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Learn Photoshop

  • 08-05-2014 9:22pm
    #1
    multimate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 417 ✭✭


    What's/where's the best place to learn how to use photoshop for as practical things as possible (e.g. photoshoping someone into a picture, making a logo with a border around it etc.) I have basic knowledge at the minute in photoshop but want to learn more, particularly for making things like posters and custom logos for them.


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  • #2
    Paulw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    I always find CreativeLive.com just brilliant for learning.


  • #3
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Lynda.com gets my vote.


  • #4
    the_monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭the_monkey


    Photoshop CS2 is free now, and Scott Kelby has an excellent book on the same.


  • #5
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    I'm a great believer in using books. You can have the book open beside you to go over as many times as you want rather than watching a video, stopping it rewatching it. Most come with disks for projects.

    You can get books for specific areas, I got one that's photoshop for photographers, another was photoshop for compositors (blending multiple images into one), then I use video tutorials on top of that.


    If you want to do posters and logos you can get books on using photoshop for doing just that, it's good to have a grounding in photo work though, especially for compositing and understanding colours better.


  • #6
    Carrigman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 713 ✭✭✭Carrigman


    The obvious place to learn Photoshop is YouTube. There are numerous videos covering everything from the basics to advanced techniques. Another option - and the one that has taught me most of what I know of Photoshop - is Digital Photo magazine which has a cover disc to supplement the printed articles. Other magazines do the same but in my experience Digital Photo is the best. As ScumLord suggests, getting a book or two is also very useful.


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  • #7
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Carrigman wrote: »
    Another option - and the one that has taught me most of what I know of Photoshop - is Digital Photo magazine which has a cover disc to supplement the printed articles.

    I get the photoshop magazines from time to time, they're horribly expensive but they do have good tips in them.

    They do an almanac version at the end of the year too, where they take the best tutorials and put them into one enlarged edition. I think I paid £13 for it but it's worth it for the amount of content.


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