Can Someone help me with photoshop 7

Hi,I just got Adobe Photoshop 7 and i would like to learn all the techniqes 4 photoshop,Can someone teach meeh all the important things.THX!!

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 atttention 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 everry 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 plugins until you have a fairly strong understanbding of the application, you'll only be cheating yourself and the results you get will look like every other hack amateur on the planet. Plugins 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.

Amen. *copies U23's post for future use.*