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How did you learn Photoshop. Self taught or tutorial?

Self teach yourself, and refer to the photoshop bible or the adobe forums when you need specific help with a particular project.

Do Not buy any plugins unless you have seen 3rd party rave reviews AND have tried them yourself - most of them are worthless pieces of crap.

Take the advice of Joe Blow's homepage you found off google WITH A GRAIN OF SALT.

Judge a book by it's cover: if the website is cluttered with bad graphic design, do you really want their advice or tools for graphic design?
 
Self-taught + Tutorials + watching my friends work with Photoshop.

There are only a few things you can learn via tutorials and self-teaching, so it also helps if you can watch someone work on Photoshop.
 
Originally posted by: RaDragon
Self-taught + Tutorials + watching my friends work with Photoshop.

There are only a few things you can learn via tutorials and self-teaching, so it also helps if you can watch someone work on Photoshop.
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Bingo, for me. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: RaDragon
Self-taught + Tutorials + watching my friends work with Photoshop.

There are only a few things you can learn via tutorials and self-teaching, so it also helps if you can watch someone work on Photoshop.
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:thumbsup:
I took ONE class ever on photoshop and that was because it was a requirement... I learned ONE thing in that class as well, and that was how to properly use quickmasks.
 
Self-taught, like most things. Also I took a couple of free 40 minute classes. Those were mostly just tips & tricks classes.

Like with most popular software, if you think of it like, "well, it would make sense if it did this, or it would be handy if it could do that...", it's likely that if you try it, it'll work like you think, because the program's been created by people thinking the same way. An example: I figured a quick way to change layer stacking would be to just click and drag the layer boxes on top of each other in a stack. I tried it, and whadayaknow, it worked.

Just tinker, and you'll learn a lot.
 
Took a workshop at Kodak's Center for Creative Imaging back around '92 or so. Photoshop 2.5 at the time. Awesome workshop taught by David Biedny.

Still trying to self-teach myself all the nuances after all these years.




 
I have been useing PhotoShop for a number of years now. It think it is great. I would say both, I started just playing around with it and then went and bought a few small books that showed how to use layers and paths, etc. You do not need to spend alot of money, the cheaper books did it for me. There used to be a TV show that came on at least one a week here in California that showed how to use the program.
 
A bit of both. It all started when I saw a site somewhere that said you could use PS to add lightsabers to pictures... we made a whole slew of "Jesus was a Jedi" pictures 🙂
IIRC, I started out with a couple on deepspaceweb.org, but this was also five years ago, so I dunno how much they've changed since then. I'd also used image editing programs prior to PS, like Deluxe Paint 2 and some Mac stuff in high school (can't remember if it was PS or not).
 
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