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If you’re just learning how to use Photoshop to design your web site, there are hundreds…even thousands of web sites and resources that will help you learn. But for today, I’m just going to focus on three of them! :)
The web site Photoshop Lab, has a number of tutorials for special effects, tips on useful Photoshop shortcuts, news, reviews, and links to other Photoshop resources. If you’re a beginner, you can go to the Beginner’s section and get up to speed on using the basic tools in Photoshop and basic shortcuts. And you can keep up to date on all the news and tutorials by subscribing to the Photoshop Lab blog.

Photoshoplab

Phong is actually I web site that I used when I was first learning how to use Photoshop and to my surprise I found that it’s still around. Phong focuses on using Photoshop to create specific special effects and the tutorials are categorized as basic, intermediate, and advanced. If you’ve always wanted to learn how to stitch photos together to create a panoramic image, how to use drop shadows, how to design metallic wires, or how to make your text look like metal or glass…Phong is your web site. While some of the effects are probably too far out for your web site (the web site itself is pretty far out), just going through the tutorials is a great way to practice and sharpen up your Photoshop skills.
Phong

This last web site is not specifically a Photoshop web site, but it’s very useful one if you don’t have much experience in graphic design. Chuck Green’s Ideabook focuses on graphic design and how to use it for effective marketing. Ideabook focuses on print design, but it also has some useful advice for web design as well. As many of the design principles in print also apply in web design, there’s some very useful advice for you if you need to design your web site. So you can learn how to pick a commercial printer for printing your business card as well as how to integrate you web site design with your brochure. And if you need a logo for your web site, check out the tutorial Step by step logo to see what the process is behind designing a logo…fascinating stuff.
Ideabook

Do you have a favorite design or Photoshop resource? Leave a comment and share!