Online design tutorials

Online design tutorials

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Design Talkboard has taken a look at some of the free graphic design software tutorials web sites, to try and separate the wheat from the chaff.

Learning any kind of graphics software can be a chore. Let's face it, graphic designers just want to get on and create stuff. But not knowing the best, or quickest, way to achieve a desired result can be frustrating. That's when it can be time to stop experimenting and get some professional design training.
Wading through the supplied software manual can also be more bother than it is worth. Especially as, these days, even some of the biggest graphics software publishers only supply the manuals in PDF format on the software CD or DVD.

Hands on software training is obviously one of the best methods to learn a new product. But that is not cheap, and often doesn't leave enough room to learn in your own time.

There are numerous other methods of learning graphics software, for example third party books, training CDs, videos and tutorial DVDs. But once again, these can be expensive. So what is the cheapest method of learning design applications? Well, there's the internet, of course.

There are numerous web sites that cater for the keen design student. Some only provide tutorials for one software application, for example Photoshop training, or InDesign tutorials - whilst other may provide a broad range of design software training resources.

This section of Design Talkboard is dedicated to tracking down and reviewing those web design training sites. Many of these web sites also provide paid for tutorial resources, but we will make sure that the sites that we review also, at the very least, provide an extensive free tutorial section.

Reviews of online training resources

InDesign tutorials - Sources of Adobe InDesign training resources.

Photoshop tutorials - Free web resources for learning Adobe Photoshop.

QuarkXpress training - Web sites devoted to teaching QuarkXpress online.

Online tutorials

Illustrator tips - Learning Adobe Illustrator online.

Photoshop help – Tips and tricks for Adobe Photoshop users.

Coming soon

Freehand tutorials - Macromedia's vector drawing program.

Dreamweaver tutorials - Learning the Macromedia premier WYSIWYG web design application.

Flash tutorials - Web sites devoted to providing online training in Macromedia Flash.

And don't forget, the Design Talkboard software forums are always an invaluable resource for tips and tricks and graphics software troubleshooting.

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