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Jan 21, 2010
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I just got a copy of CS2 (I could afford that). From experience with elements the manual shows you a lot and explains nothing. Does anyone have a recommendation on books or tutorials that will teach how to do the beginning and intermediate capabilities of CS.

I always find most books are good for total beginners or extremely advanced and nothing in between. So suggestions would be handy.

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gowanoh
Jan 21, 2010
There are countless video tutorials on the web and downloadable video podcasts that demonstrate the basic concepts of Photoshop. The interface has changed a bit from CS2 to CS3/4 but that should not be a big deal.
The greatest advantage of PS over Elements is the use of non-destructive layers for every operation and the ability to use masks to manipulate selected regions of an image more flexibly than Elements allows. Once you understand how to do things you may find that you can achieve better results than the automated processes in Elements in virtually the same amount of time.
If you look at a number of tutorials you will quickly find conflicting info about what PS controls actually do (too many do exactly the same mathematical operation but use a different graphical interface) and what is the best or correct way to do something: the only right way is what works for you.

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BetterNewsBaltimore
Jan 21, 2010
I’d LOVE to learn where you bought CS2.

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baj wrote:

I just got a copy of CS2 (I could afford that). From experience with elements the manual shows you a lot and explains nothing. Does anyone have a recommendation on books or tutorials that will teach how to do the beginning and intermediate capabilities of CS.

I always find most books are good for total beginners or extremely advanced and nothing in between. So suggestions would be handy.
Bruce
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john
Jan 21, 2010
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:08:21 -0600, baj wrote:

I just got a copy of CS2 (I could afford that). From experience with elements the manual shows you a lot and explains nothing. Does anyone have a recommendation on books or tutorials that will teach how to do the beginning and intermediate capabilities of CS.

I always find most books are good for total beginners or extremely advanced and nothing in between. So suggestions would be handy.
Bruce
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The web is loaded with tutorials. Putting "Photoshop CS2 tutorial" into Google gave over 5,000,000 hits

I would start there
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user
Jan 25, 2010
On 1/21/2010 5:43 PM, John wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:08:21 -0600, baj wrote:

I just got a copy of CS2 (I could afford that). From experience with elements the manual shows you a lot and explains nothing. Does anyone have a recommendation on books or tutorials that will teach how to do the beginning and intermediate capabilities of CS.

I always find most books are good for total beginners or extremely advanced and nothing in between. So suggestions would be handy.
Bruce
***

Remove the three asterisks from the beginning of the email address

The web is loaded with tutorials. Putting "Photoshop CS2 tutorial" into Google gave over 5,000,000 hits

I would start there

Yea me too and regardless of the title, I’m sure there is a Dummy book on CS2. I have the Dummy for PS CS4 (complete) and find it quite useful.

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