Learn After Effects and Photoshop for FCP7

I would like to learn After Effects and Photoshop without attending an expensive Film course. By learning online for instance. I work on FCP 7 and have a documentary project which will involve lots of old stills. Can anybody recommend a website? It looks like everybody is requiring those skills nowadays.
Thank you very much for any tip.

Ruth
I am going to leap to the conclusion that you already own these outstanding products. Adobe helped build Apple in the early days.
In ANY Adobe product, look in the [MENU] > [Help] pulldown menu.
You will see many "How Tos" as well as [Photoshope help...]
All of these lead to Browser-based Help files (located on your computer by the install(s) so you need not be on-line)
Adobe's help system is the best I have ever seen for any software product.
It seems that you could familiarize yourself with each product (let's use PShop as an example) by choosing [Photoshop help...] and then choose Learning Photoshop link in the TOC on the left. It's as easy as clicking next and back to navigate and you can follow the illustrated lessons by switching to PShop then back again.
After getting to know the GUI, all you need do is say to yourself "I wanna do this to that" and translate that to PSHop terms (that may be the most daunting part). People who use PShop all-day every-day don't know everything that it will do until they ask themselves the right question.
Years ago, as a new computer user (as we all were back then), I taught myself every piece of Pro Software I needed just in this fashion - some VERY much more complicated than PShop, etc.
You CAN DO IT ! Be sure to give us a link to your finished project.
CCC

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