{"id":148607,"date":"2019-11-21T08:51:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T08:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=148607"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:27:50","slug":"best-free-photoshop-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/best-free-photoshop-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Best free resources for Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photoshop is the best photo editing program there is. It has so many tools and features that imagination is the only thing limiting what graphic designers and high resolution photographers can do with the Adobe program. Photoshop is a big beast though. If you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re doing, it is just a dark screen with lots of buttons and toolbars. It can be hard to know where to start, especially if you don’t know the difference between a PNG file and a JPG.<\/p>\n

There are tools and resources out there though, to help you get to grips with all that Photoshop has to offer and teach you how to do whatever you need to get done. Furthermore, Photoshop is a customizable piece of software, which means you can add extra Photoshop\u00a0actions to the mix by downloading plugins. Many of these are freebies too. This is why today we\u2019re walking you through a roundup of all the best free design\u00a0resources for Photoshop.<\/p>\n

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Free resources for Photoshop<\/h2>\n

Official Photoshop\u00a0resources<\/h3>\n

Adobe\u00a0Photoshop user guide<\/a><\/h5>\n

You don\u2019t buy Photoshop; you subscribe to it. You pay for it each month and then use it as a service. Some people will complain about this and say it is expensive but for web designers who subscribe this gives two beneficial outcomes. The first is that Adobe will regularly update Photoshop and the second is that Adobe offers free access to a huge amount of Photoshop step-by-step guides covering every aspect of the massive image editing program.<\/p>\n

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Adobe TV<\/a><\/h5>\n

As well as an extensive user guide that will walk you through how to use every tool on the program and introduce you to a number of key photo editing and graphic design techniques, Adobe will also give you access to Adobe TV. Adobe TV has plenty of videos, which will show you many different tricks and tips and also TV shows and webinars walking you through many different Adobe design products.<\/p>\n

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Best places for Photoshop\u00a0tutorials<\/h3>\n

Before you do anything, you\u2019re going to need to learn how to use Adobe\u00a0Photoshop. This is where Photoshop guides and tutorials some in. You can teach yourself how to do anything on Photoshop with the right guide.<\/p>\n

PSDFAN<\/a><\/h5>\n

PSDFAN has a wide variety of easily searchable Photoshop\u00a0tutorials from the very basics all the way up to advanced photo editing techniques including light manipulation and blended multi-exposure shots. This is a very cool place to start.<\/p>\n

Design tuts+<\/a><\/h5>\n

The envano tuts+ website offers a wide variety of different design focused tutorials. Many of these are Photoshop\u00a0tutorials, including their very handy\u00a0Photoshop in 60 Seconds\u00a0<\/em>series, which gives quick guides on many Photoshop tools. You\u2019ll also find guides here for other Adobe programs too like Illustrator and InDesign.<\/p>\n

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PSHero<\/a><\/h5>\n

PSHero has many different Photoshop\u00a0tutorials that\u2019ll help you find your feet and then develop your skills all the way up to a professional level. The tutorials are split into four categories: Graphic Design, Photo Effects, Text Effects, and Tips & Tricks.<\/p>\n

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Best places for Photoshop tools (Brushes, Plugins, and Textures)<\/h3>\n

As well as the extensive set of design tools that come pre-loaded on Photoshop, you can download specialized tools for your particular needs. These include specialized brushes, textures, and plugins, which could be anything from tools to shave a few seconds off your workflow to more advanced versions of standard Photoshop tools.<\/p>\n

BrushKing<\/a><\/h5>\n

BrushKing is a Photoshop\u00a0brush marketplace where you can choose between thousands of free Photoshop\u00a0brushes available via hundreds of different brush sets. You will have to pay for some of these but fortunately, most are available for free.<\/p>\n

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BrushLovers<\/a><\/h5>\n

Another excellent Photoshop\u00a0brush marketplace worth your attention is BrushLovers. You\u2019ll find all sorts of different types of high-quality Photoshop brushes here and they\u2019ll be easy to find too, due to BrushLovers\u2019 impressive advanced search features.<\/p>\n

CC-Extensions<\/a><\/h5>\n

CC-Extensions have brought to the internet a variety of different plugins that add more high-end and pro-level features to Photoshop. These are mostly for experts only but if you\u2019re at that level, they\u2019ll add some serious swagger to your game.<\/p>\n

Digital Anarchy<\/a><\/h5>\n

Digital Anarchy has a lot more to offer than just its Photoshop\u00a0plugins but its cool list of add-ons is definitely worth a look. You\u2019ll find tools here to help you design backdrops for your images, draw up borders, and more.<\/p>\n

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DinPattern<\/a><\/h5>\n

DinPattern offers Photoshop users almost endless libraries of patterns, textures, wallpapers, and backgrounds. This is your one-stop-shop for all your Photoshop patterns and texture needs.<\/p>\n

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Best place to find Free\u00a0PSD\u00a0files and Photoshop templates<\/h3>\n

There are a LOT of places online where you can find Photoshop templates. The best of these comes in the form of the standard Photoshop\u00a0file. PSDs are the format type Adobe developed for Photoshop. They save all the composite parts of a photo editing project so you can stop what you\u2019re doing and then pick up exactly where you left off later on. This also means that you can download PSD\u00a0templates that have images already built, complete with individual layer styles that you can edit to make the overall image your own.<\/p>\n

Freepik<\/a><\/h5>\n

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The best place to find thousands of these ready-made PSD\u00a0file templates is Freepik, which has almost 100,000 files for you to browse through and then download for free. There are all sorts here too including t-shirt mock-ups, business cards, flyers, and even smartphone templates. Keep an eye out, however, as sometimes you might need to attribute the author if you\u2019re going to use the file publicly or for commercial purposes.<\/p>\n

Wrapping up<\/h5>\n

Adobe\u00a0Photoshop really is its own world. From the first second you launch it you realize that there is a lot to get lost in. To put it bluntly, you need Adobe\u2019s extensive tutorials and video guides and then once you\u2019ve familiarized yourself with all the tools the design suite offers, you\u2019ll need the more creative tutorials we\u2019ve offered too. Once you know what you\u2019re doing though, there is still more exploring to do with all of the potential templates, textures, brushes and plugin-free downloads available for Photoshop. We\u2019ve shown you some of the best but if you want to go deeper, you could see this guide as just the start.<\/p>\n

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