Photoshop?

Question

What is some of the coolest features you have discovered while playing around/using Photoshop? Im just learning, and would like to know what other's experiences have been, and anything that you could tell me about/teach me so I can stay excited about it while Im tediously learning. Thanks!

Answer 1

There are a lot of books that have been written about using Photoshop. I think that the author/photographer Scott Selby probably has the best books out. That's how I started.

I like the ability to combine half of two pictures and then fade from one to the other.

Another cool feathure is to take a subject and separate it from the background and then make the background black and white and leave the subject in color.

You can also enhance colors from hazy shades to brilliant shades.

Another feature is to copy a picture into separate layers and then apply a blur onto an overlaying layer causing a soft focus effect. It looks cool on babies pictures.

Then you can get rid of facial blems and make some look prettier or even thinnner and taller.

Have fun!

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Answer 2

Well, you don't need to pay for any Photoshop book, at least to get started... It's available for free.

To learn the basics of how to best use any Adobe creative tool (including Photoshop, Illustrator, and many others), there are actually dozens of extensive free books that you can legally download instantly, and it won't cost you a cent

Answer 3

There are some great books out there for inspiration, I particularly found some of the books published by Friends of ED amazing, Photoshop Unleashed by them was incredible. I was in a bit of a creative rut, and those books definitely were able to get me inspired again.

Answer 4

My advice is to buy the official Adobe Photoshop how-to-book, and go through the entire CD/book tutorial. They get you started out with the basics, then eventually teach you the cool stuff:) This book is amazing! A bit pricey, but worth every penny!

Answer 5

My favorite feature is layers. If you want to change a background color, for example, you can make different layers visible until you get the right combination.

I use gimp more than photoshop, since it is free and it works in Linux and Windows.

http://gimp.org

Amazon has a lot of photoshop books.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Furl%3Dsearch-alias%253Dstripbooks%26field-keywords%3Dphotoshop%26Go.x%3D0%26Go.y%3D0%26Go%3DGo&tag=systemnotesor-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325"

Try a search for online tutorials, as there are a lot of good ones.

Answer 6

I use the burn brush way to much....
it helps a lil to go to youtube and type in what you want to learn
like
change your eye color
or
hair color

Answer 7

Making my own 3D images. That is cool.

Answer 8

making a photo sepia