Photoshop freebies, on the house
Two free downloads built to live on your desktop and stay useful past the tutorial they came from. Instant delivery to your inbox.
What we give away, and why
Most "free Photoshop downloads" online are recycled brush packs scraped from a 2014 forum thread, gradient sets from somebody's defunct portfolio, or PSD mockups gated behind three popups. We do not have anything against any of that, but it is not the kind of resource an editor actually keeps coming back to.
Our two downloads were built around a different question: what would have saved us hours during our first year in Photoshop, if someone had handed it to us on day one? The answer ended up being a short reference of techniques and a one-page shortcut map. Both are below.
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Photoshop Power Tips PDF
25 time-saving techniques every editor should know. Selections, layers, color, retouching, and speed hacks, all in one printable reference.
Photoshop Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
Every shortcut you will actually use, on a single printable page. Tools, layers, masks, transforms, brushes, and the keys most editors forget.
Which one should I grab first?
If you have been in Photoshop less than a year, start with the shortcuts cheat sheet. The single biggest jump in editing speed is not a new technique, it is muscle memory for the keys you already use forty times a day. Tape the PDF above your monitor, glance at it for a week, and you will stop reaching for the mouse for things like brush sizing, layer cycling, and quick mask.
If you are past that point and you can already move around Photoshop without thinking, grab the Power Tips PDF. It assumes you know where things are. It focuses on the moves that separate someone who can finish an edit in twenty minutes from someone who still takes two hours: non-destructive workflows, smart selections, clean retouching, and color decisions that hold up at print size.
Most readers eventually grab both. They are not redundant. The cheat sheet covers what to press. The Power Tips PDF covers what to do with what you just pressed.
What you will not find here
No cracked plugins, no leaked brush packs, no AI upscalers, no "1000 free Photoshop actions" archives that turn out to be one zip file with thirty broken ATN files. The reason is partly that we want to stay on the right side of the people who actually make those tools, and partly that none of it teaches you anything. A bigger brush library does not make a better editor.
Everything we link to in either PDF is something we use, or something we have used long enough to recommend without a disclaimer. Anything sponsored is labelled. Anything free is genuinely free.
How the downloads get to you
The flow is the same for both files. You enter your email on the download page, confirm the opt-in checkbox, and submit. The server signs a one-time download token and emails you the link within a few seconds. The link is valid for 24 hours, after which you can re-request from the same page using the same email. The PDF itself never expires once you have it on disk.
We do not use a third-party email service for the gate, so you will not get bounced through a "click to verify" loop or a captcha. The form is on this site, the email is from this site, the download is on this site.