Index of Instructor YouTube Video Tutorials

• Index of Video Tutorials

 

Adobe Software

• Adobe
• The best price on Adobe CC software: http://store.collegebuys.org

 

Adobe Photoshop Resources

• Get Started with Photoshop (Basics about the app from Adobe)
• Photoshop User Guide (Online reference and help documentation from Adobe)
• Photoshop Tutorials (video tutorials from Adobe)

 

Photoshop.com List of Links and Resources

• Photoshop.com/products/resources

 

Books

• Adobe Photoshop CC 2025 Release - Classroom in a Book, Adobe Press. ISBN:978-0-13-537632-4. Digital version available for free through O'Reilly Books Online (https://library.miracosta.edu/safari)
• Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 Release - Classroom in a Book, Adobe Press. ISBN: 9780136447993. Digital version available for free through Safari Books Online (https://library.miracosta.edu/safari)
• Digital Artistry and Special Effects with Photoshop by Jill Malone. Digital version available free through our Canvas course website.
• Visual Alchemy: The Fine Art of Digital Montage by Catherine McIntyre. Digital version available for free through Safari Books Online.
• The Photoshop Workbook: Professional Retouching and Compositing Tips, Tricks, and Techniques by Glyn Dewis. Digital version available for free through Safari Books Online.
• Photoshop Masking & Compositing (2nd Edition). Digital version available for free through Safari Books Online.

 

Color Resources

• Adobe Color (formerly Kuler) (color palette design from Adobe)
• Paletton (find and create color palettes)
• Coolors.co
• Colormind.io
• Colorhunt.co

 

Image/Stock Resources

• Unsplash(beautiful free photos)
• Pixabay (frree stock photos)
• Pexels (free stock photos)
• Flickr (search for images licensed in the creative commons)
• Adobe Stock (inexpensive stock photos)
• Morgue File (free stock photos)
• Stock X.Chng (free stock photos)
• iStockPhoto (inexpensive stock images)
• ShutterStock (inexpensive stock images)
• Blue Vertigo (stock photos, fonts, and other resources)

• Bigstockphoto.com/ (relatively inexpensive stock images)
• Hubblesite.org/gallery (from the Hubble telescope)

• www.123rf.com/
• us.fotolia.com/
• www.4freephotos.com/ 
• www.kozzi.com/
• www.thinkstock.com/
• www.everystockphoto.com/
• www.digitalblasphemy.com/ 
• www.brusheezy.com/
• www.vecteezy.com
• http://mediamilitia.com/
  

 

Expensive/professional stock photos:

• www.gettyimages.com/Creative/RoyaltyFree.aspx
• www.thepicturecollection.com
• www.corbis.com/

 

Fonts

• Google Web Fonts (free fonts and font hosting)
• Adobe Fonts (free with Creative Cloud subscription)
• Fonts.com
• Font Squirrel (free fonts for commercial use)
• The League of Moveable Type (open source web fonts)
• Fonts Live
• Font Spring
• Web Ink
• Font Deck
• Dafont.com

 

Typography

• Professional Web Typography (great resource on web typography)
• Type Tester (Typography editor/tool)
• Type Wolf.com/resources (many more resources)

 

Copyright Resources

• The U.S. Copyright Office
• The Graphic Artists Guild/Tools & Resources: Copyright and Self-Promotion
• Nolo
• Copyright vs. Trademark

 

Inspirational Artists + Designers

• Alicia Buelow
• Diane Fenster
• Maggie Taylor
• Martina Lopez
• Jerry Uelsmann
• David Julian
• Julieanne Kost
• Eduardo Recife
• Catherine McIntyre
• Alberto Seveso
• Staudinger + Franke
• Aaron Nace
• Glen Wexler
• Achintha Dahanayake
• Felix Hernandez
• Romain Laurent
• Joan Wong
• Anthony Gerace
• Mel Hhaasch
• Temi Coker
• Karine Savard
• Tomasz Opasinski
• Cristiana Couceiro
• Olga Khaletskaya
• Eduardo Ramón
• Lisa Carney
• Erik Johansson

Sony World Photography Awards for 'Enhanced' photos

• Sony World Photography Awards 2017 - Enhanced Category
• Sony World Photography Awards 2018 - Enhanced Category

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