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Photoshop Tutorial: How to Become an Expert in 10 Steps

After working with Photoshop since version 4 in 1999, I realize that nobody really knows every thing that Photoshop can do. This makes it a great toy and tool, because there's always something new to discover. But you can learn most of it and keep learning. I recommend the following habits if you want to become a Photoshop Expert. For this article, I'm defining expertise as being able to: imitate something from real life (e.g. how shadows and light really work, how glass and water bend light). guess with reasonable accuracy how a particular effect was created by someone else in Photoshop. troubleshoot your own errors as well as someone else's. manipulate pixels non-destructively. work efficiently through the proper use of shortcuts, panels, actions, and tools. know how and when to use most of the features in Photoshop. Here are the 10 things I recommend you do if you want to be a Photoshop expert. #1: Own the latest version of Photoshop It's pretty hard to really experiment with Photoshop if you don't have your own copy at home. Having the latest version is important too. Particularly with the last two versions, CS3 and CS4, new features are added all the time. These features usually either make your job easier (like the Adjustments panel), or give you tools that didn't even exist in prior versions (like some of CS4's 3D capabilities). I do recommend you purchase your own copy. Please don't used pirated stuff. If you are a teacher or student who is not using Photoshop for commercial purposes, you are allowed by Adobe to purchase the educational version at about half-price. It is as fully-featured as the non-educational version. You can usually buy this version at college book stores, or online at sites such as creationengine.com. You are allowed to run your Photoshop software on two machines. I have one copy on my desktop PC and one on my laptop for travel. #2: Play and Make Mistakes Experimentation and play is the key to learning something beyond the basics. Try out all kinds of tools and filters, and see what they do with different settings. You can't really ruin Photoshop. And if you do, you can reset all the defaults by closing Photoshop, then pressing and holding the Shift+Ctrl+Alt keys (Mac: Shift+Cmd+Opt) while Photoshop restarts. Take a bunch of photos from your camera (or online) and throw them together. See how blend modes change an overall image as layers are moved around. Try all of the layer adjustments, and every filter combined with another filter. Don't worry if it's ugly. You're learning. And there's always the History panel to allow you to back up several steps and try something else. #3: Take a Class To be honest, I had an awful Photoshop teacher. He did little beyond schedule what we were supposed to complete in the textbook. I stopped going at one point. I had learned how not to teach, and four years later I was teaching Photoshop. What a good teacher can do is give you assignments you never dreamed you could do (and enjoy!) More importantly, a good instructor can give you personal guidance when you don't even realize you made a mistake, or there's a typo in the textbook, or you accidentally skipped something, and something goes wrong. Finally, a good instructor will give you projects to do that give you real-world scenarios and specifications. This prepares you for making real money with Photoshop. #4: Go to Seminars Kelby Training provides absolutely fantastic seminars all over the United States. I have had teachers such as the amazing Bert Monroy and Dave Cross. These seminars have increased my creativity and efficiency in Photoshop beyond belief. The day-long seminar is always fun and very inspiring. Go to one of these seminars if you can, or find something comparable in your area. #5: Read Photoshop Magazines Photoshop User Magazine from NAPP is the undisputed master when it comes to American Photoshop publications. You can find it for $10 at book stores, or you get an automatic subscription when you become a NAPP member. You will need that NAPP membership to access the tutorial files online. Each issue has a bunch of tutorials at all levels, plus reviews of products and news about the industry. The magazine caters to photographers, designers and hobbyists alike. Layers Magazine is great too, but does not cater just to Photoshop users. It addresses almost all of the Adobe design products. It only has a couple of Photoshop tutorials per issue. If you work with Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, and Dreamweaver as well, this mag's for you. I also like to buy those really expensive ($15) imports from the U.K., such as Advanced Photoshop