If you are like myself, you may get the most out of visual learning, and hands on learning. With video tutorials, you can do just that. The other great thing about video tutorials, you not only get one way, but multiple ways to collect the information in the tutorial. Here are some great video tutorial sites to learn Photoshop from.

Most people only think of Youtube as a place to go watch funny videos of people doing stupid things. Youtube also has an education value deep into the site, but you have to search for it. The benefit of using Youtube to learn techniques in Photoshop is that each video teaches the technique in a different way. You may find someone to be boring, or takes a lot of steps to finish a technique. The next video may do the same technique in an exciting way, and finish it in half as many steps.

This site gathers tutorials from Youtube, and republishes the videos on their site, taking the legwork out of searching for videos on Youtube. The only negative thing that you may encounter, is if the video is remove from Youtube for some reason. The great thing is that you know that someone else has seen the tutorial and thought it was good or helpful enough to republish on their own site.

You Suck At Photoshop is a unique tutorial. You follow the Kentucky resident, Donnie Hoyle, through a divorce in which he uses Photoshop to express his anger for his wife. The tutorial does not only step away from the traditional method of video tutorials, but also gives some comedy relief as you go through the series. This webcast has also won two Webby awards in 2008 for Best How-To and Best Comedy. If you want to be entertained while learning, be sure to check out You Suck At Photoshop.

I like to call Pixel Perfect’s host, Bert Monroy, the Bob Ross of Photoshop. Bert became an internet icon in 2006 when he released Damen (http://www.bertmonroy.com/fineart/text/fineart_damen.htm). Damen is a realistic picture created using 15,000 layers in Photoshop. Bert teaches the techniques he uses in his art in many of his tutorials, going as far as showing work he is in the process of making, and how he is creating effects for that artwork. Not only does Bert’s tutorials keep the tutorials very basic, he also covers parts of Photoshop that many people will never use, such as CS4’s 3D tools.

Luv2Help is a site which users post tutorials they would like to share with the world or find useful. The site provides a large collection of many different types of tutorials, starting from basic Photoshop techniques, to more advanced techniques, like animations.