Photoshop is no doubt a great software but nothing beats free specially when a free alternative can offer you almost all the features. GIMP is probably the best free replacement for Adobe Photoshop and can be used to do almost everything that Photoshop does. However, to do serious editing in GIMP, you must have a good hang of it. Here are some excellent tutorials to learn the basics of GIMP:
Playing around with combination of text styles and fonts can yield so much depth in your design that its remarkable. Typography has evolved as a very creative genre of design over the years. Here are some basic tutorials that will help you get started with learning and using typography with Photoshop.
Photo-manipulation is a great art that is not too hard to learn. These tutorials will get you started on creating some great photo manipulations using Photoshop and other similar software.
Yahoo! recently introduced its Yahoo Query Language to work with data on all Yahoo! sites. Here are some excellent tutorials to get you started on learning the basics of YQL:
Here are some great tutorials that help you learn the basics of logo design, taking you through every step from concept and paper sketches to adding reflections, effects, blends, gradients, shadows and more through software like Photoshop and Illustrator:
Adobe InDesign is one of the best software for online and offline publishing including creation of awesome posters, print layouts, magazines, eBooks and Interactive Documents. Here are some tutorials to get you started.
Similar to Photoshop and Illustrator, Fireworks is a great software to create and manipulate graphics. It has a lot of features that allows you to easily create web design mockups, logos and vector graphics. If you are just starting with the software, following are some great tutorials to get you started:
35 excellent tutorials for Adobe Lightroom to teach you the basics of the software.