Whether you've just installed Photoshop for the first time or know your away around a the Tools toolbar, we put together a few of the most essential Photoshop skills to get you started on your photo editing endeavors. Before you know it, you'll be fixing up your grandmother's torn-up black and white wedding photos and airbrushing the heck out of yourself for your Facebook photo.
Most Web Design Layouts are normally done in Photoshop and since its the most overused application on creating web layouts, I list down some of the most helpful and nice photoshop tutorials on how to make a good web design layout to enhance your experience and ideas.
In this tutorial, I will show you the procedures I took to create an Realistic Dark Ocean text effect in Photoshop, which is inspired by one of the ocean photos my aunt showed me from Mykonos, Greece. We will be exploring some layer blending options, various tools and filters. I will also show you the way I use to add extra lighting contrast to the image.
GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.
Tutorial search engine for the free Photoshop equivalent Gimp. (Free download at: http://www.gimp.org/) This is for those who want to get serious about creating and editing their own images. There's also a version to find Photshop tutorials (Photoshop isn't free though) http://www.vunkysearch.net/
Smushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality. You'll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download.