Ask HN: Best site for Photoshop tutorials?

15 points·brandnewlow··8 comments

I'm mocking up some dummy ads and need to brush up on a few Photoshop skills that I haven't used in a while. I'm finding that Google's completely useless for this. Nothing but pages and pages of spammy results. Any good Photoshop tutorial sites out there that you'd recommend?

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http://psd.tutsplus.com/ - has a mix of free and 'premium' tutorials.

Also, smashingmagazine.com frequently has good links to tutorials.

Tutsplus is great.

I found this Smashing magazine tutorials rather useful http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/03/10/web-20-tutorials-....

I found PSDtuts to be most excellent - http://psdtuts.com

You can also find some gems on Smashing Magazine's site http://www.smashingmagazine.com - while not photoshop specific, there are some good articles like http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/10/adobe-photoshop-t...

I decided to learn Paint.NET "over a weekend" to do some mock ups, ended up spending weeks and actually getting fairly good at it.

My advice to you, if you're creating any type of logo, start downloading fonts like crazy. I recommend a site like www.dafont.com (unaffiliated.) The reason? you can find very interesting graphic elements in wingding-type fonts and you can scale them to any size.

I'm late to answer this, but there are a few major tutorial aggregation sites: http://www.good-tutorials.com - http://www.pixel2life.com - http://www.tutorialized.com/

All the ones mentioned are good. Here's some from Layers magazine: http://www.layersmagazine.com/category/tutorials/

If you're willing to pay, www.lynda.com is great.

The Revision3 podcast, Pixel Perfect, is also a fairly good resource:

http://revision3.com/pixelperfect/

http://www.vunkysearch.net/ is a more visual search, links to other tutorials... find effect you want, click.

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