Here are 7 Photoshop Tutorials, at the University of Florida's website, that describe and demonstrate graphic design using Photoshop. These Photoshop tutorials will help you to increase your skills in many areas of Photoshop. They guide you through the world of Photoshop by giving you a tour of the application's features, tools, and shortcuts.


7 Adobe Photoshop Tutorials:


Adobe Photoshop 7.0  (1342.7 kb, pdf)
This section of the tutorial gives you an introduction to the graphics editor, Photoshop. It explains basic features like the interface, the color modes, creating customized graphics and saving files.

 - What is Adobe Photoshop 7.0?
 - The Interface
 - Color Modes
 - Working with Photos
 - Creating Customized Graphics
 - Saving Files


Introduction to Adobe Photoshop  (259 kb, pdf)
This tutorial demonstrates on the interface of Photoshop, on how to open an existing image, the different menu bars, the toolbox, the navigator palette, the color palette and a host of other palettes that could make your image editing more efficient.

 - Interface
 - Open an existing image
 - Open a new file
 - Menu Bar
 - File menu
 - Edit menu
 - View menu
 - Select menu
 - Layer menu
 - Image menu
 - Toolbox
 - Option Bar
 - Palettes
 - Navigator palette
 - Color palette
 - Swatches palette
 - Styles palette
 - Character palette
 - Paragraph palette
 - Layer palette
 - History palette
 - Saving Files
 - Save for Web
 - Resolution
 - Glossary


Photoshop Extras  (180.5 kb, pdf)
This tutorial teaches you some more Photoshop features like the shortcuts, healing photos, working with selections and layers and how to work on vignette photographs.

 - Photoshop Shortcuts
 - Healing Photos
 - Working with Selections and Layers
 - Opening and Saving files and file sizes
 - Vignette


Photoshop CS2 Basics  (3013.5 kb, doc)
This tutorial increases your skills in Photoshop CS2 by demonstrating various features like the menu bars, various palettes that are available at your dispense, opening new and existing images, saving the files etc.

 - Interface
 - Open an existing image
 - Open a new file
 - Menu Bar
 - File menu
 - Edit menu
 - View menu
 - Select menu
 - Layer menu
 - Image menu
 - Toolbox
 - Option Bar
 - Palettes
 - Navigator palette
 - Color palette
 - Swatches palette
 - Styles palette
 - Character palette
 - Paragraph palette
 - Layer palette
 - History palette
 - Saving Files
 - Save for Web
 - Resolution
 - Glossary


Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CS3 (4877 kb,doc)  PDF 2036
Here is a introduction to Photoshop CS3 which gives you the knowledge of the Photoshop interface and the various mechanics related to it.

 - The Photoshop Interface
 - The Mechanics of Photoshop


Photoshop Shortcuts  (23.5 kb, doc)
This lists out various keyboard shortcuts that could make your Photoshop editing much faster and efficient.


Adobe Photoshop Outline  (27.5 kb, doc)
This tutorial describes briefly the main points related to learning Photoshop.

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Here is an Adobe Fireworks 8 Tutorial, hosted at the University of Florida, that explains in detail several features of this bitmap and vector graphics editor. This Fireworks tutorial describes Fireworks' features through a tour with appropriate screen shots wherever necessary. The tutorial explains various features of the Fireworks, such as the interface, creating and saving an image, difference between a bitmap and a vector, various tools, menus and panels. (17 pages, 1.9 mb, doc format)


Fireworks 8 Tutorial Topics:

 - Fireworks Start Page
 - Fireworks Interface
 - Creating and Saving a New Image
 - Open an Existing File
 - Bitmap vs. Vector
 - Fireworks Tools
 - Menus
 - Panels

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These 5 excellent Photoshop Tutorials from the University of Albany offer an in depth coverage of Photoshop and scanning. Most images are created by a professional designer or scanned and then modified to create a new image. In both cases, an image editing tool like Photoshop is used to modify or create the image. These Photoshop Tutorials start with the basics such as scanning an image into Photoshop and moves onto more complex actions such as Layer Management and Compositing.


5 Adobe Photoshop Tutorials:

Photoshop I: Scanning with a Flatbed Scanner into Photoshop
This Photoshop tutorial explains how to setup a scanning device and connect it to software for scanning. It also discusses various issues a first time user might have such as resolution, dimensions and output issues.

Photoshop II: Introduction and Basic Image Editing
This Photoshop tutorial teaches the basics of image editing such as image color, brightness and contrast and color balance. It also provides an overview of Photoshop’s features.

Photoshop III: Selecting, Drawing and Painting Tools
This tutorial explains a few of Photoshop’s tools such as the Selecting, Drawing and Painting tools and how they can be effectively used on an image.

Photoshop IV: Layer Management & Photo Compositing
In this tutorial, Photoshop’s photo compositing features and layering systems are discussed. Also covered are background and transparency issues and layer adjustments.

