Here are 64 free Video Photoshop CS2 Tutorials from Watch and Learn Photoshop and PSTutorialsblog.com. A new video Photoshop tutorial is released every week. These will teach and show you how to use many important Photoshop tools and features.


64 Photoshop Tutorials:

Bicubic Sharper
In this tutorial, you will learn how to customize the way your image is resampled when you resize it in order to maintain the sharpness of the image.

3D Angled Text
Shows a 3D angle effect that will make your text standout.

Red, Black and White
Various methods of capturing that vibrant red or other color while desaturating the rest.

Clear Skies
Explores the wide potential in sky replacement and subsequent color adjustment.

Making a Photo Old
Shows the basic properties of old photo exposure, and how to achieve the same look in Photoshop. [High contrast, fuzziness, random shadow from flash; no true black; THEN add dust & scratches]

Photoshop CS2 – Designing with Photos” Preview
This video tutorial demonstrates several different ways to convert an image to black and white using Photoshop CS2.

Open Type Font Embellishments
Shows you how to add embellishments and alter the appearance of specific letter pairings for open type fonts.

Tricky Selections
This tutorial shows you one very effective way to use the highlights in an image to make a selection in order to alter an image.

Cucoloris (”Cookie”) Effect

Dotted Lines

Taming the Skies:

Warping Text with Smart Objects:

Lighting Adjustments

Sharpening Techniques

Digital Color Photo Enhancement

Using Levels and Unsharp Mask

Using Actions

Gradient Background and Drop Shadow

Liquefy

Vanishing Point

Using Paths to Crop a Background

How to Size a Photo for the Web

Water Drops

PictoSketch

Ripple

Planet Eclipse

Map Burn

Laser

Warp

Custom Watermark

Wind Filter

Lens Correct

Gradient Mask Blur

Blur Filters

Creating Realistic Ice

Creating a Carpet Texture

Bicubic Sharper

3D Angled Text

Red, Black and White

Clear Skies

Making a Photo Old

“Photoshop CS2 – Designing with Photos” Preview

Non-Destructive Dodging and Burning  

Painted Frames

Colorizing Black and White Photos

Steel Text Effect

Perspective Cropping

Levels Adjustment

Series Preview – Creating a New Document

Casting Shadows

Smoothing Skin

Polaroid Pictures

Grunge Borders

Creating a Grid with a Custom Pattern

Using Clipping Masks

Making Changes Across Multiple Photos

Linking Effect

Turning Pictures into Statues

Posterizing Images

Adding Smoke to an Image

Saving Color Swatches

Using Layer Masks

Making a Panorama with Photoshop

3D Reflection Effect

Popularity: 28% [?]

Here are many excellent Photoshop Photo Editing Tutorials, courtesy of geofflawrence.com. These Photoshop tutorials cover and teach many important features and tools of Photoshop that you will need to use when editing photographs and graphics. They are designed to help you make better, more informed choices in your editing. This site also offers many Photography tutorials that will help you become a better photographer.


Photoshop Tutorial Topics:

Size
- Scaling your files.

Contrast
 - Balancing those pixels.

Color
 - Dealing with color casts.

Levels
 - A video Photoshop tutorial showing how to use the levels adjustment to control contrast.

Curves
 - A video Photoshop tutorial showing how to use the curves adjustment to control contrast.

Processing RAW Files
 - An introduction to Adobe Camera Raw.

Processing RAW Files using HSL
 - Advanced use of ACR.

Sharpening
 - Using the unsharp mask.

Using the Quick Mask
 - Masking parts of your picture to edit certain areas.

Adjustment Layer Masks
 - How to build accurate layer masks.

Straightening Horizons
 - A must for landscape and building photographers.

Replacing Boring Skies
 - Using layers in Photoshop.

Videos on Compositing
 - Video tutorials on using layers.
    – Choosing Images and Masking
    – Working with Layers
    – Tidying Up the Mask

Using the Channel Mixer
 - How to make a better job of changing images from colour to black & white.

Using Curves on Adjustment Layers
 - laying with contrast and tones to give a more dramatic effect.

High Dynamic Range
 - How to shoot and process HDR pictures with Photomatix Pro software.

Popularity: 45% [?]

