Photoshop Guide

[Solid Snake]

Hey everyone,

Disco Stu has been very kind and has granted me to be able to write an Adobe Photoshop guide & tutorial. This will be a pretty big tutorial as it is intended to be guide for noobies ... to go from noobies ... to uhm .. a Photoshop Noobie :) [I'm finally going to put my 4 years in Adobe to some use]

Anyways, anyone got suggestive tutorials to put it?

None of this crud "A hot chick with huge ones ... from scratch to finish"

Something more like "How to make a basic metallic texture" and so on ....

I'll be doing things such as restoration of images, resizing images from small --> large and so on.

I'll be doing a 3DSMax 3 guide & tutorial soon too, but get this out of the way first :)

[_N_]

start by saying how to draw basic shapes and do textures, and then move onto how to use all those features most people never use, :D

[Binky Stunt Cat]

ummmmm, see http://art.gamer.net.nz

[Mashed_Penguin]

Explaining the vector tools would be a good thing to include, also how to use alpha channels etc. These are things that are quite hard to just pick up from fiddling around.

[SilverPriest]

Well, something to explain the basic functions, but not too simplified.
It's a matter of explaining to photoshop noobies without making them feel like n00bies.
The basic stuff ya know.
(What that is i have no idea, used photoshop like 4 times @ high school)
Well, i hope that is what i was trying to say.
just KISS for the first article or something.
Then move on to more advanced stuff for the second and so on and so forth.
Make sense?
Or am i babbling incomprehensibly again?
:(
:D

[mird-OC]

geez, where to start... depending how much you want to teach it could end up being a novel :)

if it's for bare-assed n00bs, then start off with the basics: selections, cut & paste, transform, fill tool, eraser tool, layer ordering... move onto: text tool, brush tool, layer properties, layer effects, and some filters... then some: tool properties, more filters, vector tools, image adjustment, and channels.

exactly what to do is up to you... i'd probably base it on a celebrity nude faker exercise, where you could start off with a very crude "head-on-someones-body" pic and through the course of the tutorial learn about the different tools that help to make it look jjuuust right :)

but i would, i guess :D

[Mashed_Penguin]

That would certainly make it an interesting read Mird :D

Or you could just screw around with that pic of KJ some more...

[Ripping]

heres my tutorial on photoshop:

Buy a book !

Seriously, you might spend $100+ on a decent third party manual but it really is worth it if your getting semi serious on graphics manipulation.
I got one two or three (or 3 or 4) years ago for PS4 and I think virtually everything learned is still valid, with a little adaptation for the newer features.

[KingJackal]

That's true. And lets face it, if you're using an $800 piece of software, you're serious!

Try a GIMP tutorial - hell even I could do one of those. And that would apply even to those that only edit the odd image for their own enjoyment.

RIGHT GUYS?? :p

I would like to provide a friendly reminder that discussion of illegal software is not the domain of these forums

*I will find an evil smiley, oh yes, I will...*

[Artifice]

teh is no evil smiley.

[Agent 86]

What version is your tutorial going to use as I see photoshop 7 is available so might be good use the latest version which might have some cool new features.

[Binky Stunt Cat]

i've got one on using masks to make "transparent" objects over a background
on my website

[Geek4Life]

Maybe even just having it as a guide to modifying and drawing images, not necessarily based on any software package.

[Solid Snake]

Mmm, I'm getting to work on it tonight. I'll start with the basics.

Alpha channels ... they're quite complicated so I'll leave that out in the first couple of tutorials.

I'll start with basics me thinks ... some thing like

"Basics: Food for thought"

Or something anyways, just to get people started with Photoshop.

I'll be using Adobe Photoshop 5.0. There isn't a whole new stack of features, but rather things to play around with such as filters. I'll get people stuck into one or two filters, but I won't explain all filters as most people understand it after playing around with them.

[Binky Stunt Cat]

i know some guys who have compared 6 and 7, and no, there isnt much difference...

[Solid Snake]

I know. When I first got Adobe Psp 4 ... then 5 came out. Compared 4 to 5 ... not a lot ... but I use 5 now.

[mird-OC]

there aren't many new features in 7, but it's quite a bit nicer to use... functionality basically hasn't changed (big surprise).

[Geek4Life]

Any ideas as to when the first lot of tutorials will be out?

I wan't to progress past MS Paint. :)