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09/23/2008 04:12:58 PM · #51 |
Originally posted by pamelasue:
Originally posted by dd1989:
Being young (19) I have a slight advantage of being able to pick stuff up very fast.
Just keep backup of your image, and play away. |
what makes you think that your age gives you an advantage? I'm no spring chicken, but catch onto new things very easily too ;) |
Every one knows old people are slow :D lol. |
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09/23/2008 04:17:24 PM · #52 |
Originally posted by dd1989:
Originally posted by pamelasue:
Originally posted by dd1989:
Being young (19) I have a slight advantage of being able to pick stuff up very fast.
Just keep backup of your image, and play away. |
what makes you think that your age gives you an advantage? I'm no spring chicken, but catch onto new things very easily too ;) |
Every one knows old people are slow :D lol. |
experience counts for a lot more than youth ;) |
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09/28/2008 02:06:11 PM · #53 |
| I can't get my cursor to stay set on the "full size brush tip" display. I use, edit-preferences-display- display & cursors; then select "full size brush tip". Usually it wil accept this, but randomly it will not accept this setting & displays the precise cross hair setting. This may happen at the beginning of a session or during a session. Nothing I do will set it to the full size brush tip. Any suggestions? |
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09/29/2008 12:27:09 PM · #54 |
Originally posted by pamelasue:
Originally posted by dd1989:
Originally posted by pamelasue:
Originally posted by dd1989:
Being young (19) I have a slight advantage of being able to pick stuff up very fast.
Just keep backup of your image, and play away. |
what makes you think that your age gives you an advantage? I'm no spring chicken, but catch onto new things very easily too ;) |
Every one knows old people are slow :D lol. |
experience counts for a lot more than youth ;) |
But in the technological age everyone has the same experience at the same time - we are all learning. I like to think that the old dont learn as fast due to time constraints of proper life commitments (you know, that thing called a job and maybe children ;)) and the young do learn fast because we all sit around doing nothing all day and pass the time "playing" with computers and things.*nods* ;)
 jjsmom CAPS lock on? :)
Message edited by author 2008-09-29 12:27:37. |
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09/29/2008 12:36:24 PM · #55 |
I agree that you just have to jump in and try it. Poke around at it, play with every option to see what it does and eventually you catch on.
I've never taken a class. When I first got CS2 I could barely figure out how to open up a photo, lol. But you just can't be afraid of it. I jumped in and forced myself to try everything. Probably the biggest helps for me have been tutorials. I sometimes give myself assignments. For instance, I decided that I wanted to learn to do grunge textures. So I found a tutorial and just followed each step. After enough practice I not only learned how to do grunge textures but I learned how to do a few photoshop tricks that I never knew what to do with before. If you know how to do grunge textures then you know how to use layers, which is important to know. Assign yourself a project, Google how to do it and don't give up until you've mastered that project. Do that enough times and you'll be pretty good at Photoshop. |
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09/29/2008 12:38:37 PM · #56 |
Originally posted by jjsmom:
I can't get my cursor to stay set on the "full size brush tip" display. I use, edit-preferences-display- display & cursors; then select "full size brush tip". Usually it wil accept this, but randomly it will not accept this setting & displays the precise cross hair setting. This may happen at the beginning of a session or during a session. Nothing I do will set it to the full size brush tip. Any suggestions? |
Hit the CAPS LOCK key. It took me forever to figure out that when caps lock is on my Photoshop pointer looks weird. I'm still not sure why, but it solved the problem. |
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09/29/2008 01:47:30 PM · #57 |
Does a person ever really learn Photoshop? Seems like just when you catch on to something, it gets upgraded or modified and you start to learn again.
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09/30/2008 05:58:09 PM · #58 |
I remember firsting using it about 10 years ago, when I was in the 6th grade. My dad bought one of the first Sony VAIO computers to come on the market, upgrading from our HP with a wicked 133mhz processor. It came with Photoshop, and something called 'Kai's Power Goo.'
I used it and the 1 MP Sony camera to put my face on a dollar bill that I had scanned. I was hooked after that.
I didn't seriously get back into it until about 4 years ago when I bought the EOS 300d. I also took some film classes at school.
Really learning photoshop went in tandem with taking classes, I tried applying what I was learning about printing a B&W image to processing one in photoshop. That, combinged with lurking on this website, perusing tutorials online, along with experimentation made up my photoshop education. I also have been shooting for my school (I did the pictures for the new Brochure, and the proofs came back this week. It was REALLY cool seeing them!) and doing layout/design work for a literary magazine that I'm on the staff of.
