New to TPF

Just wanted to say hey to everyone. I know I'm not the best photoshopper by far. I've been browsing around and most of the work on the site is really good...tutorials here I come :D Anyways, here's some of my work, and just to get it out of the way I use Photoshop CS with Eyecandy. I'm running an old Athlon 900mhz with a GeForce FX 5200 Ultra and a single 60gb HD with a 17'' monitor.

*zombie girl*
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/0W4720GI00

*You are dumb wall*
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/AVZN5F6M35

*Wall for friend*
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/5GJ5A67K2H

*First 'tooned car*
--original--
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/Q3UW3U558H

--'tooned--
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/MDRBG449UX

*Another wall for friend*
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/37031Y39J6

*Yet another friend wall*
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/P8794X50M5

*Old wall for friends' band*
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/N93V5DO5J0

*ANOTHER wall for friend(maybe I'm too nice?)*
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/G09R2X02B0

*Brittany wall*
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/IQ94036770

*My wall*
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/67PGE98JT3

*My wall*
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/R2OR16JZH8

*Logo*
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/MU94D4EJ4K

*Day of Defeat wall*
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/R8482T0W93

*Logo*
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/839DTJO4E5

Well there's some, I know that they are pretty simple and not very complex but they suit my needs. I've only been Photoshopping for about a year and a half now and still have so much to learn but critiques are welcome.

whoa, that zombiechick freaked my guts out. O__O

Welcome to the board, but resize your signature, it's huge. :p

hey there,
yea, the zombie girl is nasty. i suggest you erase twistys.com on that pic so we don't know where it came from. my fav is the tooned car that looks like vector; sweet stuff. i agree with paavo about your sig, way too big.

Some pretty sweet stuff.. the zombie girl is pretty nasty looking. :p Cant wait to see some more stuff... welcome aboard

nice one ;)
isnt the zombie girl cute? dam guys where is your va va voom ?

Left my body as did my lunch. :rolleyes:

*Beats U23 to the lecture*

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[b][i]Posted originally by Utopian23 some x days back but only y people care. SIGMA![/b][/i]

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.

Part II

Concentrate on learning every possible way to make accurate selections—marquees, lassos, color range selctions, paths, channels, (there are many others). Learn why Adjustment Layers can make creating selections easier. Practice and experiment so that you get to the point where you can look at an image, decide what you want to do, and intuitively know which selection methods (sometimes alone, often in combination) will most easily isolate an image area you want to further manipulate. Once you get really good at this, the rest of your learning will be exponentially accelerated.

Become best friends with Google, and learn how to search effectively for techniques you want to learn about. Invest in Photoshop books. Ask for 'em for birthdays, Xmas, etc. You can never have too many.

Learn Photoshop's native filters and functions the best you can.

Find tutorials that deeply explore one aspect—say, for example, Displacement Maps (try working through Mark Zebra's Displace Tutorial(http://members.aol.com/markzebra/displace/)). Then, look for others on that native function. Then look for tutorials on something else. Work through them.

Experiment, read, search, read, study, experiment, practice, undo, redo, experiment, practice, practice, read, take a ride on your bike, read, study and experiment some more.

When you get a good handle on what Photoshop—and your mastery of it—can do, when you're motivated, you'll search out the plugin authors' websites, and read up on their software, and be better able to decide what will work for you.
Bottom line is to try to avoid Whiz!Bang! effects-for effects sake. Just because you have a bazillion plugins is never an excuse to use them just because you can.
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uhhhh - yeah. I agree. Some nice tricks and stuff but they're really not all that great. Check out ut23's advice, youll learn some nice stuff quickly. :D

And keep doing those cartoon cars!

yes the cartoon car is the one I like best...the zombie chick is also nicely done but it's been so used it's not funny anymore...

oh - and welcome to TPS yay!

Very nice Car, I like it a lot. Welcome to TeamPS, if you have any questions please contact the nearest mod.