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2014 Photoshop Thread

Mr Stickyfingers said:
...lol Lindsay... I've just noticed that I've posted the same tutorial link for Rose711 as you have!... talk about 2 minds thinking alike lolol!... cheers.
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LOL what a coincidence.I must have a look at those tutorials,you never quit learning when using photoshop and other programs
 
Lindsay1973 said:
Not sure,his mom is a black cat, I think it was this huge siamese or persian cat that was in the neighbourhood.He was born at home,one day I cam einto the lounge and there was this white squirmy thing on the floor,had no idea she was even pregnant
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...oh wow!... and that white squirmy thing turned out to look like that?... incredible!... thanks for letting me know Lindsay... cheers.
 
spygirl99 said:
Sandra the Succubus.
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...hahaha!... that looks sooooo spooky spygirl99!... I just love the way that you did those teeth!... well done!...

Coight said:
Prisus Lives!
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...mauwahahahahahahahahaha!... I so love the way that your brain ticks over Coight!... that is soooo brilliant!... what a hoot!...


Sweetgeek said:
OH MY GOSH!

I LOVE IT!

And you related it so well back to bb!

You always surprise me with your brilliant thinking Mr S
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...why thankyou Sweetgeek... that's so kind of you... I really do appreciate those kind words... cheers.
 
Coight said:
For those that may remember Terri....

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...I remember Terri because she lives near me in Windsor NSW... she works at our Coles store in Richmond about 3 Kilometres away... I've spoken to her about 3 or 4 times... she's such a nice lady to talk to... I asked her if she spent her winnings wisely as a joke and she told me that most of it was gone because she got herself out of debt and helped family members with her money too... as I say... such a nice lady...

...I'm loving your input into this thread Coight... great stuff indeed... keep them coming my friend... cheers.
 
qtkt said:
<<< Look what @Mr Stickyfingers did to my avatar !!! Is that cool or what? Thank you Sticky - and consider yourself blessed !
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...hahaha!... thankyou so much for my blessing qtkt!... (my favourite little Vicar of Dibley)... I was a bit hesitant about doing it to be quite honest... I thought that changing the Universe and Nature and everything was something that only God could do?.... lol!... just as well he sanctioned me to do it for you isn't it?... I'm so happy that you like it... cheers.
 
MADONNA said:
I LOVE it!!!! xoxoxo
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Haha, thanks! I have a better version now, with fixed hair & a pwetty lil messgae, but I don't know how to edit/delete posts, if such a thing is even possible ._.

EDIT: Just found the edit button. It took me like 3 days to find that. Just amazing effort by me :D
 
up_all_night said:
For some context, I am 31.

Growing up we tended to have computers and for whatever reason various software packages came with graphics software of different kinds. So I would just experiment. Even before the days of the internet we had various things and I would just play. Even in primary school we had things like some Arts and Letters clip art program for making pictures. Placing things, manipulating images and it started to teach some basics. I always always the kid that provided nice artwork with my school assignments. Printed in colour on a dot matrix printer. We even had morphing programs and all sorts of stuff that seemed to come from no where. As a kid, i'd just play and experiment.

I believe an old giant scanner we had came with Corel Photo Paint. Which is like photoshop. I just always messed around with it. Self taught a lot of things. I'd even do little photoshop presentations at christmas. One year I did a slideshow of my brothers head photoshopped onto various pictures for instance.

I always kept this up, with other various forays into multimedia stuff. There was some old Need For Speed game, NFS3: Hot Pursuit and it had an editor for car models. So I would make custom cars, which then required textures and so things like these gave me excuses to do different things, learn new skills. The reason I mention this is, because giving yourself an excuse and a reason to do things is the best way to learn.

Then at some point I was mid high school and there were a bunch of other people with various levels of knowledge and skill. They all used photoshop. Honestly I always found corel much easier. It was what I was used to. At this stage though, while Photoshop was more powerful, both programs were comparable for anything you were wanting to do. Corel also had a bunch of more user friendly features which weren't added into PS until CS or maybe right before then. So then we would kind of compete with doing photoshop edits and artwork. It was a good push.

I think internet forums was a big way of learning, late in high school and after. Various places I would post, various online communities had me playing around. Posting funny things and all the while you were learning skills. In this kind of stuff and various other programs.

So then after starting a uni degree I hated, quiting that I ended up doing a double majoy bachelors degree where one of them was multimedia. So this really gave me an a push and expanded what I can do. This is when I ended up switching entirely to Photoshop and ditched all the Corel stuff. I don't know what that is like these days, but it's fair to point out there's plenty of programs that are not photoshop, some which may be easier and more intuitive out there.

So I do have a bachelors degree which taught me a lot of stuff, however even then. Most of it comes down to playing around, to experimenting. Now there are so many tutorials online that were not there, even when I was doing my degree. I use them all the time.

I think though, the best thing is, just have ideas and make them. Forums like here are a great source of constant little projects. Also don't try and get them perfect. Do them well enough. You can look at some stuff I have posted. The quality varies and that purely comes down to if I can be bothered and the time it'd take. Some are easy, some take time. If someone would give me a job doing these, they'd all be much better. It's just a creative little outlet.

So just get ideas, play around in the programs. Look at tutorials. I was self taught and the degree just taught some basics to then go and expand. Over the years I've done thousands of photoshopped images on forums. I once went through a phase of making space artwork in photoshop. Hell earlier this year for no reason I made Emily Ratajkowski a pale skin red head. http://i.imgur.com/iuPKcqK.jpg

You just need inspiration and go and do it. Then don't worry if it's not perfect. I quite liked my Red head picture above, but I could spend another 10 minutes and improve something. Looking now there's so many little rough details that I could easily fix and now is all I can see. But I could spend a few more hours making it better, many more making it perfect. There is no point. Just play around and have fun. Which is key.

Get your point across and you'll gradually learn the skills that every time it becomes better.
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Thanks so much for the detailed answer. I'm saving this for ideas and inspiration. I greatly appreciate your help and advise.
 
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