Online Photoshop Class?

[mtread]

Can anyone recommend a good online photoshop class? I'm willing to take classroom courses, but it will be sometime before the time/money/schedule all come together. I'm an IT guy (though a manager now, so don't know anything ), but I do hope I can learn reasonably quickly. I have the Creative Suite Master Collection.

 

[KmH]

Your Adobe software includes online training.
Open any Master Collection application and on the Applications bar click on the HELP tab.

Or, just pressed the F1 to access Adobe Community Help, like this page for Photoshop CS 5 - http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/topics.html

There is also http://tv.adobe.com/ and http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa?promoid=JZEFP

 

[CCericola]

Lynda.com is also helpful.

 

[joshua_]

Lynda.com is also helpful.

Hello,

I have looked over there and wondered if it is worth the membership or not.

Would you (and anyone else) weigh in on that.

Thank you

 

[KmH]

Yep. Lynda.com is helpful.

For just $99 a year you can join NAPP - Photoshop User | Learn Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Digital Photography | NAPP

Click on the Benefits tab to see what you get.

 

[jaguaraz]

I took online Photoshop courses through my local community college. Not very expensive and the structure and sequence were exactly what I needed. There was interaction with fellow students and critique of my work. Seems it was about $150 per course.

 

[tedfoto]

Has anyone tried both lynda.com and kelby? I've wondered which is better...especially for food & drink photography.

 

[kathyt]

Lynda.com is also helpful.

Lynda.com is very helpful and you can go at your own pace. Go in and create an account and look at the free ones to get a feel of what it is about. It is really great. I learned alot.

 

[dbvirago]

I have used Kelby off and on. There are a couple of very good classes on food photography there. Kelby has a lot of classes on a wide variety of subjects, but some specific subjects have less coverage than others. It would be well worth it to get a one month sub and cram all the courses you can absorb during that time

 

[joshua_]

This is good stuff, thanks to the op and to the folks who helped.

Except for kathy, I don't trust you anymore now that I know you only shoot in auto.... :lmao:

I'm going to check those out.

 

[CCericola]

Lynda is more for software instruction and kelby is for photography. NAPP is really helpful too. In 2002 they had a seminar in Philly and I learned a lot and won a door prize, a Wacom tablet.

 

[mtread]

Thanks for your input/advice - much appreciated!

 

[Buckster]

Another vote for Lynda here and, specifically Deke McClelland as Photoshop instructor / guru. Great site for learning software of all kinds, but for my money, Deke totally rocks it like nobody else as an instructor.

I also subscribe to Kelby, and find it's better on the photography side of things.