Photoshop is becoming increasingly popular today. Thousands of people use it to do simple editing such as cropping an image to more complicated operations such as blending multiple image layers to create manipulated images. For beginning Photoshop users, the idea of doing any of these things is daunting, but it’s not impossible. Here are some links to help make things easier.

General Tutorials

Here are links to general tutorials or pages with links to multiple tutorials. They are mostly about simple Photoshop projects that can be done in a few hours. The links are a good mixture of subjects.

• Photoshop Tutorials: A compilation of links to good Photoshop tutorials.
• Tutorialized Photoshop Categories: Provides links to multiple pages of tutorials that are divided into helpful categories.
• Tutorial Page: Offers many good tutorials including some on things like text editing and ring creation.
• Smashing Apps: A site with links to articles explaining how to do some of the most common things in Photoshop including cropping, fixing skin tone, and adjusting red eye, etc.
• Eyes on Design: Simple page with tips for making images black and white and cropping them.
• Photoshop Tools: Explains what different Photoshop tools are used for.

Text Tutorials

Here are links to tutorials explaining how to manipulate text in Photoshop. These tutorials explain everything from just putting text on images to actually putting them in images and then applying special effects to the text.

• Text Tutorials: A list of links to several good text tutorials.
• 400 Text Tutorials: A huge compilation of text-related tutorials.
• Shocking Text: Explains several ways of manipulating text.
• Photoshop Text: Briefly discusses how to edit text.
• Text Effects: Shows how to use text effects.

Blending Tutorials

These tutorials explain the best ways to blend images together. Blending is one of the harder things to accomplish so it may be left to slightly more advanced users. It can take a long time and still not come out right.

• Advanced Blending: Discusses more advanced blending techniques.
• Blending Models: Shows important aspects of blending including colors wheels and other information.
• Restoring and Blending: Discusses not only how to properly blend images but also how to restore them.
• Blend Modes: Takes users through Photoshop’s different “blend modes.”

Cropping

Nearly everyone who uses Photoshop will have a need for cropping. Cropping is basically when you cut an image down by trimming off parts that you don’t need. It sounds simple enough but as you get more familiar with Photoshop, it will become obvious that there’s a lot more you can do.

• Batch Cropping: Explains the batch cropping process in Photoshop, which is basically the cropping of multiple photos at once.
• Cropping an Image: Designed for new Photoshop users, with explanation on how to properly crop an image.
• Constrained Cropping in Photoshop: Explains what constrained cropping is and how to do it properly.
• Crop an Image: Another simple cropping tutorial aimed at beginning Photoshop users.

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