

Jennifer Apple's free Adobe Photoshop tutorials deal with web and blog design, photo and text effects, and Adobe Photoshop tips and tricks for beginners.

Mysteries Of The Favicon.ico — How To Create A Favicon In Photoshop
Create tiny custom icons using Photoshop.
Photoshop Blog Templates — Blog Design Tips And Resources
Photoshop tips (resources and templates) to improve your blog templates.
Photoshop Web Template — Web Site Design Tutorial
Learn how to make a Photoshop web template with this web site design tutorial.
I See iPod People — The Photoshop Silhouette
Learn how to make an iPod ad Silhouette in Adobe Photoshop.
Resize Images In Photoshop Without Losing Sharpness
This simple Photoshop trick will eliminate the blur often found after resizing.
Turn A Photo Into A Sketch In Photoshop For Making Coloring Books
Use Adobe Photoshop to turn a photo into a sketch for a coloring book.
Working With Layers In Photoshop CS2
Learn how to work with layers in Adobe Photoshop CS2.
Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts For Photoshop CS & CS2
How to edit and create sets of keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop CS and CS2.
Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Beginners
Photoshop tips and tricks that will save you lots of time down the road.
Create A Sepia Tone Effect In Photoshop
A simple way to create a Sepia Tone effect in Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials From Photoshop Expert Mark Galer

We are very proud to be hosting these amazing tutorials from Photoshop expert Mark Galer. An internationally acclaimed author and teacher, Mark's Photoshop tutorials are comprehensive, yet easy to follow, and will bring your skills to a professional level.

How To Sharpen An Image In Photoshop — Advanced Sharpening Techniques
Most if not all digital images require sharpening. Most cameras or scanners can sharpen as the image is captured but the highest quality sharpening is to be found in the image editing software. The best sharpening techniques are those that prioritize the important areas for sharpening and leave the smoother areas of the image well alone, e.g. sharpening the eyes of a portrait but avoiding the skin texture. These advanced techniques are essential when sharpening images that have been scanned from film or have excessive noise, neither of which needs accentuating by the Unsharp Mask. So let the project begin.

Selecting & Extracting Hair - Masking Tutorial - Extraction Tips
One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. Get it wrong and, just like a bad wig, it shows. The first secret step must be completed before you even press the shutter on the camera. Your number one essential step for success is to first shoot your model against a white backdrop, sufficiently illuminated so that it is captured as white rather than gray. The post-production is the easy bit - simply apply the correct sequence of editing steps and the magic is all yours. This is not brain surgery — but follow these simple steps and you will join the elite ranks of Photoshop gurus around the world. Celebrity status is just a few clicks away.

Photoshop Masking & Montage Tutorial — Using Masks To Improve Landscape Images
In this sample chapter from his new book, Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills, Mark Galer shows you Photoshop techniques that use selections and Photoshop masks to create amazing effects that can be applied to landscape images. As a bonus, you can also download high resolution versions of the images that are used in the tutorial, so you can work along with Mark. This tutorial is an excellent way to become more familiar with Photoshop's powerful masking and selection tools.

Use The Displace Filter & Displacement Maps To Make A Realistic Flag
By using the blend modes the flag in this project can be modified to respect the color and tonality of the undulating silk beneath it. The highlights and shadows that give the silk its shape can however be further utilized to wrap or bend the flag so that it obeys the material’s shape and sense of volume. This can be achieved by using the Displace filter in conjunction with a ‘displacement map’. The ‘map’ defines the contours to which the flag must conform. The final effect can be likened to ‘shrink-wrapping’ the flag to the 3-D form of the undulating silk.

Working With Photomerge In Photoshop Elements 6 For Windows
They say that sequels are never as good as the original - try telling that to Adobe. There fully revamped Photomerge now comes in three flavors and is ‘fully fantastic’. You get to explore the greatly improved Photomerge features only in Elements 6 and Photoshop CS3. Photomerge is now capable of aligning and blending images without any signs of struggle - banding in smooth areas of tone.

Working With Shadows In Adobe Photoshop - Advanced Shadow Techniques
Learn the fine art of isolating and preserving delicate and complex shadows for transplantation to exotic new backgrounds. The flower for this tutorial was photographed on a cold winters morning in Victoria whilst the sand hails from the Great Indian Desert in Rajasthan. Unlikely bedfellows, but with a little craft the two can lie together comfortably within the same frame – but only if the subtle shadow is captured with all of its subtlety and delicately transplanted to its new home in the desert. This is how...!

Adobe Photoshop Cookbook Series — Free Sample Recipes

These sample recipes are presented as tutorials and are a great way to develop your Photoshop skills. Adobe Photoshop tutorials include:
• Whitening Teeth & Eyes
• Creating Black And White From Color
• How To Create A High-Contrast Sketch
• Andy Warhol Pop Art Silkscreen Effect
• Scraped Polaroid Picture Effect
• Van Gogh Effect - Van Gogh's Sunflowers
• Daguerreotypes - The Louis Daguerre Photo Effect
• Autochrome - Color Process Photo Effect
• Powder Pastels — Hand-coloring Image Tips
• Selective Coloring — Remove Color From An Image
• Hand Tinting — Tips For Photo Coloring Effects
• Watercolor — Creating Artistic Painterly Effects
• Photoshop Fine Art Effects - Create A Cubist Look
• Photoshop Fine Art Effects - Cross-Processing
• Ink Outlines — How To Give An Image A Drawn Look.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Advanced Video Tutorials From Total Training

Total training has kindly provided us with some links to clips from their brand new training videos for Photoshop CS3. Here's a taste of what their new training videos have to offer.

Working With A Wacom Tablet To Create A Collage In Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended Frame Animation And Timeline Animation Features, Working With The Vanishing Point Filter, Working With Smart Filters, and Non-Destructive vs. Destructive Editing

See our Photoshop CS2 Tutorial Page for free Adobe Photoshop 9 video clips. These clips include tips and tricks for working with Camera RAW, Photoshop CS2 new Vanishing Point Tool, Adobe Bridge, Smart Objects, the Smart Sharpen Filter, and the new Remove Red Eye tool.

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Latest Adobe Photoshop News From Our Photoshop Blog

Here are the latest top Photoshop news items from Jennifer Apple's Photoshop Blog:
• Photoshop Lightroom And Mac OS X Leopard
• Adobe Photoshop On Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Is Good To Go
• Adobe Ships Photoshop CS3 - Design & Web Premium & Standard
• Adobe Photoshop CS3 Details - Order CS3 From Adobe
• Photoshop CD Label Templates & Label Printing Tips

Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Photoshop 10 - Resource Center

The free trial download of Adobe Photoshop CS3 (public beta) can be found at Adobe Labs. For Photoshop CS3 tutorials see our Photoshop CS3 Tutorials Page. For more info on Photoshop CS3 see our Photoshop CS3 Resource Center, which has the latest Photoshop CS3 news, Photoshop CS3 articles and Photoshop CS3 reviews.