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Posted by Nell on Jul-01-2008 22:13:

Beginners Photoshop Book?

I'm looking to get in to photoshop. ive got myself cs3 and now i would like to invest in a book starting from the ground up to get me going. can anyone recomend any? or even a decent step by step tutorial website? many thanks!

Posted by Abercrombie on Jul-01-2008 23:36:

You suck at Photoshop.

Posted by Ghost Raver on Jul-02-2008 01:22:

http://www.tutorialized.com/

Posted by Spike on Jul-02-2008 04:18:

shift+Ctrl+T should become your best friend

Posted by AnomalyConcept on Jul-02-2008 04:55:

I started out by following various tutorials and figuring out how some of the stuff is done.

The most important concept is layers and how they work. I would also take some time to figure out how the various tools work, as well as finding your way around the menus.

One other topic that seems to come up a lot is masking. I'm still partial to using the pen tool to create selections (great for things with curves) ever since I figured out how a few years ago, but there are many techniques such as quick mask and using channel selections.

In a pinch, you could always search for "(thing that you want to do) tutorial". There's a good chance that there is a tutorial out there already.

Also, http://psdtuts.com/ is a good resource, but is fairly new and doesn't have an extensive library quite yet.

Posted by kadomony on Jul-02-2008 04:57:

get the Photoshop CS3 Classroom In A Book

Posted by kadomony on Jul-02-2008 05:08:

quote:
Originally posted by AnomalyConcept
Also, http://psdtuts.com/ is a good resource, but is fairly new and doesn't have an extensive library quite yet.

GREAT site. Will be using it often, thanks ;D

Posted by Nell on Jul-02-2008 13:10:

thanks for the helpful replys guys (apart from the first reply from the fucking retarded gimp)

will be sure to give them a look.

cheers!

Posted by PEZ68 on Jul-02-2008 14:05:

quote:
Originally posted by kadomony
get the Photoshop CS3 Classroom In A Book

yep

http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Photosh...k/dp/0321492021

Posted by david.michael on Jul-02-2008 14:30:

quote:
Originally posted by Nell
thanks for the helpful replys guys (apart from the first reply from the fucking retarded gimp)

will be sure to give them a look.

cheers!

(actually, those tutorials are indeed funny, but I have learned a thing or two from them)

Posted by netroM on Jul-02-2008 20:17:

quote:
Originally posted by Abercrombie
You suck at Photoshop.

awesome