How are your photoshop skills ?

[Miss_XxAriaxX]

Hi Girls !
I want to improve my photoshop skills...
I like to take pictures and change the background...
I want to make my pictures look more professional when they aren't taken with a
DSL camera. Is that possible?
Like this : the background is softly blurred commonly called the bokeh effect.


Do you have any tips and tricks?

XD I can pass hours on google to search about photoshop tutorials...
I haven't found a favorite website yet... However, sometimes, I don't know how to put in words what I want to create on photoshop making my ''research online'' difficult sweatdrop .

Thank you in advance !  

[Miss_XxAriaxX]

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[XxCeltic_KnotxX]

I am sure there is classes you can take somewhere that could help you, other than that I just go on the internet sometimes written instructions help more than watching someone else do it. I learned how to use photoshop in highschool and haven't used it since so I am no use to you.  

[JulietRawR666]

I did photoshop as part of my college course, I had to do extra methods (look into ones on the internet and change bits in the ones we were taught.)
http://www.photoshopstar.com/ <- that's the one that I used and found to be my favorite.

One thing that I created with photoshop

Here is another  

[Kitalpha Hart]

girl, if you know how to take photographs, then you don't need a DSL
the person makes the photographer, not the camera
i've made some excellent shots (per my dad, a professional photographer) from my phone, and it's not a smartphone of any kind. it's a standard fliptop
the main thing for taking better shots is practice. carry a point-and-shoot at all time, even if it's a cheap disposable one (though i suggest one that you can scan the pics right onto your cpu/laptop)
when you examine the pictures, see what you like and don't like, and try to remember what you did. keep some you don't like and play around with them
you might get some strange results
take good shots and mess with them
sometimes, just messing around with the program lets you find some unexpected things.
now, my dad and i use Corel PaintShop Pro, not Photoshop at home. at school, they only have Photoshop
on PS, Crtl+f lets you mess with the colors. you can get some crazy results
i found that out by trying to find the shortcut to flatten the image XD

 

[Miss_XxAriaxX]

Kitalpha Hart

girl, if you know how to take photographs, then you don't need a DSL
the person makes the photographer, not the camera
i've made some excellent shots (per my dad, a professional photographer) from my phone, and it's not a smartphone of any kind. it's a standard fliptop
the main thing for taking better shots is practice. carry a point-and-shoot at all time, even if it's a cheap disposable one (though i suggest one that you can scan the pics right onto your cpu/laptop)
when you examine the pictures, see what you like and don't like, and try to remember what you did. keep some you don't like and play around with them
you might get some strange results
take good shots and mess with them
sometimes, just messing around with the program lets you find some unexpected things.
now, my dad and i use Corel PaintShop Pro, not Photoshop at home. at school, they only have Photoshop
on PS, Crtl+f lets you mess with the colors. you can get some crazy results
i found that out by trying to find the shortcut to flatten the image XD

DLS camera shows better details (more pixel), you can take bokeh pictures. I love that effect.  

[Miss_XxAriaxX]

Edited my first post ^^  

[Kitalpha Hart]

XxAriaxX

Kitalpha Hart

girl, if you know how to take photographs, then you don't need a DSL
the person makes the photographer, not the camera
i've made some excellent shots (per my dad, a professional photographer) from my phone, and it's not a smartphone of any kind. it's a standard fliptop
the main thing for taking better shots is practice. carry a point-and-shoot at all time, even if it's a cheap disposable one (though i suggest one that you can scan the pics right onto your cpu/laptop)
when you examine the pictures, see what you like and don't like, and try to remember what you did. keep some you don't like and play around with them
you might get some strange results
take good shots and mess with them
sometimes, just messing around with the program lets you find some unexpected things.
now, my dad and i use Corel PaintShop Pro, not Photoshop at home. at school, they only have Photoshop
on PS, Crtl+f lets you mess with the colors. you can get some crazy results
i found that out by trying to find the shortcut to flatten the image XD

DLS camera shows better details (more pixel), you can take bokeh pictures. I love that effect.

i lied, it's ctrl-m emotion_facepalm
and i like that pic. i might get my dad to critique it later if you want owo

 

[Miss_XxAriaxX]

