12-13-2005, 11:54 AM
I have been a professional PS user for 10 years. If there is anything you want to know just hit me with a PM or ask in this thread. The best advice I can give is just play with the program, profiency with photoshop will take about a year of practice. Books I would recommend in order of importance are:
#1 Realworld Photoshop CS2
#2 Photoshop Artistry for CS2 (This is more of a practice book with specific tutorials)
#3 The Photoshop classroom in a book books are pretty Good.
There are other books but most are more advanced. Also if you plan on doing alot of Digital photography, there are very specific working routines that most be done if shooting in a Camera Raw format, but more on that later.
Good Photoshop Websites (note that most tutorials can range over multiple versions of PS, so a tutorial that was initially developed for say photoshop 6 will work fine in CS2, just that the menu commands may have moved or have been upgraded.
http://www.photoshoptechniques.com/
http://www.photoshopgurus.com/
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/tutorials.html
#1 Realworld Photoshop CS2
#2 Photoshop Artistry for CS2 (This is more of a practice book with specific tutorials)
#3 The Photoshop classroom in a book books are pretty Good.
There are other books but most are more advanced. Also if you plan on doing alot of Digital photography, there are very specific working routines that most be done if shooting in a Camera Raw format, but more on that later.
Good Photoshop Websites (note that most tutorials can range over multiple versions of PS, so a tutorial that was initially developed for say photoshop 6 will work fine in CS2, just that the menu commands may have moved or have been upgraded.
http://www.photoshoptechniques.com/
http://www.photoshopgurus.com/
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/tutorials.html