In article <du9n84$a0o$>,
"Tim" wrote:
I have looked at the help menus in photoshop and some online tutorials as I am a beginner when it comes to using photoshop.I am very much interested in finding out in laymens terms , i.e beginners terms in how to use photoshop as i didnt find the help menu and online tutorials i looked at online to be of much help.I would just like a very easy to understand guide to tell me how to use photoshop and show me how i can make my own posters , flyers and manipulate photos and colours in the easyiest of ways but with great results , any suggestions?
This is a bit like asking "I would like to know, in layman’s terms, how to do simple things, explained in an easy-to-understand way, like brain surgery and open-heart surgery."
Okay, so that’s an exaggeration, but you get what I mean. Doing color correction and getting "great results" involves a great deal of background understanding about how color works, how digital images work, what "color modelling" is, what different color models (such as RGB, CMYK, or Lab) mean, and so on.
Photoshop is not like a word-processing program. In a word-processing program, there is typically one way to make footnotes (step 1: choose thus-and-such a menu command, step 2: type the footnote, and so on); with Photoshop, it’s more akin to learning how to use a sophisticated tool, which has many different ways to achieve the same results.
Photoshop is one of the most powerful and incredible computer programs ever written, but the downside is that learning to master it takes years of work.
You will not find "How to make a great image: Step 1, choose this menu command, step 2: click this tool, step 3: choose this menu command." Every image is unique. Instead, you will find tutorials that say "Color correction: here is one technique (and here is why it works); here is another technique (and here is why it works)."
Now, if you have something specific in mind–"I would like to learn how to make this person’s red dress be blue instead," "I would like to learn how to make the sky in this picture more like the sky in that other picture"–we can help. But "I would like to get great results from Photoshop has only one answer, I’m afraid: "spend the time it takes to learn the tool."
As an aside, do not make flyers in Photoshop. If you do, you will find it to be frustrating, clumsy, and difficult. Photoshop is NOT the right tool for laying out pages like flyers and brochures; if you do this work in Photoshop, the work will always be more difficult than necessary, and the results will never be top-notch. Photoshop is an image editing tool; use it to edit images. If you want to lay out pages, use a page-layout program like InDesign or QuarkXPress.
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