Tutorial recommendations?

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Ole Kvaal
Apr 11, 2008
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Hi.
I just found myself pursuing a copy of CS3, without having much experience with digital darkrooms at all. I happened to have the money to buy a *rather* cheap copy (yes, it is fully legal and with its original wrapping intact), so I thought; why not buy it now and just take my time in learning it. So here I am (or I will be tomorrow) with something that I won’t quite know how to handle, and I need all the advise I can get rgd. tutorials. I’ve found quite a few by googling, but I still can’t figure out where to start. Remember that I’m totally new to this, so personal experiences from someone else who has started from scratch, would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
ole k,
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Apr 11, 2008
"ole kvaal" wrote in message
Hi.
I just found myself pursuing a copy of CS3, without having much experience with digital darkrooms at all. I happened to have the money to buy a *rather* cheap copy (yes, it is fully legal and with its original wrapping intact), so I thought; why not buy it now and just take my time in learning it. So here I am (or I will be tomorrow) with something that I won’t quite know how to handle, and I need all the advise I can get rgd. tutorials. I’ve found quite a few by googling, but I still can’t figure out where to start. Remember that I’m totally new to this, so personal experiences from someone else who has started from scratch, would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
ole k,
norway

Ole,

PS has a reasonable Help section with some basic tutorials to get you started.
It will be a little daunting at first, it is a steep learning curve, but the effort is well worth it.
Just fire up PS, open up an old picture and (slowly) try the different tools, especially the Clone tool (popular with beginners, S on the keyboard) Remember the KB shortcut, Ctrl+Z (undo) for when you do something you didn’t mean to. (Alt+Ctrl+Z gives multiple undoes)

The internet is useful for tutorials, but to begin with a book is better, any PS version of the Dummies range will get you started but you should soon grow out of it, therefore not worth buying, library maybe?

I would recommend looking for text tutorials to begin with, not too difficult but use techniques that will be useful in other projects. The main thing is to have fun with it and if or when you get stuck come back here.

TWK
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Charley
Apr 11, 2008
There are many tutorials on the internet. I like the ones that are on www.myjanee.com. She is very good. Retouchpro.com is another great place to go. Do a Google search and you will find many others.

Also, since there really are only a few significant improvements from version to version of Photoshop, you will find that books that were written for older versions that will contain information and tutorials that will apply and these older books are significantly discounted because everyone else is looking for the latest and greatest. Some computer shows have a booth that carries nothing but these older books at prices 60-80% off their original prices. Photoshop is really just a big toolbox full of tools for working on photographs. You can do the same work with brand new tools or older, but just as useable tools, but the ability of these tools to do the work is only as good as the artist or mechanic who knows how to use them. Proper training, followed by practice, practice, practice is the way to become good at using them. Keep challenging yourself to learn new techniques and tackle new more difficult problems as you go and you will become very good in a surprisingly short time, and ask questions here if you can’t figure it out by yourself. When I first started I used to try to duplicate, and then solve for myself, every problem that people wrote about on this, and the other Photoshop newsgroups. This made a big difference in my abilities very quickly and I learned some techniques and shortcuts that werent in the classes and textbooks. If you want a good textbook, see anything that was written by Katrin Eisman. She has several books on photo retouching available.

Charley

"ole kvaal" wrote in message
Hi.
I just found myself pursuing a copy of CS3, without having much experience with digital darkrooms at all. I happened to have the money to buy a *rather* cheap copy (yes, it is fully legal and with its original wrapping intact), so I thought; why not buy it now and just take my time in learning it. So here I am (or I will be tomorrow) with something that I won’t quite know how to handle, and I need all the advise I can get rgd. tutorials. I’ve found quite a few by googling, but I still can’t figure out where to start. Remember that I’m totally new to this, so personal experiences from someone else who has started from scratch, would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
ole k,
norway
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Ole Kvaal
Apr 12, 2008
granny wrote:

Thanks a lot, granny. This will keep me busy for a while. Also, knowing where you started out, may prove useful. Thanks a lot to Toobi-Won and Charley for being both helpful and encouraging.

I’ll be back!

Best of wishes,
Ole K

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