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Photoshop is one of Adobe's most widely used products, however most users barely scratch the surface of the features the software offers. As people who love photography we come across great things that folks are doing with Photoshop on a daily basis. Below is a list of online tutorials we have stumbled on recently to help any user get more from Photoshop:

German photographer Michael Wesely has spent decades working on techniques for extremely long camera exposures - usually between two to three years. In the mid-1990s, he began using the technique to document urban development over time, capturing years of building projects in single frames.

Photography Tips & Techniques (many videos)

Unfortunate story about flickr deleting a photo because of a false copyright claim. According to the requirements in the DMCA, they had no choice. (this could happen to anyone)

Learn the basics of photography in 77 minutes…..Guaranteed. This downloadable step-by-step video series covers the basics of photography, from how your camera works, exposure, shutter speed and aperture, all the way to what inspires you and how to compose your images for maximum impact. Brent goes into detail and demonstrates each essential photographic ingredient in these fun, casual and easy-to-learn videos. Join Brent as he photographs portraits in the studio and outdoors as well as go on location to capture landscape and sunset pictures. You will never have to shoot in auto mode again, GUARANTEED (or your money back).

These videos, along with Brent's commercial videos (http://www.brentmailphotography.com/essential-skills-videos) and eBook are forming the basis of a "Photography Activity Pack" being developed by a student as part of her TGJ4M independent project.

Learn how to create a button, work with basic functions, link a button to a webpage, link a button to a frame, work with scenes and create a basic scene selection menu. This tutorial is good if you are completely new to Actionscript.

In this episode of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast, I'll show you the NEW Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad. While there are lots of photo editing Apps for iOS, there are none that are truly like "Photoshop." Photoshop Touch gives you the power and familiarity of Photoshop tools and techniques on your iPad. Best of all the layered files you create can be opened in Photoshop CS5 on the desktop and continued to be refined.

Buying an iPad and this version of Photoshop is almost cheaper than buying the regular version of Photoshop! I'll have to read some reviews first, but I may buy myself a copy. 

These images are free to use in your creative works. 

These are an awesome find! Thanks Peter!

Here's an A-Z list of the films that influenced the most influential--and Oscar-nominated--director in Hollywood, Martin Scorsese (in other words, the films you need to see to be the film expert you think you are).

Curriculum resources from Adobe

Crowd sourced resources for teachers

crow-sourced resources for teachers

Crowd-sourcing resources for teachers

Our system of law doesn't acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren't so tidy. They're layered, they're interwoven, they're tangled. And when the system conflicts with the reality... the system starts to fail.

Numerous Photoshop video tutorials - excellent for class! 

helping students use social media for their careers

We're taking professional profile shots in my grade 12 Comm Tech class as a way of learning 3-point lighting...here's the guide on real world application.

Could use digital citizenship peppered throughout

A 1,200-gram weather balloon, the crucial role of gravity, quiver-reducing ropes, Styrofoam's versatility, burst altitude, a University of Wyoming website and a free software program for shutterbugs were part of the formula Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, used to launch, film and land the patriotic, flag-bearing Lego Man.