PhotoshopGuides.com has searched the web for quality Photoshop Tutorials and Guides that teach and demonstrate how to use Photoshops many tools and features. These include text effects, photo manipulation, website and interface design, web buttons, textures and tiles, drawing and painting, color, and the basics. Many tutorials are provided for all of these topics.


Photoshop Tutorial Topics at PhotoshopGuides:

 - Animation Tutorials
 - Basic Tutorials
 - Button Tutorials
 - Design Tutorials
 - Drawing Tutorials
 - Effects Tutorials
 - Interface Tutorials
 - Photo Tutorials
 - Text Tutorials
 - Texture Tutorials

 - Newest Tutorials
 - Most Popular Tutorials
 - Most Popular in April

Popularity: 43% [?]

Here are 81 excellent Photoshop Tutorials, located at graphic-design.com. Some of these are also hosted by photoshop911.com. These tutorials will teach and show you how to use many of the features and tools in Photoshop. They include intermediate and advanced techniques.


81 Great Photoshop Tutorials:

 - High dynamic range, HDR WOW
 - High Dynamic Range Photography 
 - Russian Paintings
 - Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac 
 - Record an action in Photoshop
 - Photoshop for Fingerprinting
 - Photoshop YouTube Background Tutorial
 - Photoshop: Surreal Landscapes, Part 2
 - Photoshop Actions Madness
 - Photoshop Holiday Tutorials
 - Creating Contrast in Photoshop
 - Photoshop: Matching Color Schemes
 - Photoshop: Surreal Landscapes, Part 1
 - Adjustment Layers for Shadow Balancing
 - Photoshop Madness
 - 5 Useful Photoshop Effects
 - Elements Plus – plugins
 - Image Framer
 - Photo + Graphics Bundle for Mac
 - Elements: Color Correction for Photographers
 - Tutorial: Brushed Silver Text Effect
 - Beyond Digital Photography
 - Elements Plus filters, masks and more
 - Remove red-eye with ease
 - ArtOptimizer for Illustrator
 - HDR Photography for Mac OS
 - Geocoding for iPhoto
 - Photography effects for iPhone
 - Add Depth of Field to perk up those dull photos
 - Depth Photo of Field or Focus Fall-Off
 - Photoshop Extract Filter to improve color, add depth of field
 - PhotoFreebies plug-ins for Photoshop
 - Color Efex Pro for Lightroom
 - Field Trip: Alien Skin Case Studies library
 - Scanning Negatives and Slides
 - Layered Screen Captures
 - Hydra HDR Imaging
 - Photographic Multishot Techniques
 - George reviews Photoshop CS4
 - Deke McClelland goes One-on-One with InDesign CS4
 - Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers
 - Adobe Photoshop CS4 New Features
 - ImageFramer custom image framing
 - 101 Photoshop Tips in 5 Minutes
 - 7 Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3
 - Depth of Field or Focus Fall-Off Photoshop Tutorial
 - Easy Photo Fixes with Photoshop
 - Genuine Fractals – Blow up those JPGs
 - Balancing the light in Night Scenes with a single-step lighting adjustment
 - Photoshop and the Motion Blur
 - How to make Photoshop Mirror Reflections
 - Clipping from one, and adding to the other!
 - Creating your own Custom Drop Shadows
 - Creating Black & White from Color
 - How to Save Dark, Underexposed Photos
 - Degrading Color for Hand Tint Look: Gradient Map
 - Photoshop’s “Match Color”
 - Painter: Photo to Woodcut
 - One Photo to Many: Collage Mosaic
 - Using Photoshop with Painter
 - Photoshop Madness: Type & Lettering Tutorial Hell
 - Outlining Type: What’s Right or Wrong
 - Photoshop’s Photo Filter Adjustment Layer
 - Spot Adjustments using a Mask
 - Pop an image out of the border
 - Harrys Filters: collection of 11 freeware plugins with various effect
 - Learning: Separations for Screen Printing
 - Removing Backgrounds and Selecting hair and fine details in Photoshop
 - QuickFix & Color Corrections using Photoshop Elements
 - Photoshop Blending Photos to Sketches
 - Photoshop’s Artistic Watercolor Filter
 - Photoshop: Carved in Wood
 - Photoshop: Changing Colors to show the client the finished lettering job
 - Photoshop: Clipping Path makes a Hole in the Doughnut
 - Photoshop: Saving an old, faded photo
 - Removing Backgrounds 2: Save Shadows
 - Layer Mask: Merging Photos and Making Masks
 - Setting a HEX color for GIF format graphics
 - Photoshop question of the year: Removing White Backgrounds
 - Photoshop: Text Mask to Embossed Watermark for Photos
 - Photoshop: Place an Image into Text

Popularity: 52% [?]