and Photoshop Creative. These can be found at book stores too. Unlike Photoshop User, they include a CD-Rom with every issue that provides all the resources for the tutorials, plus brushes, textures, and the like. These magazines sound like an awfully big expense at first, but they are so worth it. The tutorials are always very well done, and gorgeous to boot. #6: Read Photoshop Books Some Photoshop books out there are not so great, but most of them are really top-drawer. When considering a Photoshop book for purchase, look for three things: Are the images really beautiful or interesting? I have a book here I taught from before I really evaluated the images. They are bordering on ugly. Find a book that makes you feel like you can't wait to create those images. Is the book written to your level? It can be really frustrating if the instructions are too easy or too hard for your experience level. Does the book match your learning style? Some books use blocks of text and others make each step into a bullet point. Some have more step-by-step images than others. Decide what works best for you and look for books written that way. I do have three specific book recommendations. Each of the books below contains wonderful tutorials, and is written very well. "Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop's Most Powerful Feature" by Matt Kloskowski "Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook: 62 Easy-to-Follow Recipes for Creating the Classic Styles of Great Artists and Photographers" by John Beardsworth "Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One" by Deke McClelland #7: Do Online Tutorials I love doing online tutorials. Some good places to find Photoshop tutorials are psd.tutsplus.com, good-tutorials.com, and tutorialized.com. If you work with online tutorials enough, you find some favorite writers. Look for tutorials writers who provide enough images, proofread their work, and don't leave steps out. You should be able to create a result that looks much like the one promised by following exactly what they have written. As with books, look for tutorials written to your skill level. But push yourself to do more challenging stuff than you're used to. #8: Be a Community Member This can take many forms. Sometimes I like to check out online Photoshop forums and see if anybody needs a question answered. I often find cool ideas for myself as well. I also hang out on Twitter, and follow a large number of fellow graphic and Web designers. They are always feeding me new links to incredible online resources. I have RSS feeds I read from my favorite design blogs, and I comment on all of the articles that move me. I read everything by smashingmagazine.com and minervity.com. There are design communities in the offline world too, of course. I am a member of the local group called ADAC. When I had more time a few years ago, I was even a board member. Real-world design clubs are a great opportunity to learn all about design in addition to some of the business aspects of freelancing (ADAC once had a great talk from an intellectual property attorney about copyright law for artists.) More importantly, you can come away inspired with fresh ideas by looking at the works of others. #9: Learn Other Adobe Programs Too Photoshop rarely works in a vacuum for most designers. There are many times when a Photoshop project is enhanced by the contributions of artwork done in Illustrator, for example. Learn how to save your work for the press using Acrobat. Learn how to create vector artwork in Illustrator and import the paths into Photoshop. Learn how to place your Photoshop files into InDesign. Learn how various Photoshop plugins can expand your design horizons or make your work easier. These are but a few examples. A thorough understanding of Photoshop must include an understanding of how well it plays with others. #10: Teach Photoshop I wasn't a Photoshop expert when I started teaching Photoshop. I am now, thanks in part to having taught it. Teaching Photoshop helped me develop my expertise in ways that no other experience can. When you have to communicate how to do something to someone else, you come to understand it in a way that sets it in concrete in your brain. I often get my students to find something new to learn, and then have them turn around and teach it to another student. And when both students make mistakes during this teaching process, they both learn more. Writing tutorials - and finding out if someone can follow them - takes this concept step further. Dawn Pedersen Blue Lobster Art and Design Web Design, Graphic Design, and Design Tutorials BluLob.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dawn_Pedersen Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/2382612

