Noob...

Hi everyone.....I came across this site while looking for tutorials and liked the ones I found here on your site. I probably will have questions the more I work with those tuts so plz bare with me.

BANG!

Quick reading:

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From Utopian23

Start by reading the manual and doing the exercises using the sample images provided on the CD. Carefully inspect the Quick Reference card and keep it handy, referring to it often. Between the manual and the Q.R. card, make a strong effort to learn the PROPER names of the tools and various palette navigation and their icons. Click and Control-Click [Right-click on PC] on EVERYTHING, paying particular attention to tiny little triangles in the palettes. Control-Clicking will usually reveal drop-down, fly-out and contextual menus that will allow you quick access to commands, functions and tools.

EXPERIMENT! Use your own motivation to learn some things on your own before asking about every little thing, or you'll make enemies here—and anywhere else—quickly. Until you put in the effort to learn proper names for things and do some work on your own, you won't be able to ask meaningful questions. The learning curve is steep, and you WILL have to do a lot of work on your own, but it's worth it.

Look at the main page of this site for tutorials that you can work through. Make friends with Google and learn how to do focused searches for Photoshop-related techniques. Start a search string with "Photoshop tutorial" and after that fill in whatever you want to learn about and you'll find tens-of-thousands of results. It's a valuable resource that we all use.

DO NOT concern yourself with acquiring 3rd-party plug-ins until you have a fairly strong understanding of the application, you'll only be cheating yourself and the results you get will look like every other hack amateur on the planet. Plug-ins are terrific, but you gotta know how, why and when to use them, and in what measure. Effects for effects' sake only make you look more like an amateur, and not like an expert.
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Thnx

Welcome to the forums -Rager-
Hope to see some of your work and help you progress.

Yea, welcome Rager. Hope you'll enjoy it here, we're actually a nice bunch, and I dare say that help will be provided...and rather quick if you compare to other sites with the same content...

Welcome to the Forum Rager. You'll see a lot of me around here. :D

Originally posted by Patteman
Hope you'll enjoy it here, we're actually a nice bunch, and I dare say that help will be provided...and rather quick if you compare to other sites with the same content...

Well before I even registered I did come in here and read through some of the stuff. I noticed how alot of replies to those in need of help got answered, and without that feeling of being a burden. So ya I would have to say that you all seem like a nice bunch.

I have been doing a little messing around with the tutorials and, well nothing I can show off just yet. BUT when I get something done you all WILL be the first to see it....:D