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Photoshop Basics
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It's been a long time coming but I'm finally starting to use photoshop. For years, whenever I have needed to do any photo manipulation I just used mspaint. It's simple and familiar but recently I have started doing a lot of drawing and graphic stuff, mainly for t-shirts. I would like to be able do it all in photoshop, starting with the basics.
I have done several google searches but haven't really found any good tutorials and the ones that I do find are geared towards people who are much more advanced than I am.
tl;dr: Does anyone know of any good photoshop tutorials, starting from the basics?
I have done several google searches but haven't really found any good tutorials and the ones that I do find are geared towards people who are much more advanced than I am.
tl;dr: Does anyone know of any good photoshop tutorials, starting from the basics?
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Also, try good-tutorials.com.
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http://revision3.com/pixelperfect/ The guy explain stuff as he does it, so you learn how to do more than what he's telling you to do.
There. Now you don't ever have to use that filter again.
The second thing you should do is to start working with layers. Open a photo of somebody. Right click on the Background layer in the layers window, Duplicate it, and then press the little eye next to it to hide it. Now click on the duplicate layer you just made to select it. Then select the eraser tool and delete everything that isn't the person in your photo (hint: You can adjust the Brush Size and Hardness as necessary around the top left under the menu bar). Finally, go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation and screw with the hue until they have green skin. Now show the background layer again by clicking where the eye was in the layers window.
There are lots of details to learn in Photoshop, but once you understand layers, everything else will gradually fall into place.
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Keep it coming, if anyone has anything else that'll help a guy out, it'd be greatly appreciated.
Use Layers and Folders.
Name said Layers and Folders.
Most of the goods sites have been listed, here is one I really like though:
www.psdtuts.com
Not really 'basic' stuff, but yeah, good to know stuff.