70 Excellent Photoshop Resources
Adobe Photoshop is the tool of choice for many designers and artists. Photoshop can be used for almost every little task that involves graphic design. It is one of the finest pieces of software available on the market when it comes to digital image editing. A great attribute of Photoshop is that you can extend it with additional brushes, patterns, shapes, and more.
In this massive collection of resources, you’ll find all sorts of resources including: tutorial sites, Photoshop Brushes, patterns, Photoshop Actions, showcases/collections, and much more.
Photoshop Tutorial Sites
1. Psdtuts+
Psdtuts+ is a weblog and Photoshop site that features high-quality Photoshop tutorials. On Psdtuts+, you’ll find tutorials such as "Creating a Touching Story Scene in Photoshop" and tips and tricks like "Using Adobe Kuler to Enhance Your Photoshop Color Workflow".
2. Tutorial9
Tutorial9 is a website that publishes excellent Photoshop tutorials such as "Draw a Classy 3D Poker Chip in Photoshop" and "Render a Realistic CD in Photoshop".
3. PSDFAN
PSDFAN publishes high-quality tutorials, Photoshop freebies, and interviews with designers and artists.
4. Photoshop Ninja
Photoshop Ninja is a site dedicated to Photoshop. It shares tutorials and tips such as "Opening Photoshop layered files as merged files", "Creating overlapping text layers", and "Why is my Photoshop layer style or effect not working?".
5. PSHERO
PSHERO shares Photoshop tutorials in categories such as Graphic Design, Photo Effects, and Tips & Tricks. Check out the Gallery View to see a quick thumbnail style view of PSHERO’s content.
6. You Suck at Photoshop
You Suck at Photoshop is a funny – but very educational – video series of Photoshop tutorials. This screencast series includes tutorials on topics such as the Clone Stamp tool and manual cloning and the Patch tool and levels.
7. PSD learning
Started on June 2008 by design student, Ross Aitken, PSD learning shares Photoshop tutorials, news/announcements, and design showcases. You’ll find Photoshop tutorials such as "Clean Web Template Design" and "Setting a Plane on Fire".
8. Luxa
Luxa presents great Photoshop tutorials such as "Tattoo Coming to Life" and "Phoenix Hair Effect".
9. Loon Design: Tutorials
Loon Design, a design weblog, has a Tutorials category that regularly features tutorials on Photoshop such as "Grunge Web Design" and "Creating A Professional Magazine Web Layout".
10. Photoshop Tutorials
At Photoshop Tutorials, you’ll discover great, in-depth Photoshop tutorials such as "Perform Laser Eye Surgery on a Photo with Photoshop" and "Street Dance Illustration".
11. PSDtop
PSDtop features high-quality Photoshop tutorials from all over the net.
12. PS Lover
PS Lover indexes Photoshop tutorials from all over the web (currently has over 12,000 listed tutorials), arranged into categories such as Web Design & User Interface Design, Photoshop Basics, and Photo Manipulation and Effects.
13. Photoshop 101
Started in 2004, Photoshop 101, a member of the MotionXL network, indexes Photoshop tutorials into categories such as Image Effects and Text Effects.
14. Good-Tutorials: Photoshop Section
Good-Tutorials, the largest source of tutorials on the web, has a huge Photoshop section that has a ton of tutorials.
15. Photoshop Roadmap
Photoshop Roadmap shares tutorials on Photoshop, as well as Photoshop brushes and plugins. Tutorials are organized in categories such as Animation and Interactivity and Photo retouching.
16. Photoshop Star
Photoshop Star publishes Photoshop tutorials such as "Creating Taxi Text Effect" and "Old Style Photo Effect".
17. Planet Photoshop: Tutorials
Planet Photoshop, a site that shares Photoshop-related tutorials, resource, and reviews, has a fairly large tutorials section that features tutorials such as "Text on a Path" and "3D Billiard Balls".
18. Pixel2Life: Photoshop Tutorials
Pixel2Life, a site that features tutorials of various types, has a Photoshop Tutorials category with lots of indexed tutorials.
19. Voidix
Voidix shares various types of tutorials and has a category on Photoshop Tutorials which includes tutorials such as "Fire Text" and "Crystals effect".
20. Vunkysearch
Vunkysearch is a fast Photoshop tutorial search engine.
21. Photoshop Contest: Tutorials
Photoshop Contest, a site the hosts contests pertaining to Photoshop, has a tutorials section that has user-submitted tutorials like "Making Snow" and "The Peel Effect". They also have a Video tutorial category.
22. Abduzeedo: Photoshop
Abduzeedo, a weblog by Brazilian designer, Fabio Sasso, has a Photoshop category that houses tutorials and news on Photoshop.
