Adobe Photoshop is one of the must-have software for graphic designers and web developers. Over the years, Adobe Photoshop has improved a lot over the year and so is the new features addition. Although the core concepts remain the same, except minor changes to Photoshop UI. It may not be difficult to learn Adobe Photoshop but mastering it does takes a lot of time and hours of practics. With the fast cycle of product release in last five years, Adobe has released many major versions of Photoshop and latest being Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud, and with every new release of Photoshop, it comes with tons of new features hard for even experts to keep up.
For a newbie’s Adobe Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) may look overwhelming and hard to understand without proper learning resources, for that reason here we have gathered all the free resources that can help you to learn Adobe Photoshop right from your home and at your own leisure.
We have tried to gathered free Photoshop ebooks as well as Youtube and Udamy Courses that you can use to learn and master Photoshop as quickly as possible, the resource is useful for both beginners as well as advance photoshop users. Although the ebooks may not be latest one or covering latest version of Adobe Photoshop but as we said earlier, the core concepts remain the same.
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Adobe Photoshop Learning Resources
Free Photoshop Ebooks and PDF Files for Beginners
1. An Idiot’s Guide to Photoshop
A PDF file containing useful Photoshop editing examples with illustrates from MakeUseOf.com. The book has been designed for the first time Photoshop users and covers right from the very bottom.
2. Photoshop CS5 for Dummies (PDF Ebook)
One of the most comprehensive yet freely available ebook for those who wish to start learning Photoshop CS5. The book starts with fundamentals and takes you through various Photoshop sections in minibook form. The entire book is collections of 9 different mini books into one. A physical copy this book, which has more than 700 pages, costs around $39.99, but you can get this ebook samples for absolutely free.
Download Photoshop CS5 Dummies PDF book.
3. CS5 on Demand
Que Publishing has published many professional books on Photoshop, dreamviewer, illustrator, InDesign which has ratings of 4+ stars on Amazon. In order to help Photoshop beginners, they have made this eBook on Photoshop CS5 available for download. 172 pages of this ebook take its reader through various Photoshop tools and basics with easy to understand illustrations.
4. Free Photoshop Ebooks available on Scribd.com
Scribd is an online service where you can upload PDF, word and other documents and make is available for public read. It is also very good place to find expensive books on Photoshop for free. Though you won’t be able to download, but you can read it online any time. Here is the collection of important Photoshop books available on Scribd.com
5. Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual
A book published by O’Reilly Media sold at $29.99 on Amazon is the most comprehensive book on latest Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 6. As the book name suggests, it is an exhaustive manual for those who want to jump start Photoshop CS 6, but don’t want to get overwhelmed with all its hundreds of news features. The book makes Photoshop learning breeze with its friendly and non-technical jargon.
Read Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual.
6. Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 on Demand
Yet another book from Que Publishing, Photoshop CS6 on Demand provides an answers in a visual step-by-step format. It shows you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions. 600 pages of this paperbook are available for purchase at $24.83 on Amazon , but you can read this book any time online for free. Just follow below scribed link.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/95125266/Adobe%C2%AE-Photoshop%C2%AE-CS6-on-Demand
There are so many other PDF books available on Photoshop at Scribd.com that it is hard to list all those books, you can simply use Scribd search and get the list of all the Photoshop e-books available at Scribd.com.
If you are aware of any Photoshop e-Books which are available for free download, then do share with us here is the comment section.
3 thoughts on “Legally Free Adobe Photoshop Ebooks and PDF Files For Download”
good collection
please give me a link for download adobe photoshop cs5
please can i have the pdf tutorial on how to design on cs5, someone should just design something and put it in a pdf format,thanks