Photoshop help please

Let me know what you want to know and i can tell you (my job is retouching and illustration in photoshop). Although i'm having second thoughs about helping an Arsenal fan!duncancameron23

haha erm thanks for offering your help

could you give me a brief overview of paths? im at a loss as to what to do with them but i heard they are much better than the eraser for deleting stuff.

cheers

Look for tutorials. What I did was just look at tutorials and learn from it and try to combine it with other tuts I learned. Here is a VERY VERY VERY good Photoshop simple basic site that teaches you easily...

http://pshero.com/index.php

could you give me a brief overview of paths? im at a loss as to what to do with them but i heard they are much better than the eraser for deleting stuff.

cheers

Paths are a selection tool, like the lasso tool but they are a precision selection tool. Click on the paths tool (looks like a fountain pen nib) and click around the area you want to eraser. (have a play with this to get use to it) Once you have drawn a path around the area you want to delete, go to the paths tool box. (if it's not on the screen go to window on the top menu bar and scroll down the list and click on paths. A tick will apper beside it when the paths tool box is showing)

Then at the bottom of the paths tool box is a circle made of dots (load path as selection) Click on it and it creates a selection from the path you have drawn. You can then hit delete and the area you wanted removed is gone. Be on the safe side and copy the layer you are working on and delete from that rather than delete from your original.

The best way would be using the paths and then a mask to delete an area but i've got to get back to work and don't have time to explane Sorry! Hope this helps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_X5uR7VC4M

Search "You Suck at Photoshop" on YouTube. There are some pretty silly stuff about photoshop.

Arsenal fan!!

Okay, Photoshop helps are vey general. Try googling what you want specifically or join one of those designing unions in GS. A personal help can be really good.

here is my first proper piece....

lol i know i have a lot to learn but its pretty good for a first time effort right?

and btw thankyou all for your help.:)

here is the link if you want to see a bigger version of it