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Yay! Just got Photoshop and am all excitamatated!! Anyone got any tips to get me started making cool images that will make me look like a clever clogs?!?
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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yes press F1 for help!
go to adobes site, see if you can get hold of some tuition files, or see if you can get some from online, to teach you how to do little tricks
its difficult to give you tips, as most of mine are sleft tought, so i knwo only what i knwo!
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What do yo want to do with it? It's best to think of something to do and google for tutorials on how to do it
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Location: Plymouth, UK
Okily doke, just wanted to do something impressive but guess that requires effort...bugga!!! Ta anyhoo!
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Bristol, UK
Top image editing hint: don't do too much. OTT looks awful, just enough looks perfect.
Having said that, try playing around with the filters for some interesting, boring and ghastly effects.
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Location: Van Diemans Land, Australia
Written by: gemit
Yay! Just got Photoshop and am all excitamatated!! Anyone got any tips to get me started making cool images that will make me look like a clever clogs?!?
How much time have you got? cause photoshop is an immensely complex program that takes years to master.
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Location: Adelaide
What sort of stuff are you wanting to do?
If it is photo manipulation then go for some tutorials.
If it's random strange pics of whatever try just messing about with the filters and effects. I have a couple of pics in my gallery of the things I have been doing with just colours and filters.
PM me if your interested in the sort of stuff I am doing.
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Ive got PS7 - and a mate thats genius at using it (www.joesmalley.com) i also managed to get holds on a utorial book with a disk from WH Smiths. xxx
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Location: Plymouth, UK
Ta muchley for all the info guys, your piccies look cool Flame Swirl. Really like the blue one coz I luuurve bright colours. Been hitting the tutorials but am getting square eyes so guess a bit more perseverance is needed! Cheers dudes!!
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Pooh-Bah
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Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
I'm only a bit of a photoshop idiot (I just make it up as I go along) but check my gallery to see what you can do with basic filters and stuff
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Location: Plymouth, UK
Wow! I really love this one nearly_all_gone. Looks faaab and is now my wallpaper!! PS. My Aunty has a pottery shop in Dunstable so helloooo!!
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Ted, Ted, I forgaat to have me breakfast, d' ya tink I moight doie?!!
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Pooh-Bah
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Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Hi! That's a coincidence! And glad you like the pic - but I know nothing about Photoshop. It's really that easy - just muck around until you get something that looks cool What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
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Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
well today i learnt, how to make everything in the pic, b&w, and then slectivly hake section of that pic, colour again!
Step (el-nombrie)
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Location: Staines, United Kingdom
how did you do that mech?
i got photoshop CS, which is basically version 8, i also got 7 but im really crap at using them, got the photoshop for dummies book which is kidna helpful but not really, any recommendations? the best way i know is to jut play around but i soemtimes lack the enthusiasm to do that
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i found that i can either selectivly desaturat, an area of the ime, thus maiing it bclak and white, or i can desauturate the whole image and then use the revarse brush,to colour back in areas i want.
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i'll have to look, now idea how to do this reverse brush thing
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Location: Diss, Norfolk, United Kingdom
It's called the History brush I think.
I picked up loads of info from photoshop mags with 'free' CDs. They have good tutorials and the image you need are on the CD. They always help you though new tools etc etc. Also reading the help section will teach you loads. They cost about £6 each but I think it's worth it if you lke the look of it beforehand.
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Location: Online!, USA
filters and effects and layers and layer modes!!!! clouds with blurs, lens flares and selective inverses are fun too. check my gallery for two of my more recent photoshop only pics.
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Mission: Ignition
534 posts
Location: Central New Jersey, USA
Inverses. Like negatives? Putting a picture in negative is a nice effect. And if I'm thinking the same thing as fathom, then doing it to only some colors is a really good thing too. No clue whats going on with photoshop, i have my microsoft photo thingy.
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i played around a little with separating into either rgb or cmyk, and negative-ing one or more of the plates, then recombining them. some worked, some didnt.
food for thought
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i like to give pet photos that photoshopped bikini effects
https://www.worth1000.com/
and https://www.deviantart.com
are a great way to see what a community can to to/with photos and a unhealthy touch-up habit...
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Wow, great links! particulary the first one-might get round to entering that one day! I've been using photoshop for about 6-7 years and I don't know half the stuff it can do! The best way is to read the tutorials-photo tips from the experts if your lucky enough to have photoshop CS 8. For a beginner it really is a case of playing around and trying everything, including all the filters which I find I don't ever use now! don't worry about going ott at the moment, worry about that when you have to do something serious! The most usefull tools I find- the ones I personally use the most are magnetic lasso, dodge and burn tools, the clone stamp(very usefull tool indeed but can take a bit to get the hang of) and also getting to grips with the brightness/contrast and colour balance for starters is important.
Be careful with te RGB or CMYK thing it can cause problems when moving between PC and Mac and trying to print things out. I always use RGB.
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the good thing with photoshop is the layers:)
What photoshop u got?
cs has a good healing brush and some good filters that you can find more of them from internet.
You can do anything you want with photoshop.Adobe is a greeeaaaat company..
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Adobe is a greeeaaaat company..
If there that great, wheres my linux photoshop?
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Location: Staines, United Kingdom
yup they are a great company, I got the whole adobe range, encore,premiere,after effects, acrobat,photoshop, they all great!
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife
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old hand
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Location: Oregon, USA
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Adobe is a greeeaaaat company..
If there that great, wheres my linux photoshop?
Your Linux photoshop is called Gimp
Actually Gimp is great for anyone, freeware and just about as good as PS, better in some ways.When you're learning PS you'll go through a couple stages. Playing with filters is going to be one of them but you need to start branching beyond being relient on them. For anyone who's worked with photoshop for very long the people who use mainly filters on their work is plainfully obvious. There is a reason the term 'filter whore' is out there afterall
Not to worry though, everyone goes through it. The trick is using them for effects, and not making it too obvious.
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hehe, I knew someone would say that! Yes, Gimp is very good, but that makes my question even more relevant! (oh, and it's not "freeware"
)I'm starting to like Adobe less and less since they got Macromedia - now there isn't much choice, and thats always a bad thing.
gemit, your question is a bit like asking where you can go in a car or what you can do with a paintbrush! Have you got any idea of what you want to do? Are you interested in retouching photos or making textures for a 3D animation?
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3,136 posts
Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
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If there that great, wheres my linux photoshop?
[image]https://chris.erway.org/vmware/photoshop.jpeg[/image]
Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
ok, ubb officially sucks, and I officially can't be arsed to setup a redirect for it cause its 5.33pm and i'm off home!
old hand
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Location: Oregon, USA
Ok maybe not quite freeware but freely distributed :P
You're right about Photoshop dominating the graphics world, Photoshop CS2 is out not, and although I haven't played with it it sounds like there are a few very nice interesting features on it. There isn't a whole lot you *can't* do in Photoshop or its surrounding programs, although it is lacking in some tablet use where Corel's Painter wins out I think
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old hand
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Location: Oregon, USA
Thats one old PS port to linux flid.
I am curious whether it would be worth it, or if people wanted me to write a few uber simple PS tutorials as they relate to fire.. Anything from as simple as resizing and saving for web or up to some nice and easy manipulations.
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