There are countless Photoshop resources online for beginners and experienced designer. But which websites are right to enhance your designing skills? Your search is over. Here is a list of 20 of the best sites to learn Photoshop online.

Adobe TV

Adobe makes Photoshop, so Adobe TV is your first step into Learning Resources and Tutorials.

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Phlearn

Phlearn is one of the most popular Photoshop resources. You will find hundreds free and premium Photoshop tutorials.

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Lynda

Leading online learning platform that helps you learn creative skills to achieve professional goals.

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Photoshop Cafe

This Cafe is all about Photoshop, Lightroom, and Photography. Worth checking out all premium learning resources.

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KelbyOne

KelbyOne is another premium tutorial site. Many of the instructors are leaders in the field, help you learn everything about Photoshop, Lightroom and Photography.

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Udemy

Udemy has a great range of online classes for Photoshop. It´s easy to find the best ones according to user reviews and ratings.

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DeviantArt

DeviantArt is a creative online community. Divided into different categories, it is easy to find Photoshop tutorials that instruct viewers on specific techniques, and on painting an image from scratch.

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Tuts+

Envatos Tuts+ offers hundreds of free tutorials. Its extensive library of premium tutorials is one of the most useful.

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Tutorial9

Tutorial9 is entirely free. A great resource for Photoshop guides and tutorials (more than 9!).

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Photoshop Creative

The first choice for Photoshop fans who want in-depth, step-by-step tutorials for Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.

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Vandelay Design

Home to hundreds of Premium-quality design resources including PSDs, brushes, mockup templates, and more.

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DesignStacks

A great source with over 2,500 published design-related articles and tutorials.

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PSD Dude

If you like Photoshop, you should bookmark this blog. Useful resources and quality design inspiration.

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PS Hero

PS Hero is a fantastic Photoshop resource run by Hero – a surfer and graphic designer based in California.

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PSD Learning

Knowledge organized in different categories with hundreds of easy to follow tutorials.

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Spoon Graphics

Spoon Graphics is home to a range of design tutorials, free resources and inspiration to help you have fun creating cool stuff.

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PSD Vault

PSD Vault focuses on providing high quality, step-by-step Photoshop tutorials to all Photoshop lovers and hobbyists around the world.

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Learn Photo Editing

35+ awesome tutorials for only $27 for a Lifetime Membership. Learn how to take a photo and create something amazing out of it.

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Adobe KnowHow

Photoshop courses in a personalized learning experience. Make notes and cue points alongside the video content.

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Photoshop Lover

Photoshop Lover is a project that aggregates the tutorials from other sites. Great to find more websites from where you can learn Photoshop.

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You know, like a tic-tac-toe board. I was just pondering how to do this the other day, as one does. There are three ways I can think of. One involves a good handful of rules and is the way I intuitively think of, one involves a deprecated attribute, and one is very simple and feels kinda like a CSS trick.

Possibility #1) Removing the Borders You Don’t Need

This is the first way I think of. Add a border everywhere, then remove the border on the

1. The top of every cell in the first row
2. The bottom of every cell in the last row
3. The left of the first cell in every row
4. The right of last cell in every row

table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
}
table td {
  border: 5px solid black; 
}
table tr:first-child td {
  border-top: 0;
}
table tr td:first-child {
  border-left: 0;
}
table tr:last-child td {
  border-bottom: 0;
}
table tr td:last-child {
  border-right: 0;
}

See the Pen Inside Border on Table #1 by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.

Possibility #1) The `rules` Attribute

This is not recommended as it’s a deprecated attribute. But, that’s what rules was specifically for.

See the Pen Inside Border on Table #1 by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.

You can control the color with border-color, but not border-width or border-style.

Possibility #3) Using `border-style: hidden;`

This is the one that feels like a CSS trick to me.

table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
  border-style: hidden;
}
table td {
  border: 5px solid black;
}

MDN has an explanation:

In case of table cell and border collapsing, the hidden value has the highest priority: it means that if any other conflicting border is set, it won’t be displayed.

By putting border-style: hidden; on the table itself, it means that “hidden” wins on that outside edge, but only the outside edge, not any of the other borders on the inside cells.