23. PSD Vault
PSD Vault is a Photoshop tutorial site that writes about things like designing a floating Eiffel Tower in Photoshop and creating a vintage car poster. They also regularly give away design-related freebies.
24. Worth1000: Photoshop Tutorials
Worth1000, a site by Aviary, has a Photoshop Tutorials section that has excellent tutorials such as "Lighting a Giant Elephant" and "3D Water Scapes from Scratch".
25. Photoshop Lab
At Photoshop Lab, you can find tutorials, as well as tips, tricks and news, on Photoshp. Check out the tutorials section where you’ll find tutorials such as "7 Things Photoshop Does Automatically".
26. Tutorialman
Tutorialman indexes Photoshop tutorials in categories such as Layouts and Digital Art.
27. Photoshop Lady
Photoshop Lady rounds up the best online Photoshop tutorials.
Photoshop Tutorial Collections
28. 50 Great Photoshop Tutorials for Clever Beginners
This roundup by Psdtuts+ shares Photoshop tutorials for beginning-level designers.
29. 40 Icon Tutorials for Photoshop
In this collection from Vandelay Design, you’ll discover forty tutorials on designing icons in Photoshop.
30. Adobe Photoshop: 50+ High Quality .PSD Files and Tutorials
This post on Noupe features over fifty Photoshop files and tutorials.
31. Best Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes and Textures of February 2009
This is a roundup of tutorials, brushes, and textures from February 2009.
32. 70+ Sexy, beauty and glamour Photoshop tutorials
You’ll find over seventy beautification Photoshop tutorials housed in this roundup.
33. 60+ High Quality and Free Photoshop Tutorials
In this article, you’ll discover over sixty high quality and publicly-available Photoshop tutorials.
Photoshop Brushes
34. Brusheezy
Brusheezy is a place for digital artists to download and vote on free Photoshop brushes.
35. PSBrushes
At PSBrushes, you’ll find plenty of downloadable Photoshop brushes organized in categories such as Abstract, Fractals, and Grunge.
36. Brushking
Brushking indexes tons of Photoshop brushes into categories such as: Vintage, Grunge, and Splatters.
37. myPhotshopBrushes.com
myPhotoshopBrushes.com features a ton of Photoshop brushes, arranging them into categories such as ornaments, nature, and human.
38. Obsidian Dawn: Brushes
Obsidian Dawn has a section on Brushes that has a collection of awesome Photoshop brushes.
39. Qbrushes
Qbrushes shares high-quality Photoshop brushes indexed into categories such as Swirls, Splatter, and Objects.
40. Fbrushes
Fbrushes currently has over 4,000 brushes and 200 brush sets, intuitively partitioned into categories such as Retro and Water Color.
41. Designersbrush
Designersbrush has a ton of Photoshop brushes.
42. Gfxfever
Gfxfever, a site for web designers, features Photoshop brushes such as "Decoration brushes" and "Acryl brushes".
43. Getbrushes
Getbrushes is your guide to free and downloadable Adobe Photoshop brushes on the web.
44. Inobscuro: Brushes
Inobscuro, a site on digital art, has a section on Photoshop brushes.
45. Photoshop Brushes from Adobe
The official Adobe site has a collection of Photoshop brushes that you can download.
Photoshop Patterns and Styles
46. Free4photoshop
Free4photoshop features free patterns, Photoshop styles, as well as brushes.
47. Designerpie
Designerpie shares freebies, including Photoshop patterns, styles, and pre-made gradients.
48. Free Photoshop Patterns
Free Photoshop Patterns – as the site name implies – features free, downloadable Photoshop patterns.
49. Photoshop Patterns from Adobe
The official Adobe site has a collection of Photoshop patterns that you can download.
Photoshop Brush, Gradients and Pattern Collections
50. 100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes
This is a one-page collection of high-res Photoshop brushes by Photoshop Roadmap.
51. Splatter and Watercolour Brushes For Photoshop
Smashing Magazine released this set of brushes as a free download.
52. The Ultimate Collection Of Free Photoshop Patterns
This Smashing Magazine article rounds up the best Photoshop patterns available online.
53. 50 Free Photoshop Pattern Sets
This gallery-style post with clickable thumbnails features 50 free Photoshop pattern sets.
54. 498 Photoshop Background Patterns, and so much more
Close to 500 Photoshop background patterns are featured on this post.
55. 300+ Vintage Style Textures and Photoshop Brushes
Over 300 vintage-style textures and brushes are showcased in this Design Reviver post.
