"Steven" wrote in message
On 18/09/11 18:44, Carrie wrote:
"Steven" wrote in message
Hi, is there one book anyone could recommend that covers Photoshop CS3+, the target audience are beginners?
They know how to take photos and get them onto a computer but don’t know anything about imaging with Photoshop.
Look forward to any responses,
Steve
There’s Photoshop CS3 for Dummies, and CIB (Classroom in a Book) I have them, but they are kind of boring (LOL) I mean they just go one thing to another. What I feel I learned a lot from, I got the beginners (basic) and then a 2nd one, from Lynda.com. They are Quicktime Videos where
someone actually shows you step by step (and they don’t miss any little thing) you can see it and do it along. With practice files. I don’t know if
that would work with what you are doing. And I have a 2nd monitor on my PC
so I can play the video on one and open/do the program on another. There are
a lot of video tutorials (free) on YouTube, too. You would probably have to
go over them and see which are good ones, and for beginneers, etc. I spend a
lot of time looking for tutorials, before I even attempt them.
Thank you very much Carrie, a genuinely helpful response.
I remember being a beginner, and still feel like it in a lot of ways, so I know what you mean. What I find about the books, though (and maybe just me) I get bored with the start at the beginning and go through the tools… go through whatever… and finally at some point get to the fun parts. I know, the basics are important, and it really helps to know what to do, when you want to do something (specific) but maybe even with a book, and doing it that way, you could also look online like "free tutorials beginner PS CS3" and see what you get. Screen them first and see what seems good. The video ones are good, but sometimes they talk very fast (and assume you know more, like where something they are doing IS) and sometimes they don’t have sound with them, just show it- or with subtitles, and I’m trying to DO whatever it is and read that at the same time.
But there are tutorials that are fun to do, like several different ways of turning fat text into a picture ( one is clipping mask) you write on the picture and then lift the text off, copy/paste onto plain or black background. I’d tell you how to do it, but there are several ways, and I’ve tried a few, but found them in google.
Just saying the basics are good, but learning by doing is good, too. Just things I did fooling around after doing tutoirals for this.
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