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sinai17
Joined: 20 Jan 2014
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 Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 2:56 pm Post subject: Hi All! Can you help a real beginner? |
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Hi Everybody! I was wondering if you can give me some advice about photoshop. So I am a starting photographer, and want to become familiar with photoshop. Due to my economic situation, all I have is the photoshop CS version, like a pretty old one. I have a mac g5 and the program came with it. I'm trying to buy a beginners book to become comfortable with the program and I have found a couple prospective ones. "the photoshop classroom in a book" and "the photoshop cs bible". Now, when I say beginner I really mean that I am a beginner, I don't even know the first thing to do when I open the photoshop cs program. LIke, I don't even know how to upload a picture with the program and what to do with it. Please let me know if these two books are good for someone like me, or if you have any suggestions. I'm pretty old school and I'd rather have an actual book to learn from. Please let me know what you think! Thanks y'all, blessings |
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hawkeye
Joined: 14 May 2009
Posts: 2377
Location: Mesa, Az
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
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Instead of buying a book first go to the library. You should find something there and it doesn't matter which version it's for, the basics are the same for all versions. And before you can do anything you need to understand the basics. |
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sinai17
Joined: 20 Jan 2014
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Thanks for the quick response! So by "understand the basics", do you mean I can get those basics from like a few of those books at a library? I mean, I guess I'm just confused maybe you're suggesting I learn the basics from something else? Thanks again for the reply! |
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hawkeye
Joined: 14 May 2009
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Location: Mesa, Az
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
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I am suggesting that you can learn the basics from a book at the library, just as easily as buying a book. The basics are the same for all versions. |
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thehermit
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
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Location: Cheltenham, UK
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Get stuck in with some online tutorials and buy a book like The Bible by all means, it will tell you the fundamentals and more, I have a Dreamweaver version. What it will not tell you however is that doing is more important. I don't know your location, but before the rise of the internet, I used to buy magazines and follow some of those (if that's how you prefer to learn) that way you get a broad overview of the tools in actual use.
Bash away at Google and find tutorials that you like the look of, that will always be a good start. Find out what you want to use Photoshop for and learning it will be a lot easier.
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