Here are 3 Photoshop Reference Guides, hosted by Ohio University, that delve into the intricacies of working with Photoshop and working with it at basic, intermediate and advanced levels, depending on user experience. Each guide explains and details various Photoshop features, tools and workflows and are designed in such a way to help you easily understand and use them immediately. Each of these Photoshop references is in pdf format.


Photoshop Introduction Reference Guide 19 pages, 994 Kb
This Photoshop tutorial guide starts by introducing Photoshop and its interface, acquainting users with a file’s EXIF information, the File Browser and working with selections

 - Introduction
 - Starting Photoshop
 - Examining Photoshop
 - The File Browser
 - EXIF Information
 - Using Tools
 - Transforming Selections


Intermediate Photoshop Reference Guide 13 pages, 1.04 Mb
This Photoshop tutorial guide is a primer for intermediate users. This guide explains how to create a new image, working with layers, adding text and drawing in Photoshop

 - Building With Layers
 - Creating a New Image
 - Adding Text
 - Drawing with Photoshop
 - The Color Replacement Tool


Advanced Photoshop Reference Guide 14 pages, 975.25 Kb
This Photoshop tutorial guide details some advanced Photoshop features, namely working with masks, channels and resolution.

 - Using Masks
 - Channel Basics
 - Scanning Resolution

Popularity: 17% [?]

Here are 6 freely available ebooks covering 5 Adobe applications as linked here. These are Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver.


Adobe Application eBooks:

 - Photoshop Quick Reference ebook

 - Adobe Illustrator ebook

 - Fireworks ebook

 - Flash MX ebook

 - Flash ebook 2

 - Dreamweaver ebook

Popularity: 36% [?]

Here are 3 Photoshop eBooks, one for Photoshop CS and two covering Photoshop CS2. These will teach you many of Photoshop’s features and tools and how to use them. The CS ebook deals mainly with photographs, the CS2 ebooks cover editing graphics and photos, and using many of the editing tools available in the application. These Photoshop ebooks are in pdf format.


 - Photoshop CS eBook

 - Photoshop CS2 eBook 1

 - Photoshop CS2 eBook 2

Popularity: 32% [?]

Here are 3 Photoshop Tutorials, hosted at the University of Pennylvania Library. Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program and is the current market leader in image manipulation software. These Photoshop tutorials discuss the basics of Photoshop, and also several intermediate features, such as Layers and the Crop Tool in Photoshop.


Photoshop Basics
This tutorial discusses the bare basics for Photoshop, such as what Photoshop is, where to get it, different file formats, image resolution and selection tools. This tutorial can be downloaded for later reference. The course explains the below features of Photoshop.

 - What Photoshop is and where to get it
 - The basics of image resolution and file formats
 - How to use the Photoshop interface
 - How to paint and erase
 - How to use the selection tools
 - Basic techniques for retouching your photos and improving image quality


Photoshop, Beyond the Basics: Intro to Layers
This tutorial discusses Layers in Photoshop and how it is used effectively in images. Layers are used to add opacity, masks and styles. This section also explains the different types of layers, such as normal, background, type and adjustment layers. The workshop hand outs can be downloaded here. This workshop explains the below topics.

 - What layers are and why they are useful
 - How to use the Layers palette
 - How to create, move, reorder, and align/distribute layers
 - About layer opacity
 - About different types of layers, such as the background, normal layers, and type layers, and adjustment layers.
 -  About layer masks
 - How to add layer styles


Using the Crop Tool in Photoshop
This tutorial imparts knowledge on the Crop tool and how it is effectively used to crop sections of an image. This tutorial can be downloaded for later use.

Popularity: 36% [?]