Photoshop Tutorial: Custom Brushes

Making custom brushes is one of the easiest things in the world. Seriously! I don't know why I've read some tutorials that make it out to be this multi-step, intimidating process. Creating your own brushes helps to customize both your artwork and the Photoshop work environment. The Hard Part "But ... you said this would be easy!!" Technically, yes, but I've found that some people actually reach a little stumbling block when trying to think of what would make a good brush. Well, the short answer is ANYTHING! I've made brushes out of fuzzy leopard slippers, bananas, old trash cans, fabric swatches, dirt ... hundreds of things. It helps to have a scanner and/or a digital camera ... that really opens up your possibilities. Just a quick walk around your house might yield dozens of fun textures you can make brushes out of. But, even if you don't have either of those, you can often snurch some good textures off the internet. Try a google search for marble tile and see what comes up. Sometimes you'll get a nice big image to work with. I'm not condoning stealing someone's art photos to rip a brush off with, but if it's just a sample photo of tile, or fabric, or screen, or whatever, I think it's perfectly fine ... you'll be drastically changing the image in the next steps anyway. The Next Steps Okay, so you've got some good textures then? Right, let's make a custom brush out of 'em! Open up your image in Photoshop. The first thing you'll want to do is desaturate the image (Shift+Ctrl+U in PS7). Then cut and paste what you've got into a new layer. Now delete the background layer. Once you're down to just the single layer, mess with the brightness/contrast until you get the desired effect (this will require you to think a little bit about how you might use the brush in the future - will you be wanting to use it as a 'grunge' effect ... something more technical ... etc. etc.) [http://www.jvmediadesign.com/blog/img/tutorials/brush_tut1.jpg] ( The starting image) [http://www.jvmediadesign.com/blog/img/tutorials/brush_tut2.jpg] (The desaturated image) [http://www.jvmediadesign.com/blog/img/tutorials/brush_tut2.jpg] (After messing with brightness/contrast) The Super Easy Part Now that you've got the image looking like you want, you'll need to create it as a Photoshop brush. Go to 'Edit' then choose 'Define Brush'. Give your new brush a name and that's it!! Easy, huh? Saving All Your Hard Work

There are few things worse than having hundreds of cool brushes gone in an instant. It's happened to me on one occasion where my hard drive fried out and I didn't save all my customized Photoshop stuff. So I'm going to help you avoid any tragedies and tell you how to save your brushes. Once you've got an amount of brushes made (I personally like to create 'sets' of brushes that all kind of work together, or just happened to fit my mood that day!), go to 'Edit' then choose 'Preset Manager'. A window with all your current brushes will pop up. You can click on each little square individually. What you're going to want to do is shift+right click on the series of brushes you want to save. Once you've done that, click on 'Save Set', give the set a name and save it to your computer (of course these brush files are what you're going to want to back up!). There, you're done! How To Get Other Custom Brushes Into Your Pallet If you've found a cool brush set on the web and you'd like to use them, after you download the file (usually a zip file), you'll want to extract them to your Photoshop/Brushes directory. To load a brush set in Photoshop, open the Brushes Palette ('Windows', 'Palettes', 'Show Brushes'). Select Load Brushes from the menu on the Brush Palette and choose your file. That's it! Sherry is the Senior Designer and Creative Director at Southern California studio, JV Media Design. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sherry_Holub Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/81558

Photoshop Tutorial: Removing Images

There are numerous strategies to eliminate images by using Adobe Photoshop, however in this Photoshop tutorial I want to show you the very best way to get rid of images. I have not really come across this technique elsewhere on the net, so I thought I might share the idea with you Photoshop newbies. The beauty of this method is that it utilizes a soft brush edge meaning the edges do not seem so jagged. Anyway, the initial step you have to do is to identify the image that you want to get rid of within a photo, and set the foreground color to black, while making the background coloring white-colored. Subsequently, find the brush tool and set your master diameter at 10px with your hardness at 0%. The next thing to do is to unlock your layer, and then add a layer mask on the photo.

