crewdesign

It can be confusing trying to learn image-editing software. I think most people struggle because they try to do really complicated things too soon, as with most things you should learn the basics first.

Anyway here is a list of useful sites which I have used in the past which have helped me:

Tutorial Sites
http://www.gimpguru.org/ - A site for GIMP users.
http://tutorialoutpost.com/tutorials.../photo-editing - Quite a few photoshop tutorials.
http://www.good-tutorials.com/ - This is the biggest tutorial site I could find.
http://www.eastofthesun.com/ - For anyone that might use photoimpact.
http://pixel2life.com - As suggested in the "learning photoshop or similiar" thread.

Free Software
http://gimp.org - A pretty good piece of open-source software for begginers.

Other Resources
http://photoshop.weblogsinc.com/ - A blog on photoshop

Please add to this list and then i'll create a new thread with all your submissions.

planescape

When I was learning photoshop I used the tutorials section on http://www.deviantart.com there are some REALLY talented people on there

katrinasuzanne

There are some great video tutorials available as video casts...

The ones I subscribe to are

- Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast
- Adobe Photoshop Elements Killer Tips
- Photoshop Killer Tips
- Photoshop TV

I found them on iTunes, but you can just nick the RSS feed url from there and use your own podcatcher.

(although they may be basic for you lot, I'm not a professional, I do it for love not money!)

k

bonnit

two fanstastic sites for free graphics

http://www.sxc.hu

and

http://search.creativecommons.org/

the creative commons one is especially great because you can search for images to be used commercially if you need them for web design etc

TsiD

Thanks for the second one, did not know it before!