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52.4% | [ 22 ] |
| Took a course | |
9.5% | [ 4 ] |
| Someone taught me | |
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| I just don't know how to use it 0.O | |
19.0% | [ 8 ] |
| Other | |
9.5% | [ 4 ] |
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Just wondering...
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wow not much a poll is it? lol
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My first Photoshop ever was Photoshop v4. My school had it and I wanted it. I was like... 15 years old and couldn't pay for my own, so I did a bad thing and zipped it up, bit by bit and stuck it up on my 50megs.com site in 5Mb chunks (that was the maximum size allowed... and the teacher did give me permission.) I got all of it except for the help file.
So I managed to download all of my chunks at home except the help file and I just taught myself. When I moved out and bought my own computer, it ran WindowsXP and Photoshop v.4 wouldn't run on it. So I bought myself Photoshop v7 on eBay. The layouts and things had changed a lot, so I got myself reaquainted. I am still learning little things about Photoshop that I never knew before! I have never used a tutorial, book or even thte help file (though I have it now). |
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When I got my computer, it already had photoshop 4 and a few other programs installed into it, so I didn't have to buy it or anything. My dad bought cs for me on my birthday though. I learned it alone, well kind of, I entered a lot of contests and got my graphics rated on this one forum, some people also gave me advice, how to improve, what was wrong. Thats what helped me the most I think. Oh, and tutorials are also good, they won't teach you how to make your grahics look good, but they do have some pretty nice techniques. ^-^
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Ohwow. I can also say I started on Photoshop4, it started as harmless, terrible, drawing jobs which I thought at the time were so beautiful I was Vincent Van Gogh. I had no help what-so-ever since none of my friends were into drawing or anything of the sorts. I eventually gave up and turned to Oekaki. Ohgod, what a mistake. Till about last year I sworn myself off Photoshop till I got the 7th version and just about had a heart attack. I didn't know ANYTHING and everything else I learned by either looking at other people's styles of inking and coloring. I basically molded a lot of my stuff after them while still keeping my own style. I gave that up aswell and just did everything. Now if I ever use Photoshop when my Painter isn't in use, I ABUSE the hell out of the pen tool. |
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My roots are actually in paint shop pro, so while I was using that I learnt off plenty of tutorials xP I found that psp and photoshop weren't incredibly different from each other so I made the transition quite easily.
So yeah, I'm a completely self taught photoshop person ^o^ I teach my graphics teacher in school a few things now and again xP |
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I went for 'someone taught me', because technically my garphics teacher showed me how to use it and then I went and bought CS2. But I also, like ThunderMistress, was a psp person first and they're not too different smile
I self taught myself to use a tablet though. Not too hard, it's basically a pen, right? |
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haha. the very first photshop I had was version Elements... major old school. Photoshop is just like any other extension program, you have to just experiment for a while until you get the basic hang of tools, keyboard shortcuts, little tricks that make the editing process go faster. Once you get to that point, then it's all messing around with effects and so forth. Also depends on what you want to use Photoshop for... I use it mostly for colouring line art/anime/designs and only sometimes for actual photographs.
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I started on 6, and it's the one I still used. I've used 4, 5, and 7 for school projects, and tried the newer two, of course, but 6 is something of my baseline. I learned on it, and I like it best.
First, learn what you NEED to know for drawing. Things like brushes, layers, etc. Basic, basic things. Then, if you want to do graphic-editting, learn layer transparencies, layer blending properties, effects, masking, etc. (I recommend learning quickmasking regardless, but it's relatively easy to get the hang of) If you're doing advanced graphics, get the hang of non-raster layers and the pen tool, etc etc. Learn slices. If you're doing photo editting, learn how to mess with levels and the other edit tools. But it's easiest just to learn what you need, then extend it slowly to find out other things. It's like an easter egg hunt, don't be afraid to experiment. You'll learn it best that way. |
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I used a program like it. the Course I'm doing now has an assignment that uses Photoshop in it.
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I used the LE which came with my graphire tablet.
What I really wanted to do was color my pen inked line art in. I'd ink it in pen, scan it and wanted to color it in. Since I was fond of Bara-chan and her website, I knew she had a tutorial for just that. I did just that, two layers (one lineart one color) for some time and then expanded layers. Read some other tutorials. Dinked around and experimented with the patterns and art tools...making crappy canned backgrounds with the mosaic or stained glass presets... Just sorta played with it. It's got lots of buttons but if you just open something up and play around, you're not likely to destroy the program or have your computer sieze up on you. And you can always keep a back up copy of the art in case you accidently save and don't want to. |
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Best way to learn anything, expirimenting.
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I learned how to use photoshop on my own. I'm still trying to learn, but I think I'm planning on taking some classes for it too just so I can learn all the little nifty things. 4laugh I love photoshop though. Real good program to have on your computer.
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Blue Jade Best way to learn anything, expirimenting. Your right about that. |
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Playing with all of the tools.
It also helps to have a solid knowledge of traditional media--since photoshop, and other graphic programs are meant to emulate them digitially. |
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