Photoshop Video Training

[tina_lee1]

I want to learn photoshop at home Please ! recommend a video

training . easy and step by step Thank you !

[chris hughes]

You can't go wrong with Deke McClelland's Photoshop CS Bible. It's the best (IMO) book on

the application out there. Very comprehensive and easy to read/understand. I've been a

professional graphic artist for fifteen years and McClelland's books always teach me new

things when I read them.

[errol young]

Photoshop is huge and no human needs all of its features. I recommend you find someone who does what you do and get an hour with them looking at the program. Then get videos and books. Web has some good tutorials. Just google.

 

Errol

[rosedoodle]

For my simple needs, if I feel the need to move beyond iPhoto on my Mac, I will get

PhotoShop Elements.

I'm sure there are many good books. I usually find what I need easily on Amazon.com.

[chris hughes]

"no human needs all it's features"? While I see what you're saying I tend to disagree.

Photoshop is probably the best and most versitile application available for any platform.

It's both a photo editing program and a full featured paint application. As a graphic artist I

can say with some confidence that I use about 90% of Photoshop's features at some point

in my work. That said, for the amateur or prosumer photographer Photoshop is like using

a jack hammer to pound nails. If all you're doing is touching up, resizing and or doing

basic filtering on images then Photoshop may be overkill. You can probably live with

Photoship Elements and never miss most of the missing features. I'd still suggest trying to

learn as much as you can about the software though. You'll be surprised by how easy and

useful many of the advanced operations are.

[jim mucklin]

Tina, A friend got me a six cd set called learn key 6.0. While is was for ps6, it has been the best tool, it starts at the beginning and has video. I don't know where he got it but a search might help, if not let me know.

Jim

[mawz]

I'd recomend starting with 'The Photoshop book for Digital Photographers', it's available in versions for Photoshop 7, CS and Elements, and I'm sure a CS2 version is on the way. excellent book for beginners.

[ducksquat]

<p>Go to <a href="http://www.lynda.com/store/category.aspx?categoryID=97">www.lynda.com</a> for some of the best DVD learning experiences around. The people she uses are industry experts and specialize in training/education. I can't recommend their products enough if DVD is the way you want to learn at an affordable price.</p>

[ShunCheung]

I second the recommendation of Scott Kelby's <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0321330625/qid=1117513939/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-3932520-8214260?v=glance&s=books">

<I>The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers</I></A>.

The above link is to the CS2 version of that book, but earlier PhotoShop 7, CS and Element III versions are also available. It is very suitable for photographers who are PhotoShop beginners to intermediates.

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Besides books, I took a two-day workshop with Sean Duggan and that was very helpful as well. But a workshop costs a lot more than books.

[tina_lee1]

Thanks all of you !

[bill_kerner1]

i second lynda.com not just for ps but the array pf programs you can learn. all for 25 a

month. one book costs that. I am a visual learner and books put me to sleep. they offer a few

freebies to get you started try it out and see where it takes you.

[ShunCheung]

Scott Kelby et.al. also have this web site for PhotoShop videos:

http://www.photoshopvideos.com. Among those, Dave Cross' PhotoShop CS2 for Beginners video is quite good. They are kind of expensive for that web site though. I have found some of them cheaper from other mail order books ellers such as http://bookpool.com.