5 Blogs to Learn Adobe Photoshop Online for Free
Posted on 07. Oct, 2010 by Aminul Islam Sajib in Internet Tools, Links
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Although there are lots of free alternatives available both online and offline, Adobe Photoshop is still the most popular and professional way to get things done that are related to photo editing. It is sometimes even used to create logos and business cards instead of Adobe Illustrator.
Learning Adobe Photoshop is not difficult, but becoming a master of PS is absolutely difficult. Probably, even the folks at Adobe don’t know what all can be done with this extraordinary software. They just build the tools; the rest depends on the creativity of user.
There are lots of online and offline courses, DVDs, books and eBooks to learn Photoshop. However, people today like to learn things for free, and tutorials are the best way to learn almost anything – from photo editing to website development. Here are 5 blogs you should follow if you want to learn Photoshop as a beginner, intermediate, or advanced user.
PSD Tuts
PSD Tuts deserves to be the most popular blog to follow Photoshop learning on the web. PSD Tuts (Shortened form of Tutorials) publishes amazing walkthroughs to create awesome design and photo manipulation. The blog also publishes tutorials on creating outstanding effects on any photo.
What takes your attention is lots of screenshots that make it very easy to follow. One of the greatest advantages of this blog is you can download the source image files before you follow the steps. However, while the tutorial is completely free, you will need to pay for subscription which will allow you to download the source files.
Tutorial9
Tutorial9 publishes Photoshop tutorials for both beginner and advanced level users. The site does not forget to include lots and lots of screenshots that make it easier for you to follow the walkthrough. Most of the time, the tutorial contains a video tutorial which makes it easier-than-imaginable to follow the steps.
You can also download stuff from Tutorial9 for free. The site also contains tips and tutorials regarding Photography, Web designing and blogging. You should give it a try and subscribe if you are a Photoshop enthusiast.
Good-Tutorials
Good-Tutorials is kind of different from the others I talked about above. While most other blogs talk about how to do things with Photoshop, Good-Tutorials talks what Photoshop is, what it is used for, what can be done with it, and lastly, how to get things done with it.
It should be a perfect choice for beginners with no knowledge of Photoshop.
Photoshop Lady
Photoshop Lady aggregates some of the best Photoshop tutorials from across the web. The range of tutorials includes how to create photo effects and design icons. This does not end there. There are a number of categories to browse through. You will find easy-to-follow tutorials on this site. You can also browse through most rated and most favorite articles by others.
I highly recommend this site because it aggregates best Photoshop tutorials and thus you get a lot of tutorials to follow and learn from.
Luxa
Lastly, a site for your interaction with Photoshop experts. Luxa claims to be a social learning site for Photoshop artists. It has lots of tutorials, design tutorials and video tutorials. You can request a video tutorial of anything you’d like to learn, and you can also share it with your friends ‘on Luxa’. Luxa can be the best interaction platform to learn Photoshop basics and then slowly move to advanced level of Photoshop use.
There are plenty of other blogs and websites out there which can be helpful for you to learn Photoshop. I’ve just come up with a list that is believed to be most useful and popular around the web. I hope they will help you become a Photoshop Expert.
Do you have a blog or resource you would add to this list?
(By) Aminul Islam Sajib is a technology journalist and blogger. He writes wordpress and blogging tips and maintains a personal blog at aisjournal.com.
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5 Blogs to Learn Adobe Photoshop Online for Free
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Take SD Card Speed into Account When Taking Hi-Res Photos
When most of us choose an SD card for our digital camera, we probably don't look far beyond its capacity. Technology blog Tested shows us, though, that the speed of your SD card can make a difference in high quality photo taking. Photo by Ryosuke Sekido. If you're just using a regular point-and-shoot camera, you probably don't need to pay attention to the speed of your SD card, but if you're using a high-quality DSLR (especially if you're shooting in RAW), speed can make quite a difference in usability: If you use a digital SLR and plan to take a lot of burst and continuous mode photos, then memory card speed is an important factor. The New York Times' David Pogue noted in 2006 that, while smaller cameras don't need high-speed memory cards, the amount of information being pushed through while taking a series of high-resolution shots on an SLR requires a faster card. With slower cards, a camera's burst mode might only be able to capture a handful of photos before its buffer fills up and the user has to wait for the files to write to the card. Most SD cards should have a number on them, such as 2, 4, 6, or 10 to denote their minimum write speed in MB/seconds. Sandisk's class 4 cards, for example, transfer speeds at 15 MB/sec, and their class 6 cards have a speed of 30 MB/sec. It may not be something you've thought about before, but if you take a lot of hi-res action shots, you might find that higher speed SD cards will increase your camera's performance. Hit the link for more information, and share your own camera usability tips in the comments. Send an email to Whitson Gordon, the author of this post, at whitson@lifehacker.com.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Google Brings Picnik to Picasa Web Albums
Picnik allows users to perform basic photo editing functions like cropping and resizing pictures. In addition, users can add effects, stickers and frames to their pictures. For an additional fee of $4.95 a month (or $24.95 a year), users can get access to more advanced editing tools and additional effects, fonts and stickers. Until now, Picasa users only had the option to edit photos in the Picasa desktop application.
The integration between the two services is seamless, though Picnik's design is clearly different from Picasa's and quite a few users will probably think that they've arrived on a non-Google site. As Jonathan Sposata, the product manager for Google Photos and Picnik's original founder told us yesterday, this was a conscious decision on Google's part. Just like YouTube and a few other Google properties, Picnik will retain its original branding. Google is also keeping Picnik's fee structure intact. Picasa should automatically recognize if a Picnik user has a paid or free account.
Google didn't add any new features to Picnik. Instead, Sposata told us, most of the work over the last few months went into migrating Picnik's back-end (which ran on a combination of Picnik's own servers and Amazon's S3 storage service) to Google's infrastructure.
What About Picasa on the Desktop?
Overall, this is a welcome addition to the online version of Picasa, as it enables users to perform relatively complex image editing functions right in the browser. Interestingly, though, there is now a very clear mismatch between the editing functions in the Picasa desktop client and the online version. Chances are that Google will soon rectify this situation. As Sposata told us, today's announcement is just "the first sign of many wonderful things to come." Judging from our discussion with Google, bringing more of Picnik's tools to more Google properties in the near future is definitely one of the team's current priorities.
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