Photoshop V: Filters and Special Effects
This Photoshop tutorial teaches the filters and special effects that can be added to certain areas on an image. Many of these filters are already present in Photoshop while many more can be downloaded and used.

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These 5 excellent Dreamweaver Web Design Tutorials from the University at Albany address the procedures and tools used in creating and maintaining web pages and web sites. These Web Design tutorials also include specific topics to help staff maintain web pages under the University of Albany Web Standards. (these tutorials are in .doc format)


5 Dreamweaver Tutorials:

Introduction to Ualbany Web Design and Site Structure
This tutorial teaches how to plan and organize departmental website structure at UAlbany. We will discuss the term 'Information Architecture' and how to think about it when planning your departmental web pages. This tutorial will be taught using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. Topics covered include discussion of concepts and purpose, discussion of Information Architecture, review and explanation of the worksheet.

Creating and Maintaining your Departmental Web Page using 'New Look' UAlbany Templates
This tutorial is offered in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 and strongly recommend that you use this application when updating your site. This tutorial teaches the procedures, logistics and, especially the reasons for creating and maintaining pages that are compliant with the UAlbany look, including layout, colors and styles.

Working with 'Includes' and other structures provided in Web Templates
This tutorial continues the topics started in tutorial I02, with special emphasis on the 'includes' attached to the UAlbany Web Templates. The topics covered under this tutorial are what are 'Includes', 'Includes' on the properties inspector in Dreamweaver, editing 'Includes' and other style issues.

Dreamweaver MX2004 I: Introduction to Concepts
This tutorial covers a group of recommendations and suggestions that will help you to more logically execute the new updates to your UAlbany Departmental website. The topics covered in this tutorial are best practices and things to remember.

Dreamweaver MX2004 II: Basic Page Design
This tutorial explains how to use Dreamweaver MX 2004 to build a web page. Participants will become familiar with the various Dreamweaver components, such as the Properties Inspector, Insert Bar tabs, and the Code and Design views. Participants will also learn how to use Dreamweaver to make tables for page layout and control. This tutorial is also covering on how to install and manage images on a web page.

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Here are 50 Ways to Become a Better Designer at computerarts.co.uk. These tips and techniques explain aspects and practices of good design and how one can become a better designer and Photoshop user. They explain key points that a designer should be aware of while creating his design, such as colors, fonts, shading, gradients and channels. The tools used to create designs and some of its options are also discussed in detail. A few tips and tricks of good designers are also given, which discuss shortcuts and quick steps to use in design creation to simplify the work of the designer. This compilation is from 17 leading designers who work in print, video and on the web.


50 Ways to Become a Better Designer:

 - 01 ROUGH COMPS
 - 02 METAPHORS
 - 03 FROM WORDS TOPICTURES
 - 04 BRAND THINKING
 - 05 KEEP YOURBRAINSTORMS REALLY SHORT
 - 06 USE A SKETCHBOOK
 - 07 GET AWAY FROM YOURCOMPUTER
 - 08 JOIN A FORUM
 - 09 TAKE A SHOWER
 - 10 SPECS!
 - 11 KEEP A LIBRARY
 - 12 WEB STANDARDS
 - 13 KEEP IT CURRENT
 - 14 KEEP IT SIMPLE
 - 15 RECORD YOURACTIONS
 - 16 SAVE, SAVE, SAVE!
 - 17 STORE YOUR ASSETS
 - 18 COLLABORATE
 - 19 GET IT RIGHT FIRSTTIME
 - 20 PRACTICE ALWAYSMAKES PERFECT
 - 21 ALPHA CHANNELS INPHOTOSHOP
 - 22 BUY MORE RAM
 - 23 GRADIENTS INPHOTOSHOP
 - 24 MORE LAYERS
 - 25 AIRBRUSH INILLUSTRATOR
 - 26 EVIL FLASH
 - 27 NAME CONVENTIONS
 - 28 GROUP LAYERS
 - 29 FORBIDDEN FRUIT
 - 30 THINK ON PAPER
 - 31 WALK AWAY
 - 32 ACROBATICS
 - 33 KERN!
 - 34 BACK TO THE BRIEF
 - 35 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
 - 36 PRINT FINISHES
 - 37 ADDING TEXTURE
 - 38 BE PREPARED
 - 39 A LITTLE SHADING
 - 40 BULGING EYES
 - 41 READ AND RE-READ!
 - 42 BE SPECIFIC
 - 43 DON’TRELY ON THE SPELLCHECKER!
 - 44 STICK TO THEBRIEF!
 - 45 WORK WITH CLIENTS
 - 46 STICK TO WHAT YOUKNOW
 - 47 DON’T ASSUMEANYTHING
 - 48 JUSTIFY YOURACTIONS
 - 49 DESIGN HISTORY
 - 50 MANAGEEXPECTATIONS

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