June 11th, 2008

240 Resources for Photoshop Artists



 

 
Howdie,
Here’s a huge list of cool and totally FREE resources that could be useful to you as a photoshop artist. Use this list for all your needs to participate in photoshop contests, for webdesign purposes or basically for anything that has something to do with photoshop!

 
In this post you’ll find the best:

 
I’ve taken my personal favorites and listed them as “Recommended” (green background). The grey backgrounds are usually smaller, but still good and totally free sites. The text below each resource is the tagline of the website or a small description of what the resource has to offer. Note that some resources have a free and paid section, the links in this post all point to the free section only.

 
Enjoy!

 

Photoshop Tutorial Publishers

Recommendations:

psdtuts.com
Spoonfed Tutorials. (TIP!)
photoshopessentials.com
Learn Adobe Photoshop. (TIP!)
photoshoptalent.com
PST’s exclusive tutorials. (TIP!)

More good stuff:

tutorial9.net
Tutorial Bliss.
adobetutorialz.com
Graphics community with lots of free tutorials.
talk-mania.com
Forums with photoshop tutorials.
time2photoshop.com
Free Adobe photoshop tutorials.
tutorialsgarden.com
Your own tutorial server. Photoshop section.
yourphotoshopguide.com
Quick and easy tutorials.

 

Photoshop Tutorial Directories

Recommendations:

good-tutorials.com
Photoshop Section of Good-Tutorials (TIP!)
photoshoproadmap.com
Adobe photoshop tutorials indexed with thumbnails. (TIP!)
photoshoptalent.com
PST’s tutorial directory. (TIP!)

More good stuff:

pixel2life.com
Photoshop section of this popular learning community.
totaltutorials.com
Photoshop, 3D Studio Max and Cinema 4D Tutorial Database.
tutorialized.com
Huge tutorial index, for both 2D and 3D graphics.
tutorialkit.com
Tutorial Kit is a comprehensive resource of Adobe Photoshop tutorials.
tutorialman.com
Find the best free photoshop tutorials.
tutorialquest.com
New site, still small, but growing in popularity.

 

Free Icons

Recommendations:

wikimedia.org (crystal clear icons)
Icons from the Crystal Clear icon set. (TIP!)
iconfinder.net
Icon Search Engine. (TIP!)
iconlet.com
Another Icon Search Engine. (TIP!)
iconspedia.com
Huge source for free icons. (TIP!)
famfamfam.com
Free icons. (TIP!)
iconshock.com
Iconshock, the world icon design leader offers Royalty Free web icons with different styles ideal for you to integrate in your web applications, software, catalogs, games, printing media and much more. (TIP!)
iconarchive.com
The Icon Archive is a categorized collection of high quality desktop & web icon sets. Currently has over 18,200 icons in 656 sets from 155 icon authors. (TIP!)

More good stuff:

dryicons.com
Lots of fresh icon sets.
e-lusion.com
Free grayscale icons.
iconfactory.com
Many pages of different icon sets.
iconicon.net
More free icons.