Graphic designing has become one of the most popular professions and arts of the modern times. The world lives and breathes with graphics. You see an instance of them everywhere! In books, online, on billboards, cars, parks; everywhere! With such rising demand, it sure helps to have a few skills of your own. Here are some awesome courses to get you up and going.

Psd Tuts.com; 50 Graphic Tutorials

These tutorials aren’t your averages how-to articles. Here you learn about the practical implications of each and every technique applied in graphics. You learn about choosing the right font, color scheme, alignment of text, pictures and a lot more.

Useful Graphic Designs.com; Tutorials

This website has got tutorials to teach you how to make, develop and edit graphics from an audience’s point of view. They have tutorials on color mixing, editing, retouching, ideal sizes of different shapes and so on. You can download the tutorials as well in web-page format.

You the Designer.com; Graphic Lifestyle Blog

This blog contains the latest “graphics of the week”, articles and much more. You can browse through their tutorials, look up the inspiration section for new ideas and things to try and a lot more. Graphics is a very diverse field and there are a hundred ways you can learn as compared to coding or something technical where you only learn by actually reading the manuals and experience.

About.com; Graphic Basics

This course on the basics really does go all the way down. You learn about shapes, standard tools in designing applications, how each tool is used and can be utilized for achieving a variety of results, manipulating shapes to make something different and so on.

Alison.com; Visual and Graphic Design

Alison.com provides a complete course on graphics in which you learn enough to get you well set for doing your own graphic designing and more onto more advanced programs and tutorials. The course starts with basics of designing and its theory before moving onto the technical aspects of computer graphic designing.

Speckyboy.com; Photoshop Tutorials

Here we have tutorials on Photoshop, Adobe’s premier graphic designing software. This software is the world’s number one ranked software and is used by all graphic designing professionals.  These tutorials teach you how to utilize some advanced tools to give special touches and effects to graphics.

MIT Openware Course; Computer Graphics

MIT Online courses are providing this computer graphics course which looks at the subject in depth. It covers basics, moving onto applications and so on with a complete course.

Tutorial Storage.com

This website has a huge collection of tutorials on different types of graphics. You can learn photo retouching, making designs on flyers, brochures, creating logos, adding effects to photos, websites and a lot more.

Photoshop Roadmap.com; Tutorial Collections

This site collects the best of tutorials and posts them all in one place on their site. Some very high level techniques are applied in these tutorials for some very beautiful and stunning effects.