Have you decided to venture in the world of image editing? Decided, but don’t know how?
Photoshop can be quite difficult, if you throw yourself at it without preparation. You’ve probably got no clue how everyone gets that wizardry done, because you don’t know head from tail in that maze of buttons and filters!
Don’t despair, because MakeUseOf will be your guide in this intricate, yet magical world.
We’re proud to present An Idiot’s Guide To Photoshop, the starter’s manual for every Photoshop initiate to carry! This guide starts right at the very bottom, assuming no knowledge at all, and walks you through all basic aspects of the application. The guide even comes with three full pages of shortcuts, cheat sheets covering all the application’s possibilities!
Let MakeUseOf’s own Karl Gechlik from AskTheAdmin guide you throughout the different editing possibilities in 30 illustrated pages, and get you to know your paint bucket from your eraser.
Are you water-mouthed yet? Got itchy fingers and want to get busy?
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First! And great post as usual.
Oh man, I don’t have Photoshop; I only have GIMP!
Anyone know of the same for Gimp??
Patience is a virtue, who knows what might sprout from MakeUseOf next
I’m brazilian, but I will try to learn something in this guide.
Very good.
This is a great resource, thanks!
I tried downloading the pdf but it appears to be damaged and I couldn’t open the file.
Hey, unable to download “Photoshop Guide”. When I click on “here” on the website, it opens other page but nothing to download.
Thanks for the guide to Photoshop. Where have you been?
Thanks for writing the Idiot Guide to Photoshop This is absolutely helpful!
great guide…used some of the skills to create the following
(chk photos)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkn1LR7zKUU
great guide…used some tips for a vid on utube.
search for ‘Rhythm Mandir Show Stoppa’
Nice handy guide. I will be downloading it and giving it to some of my students. Not that they are idiots mind you.
I am looking forward to reading this because so far I have struggled with creating drop shadows on my pillow photography. My picture taking sucks… and I haven’t discovered any of my graphic editing talents yet.:)
Thanx for the photoshop guidance. It has helped me much.. and hey this is just a great and marvelous resource.
thanks for the guide..
Great information about photoshop….
Thanks
Very useful! Thank you so much for it.
I’ll chime in on the Gimp request. Gimp is the way of the future. I never was a photoshop fan. I bought a version of Paint Shop Pro 8 and have never upgraded. I love that one! Gimp is similar, but not nearly as user friendly as PSP. The only reason I’m trying to migrate to Gimp is because it’s free and looks to be permanent.
Buying photoshop is like paying for TV that you can view online.
…I think you need ‘An Idiot’s Guide to PDF’ next, because…I don’t even know what the heck a .pdf file is.
Thanks for the guide. It has helped me much.. and hey this is just a great and marvelous resource.
This post is really helpful
In the PDF you mentioned that you would show us how to “replicate the background to make a new piece of it”. Have you perhaps released this guide as yet?
thank you for the guide
great one..very helpful for beginners…………
Thanks man I downloaded it to my mobile phone and it’s only 1.33M!
I have been looking for some great ebooks these days, although I have many books, I want to include the pdf version in my mobile phone.
This is a very helpful guide. Photoshop is difficult to learn but worth the trouble.
Can i just say how impressed i am with the guide. I used it to help me design my pictures on my blog for flight simulator download.
i never knew any thing about this stuff i think it is very impressed for this kind of help. thank you.
thanks for your generosity. been trying to learn photoshop, but like the rest i had been intimidated by it. i hope this one helps.