Posts tagged Image
Jun 1st
This blog post officially kicks off the Photoshop Tutorial Review mini-series, and it only seemed natural to start off with PhotoshopTutorials.ws. Entering PST, I was very happy. The site is clean, no clutter, and not over-done. The purpose of this post is not to actually be a tutorial, its for me to do the actual tutorial, and then provide anything that I believe could be improved upon, allowing you to get the best of the best. At PST, there are many different types of tutorials. There are tutorials strictly about Photoshop, but there is also photography, downloads, and forums to seek further help. One thing that separates this tutorial site from the rest is that it actually pays members who write great tutorials cash via Paypal. As I browsed the tutorials, I noticed they were very novice-friendly and detailed. After finding one that I really liked, I will walk through it beginning to end.
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May 30th
There are very many types of art. According to dictionary.com, art is the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. What that means in plain terms is that art is an expression of a person, who creates a work that is pleasing to the eye, or is perhaps odd, out of place, but it is something that draws a person to it! I would like to introduce graphic design, which is the production of art using electronic devices, such as a computer, or in this case, Adobe Photoshop. Adobe was founded in 1982, and some of their main products are computer programs used to aid graphic designers. Their most famous program is called Adobe Photoshop, a graphic design editor program, who’s current version at the time of this writing is CS3.
Photoshop works in a very unique way. Picture Microsoft Paint, but way better, with way more options, and way more tools to create the artwork. But Photoshop is also a lot more expensive, and the current version is running at the upwards of $800 with a discount. The good news is that on Ebay, you can usually find a copy of Photoshop 7 for around $150 – $200. At this time Adobe has shut down all their trials, however, so unless you have the extra cash, or the access to the program through friends, you’re going to miss out.
Once you obtain the program, there are a million tools, so you better start familiarizing yourself with them! Play around with all of the stuff, messing around on blank documents, making sure you understand the program and how it works before you actually use it. I will be doing a mini-series on specific Photoshop tutorials, and some tips and tricks along with it. The tutorials I review should be very easy to follow, for beginners only, to help those who just started who have no idea where to go or what to do. If you don’t even know how to open a document (which you should, honestly), I’ll tell you how to do it. Don’t get frustrated if you cannot figure something out, just ask ask me in a comment and I’ll see what I can do to help. Just have fun with it, and be creative!
With that, expect my first post to come out soon, and you can bookmark this post as I’ll be updating it with links to each one.