You then must focus in close up and make use of the brush tool to outline your picture. Hold down the shift key for the lengthy straight parts. I normally hold down shift nearly the full way through to acquire a natural smooth line. I should like to mention here that if you need to select the tinier bits of an image, then alter the dimensions of your brush to a size less than 10px. When you are done, hold down the ALT key and click on the layer mask simultaneously. Be sure you're clicking your mask on the layer and not simply the layer. Choose the Magic Wand application and be sure Contiguous is checked and that Anti-alias is unchecked. Then click on the external white-colored region which is the section you do not want to have within the snapshot. Go to the toolbar and head over to Select - Modify - Expand and adjust it to 5px. Next convert the background color to black and after that hit the delete key. It will probably still leave several very small areas which you don't want on the edges of the image, so you must go back and take the 5px brush and fill in those areas so they are black. Make sure the foreground is black whenever you are doing this. You can hold down Option and then click simultaneously on your layer mask itself to get back and fourth to view the actual image. Once you have eventually completed cutting it out, just hold down Option and click simultaneously on your layer mask and you will have finalized. You have just managed to eliminate a graphic applying adobe Photoshop, so I really hope that you found these Photoshop tips for beginners helpful. If you need any help about how to Learn Adobe Photoshop then why not get immediate access to these Beginners Photoshop Tips that show exactly how you can learn Photoshop in under 2 hours. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dan_Feildman Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/6609405

Photoshop Tutorial: Can you make money?

You most likely already know that Adobe Photoshop is great for making your digital and online pictures look more professional. But do you know how to make money with Photoshop? Learn how to use Photoshop to make a profit. With the growing prominence of digital photos, photo-editing software like Adobe Photoshop has grown in usage and popularity.

Learning Photoshop, however, is not easy. You really need to dedicate yourself to learning the ins and outs of the software. More than technical skill, you need to be creative if you want to excel with Photoshop. Any good Photoshop tutorial will inform how to edit your images, how to add attractive framing and borders, and the way you can work with different layers and masks to give your images that professional look. What standard tutorials don't tell you is that you can actually use Photoshop to make some money. Nonetheless, learning to harness the power of Photoshop can be very rewarding. Mastering the visual graphics realm of Photoshop can give you livable income. Strong editing and creative skills in Photoshop can open career possibilities for you, whether you want to do it on a full-time basis or as a part-time business. Here are some of the various ways you can use Photoshop to generate an income; 1. Start a photo editing service. One possible business you can start is to offer digital picture editing and image optimization services. You basically take the client's less than perfect digital photo and turn it into a masterpiece. As a "photo doctor," you can remove unwanted people and objects from a photograph, insert someone or something into a photograph, repair over- or under-exposed photos, convert colored photos to black and white (and vice versa), or do something as basic as removing red-eye from photos. You can also do color correction, background change, contrast adjustment, and size enlargement. The key is to offer high quality work at reasonable prices. 2. Write Photoshop tutorials. You can write and sell your tutorial to article sites or article directories, anywhere from $10 to $100 depending on the length and quality of your tutorial. Be ready to write at least a 1,000 words tutorial with detailed and step-by-step screenshots. Examples of tutorial topics could include photo effects/manipulation, contemporary web layout design, special effects or filter effects. You can use sites such as eHow.com, or find freelance job postings from sites needing content on Photoshop. 3. Create a tutorial site and earn through advertising. You can also create your own blog or website where you publish the tutorials you write and monetize the site through advertising. You can use contextual advertising links such as Google AdSense, use a banner-advertising network such as BurstMedia, or a combination of various advertising models and networks. 4. Create video tutorials. You can also earn by creating video versions of your Photoshop tutorials. You can monetize it via advertising, or by joining advertising programs such as the YouTube Partner Program. Are you can sell your tutorials from a website through popular third-party programs such as Clickbank or Plimus. If you are looking for some expert Photoshop Tutorials then visit http://www.photoshopwarrior.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rafin_O'Hara Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/6357751

Photoshop Tutorial: Hidden Secrets!

Whether you're just starting out with Photoshop or you're a seasoned pro, it's likely you've experienced instances where you wished a certain action was easier to do. This article will provide you with a few tips to consider as you explore Photoshop. Keep an Eye Out for Tutorials: Is there a specific technique or command that's giving you a lot of trouble? In cases like this, sometimes it's simply not enough to consult the help file or ask questions online. Fortunately, you can find literally thousands of video tutorials that provide everything from shortcuts to the latest techniques on how to shade and texture.