See the Pen Inside Border on Table #3 by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.

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Can you think of other ways?

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None of the videos in our entire video screencasts library have captions / subtitles / transcripts. That means all of that content is rather useless to the deaf, as was made quite clear to me in this recent email:

I’m a big fan of CSS-Tricks and I make a lot of use of your written content, however the same can’t be said for your videos as I’m deaf. It may not be viable for your business but subtitles on your videos would enable access to me – and probably thousands of others – who can’t follow your videos via sounds.

I like shooting videos. We have a couple lined up we’ll be doing soon. It’s true that it’s not exactly viable to do subtitles for them. The videos are already not really viable, we just do them sometimes for fun. I can’t justify the time or money to subtitle them.

But that’s where you could come in. If you’d like the sponsor the videos having subtitles, get in touch. I’m sure we can arrange a way such that you could pay for it, and we could have a third-party subtitle the videos, and we’d credit you for the support.

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Word documents are the staple of text manipulation. The Microsoft provided Office suite has helped many generations over the years, and is the go-to service for when it comes to either drafting up a quick document or writing a full-blown 10 page document. Often times people are put in a situation where they are

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

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So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons.

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In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create a neon text effect in Adobe Photoshop.

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Ever wondered how you measure up to the rest of the industry? How do you compare to the average age, location, and salary of other graphic designers? Did you know that our industry is dominated by young women?

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Mozilla has had a few different looks during its 18-year history, but none have ever been quite as appropriate, or quite as wonderfully geeky, as their newest rebranding efforts. As the creators of the only popular web browser that is completely not-for-profit, Mozilla has always had a different approach from competitors such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Now, Mozilla will be focusing even more intensely on some of these differences, including their commitment to an open and free online world.

The New Logo

Aside from everything else, Mozilla’s new logo is instantly eye-catching and will speak to those who are in the company’s target audience. The logo now says Moz://a, and it’s hard to believe that they’re the first well-known entity to utilize this easily recognizable reference to a web address. However, the average computer user can only perform the most basic tasks, so choosing to switch Mozilla to Moz://a is actually a very bold move that risks alienating a lot of people.

Of course, Mozilla knows their core audience, and they’re definitely no longer speaking directly to average or beginner users. In fact, their rebranding was partially crowdsourced, and hardcore users were given the opportunity to make their thoughts known about different logo options in August 2016.

Open Design Expansion

It would be easy to look merely at the aesthetic changes that Mozilla has undertaken, but that’s not the only thing that this rebrand seeks to accomplish. Asking others for their input on the logo design was unusual enough, and this definitely helps set Mozilla apart from other similar tech companies. To keep the open design concept alive and well, Mozilla is also making their new custom font, Zilla, free for everyone to use.

Fighting for an Open and Free Internet

Mozilla has a history of standing up for the rights of Internet users, and this rebranding is meant to reflect those values. Creative Team leader Tim Murray indicated on the company’s blog that Mozilla “want[s] to be known as the champions of a healthy Internet. An Internet where all are free to explore and discover and create and innovate without barriers or limitations.” Murray went on to state, “today, we believe these principles matter more than ever.”

This standpoint is what influenced the decision to use the “://” in the new Mozilla logo. After all, if they’re going to appoint themselves as spokespeople and guardians for the concept of an open and free global Internet, it makes perfect sense to use the language of the Internet within their designs.

With many challenges facing the open and free usage of the Internet, including politicians who have called for parts of it be shut down, Mozilla definitely has their work cut out for them. On the plus side, cultivating and expanding their member base of intermediate and advanced Internet users can give them the power of many voices banded together to fight for one shared cause. Will their rebrand be enough to help them reach such a lofty goal? Only time will tell, but Mozilla’s history has them well-positioned to make a positive difference.

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I have recently live coded a pure CSS random rainbow particle explosion. There’s a source in the middle of the screen, and rainbow particles shoot out with different speeds at different moments and then fade out. It might seem like the kind of thing that requires a lot of work and code, but it’s something I did quite quickly and with only 30 lines of SCSS.

This writeup is about showcasing one particularly cool trick: there’s just one set of keyframes used to move all those particles on the screen! There’s a second one that’s responsible for fading them. But, even though they end up in completely different positions on the screen, only one set of keyframes is in charge of that.

