Skill up on Adobe products with free video tutorials

I do not work or create features for Lynda.com, but I can not recommend them enough. When I went to school, it was exclusively print design and Quark. I have used Lynda to learn so many different programs it is great. Most of the teachers are great, some can be boring and repetitive, but there is tons of content and it broken up nicely so you can jump to exactly what you want.

I own a license of Pixelmator and am partway through reading the user manual. If I am correct, many if the effect and filters are common to Photoshop.

Does anyone know if studying techniques in Photoshop will be translatable to Pixelmator.

Same goes with Freevers' Lineform and Adobe Illustrator

Thanks.

http://www.kelbytraining.com/online also has tons of great training for Adobe products, as well as photography, for $20/mo or $200/yr. The guy who runs (Scott Kelby) it is the world's best-selling technology author for the past five years and runs Photoshop World, so he knows a thing or two. Many of the instructors are world-renowned experts in their field, including National Geographic/Life/Time/Sports Illustrated/etc. photographer Joe McNally, Photoshop and Illustrator master Bert Monroy, John Paul Caponigro (a friend of Ansel Adams), Terry White, Rich Harrington, Dan Margulis, and many others. I can't think of a better value for the price. Definitely worth checking out!

Abobe products are far too expensive.

"You Suck at Photoshop" is, by far, the superior Photoshop tutorial series.

Thanks for mentioning lynda.com, Maria. I visited that site a couple of years ago, and was trying to remember the name yesterday. I remembered it was a woman's name, but that was it. Now I know again!

There is also Woopid for help with Windows/Mac system type stuff, and Office 2007/iWork material (keeping in my business related applications). It's free unlike Lynda etc

http://www.woopid.com/

I need to mention Lynda.com. (Disclosure: Yes, I do create material for them.) They have a great "all you can eat" (my term) program where you pay one price and can watch as much video as you like. But even if that's more than you want to spend, there are a lot of free videos on the site for non-subscribers. Definitely worth checking out.

http://lynda.com/

Michael,
I'm the co-author of Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D, and while it's a PC-only application, both of the 2010-edition authors run it in VMWare. My company, Engineered Efficiency, is offering free training to recently unemployed Civil Engineers. You can check the link here: http://eng-eff.com/freeTraining

We're really hoping we can help some of our peers find new work by expanding their skill set.

http://www.videocopilot.net

absolutely awesome after effects training.