If you are looking for free Photoshop training than you are at right place. Imaging expert and award-winning author Deke McClelland presenting here a list of the top 40 Free Photoshop Tutorials. Follow all these Photoshop Tutorials one by one and you will be master in Photoshop. Some are tools, others are commands, still others are conceptual. All are invaluable. Learn the Photoshop features from these 40 Free Potoshop Training Tutorials and see the change in your Photoshop knowledge.

1. Open and Save — Free Photoshop Training

Virtually every Photoshop project starts with Open (how often do you choose New?) and ends with Save. And unlike other apps, Photoshop treats all image formats as native. Open and Save are the alpha and omega of imaging.

2. The Layers Palette — Free Photoshop Training

the Layers palette is command central—the place where most of the action in Photoshop happens. Were it not for this one palette, Photoshop as we know it would not exist.

3. Image Size — Free Photoshop Training

The essential Image Size command lets you scale an image on screen or in print. In this week’s Photoshop Top 40 Countdown episode, Deke explains resampling and resolution, both of which affect the core quality of digital photographs.

4. Navigation — Free Photoshop Training

Photoshop lets you modify your view of an image using a variety of tools, commands, and options. But you don’t need a single one of them. Learn a few navigational shortcuts and you’ll be working at maximum efficiency in no time.

5. The Sharpen Filters — Free Photoshop Training

Photoshop doesn’t sharpen focus, it sharpens detail using any of three remarkable filters: Unsharp Mask, Smart Sharpen, and High Pass. Apply them as smart filters, and you’re ready for any output scenario.

6. RGB, CMYK, and Lab — Free Photoshop Training

Photoshop doesn’t just support multiple color spaces, it supports infinite variations on the device-dependent ones. You can open an RGB photo, process it in Lab, and output it to CMYK, with certainty that the conversions will work.

7. Undo, History, and Revert — Free Photoshop Training

The safety-net trio of Undo, History, and Revert protect the intrepid image editor from unexpected disasters. But they also let you toggle operations, compare before-and-after images, and move back and forth through time.

8. The Eyedropper — Free Photoshop Training

The ubiquitous eyedropper is simple in purpose and easy to use. But imagine a world without it, where you had to dial in every one of the 16.8 million+ colors manually. The eyedropper is Photoshops color ambassador.

9. Levels — Free Photoshop Training

The Levels command, and its cohort, the Histogram, let you adjust luminance levels on a channel-by-channel basis. The upshot is that you can increase contrast, correct for color cast, and make a bad image good.

10. Color Settings — Free Photoshop Training

The Color Settings command is your way of establishing reliable color management policies across the entire Creative Suite. While admittedly techie, it ensures that what you see is what everyone else sees, too.

11. Opacity Mode and Blend Modes — Free Photoshop Training

Changing opacity is like mixing a cocktail with, say, 30% active layer and 70% all layers below. Assigning a blend mode is like shining a light or casting a shadow: The active layer infuses those behind it with life.

12. Camera Raw — Free Photoshop Training

Camera Raw is an independent application that lets you develop your raw photographs and exploit every byte of the vast information captured by your digital SLR camera. Not just powerful, it is a force unto itself. Here’s how to tap into its many features.

13. File Info — Free Photoshop Training

Want to let the world know who made your photo? Then choose File Info. Here you can assign a title, an author, a copyright, and a Web site. No image should go out without a visit to File Info.

14. Gaussian Blur — Free Photoshop Training

Gaussian Blur is a filter that blurs an image. But it’s also the math behind the Feather command, drop shadows, and everything that is soft in Photoshop. Watch this video and learn why Gaussian Blur is so important.

15. Alpha Channels — Free Photoshop Training

Much can be said of masking: Masking is the art of using the image to select itself. Masking lets you apply the entire weight of Photoshop to the task of editing a selection. And masking, thy name is alpha channel.

16. Adjustment Layers — Free Photoshop Training

An adjustment layer is an independent layer of color adjustment that you can edit any time you like. Plus, it affects all layers below it, consumes very little space in memory, and affords the opportunity for selective edits.

17. Layer Effects — Free Photoshop Training

Yes, layer effects let you make drop shadows. But they also let you create credible compositions, render simple layers in dimension, and add ambient lighting. I cannot imagine working in Photoshop without them.

18. Smart Objects — Free Photoshop Training

Smart objects aren’t all that smart. And they aren’t objects. What they are is envelopes. The kind that hold things. And keep them safe. So that everything you do protects the image from harm. This is Photoshop at its best.

19. Luminance Blending — Free Photoshop Training

Buried deep inside the Layer Style dialog box are two slider bars, This Layer and Underlying Layer, that let you blend pixels according to their brightness. Despite their prosaic names, these sliders rank among the most powerful features in all of Photoshop.