56. Web 2.0 Gradients
If you’re a fan of the "Web 2.0 Gradient" look-and-feel, check out this wonderful post by Dezinerfolio.
57. 15 Sites to download Free PSD files
This list shares 15 sites where you can download PSD files for free.
Photoshop Actions
58. The Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Actions
Written by Six Revisions (hint: the site you’re on right now) founder and chief editor, Jacob Gube – this Smashing Magazine article showcases some of the best Photoshop Actions on the net.
59. 124+ Free Photoshop Actions to Boost Your Designs
In this post, you’ll discover over a hundred free Photoshop actions that’ll improve your workflow, including actions for creating vintage photos and film strips automatically.
60. 400+ Time Saving Photoshop Actions
Design Reviver features over 400 actions that will save you time, including Photoshop Actions for photography and for giving photos a Polaroid effect.
61. Free Auto Tilt-Shift Photoshop Action
This free Photoshop Action tries to apply the Tilt-Shift Photography effect on your images automatically.
Photoshop Plugins
62. 720 Free Photoshop Plugins And Filters
Over 700 free Photoshop plugins and filters are showcased in this post.
63. List of Top 10 Free Adobe Photoshop Plugins
This list on CGIndia features their top ten free Photoshop plugins.
64. 25 of the Best FREE Photoshop Plugins and Filters Resource Sites
This Speckyboy-written post features sites where you can download free plugins and filters for Photoshop.
65. Couple of Free Photoshop Plugin
Tutorial blog shares two excellent Photoshop plugins.
66. Free Photoshop Plug-ins Collection
Webresourcesdepot rounds up an awesome showcase of Photoshop plugins.
Tutorials on Extending Photoshop
67. How To Make A Photoshop Brush
This tutorial on Bittbox walks you through the process of creating a Photoshop brush.
68. Photoshop Tutorial: Creating custom pattern
Learn how to create a custom pattern in Photoshop by following along Hongkiat‘s tutorial.
69. Photoshop Shapes: Create Your Own Photoshop Custom Shapes
This tutorial by photoshopessentials.com teaches readers how to create a custom Shape in Photoshop.
70. Create A Photoshop Action To Watermark Your Images
Learn how to make a Photoshop Action in this PhotoshopSupport.com tutorial.
Do you have a resource we missed?
If your favorite Photoshop resource site isn’t here – sound off in the comments and let us all know about it.
* Article edited by: Jacob Gube
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Kawsar Ali is a web designer, graphic designer, and wannabe photographer based in NY, U.S. He’s also the founder of Desizntech,a site to find tips about web design, Mac, PC and more. If you’d like to connect with him, you can follow him on Twitter or at his Personal Website.
72 Comments
jack
March 23rd, 2009
Thanks a lot, Kawsar! Everyone should know about PSD tuts. Their tutorial content is based around a better original concept and thus more interesting.
Matt
March 23rd, 2009
Doing tutorials is the best way to learn Photoshop.
Dainis Graveris
March 23rd, 2009
not bad, quite impressive collection from Kawsar :)
gawsog
March 23rd, 2009
Tnx for this!! Very helpful sites.. More power man :D..
*Subscribed!*
rawpump
March 23rd, 2009
Great Links..
Sebastiano
March 23rd, 2009
Hi!
I think my blog is another useful resource for photoshop lovers
http://bestphotoshoptutorials.net
Jack
March 23rd, 2009
Great post
I learning photoshop so I need some resources.
Iflexion
March 23rd, 2009
Wow! That’s amazing review!
Photoshop is really web designer’s second self.
Thanks a lot. Already bookmarked.
Enrique
March 23rd, 2009
Hi! This is a great list and thanks for considering The Photoshop Roadmap as an Excellent resource.
I would like to point you three more resources:
1- PhotoshopMosaic (http://www.photoshopmosaic.com). This site displays Photoshop tutorials’ in a mosaic of preview thumbnails. It is like a tutorials, brushes and patterns candy store.
2- Photoshop Essentials (http://www.photoshopessentials). Although you mentioned a tutorial from this site, Photoshop Essentials is perhaps the best beginners Photoshop web site of all. They offer a membership section too.
3- Photoshop Support (http://www.photoshopsupport.com). Again, you mentioned a tutorial from them, but they offer a lot more than that. Loads of Photoshop news, tips and tutorials from the best Photoshop writers. If you want to buy a book about Photoshop, chances are that it has been featured at this site with tutorial samples to read and try.
Hope this helps and thanks again for mentioning my site!
hongkiat
March 23rd, 2009
Nice post. Thanks for the mention, Kawsar :-)
Vitali
March 23rd, 2009
HOLY SH*T! This is quite the list. Thank you for the service!
