I am having trouble with Photoshop. I was wondering if someone could send me a description of what they did to their photo from start to finish. Something like that would be really helpful to those of us newbies. I don't want you to give away your secrets, but just knowing how something was done would be a real assistance.
06:50 am, Tuesday, February 19, 2002 (7 years ago)
There's a great book out called"new masters of photoshop" or something, and it has top artists (Mike Young and the like) showing exactly what you're asking for.....it's a great read and I think you'd like it. It's a little expensive (40$ to 60$) but worth it. It's great just for the tips on converting things to vector alone. I love it. I usually wouldn't plug a product on here but this is wicked. And since you're all FTPing all your software anyway, maybe inject a little $ into the economy by purchasing a book.
Cool, thanks for the info. Anyone willing to take on a student, lol? One question I am hoping someone will answer. How on earth do you make something transparent? Still trying to work that one out.
If I understand the question right, I think he just meant transparency inside the psd file...
so, you know all those floating panels in photoshop, there's one that says layers/channels/paths... click on the "layer" tab, once there, there's a few things you can do, either drop the "opacity" (the pull-down menu) or just mess around with the layer blending modes (also a pull-down menu), usually "overlay"/"soft light" gives you a nice transparent look...
Of course, the object/graphic that you want to make transparent must be on an independent layer for it to work...
Once again, I thank you. The images I have seen on this site alone are striking and beautiful. I want to be able to create images like them. Another question I had to ask, do most of the images start as a hand drawn scanned images or are they created from scratch?
I would recommend to buy some old books , like for PS 5.0 , or even PS4 , its still preety much the same , ( basics ) and read it atleast 2 times , trying to do the examples and understand how things work together . Its also helpfull to understand how the layer modes work ( the basis ) . I would also recommend to learn major key shortcuts , helps alot!
But i would recommend developing further skills by trial and error yourself, as it is easy to become dependent on tutorials and other peoples styles. Originality is extremely short these days
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www.spoono.com is a good tutorial site. But like adam said, you shouldnt depend on tutorials. Althoguh I have learned a ton from tutorials, i would say I haven't developed my own personal style. Most would say mine looks alot like the spoono stie, but it's just cuz I really like the layout and colors. Who wouldnt like blue? =)
tutorials are great for learning skills and tricks and procedures. its great to be able to make a copy of what you see in a tutorial, and when you can do the whole thing without reading the tutorial, then you've definitely gained some useful knowledge.
what you do with that knowledge afterwards is the most crucial part. take that knowledge and apply it to your creative energy and make something of your very own. it feels great.