Here are 11 Photoshop Tutorials, located at handson. These Photoshop tutorials discuss and demonstrate various Photoshop features and tools, such as effects, transparency, backgrounds, colors, masks, and texture wrapping. All of these tutorials can be downloaded and saved for later use.


11 Photoshop Tutorials:

Glass effects
This tutorial imparts knowledge to users on the glass effect and how it can be created in Photoshop.

Drop shadows
This tutorial shows users how to effectively use shadows on images and how shadows can have many variations.

Lighting effects
The lighting effects discussed here show users how to work with the various lighting effects available in Photoshop.

Transparency
Transparency is used by designers between layers and this tutorials show how to use them well.

Dealing with High contrast backgrounds
This tutorials show how to work with high contrast backgrounds and how to use them in Photoshop.

Tiled backgrounds
This tutorial explains how to use tiled backgrounds when working with Photoshop.

216 colors
This tutorial shows how to work with 216 colors when working with GIFs in Photoshop.

Nifty little insert bars
Working with insert bars in Photoshop is discussed in detail in this tutorial.

Lighting effects – Button mask
The tutorial explains working with button masks with a lighting effect in Photoshop.

Lighting effects – more on masks
This tutorial discusses other masks and effects available on masks in Photoshop.

Texture wrapping
This tutorial explains how textures can be wrapped around an object or a shape.

Popularity: 55% [?]

Here are nine Photoshop Tutorials at SwitchOnTheCode.com. These Photoshop tutorials explain some of the important techniques and features used in the most popular graphics editing program, Adobe Photoshop. I think you will find these tutorials useful and helpful.


Creating Duotone Images in Photoshop
This Photoshop tutorial covers taking an image and making it duotone. Duotone simply means two colors.

Do you suck at Photoshop?
This is a series of tutorials created by Donnie Hoyle. This section covers the volumes from 1 through 4.

You Suck At Photoshop – Volume 5
This video tutorial will introduce you to Photoshop’s color select tool.

You Suck at Photoshop – Volumes 6 and 7
The volumes 6 and 7 are covered here. If you don’t like the player, the videos can also be found on YouTube.

White Balance Your Images with Photoshop
With the help of Photoshop, we can fix some of the color problems with a simple click of the mouse. This section covers that.

An Extensive Guide to Photoshop Layer Styles
This tutorial will go through every layer style found in a default installation of Adobe Photoshop CS3, show what it does to your image, and describe some available options.

Photoshop Tutorial – How to Make a Color Picker Gradient
This section will go through all the steps required to create the gradient image using Photoshop.

Photoshop Tutorial – Actions
This section of the tutorial is going to provide a step-by-step guide on how to use Photoshop Actions. Actions are an easy way to apply the same thing (cropping, rotating, filters, etc.) to a large collection of images.

Photoshop Tutorial – Create a Seamless Texture from a Photo
This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating a seamless texture from almost any photo.

Popularity: 44% [?]

Here are some excellent Photoshop References and Cheat Sheets at appletree.or.kr. The following Photoshop references and cheat sheets explain and list many techniques and shortcuts used in this popular graphics editing application. By using these documents you’ll be able to perform Photoshop’s graphics editing tasks easier and faster. These quick reference guides are available for both PC and Mac platforms, and are in pdf format.

 
   Adobe PenTool Cheatsheet  506K  
   Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Quick Reference Card for Mac OS  328K   
   Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Quick Reference Card for Windows  271K  
   Adobe Photoshop CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts  51K  
   Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 Quick Reference Card for Mac OS  165K   
   Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw Shortcuts Mac   98K  
   Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw Shortcuts Win 97K  
   Adobe PhotoShop CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts Mac  42K  
   Adobe PhotoShop CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts PC  43K  
   Adobe PhotoShop CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts Mac  45K  
   Adobe PhotoShop CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts PC  45K  
   Photoshop Brush Cheatsheet  466K   
   Photoshop Lasso Cheatsheet  444K   
   Photoshop CS3 Quick Reference Card Mac  307K  
   Photoshop CS3 Quick Reference Card Windows  525K  
   adobe lightroom cheat sheets.zip  1.5M  
   adobe photoshop elements 5 quick reference card  343K  
   photoshop bw cheatsheet.psd  5.1M 

Popularity: 34% [?]