Patternhead
March 23rd, 2009
Great resource. Thanks :D
Christopher Swift
March 23rd, 2009
Kind of shameless promotion, I know, but I really am proud of this site which I built. Especially the LAB tutorials! There are also other tutorials, and links to free brushes, free backgrounds, actions, plugins and a lot more. I’d dearly love for my site to be included here. Thanks for having a look.
Murray
March 23rd, 2009
Excellent list. Bookmarked!
Jørgen
March 23rd, 2009
Hi there, you can find over 150 great photoshop tutorials at my site, http://www.tutorialmagazine.com
Mahbub
March 23rd, 2009
How did you find all these? The initial 10-15 are already known. But the whole composition is a really good effort. Alhamdulillah.
Danh ba web 2.0
March 23rd, 2009
Thanks for great list. Good luck
Joe Flanagan
March 23rd, 2009
Love your collection of links. However, test your website on all popular browsers. display is chopping off your first column. Thanks again
Bojo
Jacob Gube
March 23rd, 2009
@Joe Flanagan: I have tested it in popular browsers, which browser/OS are you referring to specifically?
Desiztech
March 23rd, 2009
Thanks Jacob, for allowing me to write for for Six Revisions.
Jacob Gube
March 23rd, 2009
@Desiztech: Kaswar, it’s my pleasure, thanks for contributing and looking forward to seeing more of your stories published here in Six Revisions.
jed
March 23rd, 2009
weekly 30 minutes podcast – tutorials, news, interviews
http://www.photoshopusertv.com/
ziad
March 23rd, 2009
Another option is vtutorial.com
They have a quiet a few video tutorials.
Michael Garmahis
March 23rd, 2009
Thanks so much for including my blog post! I would be glad to write a guest post for you blog.
John Malcolm
March 23rd, 2009
Seems to concentrate mainly on the photomanipulation side of things. There are a whole host of sites that lean more towards creating images from scratch – digital painting. ConceptArt forums have a lot of information on using Photoshop this way, and some great inspiration too.
Jacob Gube
March 23rd, 2009
@Michael Garmahis: Message me for more info.
chaoskaizer
March 23rd, 2009
amazing collection, thanks for sharing.
here’s another one from deviantart
http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/applications/?order=5
Matthew Heidenreich
March 23rd, 2009
Great list! There are definitely some great sites in there. I’d say psdvibe.com is a good one to add for sure :)
Farid Hadi
March 24th, 2009
Wow, this is a great list! This one goes straight into my bookmarks!
Thanks!
Araguaci Carlos de Andrade
March 24th, 2009
Photoshop, it’s the one.
Jean-Francois
March 24th, 2009
nice thanks for this
Tom Ross
March 24th, 2009
Wow, can’t believe I missed this post when it was published. Really awesome Jacob! Thanks a lot for featuring PSDFAN :)
designersbrush
March 24th, 2009
Great collection and Excellent resource at one place, good job. Thanks for including Designersbrush.com in brush section.
Designersbrush
Amanda Protheroe
March 25th, 2009
Just wondering if anyone knows of any sites to download pics of people and plants which have been cut out/isolated
Thanx
Claire
March 25th, 2009
An almost silly amount of resource. This will keep you in the know and occupied forever! I checkout out a few, and found some really inspiring ideas. Really likeing the Tutorial 9 one, got some real nifty design tricks in there that take 2 seconds, yet look so effective. :).
Jacob Gube
March 25th, 2009
@Tom Ross: See… I told you on Twitter I’ve been a long time fan of PSDFAN. :)
ethan
March 25th, 2009
holy crap! i just pooed my pants when i saw this list… literally i should go wipe up.
Toppas
March 26th, 2009
Awesome collection – After I finished downloading all that stuff, my Photoshop folder will be twice as big as now :)
Writer Dave
March 26th, 2009
What an extensive resource! I’m sure it took a lot of time to put this together for us. Thanks!
James Qu
March 27th, 2009
Hi~ Thanks so much for including PSD Vault!!
Great list, will definitely check some of those site out!
Tom Ross
March 27th, 2009
@Jacob that’s awesome, I’ve been a fan of 6rev since forever :)
Kadir
March 29th, 2009
Thank you.Very nice.
joyoge designers' bookmark
April 1st, 2009
really nice list, thanks..
these are good source too;
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/?s=photoshop
http://www.photoshoplady.com/
http://www.tutorialking.eu/
http://www.tutsearch.com/
Johnson Koh
April 1st, 2009
Thank you for putting all these together ;)
ignacio
April 18th, 2009
great data, thank you!
