Here is a nicely illustrated PowerPoint XP Workshop Tutorial, hosted by prbcorp.com. It teaches many important PowerPoint features and functions, including these: Adding Title Information, Using the Screen Layout, Editing Text and Font, Using Bullets, Adding Notes, Adding Graphics, Music, Sound, Video, Animation, Slide Transitions, Color Schemes, Changing the Design, and Printing.

PowerPoint Workshop Tutorial Contents:

• Opening PowerPoint
• Beginning Your PowerPoint Presentation
• Adding Title Slide Information
• Using the Screen Layout
• Editing a Text Object
• Modifying Text
• Moving or Resizing a Text Object
• Moving to Next Slides
• Using Bullets
• Adding Notes
• Using a Numbered List
• Changing Font Color
• Adding Graphics
• Adding Music & Sound
• Adding Video
• Viewing Your Presentation
• Adding Slide Transitions
• Adding Animation
• Viewing Your Presentation
• Changing Color Schemes
• Changing the Design
• Applying Changes to All Slides
• Adding/Deleting Slides
• Providing Print Handouts
• Emphasizing Text

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Here are 20 excellent Advanced Photoshop Tutorials, provided by Photoshopsupport.com. These cover several advanced features and techniques of using Photoshop, including painting and color line art, matte painting, sharpening an image, working with shadows, creating a photomontage, retouching, automating tasks, and color management.


Photoshop Tutorials by Kevin Hulsey

Here are three excellent Photoshop tutorials from master illustrator Kevin Hulsey. Kevin says: “My use of Photoshop directly mimics the methodology of a conventional airbrush illustrator. The great thing about Photoshop is that there are so many different roads to the same conclusion.”

Painting Techniques – tips and techniques for painting in Photoshop
Ghosting Techniques – tutorial on how to create a transparent view using Photoshop
Cruise Ship Cutaway – tutorial on using Photoshop to color line art


Photoshop Tutorials and Articles by Mark Galer

How To Sharpen An Image In Photoshop — Advanced Sharpening Techniques
Did you know that the highest quality sharpening is only to be found in image editing software, such as Photohshop.
The best sharpening techniques are those that give priority to certain areas and leave the smoother areas of the image alone. These advanced techniques are essential when sharpening images that have been scanned from film or have excessive noise.

Working With Shadows In Photoshop – Advanced Shadow Techniques
Learn the fine art of isolating and preserving delicate and complex shadows for transplantation to exotic new backgrounds. This tutorial shows how to use textures to bring together two shadows comfortably within the same frame.


Matte Painting Tutorials - Sebastien Gaucher

These three matte painting tutorials by Sebastien Gaucher teach you how to create matte paintings in Photoshop. They are detailed and include large versions of the images so you can study the effects closely.

Matte Painting Tutorial – 1: “This tutorial is actually a ‘making of’ where I explain how I proceeded to achieve this matte painting. If you don’t have a graphic tablet this is going to be hard but not impossible. At each step of the matte painting, create a new layer so that the work will be easier and mistakes avoided.”

Matte Painting Tutorial – 2: “This is my second matte painting tutorial. Here I wanted to change the season of a scene from summer to winter.”

Matte Painting Tutorial – 3: “Here is the making of my third matte painting, this time it is the Oratoire Saint-Joseph (in Montreal) under the rain!”


Create Stars and Planets in Photoshop

These two tutorials on Greg Martin’s site that are very well done. The Star Field tutorial will help you create awesome star fields, and the Planet tutorial shows how to create a simple, yet realistic-looking planet using Adobe Photoshop 7.

“Make a Realistic Star Field” tutorial
“Make A Planet” tutorial


Creating Photomontages with Photoshop: A Designer’s Notebook

This Photoshop tutorial by Odile Pascal guides you through the photomontage process and explains in detail how the original photo of a woman was transformed into an angel in Photoshop.

Download “From Woman to Angel with Photoshop” PDF sample chapter [2.0 MB]
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Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer’s Notebook

Artist Nicolas Fructus shows you how to go from sketch and digitalization when working with layers in this PDF tutorial. With detailed notes and sample files, Fructus guides you through the process of creating very complex and beautiful illustrations in Photoshop.
Download “The High Terrace” PDF sample chapter [1.6 MB]
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Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer’s Notebook

In this PDF tutorial taken from Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer’s Notebook, artist Thibaut Granier shows you how to use retouching and photomontage techniques to create a matte painting.

Download “Bloody Mallory” PDF sample chapter (1.3 MB)
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Photoshop CS Video Tutorials

Recording Actions To Automate Tasks
Learn how to change all open images to the same zoom level using the Match Zoom Command, and how to create Photoshop Actions to automate tasks.

Photoshop CS Color Management
Learn how to create the “ideal settings” for working with color in Photoshop CS.

Working With Vector-Based Shapes – Part 1
Learn how PS vector-based shapes work much like Illustrator.

Working With Vector-Based Shapes – Part 2
Learn how to create advanced vector-based shapes.

Colorization Tip
How to non-destructively take all the color out of an image, and add color back into an image in selected places.

Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer
How to make a beautiful, rich looking Grayscale image by using a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer.

Color To Grayscale Conversion
How to use the Paint Brush Tool to paint into a color image and selectively convert parts of it into a Black and White, Grayscale image.

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