Photoshop: Which Tutorial ??

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Oct 5, 2004
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I have just purchased Photoshop CS.
I have barely scraped the surface of what this program can do, soooooo………

I want to obtain a good tutorial or manual!
What do you people recommend?
An e-book would be cool, but I’m open to any format.

Many thanks

Andy Mc
-=Plane Mad=-
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Mikey
Oct 5, 2004
On 2004-10-05 13:53:45 -0400, "-=Plane Mad=-" said:

I have just purchased Photoshop CS.
I have barely scraped the surface of what this program can do, soooooo………

I want to obtain a good tutorial or manual!
What do you people recommend?
An e-book would be cool, but I’m open to any format.

I’d start with the official (Adobe Press) books. These are the best for the fundamentals. Not the most exciting – the others have the "fun" stuff – but the most useful in the long run. They used to have these large format "Classroom in a Book" series, but not any more :-(.

After that, a Bruce Fraser book on color management. Again, boring but critical.

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noone
Oct 5, 2004
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I have just purchased Photoshop CS.
I have barely scraped the surface of what this program can do, soooooo………

I want to obtain a good tutorial or manual!
What do you people recommend?
An e-book would be cool, but I’m open to any format.

Many thanks

Andy Mc
-=Plane Mad=-

My first step would be to get the PS CS manual, if it did not come with your upgrade. Next, Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book. After doing those tutorials, you should have a handle on the power of the program and a starting base. Google has thousands (maybe millions) of great tutorials, but most are specific to a task. I don’t have any recs of e-books, but bet there are many. The Lynda.com training books with CD/DVD seem very good, but I’ve never used her material on PS, only Painter, Flash, Dreamweaver. They are well done for those programs.

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bhilton665
Oct 5, 2004
I want to obtain a good tutorial or manual!
What do you people recommend?

"Classroom in a Book" by Adobe Press is a good book for people with no experience with Photoshop. Work through all the examples and you’ll have the basics.
Oct 6, 2004
I’m kind of a newbie too, but I just found this site:

http://www.adobeforums.com

Check it out. It will have a lot more information than this group I think.

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 17:53:45 +0000 (UTC), "-=Plane Mad=-" wrote:

I have just purchased Photoshop CS.
I have barely scraped the surface of what this program can do, soooooo………

I want to obtain a good tutorial or manual!
What do you people recommend?
An e-book would be cool, but I’m open to any format.

Many thanks

Andy Mc
-=Plane Mad=-

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Mikey
Oct 6, 2004
On 2004-10-05 16:27:30 -0400, (Bill Hilton) said:

I want to obtain a good tutorial or manual!
What do you people recommend?

"Classroom in a Book" by Adobe Press is a good book for people with no experience with Photoshop. Work through all the examples and you’ll have the basics.

Are they still called that? I associate that title with the old giant-sized books with the glossy paper. I’ve only seen the regular-computer-book format…

Ah, who cares. Whatever they call it, it’s good.
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No sig, no neuroses
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noone
Oct 6, 2004
In article <2004100601345916807%>,
says…
On 2004-10-05 16:27:30 -0400, (Bill Hilton) said:

I want to obtain a good tutorial or manual!
What do you people recommend?

"Classroom in a Book" by Adobe Press is a good book for people with no experience with Photoshop. Work through all the examples and you’ll have
the
basics.

Are they still called that? I associate that title with the old giant-sized books with the glossy paper. I’ve only seen the regular-computer-book format…

Ah, who cares. Whatever they call it, it’s good.
—
No sig, no neuroses

As of the CS series, yes – still Classroom in a Book.

Hunt

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