I am teaching myself photoshop...

[May-chan]

Can anyone give me a runthrough of all the tools on the bar... aside from the obvious ones about half I can't figure what they do, or I can't get them to work cause the layer is locked or something...

[Zeph]

Which version of Photoshop are you using?

[Raijin]

Heres some links.


http://www.phong.com/tutorials/

http://www.sumaleth.com/links/ - Really good side links to maaany how tos.

http://www.purephotoshop.com/browse.php ... =Photoshop

http://forums.sijun.com/ - good forums filled with great artist best way to get motivated

[Cow Belle]

Lucky bugger, All I got is Gimp. I free photoshop knock off that's NOT ueser friendsly in the slightest.

Well it's way better that the old MS paint. ^_^

Mind you, I prefer to scan a hand-drawn image and then do the color, shading, etc. in-program these days.

Same here! ^^

[May-chan]

Which version of Photoshop are you using?

7

and I was twittering around looking at some of the tutorials I've accumulated from deviant art and further practiced the brush settings and such...

thus here is some sorta rock with some sorta thing engraved in it...

[Cow Belle]

o_0 Very nice. (Me think I needs to work with the paint brush tool.) ^^

[Mistress Guendolen]

Good to meet a fellow adopter of that method! I learned it from the college roommate I mooched the program from in the first place. Gives it a very animation-y feel, doesn't it? You can see a few examples of my art a few posts down, by the way.... Oh, and the symbol-stone came out looking very nice indeed. I like the style you're using now. Simple and classy.

Mind you, I prefer to scan a hand-drawn image and then do the color, shading, etc. in-program these days.

Same here! ^^

[Raijin]

You make me wanna draw somthing infact...I think I will. ^^

[Mistress Guendolen]

You'll post it when you get it done, right? I do like seeing everyone's art.

[Arkain]

...I have photoshop...I must learn that technique...

[May-chan]

I used to have it in mind to do the sketch > ink > scan > photoshop thing... but I have a few problems... first I don't own a scanner....

second... I really have trouble creating line art that is suitable to photoshop... I see thinks more in terms of planes of color and form rather than lines, so when I have a color pallette and the ability to work from dark to light it is less stressful for me than sketching. If I ever do get a scanner I will try at it but I think with a template I could probably do all my art purely in a digital realm...

[Mistress Guendolen]

See, that's odd, because I have much more difficulty working with pure digital. I find it a lot easier to do the line art by hand. But then, I've been drawing for almost as long as I could hold an instrument in my hand (I phrase it that way because it started as crayons and only a little later segued into pencils and other equipment). So I'm used to doing it that way. Maybe it's just me being set in certain patterns with age. And I actually went and got a scanner after I was introduced to this method! I liked it too much to lose it once the roommate and I weren't rooming together anymore. We're still in touch, but we only lived together one year, and I didn't want to lose the capacity to do it this way.

[Zeph]

You're way too good at Photoshop. Then again, my dexterity with a mouse is laughable, so I can't really compete.

[Mistress Guendolen]

It'll get better with practice. Most things do. Maybe slowly, but it will.

[Stellar]

You think that was hard with just a mouse? Imagine useing Art Pad to make a full colored scene... http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?ivp8d0z81ug I must say... Drawing that was the most frustrating 90 minutes of my life >.> (I did that back in February when I was still addicted to Rose Online and I'll never use that medium again X_x)

But... Besides carpel tunnel complaints, you do have really awesome art. I wish I had the motivation to learn photoshop better XD