Looking for noob tutorials

[cg219]

Google Photoshop tutorials, and pick one, there all fairly simple

[stoffe]

you can go to www.pixel2life.com hope it helps.

[Sargsaft]

go: tutorialman.com and/or goodtutorials.com

[BlueFlare]

It's much better for the long run to start with a book, video or course.

[trancor]

It's much better for the long run if you just go through every tool in the tool pallet, and every pull down on the top bar. To learn what the program has to offer will end up being better than any tutorial or any course. Trust me, I knew stuff my photoshop teacher my freshman year of college didn't even know and I was placed out of the base level course. Just go through the program, best way to learn it.

To learn the directions of someone else is futile in some cases for they might not know the quickest way to do what they are trying to teach you. Sure you learn, but the program is vast and many combinations of blending modes, brush tool, dodge and burn tools, will produce a look so much nicer then half of the filters out there and half of the quick curves and quick levels techniques people will teach.

Just learn how to make brushes with the brush window (upper right on the top bar "Brushes"), learn how to channel chop (ctrl click on a channel in the channel tab on your layer window to select the gray scale), learn to use quick mask because you can apply filters to quick masks to alter the edges of your selection (the box with the circle in it near the bottom of your tool pallet, first one turns your selection red, second button turns the red back to your selection)

[BlueFlare]

It's much better for the long run if you just go through every tool in the tool pallet, and every pull down on the top bar. To learn what the program has to offer will end up being better than any tutorial or any course.

An assignment; two beginners who know how to use Photoshop for some basic things have to learn as much as possible about masks and channels in only two weeks, with a minimum total study time of 60 hours. Both beginners have never used channels and masks before.

One beginner will only have Photoshop to work with, the other beginner has to read the book “Photoshop CS3 Channels and Masks Bible “ and experiment with what he's learning by reading the book.

Who is probably going to have the most knowledge about channels and masks after two weeks?

[trancor]

well, the man with the bible will have nifty examples which the book told them to do, where as the man without the bible will have techniques unique to himself/herself, and say "hurray for photoshop help when I was stuck"

[BlueFlare]

well, the man with the bible will have nifty examples which the book told them to do, where as the man without the bible will have techniques unique to himself/herself, and say "hurray for photoshop help when I was stuck"
It’s false to make the assumption that the man with the book is not going to experiment. It only takes him a few days to finish the book, while the other guy is still struggling with the basics. He (with the book) then continues to take the knowledge of he book to a higher level and learns new techniques in a shorter time than it would have taken the other guy. Btw, both can use the help key, but let's be honest... it doesn't cover any advanced techniques.

The fact that you learn by reading a book or following a course doesn't mean you develop the same techniques as everybody else. On the contrary... by having a very broad understanding of Photoshop you actually create the foundation to discover many new techniques yourself, much more than those who do nothing but experimenting and totally ignore discoveries of others. You see the same in medicine, physics, math, biology, etc.

Anyway, feel free to differ Trancor, I’m just sharing my opinion. :)

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