Robin Williams (Same name, different person than the comedian) makes s set of books targeted at the non-designer. Amazon has lots of them. Non-aff link http://

Robin Williams (Same name, different person than the comedian) makes s set of books targeted at the non-designer. Amazon has lots of them. Non-aff link http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=robin+williams+design&x=0&y=0 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap... To learn to draw, Mark Kistler's Draw squad isn't a horrible thing to get you going and to start to look at shadows, etc (however is aimed at children). As far as tools, trying out the following are good: http://www.pixelmator.com/learn/ http://www.pixelmator.com/learn/ (Scroll to bottom of the page) http://qrayg.com/learn/fireworks/ http://qrayg.com/learn/fireworks/ visual photoshop: http://www.noupe.com/tutorial/30-useful-abstract-photoshop-design-tutorials.html http://www.noupe.com/tutorial/30-useful-abstract-photoshop-d... And while I think the actual lessons are sorta ugly they're not bad on tool usage fundamentals: http://www.pvmgarage.com/2010/11/top-ten-photoshop-website-design-tutorials/ http://www.pvmgarage.com/2010/11/top-ten-photoshop-website-d...