Let’s see how it all works!

Structure

There’s not much going on here. We just drop 400 particles into the body element. I used Haml because I feel it provides the simplest way of looping that doesn’t even involve a loop variable I’m not going to need anyway. Note that it’s all down to personal preference. I tend to go with the preprocessor that gives me the result I want with the least amount of code because the less I need to write, the better. In this particular case, it happens to be Haml. But, at the end of the day, any preprocessor that lets you generate all the .particle elements in a loop works just fine.

- 400.times do
  .particle

Basic styles

The first thing we do is size our particles and absolutely position. I chose to make them 4x4 squares because I was going for a pixelated look.

$d: 4px;

.particle {
  position: absolute;
  width: $d; height: $d;
}

Random positioning on the screen

We loop through these 400 particles (note that the number in the @for loop in the SCSS needs to be the same number as the one we’ve used in the Haml loop) and we translate them at random x,y points on the screen, where x is between 0 and 100vw and y is between 0 and 100vh. random(100) gives us random integers between 0 and 100.

At the same time, we also give these particles different random backgrounds so we can see them. We pick the hsl() format because it’s the most convenient one here. random(360) covers the entire hue wheel giving us random values between 0 and 360.

We then max out the saturation (100%) and set for a lightness above 50% (65% in this case).

.particle {
  /* same styles as before */

  @for $i from 0 to 400 {
    &:nth-child(#{$i + 1}) {
      transform: translate(random(100)*1vw, random(100)*1vh);
      background: hsl(random(360), 100%, 65%);
    }
  }
}

We can now see our particles distributed all over the screen:

See the Pen by thebabydino (@thebabydino) on CodePen.

They trigger scrollbars, so we set overflow: hidden on the root element. We also give it a dark background so we can see our light rainbow particles better:

html {
  overflow: hidden;
  background: #222;
}

This way, we get a pretty night sky:

See the Pen by thebabydino (@thebabydino) on CodePen.

Animation

The next step is to animate these particles, making them shoot out from the middle of the screen. This means our animation starts at the 50vw,50vh point:

@keyframes shoot {
  0% { transform: translate(50vw, 50vh); }
}

We don’t specify a final (100%) keyframe. If this is isn’t specified, it gets automatically generated from the styles we have set on the elements we animate – in our case, these are the random translates, different for each and every particle.

We want the motion of the particles to be fast at first and then slow down, which means we need to use an ease out type of timing function. We can just go for the plain old ease-out, or we can use a more advanced one (I go to easings.net for this). We then give our animation a dummy duration of 3s and make it repeat infinitely.

.particle {
  /* same styles as before */
  animation: shoot 3s ease-out infinite;
}

We get the following result:

See the Pen by thebabydino (@thebabydino) on CodePen.

The particles shoot out to different positions in the plane, just like we wanted. But they all animate at once, which isn’t what we want. So the first fix is to give each one of them a different, random animation duration between 1s and 3s within the loop:

.particle {
  /* same styles as before */

    @for $i from 0 to 400 {
        $t: (1 + .01*random(200))*1s;

        &:nth-child(#{$i + 1}) {
            /* same styles as before */
            animation-duration: $t;
        }
    }
}

This is much better:

See the Pen by thebabydino (@thebabydino) on CodePen.

Then we give each particle a random negative delay between 0% and 100% of its animation-duration ($t) in absolute value:

.particle {
  /* same styles as before */

    @for $i from 0 to 400 {
        $t: (1 + .01*random(200))*1s;

        &:nth-child(#{$i + 1}) {
            /* same styles as before */
            animation-delay: -.01*random(100)*$t;
        }
    }
}

See the Pen by thebabydino (@thebabydino) on CodePen.

Finally, we don’t want the particles to just disappear, so we add a second animation (with the same duration and the same delay) to fade them out:

.particle {
  /* same styles as before */
  animation: shoot 0s ease-out infinite;
  animation-name: shoot, fade;
}

@keyframes fade { to { opacity: 0; } }

We now have the final result!

See the Pen by thebabydino (@thebabydino) on CodePen.

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