Free Tutorial Sites for Honing Your App Skills
May 13th, 2008 (4:00pm) Samuel Dean 10 CommentsTweet This
Lately I’ve been sprucing up my collection of software applications, and spending time with some good online tutorials on my favorites. Many of these tutorials are free, and in this post, I’ll round up several that I’ve found worth paying attention to.
Are you a Photoshop user? Good-Tutorials has a great collection of tutorials on effects, filters and more. They’re all free, and easy to follow.
Also on the graphics front, Good-Tutorials has a useful collection of Adobe Illustrator tutorials. You can learn how to do convincing wood and metal effects, and more. If you happen to reach for the open source application GIMP when it comes to graphics, check the tutorials at HowToGimp.
If you dabble in Linux at all, there are a couple of sites on the web with outstanding tutorials specific to almost every Linux distribution, from Ubuntu to Fedora. HowtoForge is a good place to start. Look down the left rail of the site for the many topics covered. Also check out Unix-Tutorials.com.
Recently the OpenOffice suite of productivity applications was upgraded to a new beta version. As I’ve been trying it out, I’ve also been spending time at LearnOpenOffice.org, which offers free HTML- and Flash-based tutorials.
My very favorite site of all for free tutorials remains W3Schools. You can become proficient in almost any kind of web development at this site, tuning up your HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills, among other topics offered. Give this one a try.
Do you have any favorite sites for application tutorials?
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There’s a fantastic tutorial site I found a few weeks ago that’s making really good professional quality ones for pretty much every MS and Adobe app I could think of:
http://www.techtutor.tv
You can request that they make a specific one for you but I haven’t tried that yet.
Have a look at http://www.gcflearnfree.org
Free online video tutorials or 3 week classes with an instructor for free. Office 2003 and some 2007 classes appearing
Try tutorialboss.com for more photoshop tutorials. Find more information at Free photoshop tutorials
I like the sites offered by the folks from http://www.Freelanceswitch.com
http://www.Nettuts.com and http://www.psdtuts.com
http://www.instructables.com is good for random, miscellaneous tutorials :D
Also consider http://www.inpics.net. I have found it elementary occasionally, but it is those basic things that I get stuck.
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BMC PhotoArt has excellent Photoshop tutorials on artistic photo conversions.