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03/09/2012 10:06:37 AM · #1 |
| I am wondering if the PS experts attended courses when starting out in photography or taught themselves?Or both?Looking for advice from everyone not just experts!I'm trying to learn from trial and error and tutorials but getting nowhere fast. |
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03/09/2012 10:12:55 AM · #2 |
Not an expert but all self taught between books, online videos and help from other users. I know that  gyaban has said before (I think so at least) that he taught himself with the use of online tutorials. |
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03/09/2012 10:13:47 AM · #3 |
| I would bet that most learn on their own through trial and error and online tutorials. That's how I learned. |
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03/09/2012 10:14:45 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by MinsoPhoto:
Not an expert but all self taught between books, online videos and help from other users. I know that gyaban has said before (I think so at least) that he taught himself with the use of online tutorials. |
This is one of the tutorial websites he mentioned in an interview.
//www.photowalkthrough.com/tutorials/ |
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03/09/2012 10:14:46 AM · #5 |
Youtube has some excellent tutorials - along with some appalling ones - but with just a little care you can find out a lot.
Likewise Adobe has many on line.
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03/09/2012 10:14:50 AM · #6 |
Learning Photoshop has got to be one of the biggest application learning curves there is, and there is no substitute for spending time. I accumulated most of my early knowledge by doing, and some later by tutorial and books. Looking back, i would recommend that you pick up a good book or two. You will learn the "best practices" for doing the things you need to do. As a photographer, there are plenty of functions in Ps that you will never really touch, so you have little need to learn those. There are good books on Ps targeted toward photographers by Scott Kelby, Martin Evening and others.
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03/09/2012 10:25:28 AM · #7 |
Photoshop CS5 Essentials by Michael Ninness changed my understanding of the program.
It went from being a confusing mess to me having some understanding and power over what I wanted to do. I've done a lot more lynda.com tutorials and they have all been helpful. |
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03/09/2012 10:44:33 AM · #8 |
self taught here as well.
you need to have an idea what you want to do.
say you have a nice picture of a face and you want to make it shine. just google search for what what you want to do. for instance. "make eyes pop in photoshop" or "or how to photoshop skin" or "photoshop awesome people pictures".
i forget the steps in most of the tutorials i use, but the same basic concepts keep popping up. layers, masking, making use of blur or layer blending modes.
Photoshop is a very powerful program but its not hard to learn, its hard to master it, i never will and dont care to, i just want to make my pictures look better and that easy to do.
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03/09/2012 10:48:26 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Learning Photoshop has got to be one of the biggest application learning curves there is, and there is no substitute for spending time. I accumulated most of my early knowledge by doing, and some later by tutorial and books. Looking back, i would recommend that you pick up a good book or two. You will learn the "best practices" for doing the things you need to do. As a photographer, there are plenty of functions in Ps that you will never really touch, so you have little need to learn those. There are good books on Ps targeted toward photographers by Scott Kelby, Martin Evening and others. |
I watched (most of) an online course about using PS for creating black and whites from digital colour photos. I was expecting to learn some secret techniques, revealing the most esoteric knowledge imagineable. Well, the main thrust of it was to use levels correction layers with masking. Lots of them.
Ok, so I learned that technique with PS 7.0!!
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03/09/2012 10:52:22 AM · #10 |
| I just started learning the CS5 design suite (Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator) and Lightroom. I am finding that a combination of books, online videos (lynda.com in particular) and trial and error is working best for me. I consider myself a pretty quick study on most programs, but Photoshop is definitely quite tricky. |
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03/11/2012 08:59:53 AM · #11 |
Nothing beats experience when it comes to photoshop.
I have a lot of exp in it, but not been able to do anything for a while. When i moved, I left my tablet behind, and im pretty spoiled to it.. lol I will have the tablet here eventually, but its not a top priority.
Use those tutorials, vids, and play play play.. if you dont like to use a tool, then use it most till you master it, might find that will turn into one of your favorite tools after some exp.. (happened to me with pen tool) |
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03/11/2012 09:46:02 AM · #12 |
| Thanks a shit load everyone,so far I've only followed a link to the Lynda.com tutorials but I've learned 2 or 3 cool things just this arvo.Thanks again for the prompt responses to my question. |
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