I'm new to Photoshop, but I'm figuring it out

I have to tell you that I'm serious this time. I've tried to do graphics in the past a few times but never really seriously. I'll tell you it's been a heck of a week I've spent in PS, but I'm happy to report progress is being made. I am figuring things out. I am creating graphics without running to other people. It's cool to know that maybe one day I'll be good enough at Photoshop to be able to make a lot of the websites I want. Currently it's more like I pay others to do most of my graphics. The quality of mine aren't on par to theres but give me time.

So far I'd say the hardest part is just figuring out Photoshop itself. There's so many darn buttons and stuff it's just overwhelming but like I said I'm getting it.

I've been hardcore reading some PS tutorials but a lot of them seem to just tell you how to do something and not explain how it works. People who write them need to assume the viewer knows next to nohing. Just a tip people..

If you know of any good tutorials feel free to plug them via comment and I'll appreciate any good links I can get.

I'm hoping over the next month to really break through some grounds in Photoshop and start rolling out the sexy images. Like I said, I hope.

I'm still a coder at heart, but boy oh boy how great it'd be to supply the frontend myself instead of just the back. I will post some of my stuff from time to time for people to look at and laugh at but for now I'm not too that point that I want to show off my stuff to the masses. I'm still a big noob

aktdo on 04-28-2009 10:43 PM wrote:

Ok then, design me a blog layout... k thanks.

bterrill on 04-30-2009 03:28 PM wrote:

You didn't like either of the ones I did

aktdo on 04-30-2009 10:45 PM wrote:

I liked parts of them, just make something that will blow me away.

bterrill on 05-01-2009 02:07 AM wrote:

how about a gun ?

aktdo on 05-02-2009 12:01 AM wrote:

That'd work.

bterrill on 05-02-2009 10:35 AM wrote:

hey dude can you make rounded tabs? I keep trying to for the NSA v2 site and they keep coming out crappy

The tutorials I'm using I can't seem to replicate proper. The tabs I can do in normal CSS/XHTML but they're flat and not as pretty.

aktdo on 05-03-2009 01:03 AM wrote:

I'll try my bestest.