Photoshop Related Artists Groups and Communities

I will continue to add useful sites and groups related to Photoshop over time, making it as comprehensive as possible. To start I will add the groups and communities that I personally manage and as time goes I will add those of my friends and colleagues as well other important art groups and networks that also relate to Photoshop and the Adobe Creative Suite of products as well. Photoshop being my personal favorite graphics application and tool, this site will focus mostly on Photoshop, but there are many other applications in the Adobe Creative Suite that also are used in conjunction with Photoshop. For example you may work on a template for a website in Photoshop and then export it to Dreamweaver or Fireworks to add code and scripting to finish off the website design. Another example is creating a layered image that is then imported into After Effects for and animation sequence in a film. So many other graphics and 3d applications have direct back and fourth export and import functions to make the interactions with Photoshop really easy and intuitive. Seeing how Photoshop is used in most graphics manipulations and pipeline implementations some of the groups I list are focused on other apps. This being said you still need to know how they interact, where they sit in your artistic pipeline of tools and software. So this is a mix of Communities and Groups that all inter relate to Photoshop CS6 through CS as well the Adobe Creative Cloud.

Photoshop and Graphic Design Artist Community Groups on Facebook, G+, Linked In

   These are the groups and communities below some have the same members across the social networks and at the very bottom of the page I list my personal pages and portfolios that I share across these communities and groups. By posting your work and being active in these groups you can find other colleagues as well as clients. Often we share the works of other through the Freelance Art Groups main FB page as well other methods to increase exposure to the groups. Any and all links and sharing in and of posts helps our groups and art related communities to grow. Seeing we give you the ability to post and share your work with thousands of artists and potential clients as well a simple sharing of community and group page links is very appreciated and allows you the chance to give back to the art communities while meeting other talented and business minded individuals.

Freelance Artists - These are all artists that use a variety of tools and work professionally as freelance artists.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/freelanceartistwanted/  Our Public page that is used to post work to the public, schedule public events, share other pages and social events that relate to the freelance art groups followers is located on Facebook, though there is also a group and community presence on G+ and Linked In also. The link above is the actual group join, please also like our Freelance Artists Group page. Any time you share our pages and groups it helps us to grow a little more. This being the case I am listing the groups other forums on G+ and Linked in right here as well. You can post your portfolio links, wips, projects, jobs, art questions, software questions etc in any of the groups just be sure that it is art related.

Freelance Artist Group - This link is the linked in forum of the group

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Freelance-Artist-Art

G+ Freelance Artists Group - The G+ Community is extremely small please help us grow it, and invite more members. If you have tutorials, wips and portfolios you want to share what ever please pop in and make a comment, post a piece of artwork or just take a look and invite others to a hangout.

Concept Artists - these are all artists of varying levels involved in concept artwork. Photoshop and other 3d applications are the specific tools they use in the trade.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/conceptartist/

Video Game Artists - This is a Video Game Designer and Artist Facebook Group! These artists regularly use Photoshop, Autodesk 3d apps, Zbrush, Blender, Unity Game Engine, Unreal Engine and a myriad of other software that is almost always including Photoshop and other creative cloud apps to create games.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/video.game.artist.andvideo.game.designer/

Linked In Video Game Art, Design and  Development -  This group is the Linked in Version for game developers and artists

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Video-Game-Artists-Designers-Developers-4845507

Zbrush Artists -  This is the G+ Zbrush artists community that I set up a year or two back on G+ about the same time that ZBHO (zbrushhangout.com) began. I continue to follow them closely as I am friends with one of the founders. But this group is a place you can ask questions, post your works and your works in progress (WIPS).  Also post all info about and related to Zbrush! So if you make and give away alphas, sub-tools, zbrush plugins, textures, reference images, materials, insert mesh brushes, backgrounds, lighting set ups and lights, matcaps, even if you make zbrush video tutorials then this is a great place to share and collaborate.


I will continue to add Groups and Communities that I run and that are run by other friends here and that are related to Photoshop, Art, Graphic Designers, 3d, Game development and design, Film, Media,  and anything else that is Digital and Graphic Art in nature.