Official Photoshop Tutorial Thread

[HellKnight]

After reading Koopa's Letter to the Community thread I was somewhat inspired to do this.
I know that there are a lot of threads that feature tutorials on how to do and create certain things in Photoshop, but to my knowledge there is nothing else like this.
The Idea is really simple. See a cool tutorial/walkthrough or something that could be helpful to less experiences box artists? post the link to it here.

I thought it would be a good idea to have a sort of resource thread for helpful tutorials.
To try and help new members, or users who are new to photoshop.
Even tutorials on how to use Layers or how to navigate through the menu's as well as more advanced or more specific tutorials on how to create certain effects and text.

I'll start with a few helpful tutorials that I found for Photoshop beginners.



Getting Started With Photoshop



This tutorial on SitePoint, a popular site for web professionals, will guide you through the Photoshop fundamentals and the basic tools available at your disposal.
It’s an excellent jump-off point that will give you an understanding of what you’re up against.

The tutorial starts with a bird’s-eye view of Photoshop’s workspace to get the reader familiarized with the lay of the land. Then it goes on to cover essential concepts
such as saving files (and the various popular formats for the web), an introduction to shortcuts that all Photoshoppers should know, how to choose colors, and much more.



Photoshops Toolbox



If you’re just starting out with Photoshop, you will no doubt be spending plenty of your time using the Tools panel, which contains various tools for working with
type, painting, drawing, moving objects, and so forth.

In this Photoshop tutorial, you will get a beginner’s overview of the various tools contained within the Tools panel.
From the selection tools to the retouching tools, you’ll learn all about them and their uses.



Photoshops Filter's



This is exactly what it says on the tin, a walkthrough of the different filters that are available in photoshop and how to use them.
It's in depth and shows you how they work and how to use them properly, as well as how to navigate through the menu's



An Introduction to the Typing Tool



Whether you want to add a text caption on a photograph, lay out a brochure’s copy, or create your typographical poster masterpiece, the tool that will help
you get the work accomplished is the humble, but powerful, Type tool.

Creating text layers, resizing and modifying text, and adjusting text characteristics, such as tracking and line-height, are a few of the topics covered in this tutorial.



Installing and Managing Brushes



If you’d like to speed up your workflow and extend Photoshop, it’s best to understand how to manage presets. This tutorial specifically covers installing and managing
Photoshop brushes, but will also get you started into exploring various other presets such as patterns, custom shapes, and so forth.




If you find any that you feel would be helpful or just ones that you find particularly interesting, just add them to the thread.
Also, if this could be made a sticky I would really appreciate it.

[Spiderpig24]

Now THIS is nice, quite a great contribution HellKnight. This will prove very useful. Here are a few places that have a lot of great tutorials and resources to use.

Creating a space environment:
http://www.fxencore.de/tutorial_deta...e-environment/

50 Tutorials for sky and space effects:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008...space-effects/

Free texture library:
http://mayang.com/textures/

18 Photoshop Text Tutorials:
http://www.designshard.com/video-tut...ect-tutorials/

The Ultimate Photoshop Toolbox (They have a lot of great stuff here):
http://www.noupe.com/photoshop/the-u...p-toolbox.html

Many thanks to Crotale for posting this in another thread. For those of you that have trouble creating a lightning effect:
http://www.world-of-cha0s.hostrocket...orialmain.html

For those of you that want to try to protect your work on other sites such as Deviantart, you can include this in your download. It's an Anti-Theft card by allhopeislost of Deviantart:
http://allhopeislost.deviantart.com/...et=72#/d19fbcc

Also, just about every template anyone will ever need, if they are not in the resources section, can be found here:
http://www.thecoverproject.net/forum...p?topic=1610.0

[LooseJuice]

Well, this is more of a resources site, but it helps. I've used it for a while: http://www.22pixels.com

I also used this site for tutorials: http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorials/photoshop. Some are pretty cool.

I don't know where I got 22pixels from, but I think I got good-tutorials after linking from some other tut site.

[stevencho]

This is great. I'll add some more if I can find some.

[sd1833]

I can see this being pretty helpful to newcomers and regulars alike. Good idea, HK.

[swe 08]

Good job. Here are a list of sites that I often use, I hope they help someone.

Photoshop Website pretty much got everything. There are a ridiculous amount of tutorials, brushes and textures.

CGTextures, a great site for high-res textures.

SXC

PSDtuts+

[Crotale]

Pixel2Life Photoshop Tutorials A well-rounded and full featured tutorial website for Photoshop and more. You would be hardpressed to find a larger treasure of Photoshop tutorials. And the great thing here is that all of these tutorials are tested by the admins before they get posted.

Tutorial Outpost Photoshop Tutorials More Photoshop tutorials.

PhotoshopX Blogspot for Tutorials More good stuff about use of Photoshop with other programs.

[amad2]

Guys, this is amazing.

If you want a point of view from a relatively new user to photoshop this is really really helpful.
Im gonna have to spend an hour or two trying some of these tuts.

[Crotale]

Here is my first tutorial ever. I made this a few years ago. It is quite purposefully simplistic for ease of use. Enjoy!