Yasas Perera
April 22nd, 2009
Awesome..All are in one place..Thanks Jacob!!
Shelton
April 24th, 2009
Hie I’m a newbe recently started using photoshop and your resource’s look very promising, Good lookin out man.
Jonny
May 13th, 2009
Thanks for including Photoshop Ninja, it’s my little pet project that I’ve been working on for over 4 years now!
I’m going to be redesigning it (half way thru, but paid work keeps getting in the way…boo!) shortly and launching a whole new area, which I hope my visitors will find useful.
All the best, andthanks for the awsome collection – good work!
James Sanders
May 29th, 2009
Nice list in one place. Just like to mention another of my more favorites as well. It’s not just photoshop, but it is all things adobe. Layers Magazine – The how-to magazine for everything adobe. http://www.layersmagazine.com/ They do have a tutorial area http://www.layersmagazine.com/category/tutorials which will lead you to the adobe photoshop tutorials at http://www.layersmagazine.com/category/tutorials/photoshop
Ioanis
June 14th, 2009
Yikes! Massive list! Thank you!
Sourcebits
June 18th, 2009
Excellent resources Kawsar!! Great to see all the resources collected at one place. Thanks a lot.
Me
July 13th, 2009
Have you forgotten http://www.freephotoshop.org dear !!!
nicole ♥
July 28th, 2009
I LOVE that i stumbled on this very exact page! thank you soooo much for the round up!!! =D
Ben Rama
September 3rd, 2009
cool list will soon have our site Digital ARt Enmpire there when you get more posts up ; )
Ashely Adams
September 17th, 2009
hey this list was impressive. photoshop can do a lot of magic and i can’t imagine my designs without PS. but quite a handful of these features were helpful for me.thanks!
green
November 6th, 2009
awesome collection!! some of them I already knew but it’s good to see them together in one collection; found interesting things in the comments too
Thanks for sharing!!
hale
December 8th, 2009
ma man its a great collection . huge thanks!
Avery
December 8th, 2009
awesome collection,great job.
iampahm
January 27th, 2010
love it.. thanks for sharing! it helped me a lot
Vinfotech
March 22nd, 2010
Superb collection….
Thanks for the resource :)
Henry
April 6th, 2010
photoshop can do a lot of magic and i can’t imagine my designs without PS.
Thanks so much
Tess
June 30th, 2010
Great roundup :) It is really helpful to have such lists to refer to. This could save some designers a fair amount of time. It’s great to have all the useful info in one place. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Tim
July 19th, 2010
Holy crapppppppppppp this is a definite bookmark. This will be incredibly perfect for my website. I’m making a website where I do photo effects and manipulations for people and ever since I started using Gimp and then Photoshop, I’ve just been blown away and overwhelmed by all the resources and amazing tutorials. If I had the time, I would go through and do every tutorial I love. And then there’s other awesome stuff to learn like Illustrator and After Effects and 3d modeling… >.> I would have to agree with most people, doing tutorials is the best way to learn Ps, or any other software. I LOVE YOU. This collection of 70 leads to over 10,000 stuff I need to look at so bye…
Letsgomo
July 30th, 2010
Stumbled on this page while looking for a few tips on photoshop. Guess this is where my search ends for almost everything on photoshop. Am amazed why I found it a year too late..
Abang Trezz
September 13th, 2010
thank’s… :D
Minto
October 15th, 2010
I dont remember how i came to know about your site some two years back, but since then i ve advised many of my students to visit it. Being a photographer/teacher i am always in need of new techniques, filters, plugins and see other peoples work,and you have composed all that in a very tasteful manner here. Keep it up.
freshinsite
February 1st, 2011
Wow! Thanks for sharing this post, Nice compilation and this is very useful.
Nancy Paul
February 24th, 2011
Photoshop is the very good software for web designers to make it easy & best web.
Lex Koff
June 3rd, 2011
The round up of these tutorials is a real windfall for Photoshop noobies. I would strongly recommend it before buying any of Photoshop book =)
John Chan
June 18th, 2011
I know I’m biased but I reaaaally think you should include psd.tu-torial.com in the list too! :D
I spend lot of effort to hand-pick each tutorial so that only the best tutorials are added to the list! Also – we have quite a bit of high quality tuts if you do a search in our directory. Hope this helps!
Pope
October 7th, 2011
Hi ,
Thanks immensely for providing these themes. I’ve been looking
around for another theme, and I hope these can prove to be ideal.
Much appreciated,
Pope
sony
October 12th, 2011
Muchas gracias por todos estos recursos, muchos no los conocia. Están en mis favoritos.
thanks
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