Jeff Tranberry's Digital Imaging Crawlspace

I often hear people asking how to best learn our products. Some of the best resources are from Adobe and are completely FREE so I thought I’d share them with you here.

User Manuals, User Guides and Product Documentation/Help:

Key Concepts
Photoshop and Lightroom Key Concepts -
If you’re new to Adobe® Photoshop® or Photoshop Lightroom, and are looking for explanations of basic terms and tasks, check out these key concept pages. Each page includes the definition of a key concept along with links to the online Help for further information, such as step-by-step instructions for completing the task. You’ll also find related concepts and search terms.

Photoshop Elements Key Concepts – If you’re new to Adobe® Photoshop® Elements and are looking for explanations of basic terms and tasks, check out these key concept pages. Each page includes the definition of a key concept along with links to the online Help for further information, such as step-by-step instructions for completing the task. You’ll also find related concepts and search terms.

Photoshop CS6
Photoshop Help and Support
User Manual/Guide: Using Photoshop CS6 - HTML | PDF
User Manual/Guide: Using Photoshop CS5 – HTML | PDF

Adobe Bridge CS6
Bridge Help and Support
User Manual/Guide: Using Bridge CS6 – HTML | PDF
User Manual/Guide: Using Bridge CS5 – HTML | PDF

Photoshop Lightroom 4
Photoshop Lightroom Help and Support
User Manual/Guide: Using Photoshop Lightroom 4 – HTML | PDF

Photoshop Elements 11
Photoshop Elements Help and Support
Getting Started Tutorials – Covers “Knowing your devices,” “Installing Photoshop Elements,” “Importing and organizing,” “Editing and compositing,” and “Saving and sharing”
User Manual/Guide: Using Photoshop Elements 11 - HTML | PDF
User Manual/Guide: Using Elements Organizer 11 - HTML | PDF

Premiere Elements 11
Premiere Elements Help and Support
User Manual/Guide: Using Photoshop Elements 10 - HTML | PDF

Photoshop.com
If you haven’t been to Photoshop.com recently, it’s becoming a great hub for learning and inspiration:
http://www.photoshop.com/learn/
http://www.photoshop.com/tutorials/
http://www.photoshop.com/spotlights/

YouTube – Step-by-Step Video Tutorials

Photoshop Channel on YouTube
Lightroom Channel on YouTube
Photoshop Elements on YouTube

Adobe TV – Step-by-Step Video Tutorials

Similarly, Adobe TV has some neat channels focused on getting up to speed with the latest versions:

Photoshop
Learn Photoshop CS6 - Step-by-Step Video Tutorials
Photoshop CS6 Feature Tour – Step-by-Step Video Tutorials
Learn Photoshop CS6 in French

Adobe Tutorial Player for Photoshop - Adobe Tutorial Player for Photoshop is an iPad app that provides interactive step-by-step tutorials and helps you when you are stuck. Simply connect Adobe Tutorial Player to Photoshop and start working. If you don’t know how to do a step, click on the “Show Me” button for that step.

Bridge
Learn Adobe Bridge - Step-by-Step Video Tutorials

Lightroom
Getting Started with Lightroom 4 - Step-by-Step Video Tutorials
What’s New In Lightroom 4 - Step-by-Step Video Tutorials
Learn how to migrate from Photoshop Elements to Lightroom 3 – Step-by-Step Video Tutorials

Photoshop Elements
Note: Tutorials for Elements 9 & 10 are suitable for users of Elements 11 as well.
Learn Photoshop Elements 11 - Step-by-Step Video Tutorials
Photoshop Elements 11 Feature Tour - Step-by-Step Video Tutorials
Photoshop Elements 10 – Step-by-Step Video Tutorials
Learn Photoshop Elements 9 – Step-by-Step Video Tutorials
Photoshop Elements 9 How-To’s – Step-by-Step Video Tutorials

Premiere Elements
Note: Tutorials for Elements 9 & 10 are suitable for users of Elements 11 as well.
Premiere Elements 10 – Step-by-Step Video Tutorials
Learn Premiere Elements 9 – Step-by-Step Video Tutorials
Premiere Elements 9 How-To’s – Step-by-Step Video Tutorials

Photoshop Touch Apps
Learn Photoshop Touch – Step-by-Step Video Tutorials

Photoshop.com
Learn Photoshop.com – Step-by-Step Video Tutorials

Russell Brown and Julianne Kost create amazing learning resources here:

The Russell Brown Show – Step-by-Step Video Tutorials – Technical Videos and Creative Inspiration.
The Complete Picture with Julieanne Kost – Step-by-Step Video Tutorials – Technical Videos and Creative Inspiration.

User to User Forums

One of the best tools available to users are the free User to User Forums. It’s a great community of passionate users, as well as members of the product development teams, who answer questions and share tips with new and experienced users:

Photoshop User to User Forums
Lightroom User to User Forum
Adobe Camera Raw User to User Forum
Adobe Bridge User to User Forums
Photoshop Elements User to User Forum
Premiere Elements User to User Forum

Photoshop Family Feedback

We’re interested in what changes you would like see in our products. Do you have an idea for a feature that would help your workflow? Is there a small change that could be made to make your life a little easier? Let us know!

Share an Idea, Ask a Question or Report a Problem and get feedback from the Photoshop Development Team and other passionate users on the Photoshop Family product Feedback Site on Photoshop.com

Adobe Blogs

John Nack Julieanne Kost and our development team blogs are a great resource, too:

Photoshop.com Blog
Jeff Tranberry’s Digital Imaging Crawlspace
John Nack on Adobe
Julieanne Kost’s Blog
The Lightroom Journal
Phosphors

Twitter and Facebook

If you’re a Twitter or Facebook user you may want to follow these resources:

http://www.facebook.com/Photoshop
http://www.facebook.com/Lightroom

http://twitter.com/#!/Photoshop
http://twitter.com/#!/Lightroom
http://twitter.com/#!/AdobeElements

http://twitter.com/#!/jtranber
http://twitter.com/#!/jnack
http://twitter.com/#!/julieannekost
http://twitter.com/#!/dhowe
http://twitter.com/#!/LR_Tom
http://twitter.com/#!/LR_Melissa

http://twitter.com/#!/Adobe_Care

I hope these free resources are a help to you.