Right now I'm really trying to improve my ability to shoot and edit a picture without using filters or any other 'special' stuff in PS. I want to be able to take an image from RAW and simply use color sliders, levels, contrast, saturation, curves, etc to get a really good image without relying on abundant and time-consuming post-processing. I'd really like to buckle down and find a good DVD or comprehensive guide on managing color in digital photographs one of these days. |
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09/30/2008 06:10:26 PM · #59 |
| My Photoshop skills came when I signed up as a member here and got access to Advanced Editing challenges. It basically motivated me to get better at Photoshop and I was able to pick up the techniques that would be allowed in Advanced. |
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10/01/2008 06:45:27 PM · #60 |
For "200-level" stuff (i.e. beyond the basics) I'd recommend John Reuter's video podcasts (available for free through iTunes, or at his website, www.johnreuter.com). He hasn't been doing them for about a year now, but the ones that are still online provide some very powerful and non-intuitive uses of Photoshop. He covers a range of useful methods, such as: multiple ways to desaturate an image, layer blend modes, image compositing, etc. The podcasts are videos of Photoshop itself, so you see exactly what he's doing, which is so much better than reading long complex diatribes (for me, at least). Some of it is out of scope for the standard editing rules in DPC, but it's useful nonetheless.
HTH
Buzzy
Message edited by author 2008-10-01 18:46:11. |
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10/01/2008 07:32:30 PM · #61 |
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10/01/2008 07:52:37 PM · #62 |
| I went to college and thought it sounded fun. I've been obsessed with it since. However any book by Scott Kelby is the best!!! He's humorous and very informational. I rely on his books constantly. |
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10/01/2008 09:24:25 PM · #63 |
| I still know very little about photoshop. I know like 3 things, and I just do those to death. |
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10/01/2008 09:51:08 PM · #64 |
I got CS2 from a friend of mine, and just enough info from him to get thoroughly tangled up and frustrated with the d@mn thing, and just about the time I get completely disgusted, I accidently process something so freakin' amazing I'm hooked for another few months. I hate the d@mn thing 'cause it's WAY smarter than me!!!
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10/01/2008 10:01:20 PM · #65 |
Originally posted by bergiekat:
I haven't yet..... |
Same here. A never-ending work in progress. |
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10/01/2008 10:19:42 PM · #66 |
Originally posted by angelfire:
I went to college and thought it sounded fun. I've been obsessed with it since. However any book by Scott Kelby is the best!!! He's humorous and very informational. I rely on his books constantly. |
I couldn't agree more. I wasted money on a bunch of other books that didn't really seem to get me anywhere, and then stumbled upon the Photoshop Elements 5 book for digital photographers. It was like a whole new world opened up. I recently upgraded to CS3 and the first thing I did was to go and buy his book for that program. You absolutely can not go wrong with Scott Kelby. |
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10/01/2008 10:27:31 PM · #67 |
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10/01/2008 10:29:51 PM · #68 |
| [thumb]727462[/thumb] I tried to give myself hair, but... |
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10/02/2008 06:52:58 AM · #69 |
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10/02/2008 07:52:50 AM · #70 |
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10/02/2008 10:29:52 AM · #71 |
Originally posted by Wenders11:
Originally posted by jjsmom:
I can't get my cursor to stay set on the "full size brush tip" display. I use, edit-preferences-display- display & cursors; then select "full size brush tip". Usually it wil accept this, but randomly it will not accept this setting & displays the precise cross hair setting. This may happen at the beginning of a session or during a session. Nothing I do will set it to the full size brush tip. Any suggestions? |
Hit the CAPS LOCK key. It took me forever to figure out that when caps lock is on my Photoshop pointer looks weird. I'm still not sure why, but it solved the problem. |
Thank you!!! It worked; I was going blind! |
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11/11/2008 10:33:42 AM · #72 |
I learned strictly from tutorial style books and various websites. Do random tutorials even if the outcome isn't something that special. I find text tutorials especially enlightening--they have lots of random steps and tools that you would never learn otherwise. The result may not work great for much, but the techniques learned prove invaluable.
PSDTuts is great for graphic design style tutorials. Some of their stuff is pretty advanced though, so scroll back to the older posts.
Take a look through my portfolio, or my Flickr account. I wasn't able to do any of those things two years ago.
Lastly, be patient, learn a couple things at a time... Different skills after repetition begin to click. |
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11/11/2008 10:34:49 AM · #73 |
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11/11/2008 10:48:26 AM · #74 |
| I taught myself for the most part by reading tutorials online. |
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11/11/2008 11:11:05 AM · #75 |
| As a follow up, I've found that if I had a specific question (like the crosshairs question earlier in this post) I post it here, and I'll get an answer within an hour or two (if even that long). |
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