Some friends and I on another forum have compiled a list of useful Adobe Photoshop links.

Tutorials:

- Good-Tutorials.com – This site has been a ridiculous amount of help for me. I’ve consulted it more times than I can count. It is literally a fountain of Photoshop knowledge and creativity. If you need to do something that can be done in Photoshop, this site can more than likely tell you how. It also has many tutorials for many other things, but I typically find myself in the Photoshop section.

- Tutorialized – This is another great tutorial site. I haven’t used it many times (too much time on Good-Tutorials.com) but, like Good-Tutorials, it has MANY tutorials for Photoshop, among other things. If you can’t find what you need on Good-Tutorials, check here.

- The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web – Indeed, these look to be many of the most popular effects on the web. There’s lots of good stuff on there, definitely worth a look.

- Pixel2life – A large tutorial site that includes tutorials for almost every graphics program that you can imagine. Among graphic tutorials it also has coding and 3d modeling tutorials.

- Video-Tutes.com – While having a little discussion in an IRC channel, I got looking for a program, and found this site (totally unrelated to what I was looking for)  but it seems like a very nice video tutorial site.

Photoshop Plugins, Brushes, Patterns, etc:

- Brusheezy.com – A phenomenal collection of Photoshop brushes and patterns. Just getting into it, but it’s good stuff so far.

- Photoshopbrushes.com – A smaller but good collection of Photoshop brushes, as well as some good Photoshop tutorials.

- Deviantart: Photoshop Brushes – DeviantArt is a goldmine of art. Everything from sketches, to photography, to application skins and more. Not to mention, it has tons of Photoshop brushes, patterns, etc.  There are thousands to choose from, I’m sure you can find what you’re looking for.

– Deviantart: Photoshop Actions – Photoshop actions that make you ever lazy, just with a click of a button you can apply these prescripted modifications to your image and a have a album perfect picture of anything. -by sicknitify

Fonts, etc:

- 1001FreeFonts.com – Pretty self explanatory. I have every font from the website, so I haven’t been there in a while. But if you’re not a font hoarder, it’s a good place to go to just pick out a couple fonts here and there.

- dafont.com – A nice website with around 8,000 fonts. A much better collection than 1001FreeFonts.com but a much longer process in finding what you want sometimes. It’s your call.

- WhatTheFont – This is a very handy tool. What The Font is a font recognition system. You can link to or upload an image and the What The Font tool will attempt to identify the font for you. It works quite well as long as you have a reasonably clean image to work with.

Stock Photography:

- stock.xchng – Free stock photography! This is an excellent site if you’re into photo manipulation. It’s obviously better to take your own photos, but not everyone has a high quality camera or access to the neater parts of the world. This is a great site for that. It also has stock photos you can purchase if you so feel inclined.

- iStockPhoto.com – Okay. This one is not completely free. It’s ‘royalty-free‘ stock photos but you still have a one-time cost to buy the image. I believe they also have a subscription service. Despite not being free, for someone serious about stock photography, this is the site for you. The free ones have a lot of good stuff, but so far none of them hold a candle to iStockPhoto.

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The links above have helped me a great deal in my experiences learning Photoshop. You never really stop learning so I still spend a lot of time at the above sites.

If you have some more to suggest, feel free to leave them in a comment.