Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Photoshop for Newbies" makes "Photoshop Geniuses"

By David Peters

Adobe Photoshop is the worlds most used photo editor series, but still people hesitate to make a few clicks to work on it. There is a technical phobia for the term "Adobe Photoshop". Seldom do they realize it is easy to use, very user friendly, and a few hours to learn it is going to make you a Photoshop wizard! Believe me.. I am not blowing stories. It is as easy as 1, 2, and 3.

There are many features available in this software. You can just go through the help contents leisurely and try them one by them. Start with just 1 topic every day if you believe you are going to get bored. You will gradually not move out of chair after you start.

Illusion of a particular movement can be created by making still pictures move. Well, this is cartoons all about. Remember the basic cartoon making skills. We create a series of images that have slight variations and we put those pictures it the form of a picture. When we flip through the pictures the drawing gives the appearance of a moving action. Well the same is the concept of animation, just playing a little trick with out vision. Photoshop is a very effective tool for digital animation that works on the same concept.

Well you have decided to learn Photoshop. Do not go to any website or any tutorial if you are a beginner, just go to the help command and mug it up, mug up all the commands possible. Then just run each command individually, this is nothing new; this is what all of us did when internet explorer was first launched. It may be hard the first few times, then you will get used to. Then with a little editing sense and practical knowledge apply the commands to edit any picture.

There is special software called Photoshop plastic surgery that our doctor uses to demonstrate when you are in for a cosmetic surgery of your nose or whatever organ. You can change seasonal effects from summer to winter.

Do what your heart tells you cannot! that is the key to success. Only baked bricks last long. So spend some hard time running the basic Adobe Photoshop commands. It will have it's own charm.

Adobe Photoshop, is just like any basic application, in short it is a digital crayon set. The only difference is we have seen only 7 colors in a crayon, but adobe comes out with millions and millions of color combinations and goes in depth to edit every color of nature. Every color of nature! Well it is a never ending project! - 15432

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