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2014 Photoshop Thread

...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.
 
Thing said:
I started on Microsoft Paint :) then graduated to Gimp (which is like photoshop) - just taught myself & for stuff I didn't know I used either google or youtube to find out how to do specific things...

It's fun but you need to have a few hours to do something really great & blend the colours etc to make it look top notch, which, I don't have these days - so most of my stuff is knocked up in about 20-30 mins, its better to get something on here than nothing at all..

Just give it a try in something easy like Paint to start with... I can tell you that I have folders on my computer full of pictures that didn't work out or stuffed up :) The fun is in creating it, the icing on top is posting it...
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...hey Thing... these two things right here are what sum up this thread so perfectly!... well said my friend!... cheers.
 
...hahaha!... I've just realised that in panel #5 in that last one I did that there's a typo error!... Ryan should be saying... "I'm not too sure what you mean Skye?"... I'm not sure on how I missed putting the word... 'what'... into the panel... I'm usually so damn anal in getting it perfect... I hope that you all forgive me for such shoddy work!... I apoligise from the heart of my bottom!... erm... um... I mean... I apologise from the bottom of my heart!... (that's better methinks!)... lol!... cheers.
 
Rose711 said:
Mr. S. And all the great posters here, Did you teach yourself Photoshop or did you take classes? I want to learn but don't know where to start.
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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.
 
Mr Stickyfingers said:
...^^^^ a great post tedfthis... I so agree with all of what you said... it is so true what you are saying!... why on Earth didn't we get Big Brother tonight?... they've canned Sunday nights... it looks like they are going to slowly butcher the show up as they did last year doesn't it?... Channel 9 have no respect for the show or us viewers at all do they?... cheers.
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Thanks Sticky. Unfortunately we are just being treated like idiots by Channel 9. Some of us DO have IQ's higher than Ned and Kelly, the 2 smartest housemates. Never seen them get into any arguments with anyone, they've never been pissed and they have been quiet and well behaved, from what we have seen, which isnt much. They have also been given the Teflon (Ryan) edit, the invisible man. Its a pity we didnt see more of him earlier, because he would have probably been evicted before now. But it was probably his game plan to sit back and take stock of who was who, much the same as Priya is doing. Then when he opens his mouth, he puts both feet in it and shows his true colours.

At least Priya has some redeeming qualities, although we did see a nasty side to her in the first week, when her and Katie took the $10,000.00 and didnt let on to the other housemates, that the $20,000.00 was part of the winners prize money, until BB told them to tell the housemates. I dont remember as much fuss being kicked up regarding the $30,000.00 that Aisha, Lawson and Jake got, even though that was also part of the prize money. Plus I suppose Skyes $5,000.00 came out of the prize pool too, so they are down to $195.00 now. A dollar a viewer, the way things are going :-).
 
Mr Stickyfingers said:
...hahaha!... I've just realised that in panel #5 in that last one I did that there's a typo error!... Ryan should be saying... "I'm not too sure what you mean Skye?"... I'm not sure on how I missed putting the word... 'what'... into the panel... I'm usually so damn anal in getting it perfect... I hope that you all forgive me for such shoddy work!... I apoligise from the heart of my bottom!... erm... um... I mean... I apologise from the bottom of my heart!... (that's better methinks!)... lol!... cheers.
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The brain is very clever, it does put missing words in :) I didn't notice
 
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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I still use Corel. A friend taught me to start with, but a lot was just playing with the program. I do a lot of retouching old photos, which can take hours.
For my Avatar, I wouldn't have been able to do it. Mr S did it. :)
 
Mr Stickyfingers said:
...this one isn't supposed to be funny or anything... it's pure curiosity on my part... it's self explanatory... do any of you agree with my guess on it?... if not... what do you think she is doing?... just thought that I'd ask... (she was a real fidget arse there wasn't she?)... cheers.


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My guess is Sandra is just back from taking a dump,
is wiping her fingers i.e. 'readjusting her clothes',
and is checking if her fingers smell like turd!
 
Thing said:
I started on Microsoft Paint :) then graduated to Gimp (which is like photoshop) - just taught myself & for stuff I didn't know I used either google or youtube to find out how to do specific things...

It's fun but you need to have a few hours to do something really great & blend the colours etc to make it look top notch, which, I don't have these days - so most of my stuff is knocked up in about 20-30 mins, its better to get something on here than nothing at all..

Just give it a try in something easy like Paint to start with... I can tell you that I have folders on my computer full of pictures that didn't work out or stuffed up :) The fun is in creating it, the icing on top is posting it...
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It's like looking in the mirror! Eerily similar to Thing I too use Gimp and am self taught using youtube etc. I find that the more you use it the better your images turn out - when I started (only a couple of years ago) they looked pretty bad and now I am starting to do a few gifs etc. All good fun :)
 
qtkt said:
If someone could do something with my eye, I would be very grateful
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...I've always been tempted to do one for you qtkt but wasn't sure if I should lol!... if you want me to I'll have a go at it... leave it with me... (unless someone else is already doing it for you of course)... cheers.
 
Mr Stickyfingers said:
...haha!... no worries Lindsay... it was my pleasure!... that is such a beautiful cat... what breed is it?... Ming's eyes are just amazing!... cheers.
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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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