Computer Graphics with Photoshop - Photoshop: Which Tutorial ??

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Photoshop: Which Tutorial ??

-=Plane Mad=-

2004-10-05, 7:14 pm

I have just purchased Photoshop CS.
I have barely scraped the surface of what this program can do,
soooooo.........

I want to obtain a good tutorial or manual!
What do you people recommend?
An e-book would be cool, but I'm open to any format.

Many thanks

Andy Mc
-=Plane Mad=-

Mikey

2004-10-05, 7:14 pm

On 2004-10-05 13:53:45 -0400, "-=Plane Mad=-" <not_today@NoSpam.com> said:

> I have just purchased Photoshop CS.
> I have barely scraped the surface of what this program can do,
> soooooo.........
>
> I want to obtain a good tutorial or manual!
> What do you people recommend?
> An e-book would be cool, but I'm open to any format.

I'd start with the official (Adobe Press) books. These are the best for
the fundamentals. Not the most exciting - the others have the "fun"
stuff - but the most useful in the long run. They used to have these
large format "Classroom in a Book" series, but not any more :-(.

After that, a Bruce Fraser book on color management. Again, boring but
critical.

--
No sig, no neuroses

Hunt

2004-10-05, 7:14 pm

In article <cjun39$c4q$1@hercules.btinternet.com>, not_today@NoSpam.com says
....
>
>I have just purchased Photoshop CS.
>I have barely scraped the surface of what this program can do,
>soooooo.........
>
>I want to obtain a good tutorial or manual!
>What do you people recommend?
>An e-book would be cool, but I'm open to any format.
>
>Many thanks
>
>Andy Mc
>-=Plane Mad=-

My first step would be to get the PS CS manual, if it did not come with your
upgrade. Next, Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book. After doing those
tutorials, you should have a handle on the power of the program and a starting
base. Google has thousands (maybe millions) of great tutorials, but most are
specific to a task. I don't have any recs of e-books, but bet there are many.
The Lynda.com training books with CD/DVD seem very good, but I've never used
her material on PS, only Painter, Flash, Dreamweaver. They are well done for
those programs.

Hunt

Bill Hilton

2004-10-05, 7:14 pm

>I want to obtain a good tutorial or manual!
>What do you people recommend?

"Classroom in a Book" by Adobe Press is a good book for people with no
experience with Photoshop. Work through all the examples and you'll have the
basics.

noone@nowhere1325235.com

2004-10-05, 11:14 pm

I'm kind of a newbie too, but I just found this site:

http://www.adobeforums.com

Check it out. It will have a lot more information than this group I
think.

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 17:53:45 +0000 (UTC), "-=Plane Mad=-"
<not_today@NoSpam.com> wrote:

>I have just purchased Photoshop CS.
>I have barely scraped the surface of what this program can do,
>soooooo.........
>
>I want to obtain a good tutorial or manual!
>What do you people recommend?
>An e-book would be cool, but I'm open to any format.
>
>Many thanks
>
>Andy Mc
>-=Plane Mad=-
>
>

Mikey

2004-10-06, 4:14 am

On 2004-10-05 16:27:30 -0400, bhilton665@aol.comedy (Bill Hilton) said:

>
> "Classroom in a Book" by Adobe Press is a good book for people with no
> experience with Photoshop. Work through all the examples and you'll have the
> basics.

Are they still called that? I associate that title with the old
giant-sized books with the glossy paper. I've only seen the
regular-computer-book format...

Ah, who cares. Whatever they call it, it's good.
--
No sig, no neuroses

Hunt

2004-10-07, 4:14 am

In article <2004100601345916807%exceptionsTakeThisOutDude@earthlinknet>,
exceptionsTakeThisOutDude@earthlink.net says...
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>On 2004-10-05 16:27:30 -0400, bhilton665@aol.comedy (Bill Hilton) said:
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>
>Are they still called that? I associate that title with the old
>giant-sized books with the glossy paper. I've only seen the
>regular-computer-book format...
>
>Ah, who cares. Whatever they call it, it's good.
>--
>No sig, no neuroses

As of the CS series, yes - still Classroom in a Book.

Hunt