110+ Awesome Resources for Popular Adobe Products

by Matt on March 16, 2009 · 25 comments

in Design Tools,How-To,Photoshop Tutorials

In the design community, there are so many resources at our fingertips to help us express our creativity. Here are 110 excellent websites, tutorials, and articles, and scripts to help you work with the more popular Adobe products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Flex, Flash, and After Effects.

Also, feel free to add your favorites to the list by leaving a comment!

Photoshop

Websites

Tutorial9

101

PSHERO

102

PSDFAN

103

Adobe Kuler

kuler

Tutorial9 School of Photoshop

t9schoolofpsd

General Articles/Round-Ups

Photoshop Secret Shortcuts

psdsecretshortcuts

18 Exceptionally Useful Photoshop Shortcuts

1

48+ Greatest Adobe Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

48psdshortcuts

28 More Exceptionally Useful Photoshop Shortcuts

2

10 Steps to Improving Your Photoshop Skills

3

100 wonderful photo effects Photoshop tutorials

106

Using Adobe Kuler to Enhance Your Photoshop Color Workflow

4

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Best Of

104

Useful Applications for the Clone Stamp Tool

6

22 Best Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

105

Getting to Grips with the Vanishing Point Filter

7

Tutorials and Effects

Create A Photoshop Action For Screenshots

94

How to Draw a Portrait in Photoshop

5

Create Destructive Black and White Lettering with a Dramatic Splash Effect

8

How to Create a Delicious Green Apple Illustration

9

Illustrating a Cool Glass of Beer

10

Typography Wallpaper in Photoshop

11

Create a Realistic Blueprint Image From a 3D Object

12

Create an Energy Drink Ad Design

13

Awesome digital bokeh effect in Photoshop

14

Create an amazing Ad in Photoshop

15

Creating Smoke Video Tutorial

16

Design a Professional Laptop Advert

95

Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography

17

Basic Photo Reflections

96

Really cool Eclipse Effect in Photoshop

18

Basic Graduated Neutral Density Filter

97

Space Lighting Effects in 10 Steps – Photoshop Tutorial

19


Illustrator

Websites

N.Design Studio

20

Vectips

21

Veerle’s blog

22

Blog.SpoonGraphics

23

General Articles/Round-Ups

Illustrator’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide

24

50 Illustrator Tutorials Every Designer Should See

25

Adobe Illustrator Shortcuts

26

Vector Polishing Techniques

27

Recolor artwork using Illustrator’s LiveColor

28

Create A Wood Grain Texture

98

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – Best Of

107

Illustrator Pen tool exercises

29

Illustrator’s Blend Tool: A Comprehensive Guide

30

Transform Again in Illustrator

31

7 Things You Didn’t Know Illustrator Could Do

32

A Comprehensive Guide: Illustrator’s Paintbrush Tool and Brush Panel

33

Tutorials and Effects

Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Clean Website Layout

331

Create a Vector Film Slate Icon

34

How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon

35

Creating a Crazy Cool Logo

36

Obama Logo Tutorial

37

Simple organic shapes the Illustrator way

38

How to Create a Vector Safari Compass in Illustrator

39

Adding Gradients to Text

991


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{ 23 comments… read them below or add one }

Tom Ross March 16, 2009 at 9:15 pm

Wow, absolutely HUGE roundup. Thanks for posting, I really enjoyed this. Also cheers for the links to PSDFAN :)

ProjectCenter March 16, 2009 at 9:16 pm

An excellent collection for me to tap into. Kudos.

Stuart Thursby March 16, 2009 at 9:32 pm

This is insane! Thank you for the sheer amount of research and preparation for something like this. Gonna be coming back to this one!

Andrew Houle March 16, 2009 at 11:52 pm

Wow! That was huge, a lot to dig through! Thanks for the inclusion.

March 17, 2009 at 3:03 am

wow ! nice list man …. never seen amazing listing before …. It will be very usefull…. thanks a lot for sharing … keep it up …!

Jim March 17, 2009 at 8:44 am

I was actually kind of disappointed in this list. First off, there aren’t 100 resources here, because many of them are the same sites. How many times are PSDTuts and SmashingMag listed? Abduzeedo? VectorTuts? etc. It’s not that they aren’t great sites, they are. But to be honest, there are so many sites that are much more useful for learning Adobe apps than PSDTuts that I can’t even begin to list them.

Ultimately, while I love all the sites you’ve mentioned (as well as this site), I’ve grown tired of seeing the same small handful of sites appear on these lists (which I’ve also grown tired of seeing). I would be impressed to see a list of 100 Adobe Resources that included NONE of the sites you’ve listed here. To me, that would be a useful list, and not one I’ve seen on every other design-related site across the Web.

rose March 17, 2009 at 9:54 am

i think it`s a great roundup, because even though you repeated a couple sites, you mentioned different posts and that`s great, very useful to have them all together like that, i love lists like this. Anyway here`s a few good sites for resources and freebies:
psbrushes.net
qvectors.com
vecteezy.com
http://www.photoshoplady.com/the-100-most-popular-photoshop-tutorials-2008/

For inspiration:
http://www.creativecriminal.blogspot.com/

GN March 17, 2009 at 5:17 pm

Wow ! Awesome list ! Bookmarked ! Thanks.

Dainis Graveris March 18, 2009 at 11:19 am

@Jim then please create such article – and later share with us, how long it took to compile.

I appreciate this list, because even for me I always find some fresh links I haven’t seen before. And for not so active people, whole list could be outstanding resource.

Thanks! :)

JohnONolan March 18, 2009 at 11:38 am

Insane! Can’t believe you managed to create such a large and detailed collection – bookmarked + sumbled!

T-Law March 18, 2009 at 1:00 pm

This is greta thanks

Lawrence77 March 18, 2009 at 2:00 pm

great list! :)
i’m loving it

Andrei March 18, 2009 at 2:01 pm

Killer compilation. Would love to see InDesign links too.

Carlos Pinho March 18, 2009 at 6:44 pm

Hi,

This is real a great and big compilation. However i thought you might also integrate in the future tutorials from The Tech Labs.

joyoge designers' bookmark March 24, 2009 at 4:48 pm

very nice resources thanks for the list..

Kayla April 3, 2009 at 10:49 am

Good long list. PSHero has always been one of my favorites.

Truethat April 16, 2009 at 11:15 pm

I agree with what you said

Topher Welsh May 2, 2009 at 11:42 pm

Make sure you add visualfxtuts.com to you list for Adobe After Effects Resources….

CSS Websites May 27, 2009 at 4:03 am

Thanks, great list!

Gungurru Web Design August 6, 2009 at 4:51 am

Awesome resource – thanks (now following on twitter)

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