Resources

Resources @ SWC

 

PURCHASING YOUR OWN SOFTWARE (not required)
You qualify for the student discount through College Buys
The Foundation for California Community Colleges has negotiated students pricing on many applications for California Community College students; they are sold through.
You need to purchase using your .edu email account

https://shop.collegebuys.org/adobe-creative-cloud-p8949.aspx
$39.99 for 6 months subscription

Adobe Pricing (I do not recommend; the price is higher)
https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html?promoid=P3KMQYMW&mv=other
Photography Annual Plan (individual plan, 20GB storage) - $9.99/month ($119.88 total)
All Apps Student Pricing Annual Plan (student plan) - $19.99/month ($239.88 total)

Computer system requirements Make sure that any software you purchase will work with your computer and operating system:
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/system-requirements.html


Tutorials Steps-By-Step

Photoshop Essentials - Tutorial Site
Retouching

PSDTUTS+ - Tutorial Site


Video Tutorials

Adobe Video

Lynda.com

 

Recommended Book

Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book 2019 (ISBN: 0135261783)

 

Other Links

Brush-EEZY - custom brushes, patterns and shapes


Fonts

Adobe Fonts - associated with Adobe CC products
Google Web Fonts - (user friendly, free. you can download or embed code)
Font Squirrel - (100% commercial use, free)

 

Stock Photos - Free Download, Fair Use

This Blog has a list and description of Free Stock Photo Sites

UnSplash - (easy and fair)

Stock Snap io

Pexels

Burst

Reshot

Pixabay

Foodiesfeed - food stock photos

Gratisography

Free Stocks - personal and commercial

Picography

Skitter Photo

Life of Pix

Little Visuals

New Old Stock - Fair Use old photos on one site (Tumblr)

Pic Spree

iso Replublic - photos and videos

Styled Stock - "feminine stock photos"

 

Public Domain

PhotoGraphic Libraries - Links


Open, Free and Ready for Remixing! (ART Images)

Open Culture

Google Art Project

Getty - Open Content Image Search

LACMA Collections

Nation Gallery of Art | NGA Images

Project Apollo Archive (space, rockets, moon landing)

Riksmuseum - 125,000 Dutch Masterpieces

 

Blogs

RETOUCHIST
Peta Pixel


Magazines

www.advancedphotoshop.co.uk
www.photoshopcreative.co.uk

 

Copyright Links:

U.S. Copyright Office

Creative Commons

Fair Use FAQ

10 Myths Explained


Royalty Free / Rights Managed (account subscription)

Big Stock Photos

Corbis(Getty Images)

Getty Images (Royalty Images)

iStock Photo

ingimage

Super Stock

Shutterstock