Benson Marina - photo by Nathan Smith

Resources for you...  help is first - then alphabetically after that

Photoshop Help

• Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts - The long list
• Photoshop Tools and Keyboard Shortcut Chart - The short list
• Photoshop Tools - Tutorials about each tool and how it works

Adobe Video Tutorials

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Canvas Tutorials for Students

• https://guides.instructure.com
• Canvas Student Getting Started Guide
• https://resources.instructure.com/courses/32/pages/canvas-student-tour-videos

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Color

"There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job."
Conrad Hall

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Design Tutorials

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
Steve Jobs

• Graphic Design Basics Part 1: Elements

• Graphic Design Basics Part 2: Design Principles
• A Beginner’s Guide on How to Become a Better Graphic Designer
• Principles Of Design: Contrast

The 7 Components of Design

• unity • gestalt • space • dominance • hierarchy • balance • Color Part I: Color Theory • Color Part II: How to Use Color

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Font Resources

• 1001 Free Fonts - www.1001freefonts.com
• ​Abstract Fonts (13,000+ free fonts)
  
• Acid Fonts - www.acidfonts.com/index.html
• Font Site - www.downloadfreefonts.com/
• Another 1001 Free Fonts - www.1001fonts.com/
• Also, you need to have a look at DaFont.com - www.dafont.com
• Font Bundles
• ​Font Squirrel
• ​1001 Fonts - www.1001fonts.com/
• Font Space
• Google Fonts
• Font Spring
• Be Fonts
• Lost Type Co-op

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Grids and Alignments


"Nothing should be placed on the page arbitrarily.  Every element should have some visual connection with another element on the page."
Robin Williams, author of The Non-Designer's Design Book

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Stock Photo Resources

• ​Pixabay​
• Gratisography
• IM Free
• Picjumbo
• PublicDomainPictures.net
• RGBStock
• High Resolution Stock
• Unsplash
• The morgue file
• Photogen - absolutely free stock images
• Jeyjoo Gallery
• Free Digital Photos
• Every Stock Photo is a free image search engine
• Pics4Learning
• FreeImages.com​
• Splitshire
• ISO Republic
• New Old Stock

• RawPixel
• Deviantart.com's Resources and Stock Images section 
• Stock Free Images
• Pexels
• Unsplash
• Morguefile
• Stockvault
• Negative Space
• Kaboompics
• FancyCrave
• Creative Commons Image Search
• The Amazing Pattern Library
• StockSnap
• Startup Stock Photos
• Life of Pix
• Jay Mantri
• Free Refe
• Free Stock Photos: 100+ Free (& Nearly Free) Libraries

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Page last updated March 15, 2018