Here are 43 Photoshop Tutorials, hosted at Tutorials Portal, that will help you quickly customize and learn Photoshop’s interface and workflows. Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program and is the market leader for image manipulation software. These Photoshop tutorials describe various text and color effects and how they can be applied to vector images. Some of these effects include bubble text, glowing text, adding a reflection, paint effect, carved text and animated loaders. Also discussed are colorizing an image, rain effects, and an old photo effect. All Photoshop tutorials provided here are easy to understand and follow, whether you’re a novice or expert user.


43 Photoshop Tutorials:

 - Smarter Than The Average Bears
 - The Creation of Lava Woman
 - The Making of a Humanoid
 - How to make a “Text on Fire”!
 - How to make a Black & White picture
 - 3D Cover For Software Box
 - Video Tutorial – Adding a new sky and reflection in an image
 - Bubble Text
 - Love Heart Picture
 - Gold Text Effect
 - Glamour Effect
 - Electric Glow Text
 - Focus Zoom
 - Watercolor Image
 - Zombie Face
 - Ice Text Effect
 - Add Advertisement to a Taxi Cab
 - Rain Effects
 - Shadow Image
 - Carved Text
 - Paint Effect
 - Starburst
 - Redwood Texture
 - Effective Airbrushing
 - Color Overlay
 - Barcode Tutorials
 - Loading Firefox
 - Website Badge
 - 3D Callout Icon
 - Image Clone
 - Tech Border
 - [GIMP]Quick Sig Tutorial
 - Cartoon Background
 - Reflection with Water Reflect Effect
 - Simple Old Photo Effect
 - Again, Simple Sig Tutorial
 - Brighter Your Image
 - Glowing Text Effect
 - Colorize Your Image
 - Another Tech Border
 - Animated Matrix Effect
 - Grunge Edge
 - Simple Sig

Popularity: 24% [?]

Here are 17 excellent Photoshop Tutorials at Adobe Design Center Dialogbox explaining some of the advanced techniques used in this popular graphics editing program. These Photoshop tutorials demonstrate advanced techniques that will increase your technical knowledge of Photoshop, as you learn more about the concepts of design, layout, balance, color theory, and more. I hope you’ll find these techniques inspiring and helpful.


17 Photoshop Tutorials:

 - Optimum Strategies for Using Adobe Photoshop CS2 in Scientific and … 4.72 Mb, 18 Pages
 - Adobe - Photoshop CS3 tutorial : 20 years of Photoshop history
 - Adobe - tutorial : Understanding Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 4
 - Adobe - Photoshop : Why shoot raw?
 - Adobe - Photoshop : Non-destructive imaging: An …
 - Adobe - Photoshop : Nature’s Lightroom 
 - Adobe - Photoshop : Creative spark
 - Adobe - Photoshop : Zig zag
 - Adobe - Photoshop : Awakening the Web
 - Adobe - Photoshop : Wonders of the digital …
 - Adobe - Photoshop : The incredible, shrinking …
 - Adobe - Photoshop : Shades of Green
 - Adobe - Photoshop CS4 tutorial : Playing with print
 - Adobe - Photoshop : Rendering the print: The …
 - Adobe - Photoshop : Making user-generated …
 - Adobe - 20 years of Photoshop history
 - Adobe Design Center – Video on the web: My favorite designers

Popularity: 11% [?]

Here are 31 Photoshop Layout Design Tutorials at Web Design Booth that discuss layouts for web sites created in Photoshop. While Photoshop is the de facto application for imaging editing, it is also a very powerful tool for creating websites and arranging objects in the layout. In these Photoshop layout design tutorials, you will discover the Photoshop’s power with creating some interesting and appealing websites that focus on design and usability. Some of the layouts formats discussed are as follows: business related, a blog theme based website, an unusual layout, a simple portfolio design, a dark portfolio design, and paper based layout.


