Get A Graphic Design Degree From YouTube
Seriously with the way the internet is, all the blog and podcasts, you don’t even have to go to a university to learn some serious design skills. Ok people are born with talent but you can get an understanding of any software and certain techniques all from your wifi connection.
Tutorial Videos:
You Suck at Photoshop tutorials are a humorous stab at learning the tools in photoshop. Donnie Hoyle’s explanations will leave you in stitches and then you’ll learn how to remove them digitally.
Ice Flow Studios 30+ videos teaching basics and advance techniques
Tut Vid Training has 30 photoshop videos as well as flash and dreamweaver tutorials
Mattyboy7777 25 videos teaching some basics
Trainmps has some good tutorials for the web designer, how to make a web template in photoshop
Unc0nscious will show you how to do weird things like turn somebody’s hair red
Desktop Publishing Secrets Revealed teaches you the pen tool, master this and you can remove backgrounds easy
OPD-Obsessive Photoshop Disorder is heavy on the retouching if your a photographer then learn everything here
Photoshoptalent teaches techniques like how to make your own brushes
Johnnyvtc 25+ videos showing you photoshop tricks and tools a graphic designer will nee to go along with photoshop
Pstutorial has some basic videos
Facultydev a few videos about formatting text
AdobeTutorialsCS3 has some great Indesign tutorials
AquentGraphics is a real school offering free lessons via YouTube
Creative Sweet TV has got a few videos covering each software in the creative suite
Graphic Design Videos:
YSDN- What is Graphic Design? (Type Exploration Project)
Graphic design: Use your eye not the rules!
Stefan Sagmeister: What’s the importance of Graphic Design?
Well this is a small piece of the offering that is on YouTube just do searches and you will find thousands of tutorials available.
3 Comments, Comment or Ping
Jacob Cass
Original post here. Maybe not a degree but certainly in the right track. You also must be very disciplined and passionate to be self taught but many people have done it.
Apr 19th, 2008
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Aug 22nd, 2008
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