It depends on what you want to create, I learned pretty much by just using and working it out. For things like sig making - which I will guess is most relevant - there are plenty of tutorial videos on YouTube that are worth watching.
Get photoshop. Then google tutorials. SamSmith1996
ive got photoshop and the tutorials didnt help much :(
It's not like after 10 tutorials you automatically are a lot better.. It takes a long time to get better and the best way to do it is keep making sigs, which is what most people start with especially on forums. Just keep following sig toturials and you will pick up some techniques and continue to get better and better.
download custom brushes, thats how i got arrows and stuff to mkae it look sexc =D! Google brushes deviant art, then download a few and put them in your BRUSHES folder.
Man i started about 3 years ago. I started just messing around editing photos. Then I became better with diferent tools filters. Figure out what you want to learn and google it for a tutorial. Once you learn the basics it becomes easy.
Just figure out what you want to doMake sigs, edit photos?
There were 5 Photoshop classes at my school, the only way to get real good with it is to practice. It'll take a long time but eventually you will understand it more and more and if you're creative enough you'll create some pretty good stuff.
Anyone who tells you otherwise isn't that good in the first place.
I was getting semi OK with photoshop then I reinstalled windows but can't find the Photoshop disk, so I got The Gimp. Now once agin I suck at photo editing
I can't teach you like thisdude like I said I went to school for 4 years and learned more and more advanced techniques in photoshop over that whole course of time that's all I can tell you is practice
[QUOTE="SamSmith1996"]the 1996 is just a random number.trust_nobody
Lol okay.
11 year olds might find photoshop rather complicated.
I learned when I was 11...
So at 11 years of age you knew what all the filters did, all the brushes, you knew what the swatches were and how to organize them, etc?Yeah, I wasn't a complete idiot at the age of 11. Photoshop isn't that hard to comprehend.
i think it's best if you find the basics tutorial first. don't just look for a certain tutorial yet. what you need to do is look for the tutorial that talks about the basic tools of photoshop. then and only then should you go for something intermediate, then after a while of getting used to the program, go for something advanced. good luck.
[QUOTE="SamSmith1996"]the 1996 is just a random number.Greatgone12
Lol okay.
11 year olds might find photoshop rather complicated.
I learned when I was 11...
So at 11 years of age you knew what all the filters did, all the brushes, you knew what the swatches were and how to organize them, etc?Yeah, I wasn't a complete idiot at the age of 11. Photoshop isn't that hard to comprehend.
Ok maybe that stuff's not hard to deal with, but to truly make something original that looks neat and flawless is not easy. That's what I think of when I hear someone say "I learned photoshop", because anybody can sit down and mess up a picture with it. Stuff that I've seen and done at the art institute people wouldn't believe was made in photoshop.
[QUOTE="SamSmith1996"]the 1996 is just a random number.trust_nobody
Lol okay.
11 year olds might find photoshop rather complicated.
I learned when I was 11...
So at 11 years of age you knew what all the filters did, all the brushes, you knew what the swatches were and how to organize them, etc?Yeah, I wasn't a complete idiot at the age of 11. Photoshop isn't that hard to comprehend.
Ok maybe that stuff's not hard to deal with, but to truly make something original that looks neat and flawless is not easy. That's what I think of when I hear someone say "I learned photoshop", because anybody can sit down and mess up a picture with it. Stuff that I've seen and done at the art institute people wouldn't believe was made in photoshop.Are you saying an eleven year old can't make a reasonably good looking piece of art with Photoshop?
If you don't know Photoshop, just learn the free software Gimp. It basically does everything Photoshop does, although the interface isn't quite as intuitive. They are working on that "problem" though (although many people like the interface just fine once they get used to it). Gimp is going to be to Photoshop what Firefox now is to Internet Explorer. (Maybe that is a flawed analogy since IE is free, but you know what I mean.)
[QUOTE="SamSmith1996"]the 1996 is just a random number.Greatgone12
Lol okay.
11 year olds might find photoshop rather complicated.
I learned when I was 11...
So at 11 years of age you knew what all the filters did, all the brushes, you knew what the swatches were and how to organize them, etc?Yeah, I wasn't a complete idiot at the age of 11. Photoshop isn't that hard to comprehend.
Ok maybe that stuff's not hard to deal with, but to truly make something original that looks neat and flawless is not easy. That's what I think of when I hear someone say "I learned photoshop", because anybody can sit down and mess up a picture with it. Stuff that I've seen and done at the art institute people wouldn't believe was made in photoshop.Are you saying an eleven year old can't make a reasonably good looking piece of art with Photoshop?
Reasonably good looking? Sure it's possible. Snapshot quality? Yeah I would bet against that (in NORMAL cases I'm sure there are a few who could whip up some impressive stuff)
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