30+ Amazing Photoshop Resources

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7 min readFeb 22, 2017

by Bradley Nice, Content Manager at ClickHelp.com — software documentation tool

Adobe Photoshop is the tool of choice for many designers. 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 collection of resources, you’ll find: Photoshop tutorial sites, Photoshop tutorial collections, Photoshop Brushes, Gradients and Patterns collections, Photoshop Actions and much more.

Photoshop Tutorial Sites

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“.

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“.

PSDFAN

PSDFAN publishes high-quality tutorials, Photoshop freebies, and interviews with designers and artists.

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“.

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“.

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.

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.

Photoshop Star

Photoshop Star publishes Photoshop tutorials such as “Creating Taxi Text Effect” and “Old Style Photo Effect“.

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“.

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.

Abduzeedo: Photoshop

Abduzeedo, a weblog by Brazilian designer, Fabio Sasso, has a Photoshop category that houses tutorials and news on Photoshop.

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.

Photoshop Lady

Photoshop Lady rounds up the best online Photoshop tutorials.

Photoshop Tutorial Collections

50 Great Photoshop Tutorials for Clever Beginners

This roundup by Psdtuts+ shares Photoshop tutorials for beginning-level designers.

40 Icon Tutorials for Photoshop

In this collection from Vandelay Design, you’ll discover forty tutorials on designing icons in Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop: 50+ High Quality .PSD Files and Tutorials

This post on Noupe features over fifty Photoshop files and tutorials.

Best Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes and Textures of February 2009

This is a roundup of tutorials, brushes, and textures from February 2009.

70+ Sexy, beauty and glamour Photoshop tutorials

You’ll find over seventy beautification Photoshop tutorials housed in this roundup.

Photoshop Brushes

Brusheezy

Brusheezy is a place for digital artists to download and vote on free Photoshop brushes.

PSBrushes

At PSBrushes, you’ll find plenty of downloadable Photoshop brushes organized in categories such as Abstract, Fractals, and Grunge.

Brushking

Brushking indexes tons of Photoshop brushes into categories such as: Vintage, Grunge, and Splatters.

myPhotshopBrushes.com

myPhotoshopBrushes.com features a ton of Photoshop brushes, arranging them into categories such as ornaments, nature, and human.

Qbrushes

Qbrushes shares high-quality Photoshop brushes indexed into categories such as Swirls, Splatter, and Objects.

Fbrushes

Fbrushes currently has over 4,000 brushes and 200 brush sets, intuitively partitioned into categories such as Retro and Water Color.

Designersbrush

Designersbrush has a ton of Photoshop brushes.

Inobscuro: Brushes

Inobscuro, a site on digital art, has a section on Photoshop brushes.

Photoshop Brush, Gradients and Pattern Collections

100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

This is a one-page collection of high-res Photoshop brushes by Photoshop Roadmap.

Splatter and Watercolour Brushes For Photoshop

Smashing Magazine released this set of brushes as a free download.

The Ultimate Collection Of Free Photoshop Patterns

This Smashing Magazine article rounds up the best Photoshop patterns available online.

498 Photoshop Background Patterns, and so much more

Close to 500 Photoshop background patterns are featured on this post.

300+ Vintage Style Textures and Photoshop Brushes

Over 300 vintage-style textures and brushes are showcased in this Design Reviver post.

Photoshop Actions

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.