31 Photoshop Tutorials for Web Layout Design:

 - Carbon Fiber Layout
 - Business Wordpress PSD Layout
 - Watercolored Background Web Portfolio Design
 - Clean and Colorful Web Layout
 - Creative Studio Web Page
 - Dark Portfolio Pixel Layout
 - Awesome Portfolio Layout
 - Create A Clean Blog Theme In Photoshop
 - Design A Creative Unusual Layout
 - Design a Layout for a Non-Profit Organization in Photoshop
 - Professional Looking Design Studio Web Page Layout
 - Graphic Design Studio Web Layout
 - Design a premium Wordpress blog with Photoshop
 - Website Gallery Layout Design
 - How to Create a “Worn Paper” Web Layout Using Photoshop
 - Design an awesome colorful layout
 - Design Studio Layout
 - Freelance Portfolio Design
 - Design a trendy business & finance layout
 - GreenPress WordPress Theme Design
 - Design a Web Template using the “960 Grid System”
 - Design a realistic website layout in photoshop
 - Create a Vibrant Modern Blog Design in Photoshop
 - Create a Sleek, High-End Web Design from Scratch
 - How to Create an Illustrative Web Design in Photoshop
 - How to Create a Stunning Grunge Portfolio
 - How to Design a Web 2.0 Website Template-Seller Photoshop Mockup
 - Chocolate Pro WordPress Style Layout
 - Web 2.0 photoshop layout tutorial
 - Portfolio Gallery Layout
 - Photoshop tutorial to design a clean business layout

Popularity: 27% [?]

Here are 39 Photoshop Tutorials, hosted at psdeluxe.com. These Photoshop tutorials can help you learn to create stunning web graphics or bring out the very best in your digital photographs. Using these, you will be able to learn to use many of Photoshop’s tools, become a better graphics designer, and increase your Photoshop skills. All the basic as well as advanced features are explained and demonstrated with ample screenshots.

39 Photoshop Tutorials:

 - Photoshop tutorial: Personal Portfolio Template
 - Photoshop tutorial: Rainy text effect
 - Create sexy cyborg
 - Create vectorized girls frame
 - Light rays text effect
 - Autumn portrait photo effect
 - Breaking apart photo effect
 - Create mystery romantic bride
 - Create flaming crocodile
 - Create Cardboard Box in Photoshop
 - Create header for designer website
 - Create Painting plate in photoshop
 - Colorful trendy text graphic in Photoshop
 - Meter design in Photoshop
 - Create Poster Graphic
 - Create 3D icon avatar
 - Create Beach header
 - Stylish Stewie Design
 - Abstract Lights effect
 - Volcano lava text effect
 - Magic Leaf
 - Safe riddled with bullets
 - Lightning from hand
 - Butterfly from water drops
 - Orb Design
 - Pioneer Plasma TV
 - Drawing realistic color portrait
 - Centaur tutorial
 - Venoms Symbiotic Graphic Design
 - Hosting Template
 - Water Drip Text Effect
 - Dark Spider Icon
 - Plastic Wrap Photo Effect
 - Glossy green Text Effect
 - Sleek Gaming Navigation Interface
 - Apple’s Monitor Design
 - Self-portrait on a paperleaf
 - Angel wings
 - Magic Talisman

Popularity: 25% [?]

Here are 6 Photoshop Tutorials, at California Polytechnic State University, that explain and describe many of Photoshop’s features and tools. These Photoshop tutorials cover using Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS4, but most of these can also be followed using older versions such as Photoshop.


6 Adobe Photoshop Tutorials:

Photoshop Tutorial 1 – Introduction  (246 Kb, 5 pages)
This tutorial gives you an introduction to Adobe Photoshop.

Photoshop Tutorial 2 – Creation  (97 Kb, 2 pages)
This workshop shows you how to use various features of Photoshop like opacity, drop shadow, feather, levels, selection, filters, shapes, and styles.

Photoshop Tutorial 3 – Output  (95 kb, 2 pages)
In this workshop, you will learn creating aqua buttons and saving files.

Scanning and Digital Cameras  (100 Kb, 2 pages)
In this workshop, we will explain about scanners, how to use it, deciding on the right resolution and getting out the red eye and color correcting.

Photoshop File Optimization Tutorial
This tutorial explains how to optimize a file in Photoshop.

Photoshop for Blackboard  (474 kb, 10 pages)
With Photoshop you may create a graphic that can be saved and uploaded into Blackboard as a banner on the announcements page. In this section, this topic is explained in detail.

Popularity: 14% [?]

These two Photoshop CS2 Tutorials, at The University of South Dakota, provide users with an in-depth coverage the basics of Photoshop CS2. Some of the important topics covered include a brief introduction to Photoshop, opening a new file, the different types of file Photoshop CS2 supports.