Kitalpha Hart

XxAriaxX

Kitalpha Hart

girl, if you know how to take photographs, then you don't need a DSL
the person makes the photographer, not the camera
i've made some excellent shots (per my dad, a professional photographer) from my phone, and it's not a smartphone of any kind. it's a standard fliptop
the main thing for taking better shots is practice. carry a point-and-shoot at all time, even if it's a cheap disposable one (though i suggest one that you can scan the pics right onto your cpu/laptop)
when you examine the pictures, see what you like and don't like, and try to remember what you did. keep some you don't like and play around with them
you might get some strange results
take good shots and mess with them
sometimes, just messing around with the program lets you find some unexpected things.
now, my dad and i use Corel PaintShop Pro, not Photoshop at home. at school, they only have Photoshop
on PS, Crtl+f lets you mess with the colors. you can get some crazy results
i found that out by trying to find the shortcut to flatten the image XD

DLS camera shows better details (more pixel), you can take bokeh pictures. I love that effect.

i lied, it's ctrl-m emotion_facepalm
and i like that pic. i might get my dad to critique it later if you want owo

I didn't take that picture lol ! It was an example of what DSL camera can do hahaha  

[Kitalpha Hart]

XxAriaxX

Kitalpha Hart

XxAriaxX

Kitalpha Hart

girl, if you know how to take photographs, then you don't need a DSL
the person makes the photographer, not the camera
i've made some excellent shots (per my dad, a professional photographer) from my phone, and it's not a smartphone of any kind. it's a standard fliptop
the main thing for taking better shots is practice. carry a point-and-shoot at all time, even if it's a cheap disposable one (though i suggest one that you can scan the pics right onto your cpu/laptop)
when you examine the pictures, see what you like and don't like, and try to remember what you did. keep some you don't like and play around with them
you might get some strange results
take good shots and mess with them
sometimes, just messing around with the program lets you find some unexpected things.
now, my dad and i use Corel PaintShop Pro, not Photoshop at home. at school, they only have Photoshop
on PS, Crtl+f lets you mess with the colors. you can get some crazy results
i found that out by trying to find the shortcut to flatten the image XD

DLS camera shows better details (more pixel), you can take bokeh pictures. I love that effect.

i lied, it's ctrl-m emotion_facepalm
and i like that pic. i might get my dad to critique it later if you want owo

I didn't take that picture lol ! It was an example of what DSL camera can do hahaha

oh, lol XD  

[Immoral Oblivion]

Honestly, not to be rude, but you can't turn a bad photograph into a good one with photoshop. When editing, the higher the resolution(to some extent) the better. Also, a DSLR camera is not always the best option for photography. They can be hard to deal with(all of the lens, constantly adjusting in manual mode because you would NOT pay that much to always shoot in automatic). I suggest a long zoom camera, FujiFilm has some GREAT cameras that do some similar things to an SLR. It is no substitute, however. Anyways, about Photoshop, always check the image size. Making it smaller(anything under 8x10) will usually make it a bit better quality rather than working with something 20x30 if you intend on printing. Less is also more, when adding something that you would want your camera t be able to do, use a lower opacity. It makes it look more natural. Don't oversharpen or over blurr. Hope that helps!  

[Miss_XxAriaxX]

Immoral Oblivion

Honestly, not to be rude, but you can't turn a bad photograph into a good one with photoshop. When editing, the higher the resolution(to some extent) the better. Also, a DSLR camera is not always the best option for photography. They can be hard to deal with(all of the lens, constantly adjusting in manual mode because you would NOT pay that much to always shoot in automatic). I suggest a long zoom camera, FujiFilm has some GREAT cameras that do some similar things to an SLR. It is no substitute, however. Anyways, about Photoshop, always check the image size. Making it smaller(anything under 8x10) will usually make it a bit better quality rather than working with something 20x30 if you intend on printing. Less is also more, when adding something that you would want your camera t be able to do, use a lower opacity. It makes it look more natural. Don't oversharpen or over blurr. Hope that helps!

Yup smile !  

[loonaboots]

there's a good tutorial here!
also, i think in media arts we used a dsl camera? and if you hold the button down a certain way, it can blur the background a bit. i know that's pretty vague, but that's all i remember. :l