7 Photoshop Tutorials from the University of Florida

Here are 7 Photoshop Tutorials, at the University of Florida’s website, that describe and demonstrate graphic design using Photoshop. These Photoshop tutorials will help you to increase your skills in many areas of Photoshop. They guide you through the world of Photoshop by giving you a tour of the application’s features, tools, and shortcuts.


7 Adobe Photoshop Tutorials:


Adobe Photoshop 7.0  (1342.7 kb, pdf)
This section of the tutorial gives you an introduction to the graphics editor, Photoshop. It explains basic features like the interface, the color modes, creating customized graphics and saving files.

  - What is Adobe Photoshop 7.0?
  - The Interface
  - Color Modes
  - Working with Photos
  - Creating Customized Graphics
  - Saving Files


Introduction to Adobe Photoshop  (259 kb, pdf)
This tutorial demonstrates on the interface of Photoshop, on how to open an existing image, the different menu bars, the toolbox, the navigator palette, the color palette and a host of other palettes that could make your image editing more efficient.

  - Interface
  - Open an existing image
  - Open a new file
  - Menu Bar
  - File menu
  - Edit menu
  - View menu
  - Select menu
  - Layer menu
  - Image menu
  - Toolbox
  - Option Bar
  - Palettes
  - Navigator palette
  - Color palette
  - Swatches palette
  - Styles palette
  - Character palette
  - Paragraph palette
  - Layer palette
  - History palette
  - Saving Files
  - Save for Web
  - Resolution
  - Glossary


Photoshop Extras  (180.5 kb, pdf)
This tutorial teaches you some more Photoshop features like the shortcuts, healing photos, working with selections and layers and how to work on vignette photographs.

  - Photoshop Shortcuts
  - Healing Photos
  - Working with Selections and Layers
  - Opening and Saving files and file sizes
  - Vignette


Photoshop CS2 Basics  (3013.5 kb, doc)
This tutorial increases your skills in Photoshop CS2 by demonstrating various features like the menu bars, various palettes that are available at your dispense, opening new and existing images, saving the files etc.

  - Interface
  - Open an existing image
  - Open a new file
  - Menu Bar
  - File menu
  - Edit menu
  - View menu
  - Select menu
  - Layer menu
  - Image menu
  - Toolbox
  - Option Bar
  - Palettes
  - Navigator palette
  - Color palette
  - Swatches palette
  - Styles palette
  - Character palette
  - Paragraph palette
  - Layer palette
  - History palette
  - Saving Files
  - Save for Web
  - Resolution
  - Glossary


Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CS3 (4877 kb,doc)  PDF 2036
Here is a introduction to Photoshop CS3 which gives you the knowledge of the Photoshop interface and the various mechanics related to it.

  - The Photoshop Interface
  - The Mechanics of Photoshop


Photoshop Shortcuts  (23.5 kb, doc)
This lists out various keyboard shortcuts that could make your Photoshop editing much faster and efficient.


Adobe Photoshop Outline  (27.5 kb, doc)
This tutorial describes briefly the main points related to learning Photoshop