Adobe Photoshop CS2 Tutorial 1:
This first downloadable Photoshop tutorial discusses Photoshop’s tool box and the tools in the tool box that users can work with. All Photoshop tools are covered exhaustively and a section describing the use of layers, the layers palette and how they can be effectively used in an image. (pdf, 706Kb, 17 Pages)

Introduction to Photoshop
 - Learning Objectives
 - Start Photoshop
 - Open a new file

Photoshop tools
 - Marquee
 - Move
 - Lasso
 - Magic Wand
 - Crop
 - Slice
 - Healing Brush
 - Paintbrush/Pencil
 - Cloning
 - Eraser
 - Gradient
 - Paint Bucket
 - Blur
 - Sharpen
 - Smudge
 - Dodge
 - Burn
 - Sponge
 - Typing
 - Text Mask
 - Shape
 - Notes

Eyedropper

Introduction to Layers
 - Adding a New Layer
 - Setting Layer Options
 - Merging Layers
 - Using the Layers Palette


Adobe Photoshop CS2 Tutorial 2:
This second downloadable Photoshop tutorial briefs users of the use of Adjustment tools and working with the various filters already present in Photoshop and those that can be downloaded off the internet. Filters provide various effects to an image and users can customize the level of effect used. A mini-project is also provided allowing users to work on images based on what they have learnt. (pdf, 581Kb, 15 Pages)

 - Adjustments tools
 - Transforming
 - Working with the Filters
 - Project

Popularity: 21% [?]

Here are 8 more Photoshop Tutorials hosted by the University of Florida. These Photoshop tutorials impart knowledge about the graphics editing program, Adobe Photoshop. These Photoshop tutorials takes you through various Photoshop automation, giving out various exercises to get a hands-on experience, explaining Photoshop layers and masks and increasing resolution for printing. Other Photoshop tutorials on this site are here.


8 Adobe Photoshop Tutorials:

Action_Exercises 27kb
This exercise describes various steps involved in saving for Email, setting a perfect monochrome image and creating a vignette photograph.

 - Save for Email
 - Perfect Monochrome
 - Vignette


Adobe CS2 Photoshop Automation 741.5 kb
This tutorial teaches you about the various tasks that can be automated in Photoshop CS2. It also explains about a few automated commands that can be used very easily with little or no preparation.

 - Web Gallery
 - Contact Sheet II
 - Picture Package
 - Actions
 - Batch Processing


Adobe CS3 Photoshop Automation 964.5 kb
This tutorial teaches you about the various tasks that can be automated in Photoshop CS3. The section also demonstrates on how to use the web gallery, batch processing, merging photos and various actions that can be done in Photoshop.

 - Contact Sheet II
 - Picture Package
 - Web Gallery
 - Actions
 - Batch Processing
 - Photomerge


Basic Exercises  48.8 Kb
This section of the tutorial offers you various exercises on actions like healing photos, opening, saving files and changing file sizes, working with selections and layers etc.

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


Increase Resolution for Printing 47kb
This tutorial tells you how to increase the resolution of your image for efficient printing.


Photoshop Layers and Masks 436 kb
This tutorial teaches you on using Photoshop layers and masks. It also explains the layer palette, managing layers and some exercises to demonstrate these.

 - Layers
 - Masks 
 - Why Use Layers and Masks
 - The Layer Palette
 - Managing Layers       
 - Exercise


Photoshop CS3 Layers and Masks 519 kb
This tutorial provides you with information on using Photoshop CS3 layers and masks. It also shows how to use the layer palette and managing layers in Photoshop CS3.

 - Layers
 - Masks
 - Why Use Layers and Masks
 - The Layer Palette
 - Managing Layers
 - Exercises


Photoshop CS2 Layers and Masks 472.5 kb
This tutorial section describes the information on using Photoshop CS2 layers and masks. It also shows how to use the layer palette and managing layers in Photoshop CS2.

 - Layers
 - Masks
 - Why Use Layers and Masks
 - The Layer Palette
 - Managing Layers
 - Exercises

Popularity: 22% [?]

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.

Popularity: 14% [?]

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.

Popularity: 25% [?]