Keep Keyboard Shortcuts Firmly in Mind: You would be surprised at just how many users waste significant amounts of time struggling with the mouse. There are thousands of keyboard commands that make copying, pasting, switching layers, undo an action, create a new file, and more. Using these commands may feel a bit strange at first, but over time they'll become as natural as any point, click, or drag command. Keep an Eye Out for Original Downloads: Are you sick of the default tools that Photoshop provides you with? Whether you want to learn how to use a new tool or you want to give your creations an original new twist, there are thousands of fonts, brushes, and more for prices that won't break your budget. Regardless of what you pick, you'll be able to enjoy the novelty of using brushes, fonts, and textures that other users may not necessarily have. Newer is Not Always Better: There are some users who simply must have the latest version of Photoshop. However, if you'd like to simplify your experience, there's no sin in using a version that's a year or two behind. Keeping up with all of the latest features, extras, and downloads can be an enormous pain, especially if you're just learning. While some of the newer features may not always be compatible with older versions of Photoshop, if you're the type of no nonsense user who simply wants quality photo editing software without the bells and whistles, feel free to check out an earlier version. Don't Be Afraid to Alter the Default Settings: There are many small things you can do that make Photoshop a bit more user friendly. For example, performing simple tasks such as color coding menu bars, changing the shape of the cursor, or creating options for showing and hiding menu boxes can do wonders for speeding up your work. Along with allowing you to access commands quickly, altering the default settings allows you to customize Photoshop in a way that suits you the best. If you find that your alterations don't suit, it's a simple matter to change the program so that it displays its factory settings once more. Photoshop can be one of your most valuable business tools. By following these tips and more, you will be able to do your best to take advantage of this amazing software program. Rick Valence is a digital camera repair specialist at C.R.I.S. Camera Services in Chandler, Arizona. Along with being a camera and photography enthusiast, Rick enjoys camera repair blogging in his spare time and traveling around the world to find exotic regions and experiences to photograph. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rick_Valence Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/5192301

Photoshop Tutorial: White Teeth

Open the image in Photoshop, preferably in a JPEG format. The first step towards creating pearly white teeth is highlighting the area i.e. the teeth using the Lasso tool. Now go to the vertical menu bar, and choose the Dodge tool. This is used to brighten any part of a photograph or image. Using the dodge tool will brighten up the selected area (the teeth) in the image. The Dodge tool is an excellent option that can be used to whiten the eyes, teeth or other areas on your image that you want lightened. The next step involves brushing up the teeth, literally. Go to the brush drop down menu and choose a fuzzy brush. Ensure that the size is optimum as working with a brush that is too small or too large can impact the overall quality of your image. Try choosing a size as accurate as possible, to get a balanced and natural effect.

Select 50% exposure as it renders natural brightness that goes well with most images. Now move the Dodge tool evenly over the teeth to whiten them. You can reduce the exposure if you feel the teeth are looking 'unnaturally' white. Use the 'magnifying glass' icon in the toolbar to zoom in to the area you are working on. This allows you to take a closer look at the area and then run the brush accordingly over the teeth. Use slow movements without releasing your mouse, and run your brush as many times as you want till the desired whiteness is achieved. If you feel you have overdone the whitening, you can fix it easily. Click Edit >Step backwards and you will go one tone lighter, or you can use the 'Fade Dodge tool' in the Edit section to fade the entire whitening effect. You can set this up as per your needs and preferences. Ensure that there is no unevenness in the selected area, and you haven't left out any patches that might look odd in the final product. The teeth should look evenly brightened and any spots or unevenness must be corrected. Once the required brightness and whitening is achieved, you need to desaturate the picture. Select the 'Desaturate' tool to even out the entire area on which you have used the dodge tool. This is just one of the many ways to whiten teeth in a natural and simple way. To learn more of such techniques and methods, you will need to enroll for a Photoshop tutorial or course and gain complete understanding of the various facets of Photoshop. If you want to learn more Photoshop insider secrets then please visit http://www.photoshopwarrior.com and be sure to sign up for our mailing list. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rafin_O'Hara Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/6501347