Gibe help (topic: learning Excel - Photoshop) and get much warm feelings and game(s) !

I don't know much about both unfortunately... all I can do is wishing you good luck for your Master.

Hm, most of the thinks I know about Excel (which I have been told is quite a bit) was self taught by just trying stuff and reading help files/google results for whatever I wanted to do... So I could possibly offer some answers to questions, but sadly not any good complete guide.

My Photoshop knowledge is really limited...

So, no real help, but have a bump

Why not Youtube? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5dM8U1PBdky2jMafpYp3_xEHaSvyzBNi

https://www.adobeknowhow.com/courselanding/beginners-adobe-photoshop

13 hour instructional...

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This will teach you the fundamentals of Adobe Photoshop with easy to follow, practical examples. By the conclusion of this video tutorial, you will be fully versed in the use of the basic tools of Adobe Photoshop CS5, and able to open, edit and prepare images for use in print, or digital media such as PDF’s or the Internet. Included are full work files, to allow you to learn right along with the instructor using the exact same files that he does.

Bunches of other individual trainings http://www.photoshopessentials.com/ (range from duh, to I wondered how the hell people did that)

Some other adobe freebie instructionals... https://www.adobeknowhow.com/category/Free

Some basics for Excel; https://support.office.com/en-in/article/Excel-2013-training-courses-videos-and-tutorials-aaae974d-3f47-41d9-895e-97a71c2e8a4a

As far as Excel goes, I find that their Website is pretty helpful, although I never went through something from the ground up, I've only looked for things I had questions on whether I can perform a certain task or function with Excel. A free program that I use instead of Excel (You're looking for free tips, so I don't know whether you've already purchased Excel or not) I use Openoffice Calc. If you're in a professional setting though, it's worth it for Excel, only because that's what everyone else uses, and Microsoft blocks the reading of Calc's native saving format. Youtube can also be helpful if you're looking to complete a specific task, find a button, or setting etc.

What do you pretend to do with photoshop? I can link you some good stuff, it only depends on what you're looking at...

Excel and photoshop are easy to use but i suggest to watch youtube videos how-tos on doing that.

For Excel, the basics here and more complex, but not necesarilly hard stuff, here and for Photoshop, it depends on what version you have, older or newer CS, CC or CC 2014, because there's a lot on the internet about any of those.

Youtube all the way, here isone that Ilike for an expense sheet for excel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIR4Z1Ll7tA

and Photoshop just type what you want to learn in youtube, I find all my answer there and I am getting quite good now =) I love the Creative Cloud suite, all updates are free (50$ a month tho) and its so wonderful how you can import your After effect into Photoshop and import your Photoshop into adobe premiere pro

https://www.coursera.org/ is a great platform. Try it. Even if you won't find some about excel or PS, there still a lot of cool courses.
Good luck!

I use Tutorials Point website when ever I need to learn any new technology. I hope it will help you too. There are PS and Excel tutorials too.

hmm, i have some payed tuts in udemy although some of them are also free.
check this out (only the free ones)
https://www.udemy.com/courses/top-free/?p=1&view=grid&lang=en
https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?q=photoshop&p=1&price=price-free&view=grid
https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?q=excel&p=1&price=price-free&view=grid

go and join, there's many other tuts you might find usefull and free of charge if you know where to look

Most of the pages i used to learn photoshop were in spanish, but this one was the only one i keep visiting to learn more tricks D:

Not sure about excel, just self taught and I know a bit about VB so I pretty much got the excel macro easily.

But for photoshop, I started just playing with signature tutorials (When I was still active in vBulettin forums) and trying to see how each function/effect/trick combination in photoshop works.

I have amassed a total of 202 tutorials(~550MB) which I all done. Probably spend around 500+ hours on them. There's a GFX forum I always go before but I forgot the name, but deviant art do have thousands of tutorials.

http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/?q=Photoshop+Signature+Tutorial&offset=0

Video tutorials are not really my thing so I preferred the long .jpg/pngs tutorials one.

I saw this link on Imgur for learning excel http://chandoo.org/ I'm not 100% sure WHAT about excel it teaches but maybe it will help? :D

If you need help in photoshop you should try google "how to make X in photoshop" X = anything you want to make.
Most tutorial also say the item you need to click so you can learn by making something.
I learn a ton of thing on how GIMP works and it's tools, just by looking thru how to make tutorials.

What kinda' Master requires you to learn photoshop, excel and academic writting? just askin'?

For Photoshop, look up Serge Ramelli on Youtube. He has videos on multiple topics including Photoshop, Lightroom, and photography. He's come up with some really awesome workflows for various aspects of working with actual images. He does not cover much in the way of creating graphic resources but many of the things he uses on photographs can be applied to that other side of Photoshop.

http://excelexposure.com This site has lessons for beginners and advanced users alike.

I don't know much about this, but I know that lynda.com is good and offers a 10 days free trial, so that might be enough to learn at least one of them.

http://www.excelfunctions.net/ basic functions and etc

I cannot help you a lot about PS , because as other said it depends what do you need but I can just suggest you to look for some videotutorials on youtube, a friend of mine just learnt in that way and now is very very good at it. If your master is business related you could check http://www.excel-easy.com/data-analysis.html , data analysis and statistic functions are the ones that you need most. About the writing skills I noticed that usually most colleges provide free useful workshops about it, so you can check some college around your area. Well, good luck man!