20. Free Transform — Free Photoshop Training

As powerful as Photoshop is, there is little about the program that is obvious. Case in point: How do you rotate a layer? Right-click on it and select Rotate? Choose Rotate from the Layer menu? Click on the Rotate tool? The answer is no, no, and no. Fortunately, there’s the Free Transform command, which rotates the active layer and much, much more.

21. The Gradient Tool — Free Photoshop Training

Every photo manipulation application offers a gradient tool. But Photoshop’s is special. Not only can you paint a soft transition from black to white, you can also soften the transition from one image to another. The gradient tool fades, swipes, and more.

22. The Healing Brush — Free Photoshop Training

Be they pits, pock marks, or pimples, we all suffer blemishes that we wish we didn’t. Or so we would were it not for Photoshop’s Healing Brush. This amazing tool grafts good skin onto bad–and heals the seams in between.

23. Color Range — Free Photoshop Training

If you use the Magic Wand tool, stop what you are doing and switch to Color Range. This outrageously useful command lets you select an image as easily as the wand, but with more flexibility and much better results.

24. Curves — Free Photoshop Training

Where luminance correction is concerned, no feature gives you greater control than Curves. This one command lets you rein in highlights, open up shadows, and reveal all points in between. Curves takes a bud of an image and makes it blossom.

25. Selection Calculations — Free Photoshop Training

You may know that you can add to a selection in Photoshop by pressing the Shift key. But you can also press keys to subtract and find an intersection. Better yet, these tricks apply to layers, channels, and paths. They’re a power user’s dream.

26. Dodge and Burn — Free Photoshop Training

Photoshop offers two tools that paint with luminance: The dodge tool paints in brightness, the burn tool paints in darkness. Crazy useful, and they’ve gotten so much better in Photoshop CS4.

27. The Crop Tool — Free Photoshop Training

Since the first daguerreotype, photographers have cropped their images to hone in on the details that matter most. The crop tool does that, as well as straighten and more. Check it out.

28. Hue/ Saturation — Free Photoshop Training

Hue/Saturation not only spins colors and intensity values, it lets you modify one color independently of all others. And it does so in such a credible way, you would never know it was there. Perfection.

29. Liquify — Free Photoshop Training

The Liquify filter lets you paint in distortions so you can perform digital nips and tucks. You can slim people down, edit their posture, and make them look exactly how you want them to. See how in this video.

30. Actions — Free Photoshop Training

The Actions palette lets you record your work on effects in Photoshop so that you never have to do it again. Plus, you can build up complex visual effects and share them with others, as Deke demonstrates in this jaw-dropping video.

31. The Brush Tool — Free Photoshop Training

The modest brush tool is one of the deepest, most versatile tools in Photoshop. Its not only a terrific painting tool, but it is also invaluable for masking, as Deke demonstrates in this weeks Photoshop Top 40 Countdown episode.

32. The Pen Tool — Free Photoshop Training

Many folks select images in Photoshop with the likes of the Quick Select and Magic Wand tools. Highly automated, but these tools rarely work accurately. Experts use the Pen tool. Using the Pen tool is an art form worth learning, because it always works.

33. Calculations — Free Photoshop Training

One of the oldest, most abstruse, downright incomprehensible commands in Photoshop, Calculations lets you merge two channels to create a new alpha channel. Learn it: It’s the backbone of masking.

34. Save for Web & Devices — Free Photoshop Training

If you’re creating Web graphics, then there’s no substitute for Save for Web & Devices. It disposes of non-essential data, reduces file sizes to their absolute minimum, and converts the image to sRGB, the color space of the people.

35. Refine Edge — Free Photoshop Training

Photoshop offers lots of tools for automating selections, but two stand out from the pack: The first, Refine Edge, lets you modify your selection using five different parameters and preview the results in five different ways.

36. Black & White — Free Photoshop Training

In the digital age, we shoot full-color photographs. Which is a good thing, because it means we can distill the perfect black-and-white shot in Photoshop.

37. The Fill functions — Free Photoshop Training

Many of Photoshop’s best features can only be accessed from the keyboard. Like, how would you know Alt+Backspace (or Option-Delete) fills with black? Watch. It gets better.

38. Vector Type — Free Photoshop Training

Type in Photoshop is forever editable and super-smooth. Deke shows how it works by assembling a high-res, pro-quality magazine cover in one short video.

39. Layer Comps — Free Photoshop Training

Layer comps let you assemble multiple image variations or even independent pieces of artwork inside a single Adobe Photoshop file. The Layer Comps palette gives you the freedom to explore.

40. Reset and Purge — Free Photoshop Training

Deke gets things started with a pair of options that can clean out Photoshops plumbing when things get clogged up: Reset and purge.