Photoshop????

[dan.flack]

I'm fairly new to photography and even newer to photoshop. I have got to grips with the basics and used the adobe website for assistance but all their tutorials seem fairly basic. Does anyone know of any good sites for tutorials or tips???

thanks. dan.

 

[Stryker]

There are hundreds of tutorials in you tube.

 

[KenC]

Adobe actually has a lot of good stuff, and searching on particular topics will find you lots of others.

 

[dan.flack]

Thanks, I keep getting lost with tutorials repeating themselves, just have to look harder! Thank you.

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[gina_d]

I would recommend checking into a video tutorial site. They have some well-presented and thorough photoshop courses. A month's subscription (you can pay month to month or annually) is the same cost as what you might pay for one book and you'd have access to all the courses you wanted to for that thirty days. The two I'm familiar with are lynda.com and vtc.com.

 

[DVC Mike]

I'd recommend Adobe's Lightroom 3 over Photoshop CS5, as I find CS5 to be overkill for what most photographers really need.

 

[KmH]

It can take finding, and viewing, A LOT of video tutorials to learn how to use Photoshop. Books are so much more efficient.

Lightroom cannot do all of the editing photographers need to do. Which is why working photographers have both Lightroom and Photoshop CS(X).

In fact, Adobe designed Lightroom as a suppliment, not a replacement, to Photoshop. Lightroom does have some workflow advantages Photoshop doesn't have, mainly DAM (digital asset management).

 

[FavillePhoto]

I would actually pick up a Photoshop book. I would recommend one from the Classroom in a Book series. You might even want to go to the bookstore in your local college and pick up the textbook that they are using to teach Photoshop. Most likely the college textbooks will come with a CD of pictures that go with the tutorials inside the book as well.

 

[KmH]

I have been though the Classroom in a Book for Photoshop CS4 and was less than impressed, because it is mainly intended for graphic artists rather than photographers.

Scott Kelby's photoshop books are essentially collections of tutorials. The tutorials are presented in an orderly fashion.

Note that Photoshop includes a browser and Raw converter too. If you have Elements the browser ad converter that are included are de-featured.

If you a version of Photoshop CS you would want to also learn how to use Bridge (a browser) and Camera Raw (a Raw converter, the same Raw converter Adobe put in Lightroom.)

 

[KmH]

There are hundreds of tutorials in you tube.

Some of them are even useful. :lmao:

For example, a tutorial for CS3, or CS4 won't tell you about, or how to use, features only CS5 has.

 

[sbakewell0508]

tutvid.com has some great tutuorials on youtube also gavin hoey he is a "evangelist" he is great to.

 

[molested_cow]

I started using editing software since I was 14. It was Corel Photopaint and back then, the software wasn't nearly as complicated. It was trial and error, self-learning. Then I switched to Photoshop because it was what everyone else used. Now it's only of the essential tools for work. I cannot imagine trying to learn it now from scratch without being forced to rely on it.

The best way to learn it is to have a specific need. Say you want to adjust the contrast of a specific spot on your photo. Then go online to search for specific tools to do what you want. That way you will remember the tool better especially the next time you need it again.
If you just watch videos without understanding the need, you will forget it quickly.

I'd also suggest you to, perhaps start a thread on a photoshop project. Say you took a photo that you want to edit. Post it on the thread and ask specific questions on what you want to achieve. You will get specific responds, you apply it, and then move on to the next thing that you want to do with the photo, until it is finished. I don't know if other members will find it annoying, well, they can choose to ignore the thread then, but I will be glad to help.

 

[Vinny]

I am starting to read the Scott Kelby CS5 book and it seems to be easily understood. My son has a different book in college and he will be donating it to me after this semester. Here is a link for Adobe TV as well: AdobeTV | Channels I started watching there and I assumed that since it's from Adobe it'll be pretty accurate. I think basics is where you need to start and go from there. I haven't fully played around with CS5 but I think the Adobe channels give a lot of info.