Photoshop

[aclays]

Trying to get into it, anybody know where a beginner should start?

[kckyle]

adding celebrities' head into a bikini body?

[Budders]

adding celebrities' head into a bikini body?

Bikini? you can find those photos anywhere, gotta go further than that


On that note, try download a PDF file of "Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book". I have my own copy, and it's great for learning the basics and some useful stuff.

[aclays]

I'm running CS3, think it'll be too different to be worthwhile?

[Animegears]

CS3 to 4 had a few jumps but I think overall you will be ok. Probably still a worthwhile effort and there may be a CS3 version.

Find things like watermarked photos. (your snowboarding ones come to mind) and try to manipulate them to a specific cause.

[Sk33ps]

I would first get familiarized with all the tools and the built-in filters. Once you've got the hang of those, you can get a bit more creative.

I'd recommend just messing around with basic photo effects and using multiple layers as that was a concept that took me a bit to grasp.

[adinathauti]

I learnt it thanks to this great site(im no master tho)
http://photoshoptutorials.ws/

[The Duke]

There's heaps of tutorials around the net. As you go through some of them you'll start to understand the tools and workflow in PS.

On that note, try download a PDF file of "Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book". I have my own copy, and it's great for learning the basics and some useful stuff.

I'll have to look this up. Thanks for the tip.

[aclays]

Yeah I've watched a lot of video tutorials, and read lots of other guides too. Some of them are difficult to follow, because they assume you already have a certain level of knowledge about the way photoshop works, but others give good enough step by step instructions that I am able to figure out what said tool does as we go.

[The Duke]

Is there anything specific you wanted to concentrate on in PhotoShop? (eg. Graphic Designs, Logos, Photo-editing)

[aclays]

I am interested in making forum signatures and touching up photos, but really I'm pretty impressed with photoshop's capabilities, and I'd love to learn a broad base of skills with it. If I can get the time, I'll probably try and take a class on it here at the university. I'm not sure if I'll have time for that though, so I'm left with whatever free time for dabbling I have on the weekends.