Mike's Sketch Pad offers many free Adobe Photoshop tutorials, tips and techniques. These tutorials will show you how to use Photoshop layers, channels, textures, clipping paths, text effects and drop shadows plus other undocumented tips and techniques. Photoshop is the industry standard image editing program. Photoshop is capable of so much and yet it does it all so well. Whether you prepare images for print media or the Internet, Photoshop should be included in your tool chest of graphics applications. Use these Photoshop tutorials to increase your skills.

Photoshop Tutorials from Mike's Sketch Pad

Opening/Closing Paths Modifying Paths / Points Using Clipping Paths Keyboard Shortcuts Shortcut Examples Pen Tutorial Templates Pen Tips Custom Textures 1 Custom Textures 2 Custom Textures 3 Tiling Textures 1 Tiling Textures 2 One-Pixel Brush

Layer Basics 1 Layer Basics 2 Layer Basics 3 Layer Basics 4 Layer Basics 5 Layer Basics 6 Layer Basics 7 Layer Basics 8 Channel Basics 1 Channel Basics 2 Drop Shadows 1 Drop Shadows 2 Halo Text Effect 1 Halo Text Effect 2 Cool Hand Dingbat

Defringing Halos 1 Defringing Halos 2 Defringing Halos 3 Defringing Halos 4 Defringing Halos 5 Defringing Halos 6 Defringing Halos 7 Clear Text Effect 1 Clear Text Effect 2 Clear Text Effect 3 Clear Text Effect 4 Clear Text Effect 5 EPS Files 1 EPS Files 2 EPS Files 3

Photo Retouching Tutorials:

Photoshop Levels Adjustment - Part 1a Photoshop Levels Adjustment - Part 1b Photoshop Levels Adjustment - Part 1c Photoshop Levels Adjustment - Part 2a Photoshop Levels Adjustment - Part 2b Photoshop Levels Adjustment - Part 3

The following are 7 well written and comprehensive free training guides for FrontPage and Dreamweaver. These are provided by Penn State Erie College.

Free Instructional Guides for FrontPage and Dreamweaver

These 3 Front Page guides cover how to use the basic features of FrontPage in a step-by-step instructional method.

• FrontPage 2003 Basics (31 pages)
  
  
• FrontPage XP/2002 Basics (30 pages)
  
  
• FrontPage 2000 Basics (27 pages)

Creating Forms using FrontPage 2000 (36 pages)
Guide on how to create a Web page form to collect information from a visitor. Instructions are also provided for using the Formmail script (which sends the data to the designated recipient).

FrontPage 2000 Hints (6 pages)
Quick hints on how to:  switch between opened web pages, insert a blank line above or below a table, preview a web page at different resolutions, enable/disable the ability to open web pages created in Office, remove formatting from text that is pasted from Microsoft Word, and import Microsoft Word text without inline styles.


Here are 2 Dreamweaver Guides to help you learn  this web development application:

Dreamweaver 8: Configuration and Site Definition (24 pages)

Dreamweaver 8 at a Glance (24 pages)

Adobe Photoshop is considered by many web developers and graphic designers to be best software application for creating and editing 2D graphics and photographs. With practice and a bit of imagination, there's no limit to the imagery you can create with Photoshop. The skills and techniques these high quality Photoshop tutorials teach will provide you a strong foundation of how Photoshop works and what its features and nuances are. You can learn techniques Photoshop experts use to create killer designs and layouts.

Photoshop Tutorials:
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/

Tools and Basics:
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/basics/getting-ps/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/basics/transparent-gifs/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/basics/image-slicing/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/basics/dropshadows/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/basics/dashes/

Text Effects:
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/text/alien-text/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/text/3d-text/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/text/outlines/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/text/burnt-in/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/text/gel/

Interfaces / Layouts:
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/interfaces/round-edges/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/interfaces/soft-bevel/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/interfaces/remote-control/

Special Effects:
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/effects/4way-fire/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/effects/chrome/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/effects/metal/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/effects/burnt-edges/

Colorizing Photos:
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/photos/colorizing/

Textures:
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/textures/nebula/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/textures/neon/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/textures/starscape/

Teamphotoshop.com offers several good tutorials to help you learn Flash, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Here are the links for most of them.


Flash Tutorials

• Animated rollover
• Make a custom global cursor
• Make a motion blur effect
• Make Aim and Mail buttons
• Making draggable objects
• Rollover Interactivity with Actionscripting
• Using layer masks

Illustrator Tutorials

• Color - Part 1
• Color - Part 2
• Getting started with Illustrator
• Making a Logo
• Quick and dirty perspective
• Quick and dirty perspective (Part 2)
  

Photoshop Tutorials

• A good way to make multi layered rings
• A great way to make reflections in your images
• A very simple and effective way to outline your text
• Animated rollover
• Create a chrome bar
• Create a Sky Image
• Creating a letter seal image
• Creating a mask and painting on a mask
• Creating a Metal Button
• Creating a Vector image in Photoshop
• Creating an Amoeba Effect
• Creating Aqua Text
• Creating Gel Text
• Here is a way to make some very rough metallic text
• This is how I made my logo for the pankpages site
• Layer Styles Explained
• Let's make some liquid looking chrome
• Let's make some party text in a few easy steps
• Let's make that text Glow...
• Let's roughen up that nice smooth chrome we made...
• Making a metallic sphere with text under glass
• Making Blue Metal
• Metal text that looks a bit softer than the usual
• Cut out lettering
• History of Photoshop
• One Minute Photo Fix
• One way to create a Windows XP look
• How to make panorama photos
• Sketch effect in PS 7
• Retouching a photo. Step 4 Color balancing techniques
• Retouching a photo. Step 5 Cleaning up an image
• Retouching a photo. Step 6 Airbrushing & Cloning
• Retouching a photo. Step 7 The final nightmare.

Designsbymark.com offers the following 7 Illustrator tutorials (pdf format) to help you learn the features and functions of this vector drawing and graphics editing application from Adobe. With Illustrator you can convert bitmaps to vector artwork and paint with intelligent palettes. It also provides close integration with other Adobe software allowing the creation of graphics for print, video, the web, and mobile devices.

Illustrator Tutorials

	Fill& Stroke Basics Just some basics here.
	Square Button Learn how to make a basic 3D button in Illustrator.
	Folder Tab Menu A way to create those popular web menus you see.
	Wires & Cords Creating segmented wires just got easier.
	Text on a Path Make text go around in a circle.
	Pattern Paths Create interesting shapes and circles with patterns
	Balloons Some basic party ballons for almost anything.