Creating Projects in Photoshop 9.0

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J._Sanford
Jun 7, 2005
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I have imported a photo onto the screen within Photoshop, but can’t figure out how to do anything else with it! I’m using Windows XP. How do you put graphics on it, or put the picture into another picture, card, calendar, etc.? Is there a menu for doing projects? I’m ready to throw my computer out the window.
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Bob Levine
Jun 7, 2005
Photoshop is not the program for this. You’d be far better off with Illustrator and/or InDesign.

Bob
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Curvemeister
Jun 7, 2005
You can do any number of interesting things in Photoshop. Try looking at some of the online tutorials. Google for myjanee and you’ll find a treasure trove of interesting artistic projects.

Mike Russell
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Tina_Hayes
Jun 8, 2005
• Read the Manual
• Use the help file
• Search for tutorials
• Touch every menu and tool and play with it to learn
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Christine_Krof_Shock
Jun 8, 2005
Also use the right tool for the job. Photoshop only lets you work with "one page" documents unless you understand how to tile. For some of these jobs, Illustrator or InDesign may be a better choice and if your job is going to commercial press your printer will thank you for putting it the proper program.

Nothing worse for a printer than attempting to paginate a tiled file or to paginate separate files for long document printing. Don’t do 64 page catalogs in Photoshop and expect your printer to love you for it.
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Bob Levine
Jun 8, 2005
You could save as PDF and then assemble the PDFs into one file. But I’m sticking with original assessment. This is the wrong tool for this job.

Bob
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Tippy
Jun 8, 2005
You sound just like me a year ago. My husband bought the CS program fo me – after I read many reviews and stated my desire to have it – an there it was….on my computer….and I didn’t have the foggiest.

I purchased CS for Dummies and other Photoshop books. If there is outlet bookstore you can find some good bargains. I visited onlin tutorials and printed out the instructions. I spent an hour every da learning. Now I love it – but learning it was hard work.

By now you know it is a high learning curve program – and you know yo can’t return opened software.

Don’t fret. Here is a FREE online course that starts at the ver begining. I took it. It will cover all the tool bars, the functions etc.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps5out.htm

And if you are looking for specific effects try this one. It ha numerous easy-to-understand tutorials from various artists.

http://www.photofoolery.com/tutorials_all.php

Good luck. Hang in there – it will be worth it

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Christine_Krof_Shock
Jun 8, 2005
Bob

I am assuming that user has come over from "Picture It" or other consumer program….I didn’t even figure Acrobat into the problem…

J.Sanford

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