Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Photoshop for Newbies" makes "Photoshop Geniuses"

By David Peters

Many of us may wonder learning adobe Photoshop is an engineering mathematics in itself. All of us have software called Adobe Photoshop installed in out programs menu. We never turn back to open it. Through all these years that wonderful piece of software is rarely used or not used at all. It can lead to like an Alice to Wonderland! If you just spent some time exploring it.

There are many features available in this software. You can just go through the help contents leisurely and try them one by them. Start with just 1 topic every day if you believe you are going to get bored. You will gradually not move out of chair after you start.

Abstracts are an interesting feature in Photoshop. The lens flare option in Adobe helps you create countless background effects, which you can use for your desktop or a screen saver. There are many online tutorials that give step by step guide to create 3-D shapes, Silver Abstract Vortex, Blood effects, glowing background effects and many more. There are very many abstract pattern motion backgrounds that can be created with this software. For any of these the steps are generalized as follows: click on white color for the layer that is background and hold down shift and then hit backspace. Then a few steps with the filter options within minutes you get abstract motions.

Photo retouch, is a technological aspect in Photoshop where in the aura of the purple color can be removed from your image. Say for instance at times when there is a voltage fluctuation, you try moving your hands in the air and watch it, you will see an aura of your hands due to the varied wavelength of the light. So there are instances when due to undesired light exposure you land up having purple fringes in your photograph, which can be effectively edited with the retouch option.

Nothing works better than a trial and error practice. If you do not know the basic commands in Photoshop do not browse for any further tutorial. Go to the help menu and go through the help menu, and go through command by command and try practicing. Sitting wide-eyed before a browser opening a link understanding nothing of the technical stuff, you are going to land up nowhere. How can you read a good when you don't know what A, B, C is!. So work out a few commands, do some basic sketch work in Adobe and then browse through the ocean of Adobe Photoshop Tutorial! You may land up reaching the shore with a bunch of creative pearls and 3D-graphic skills!

Well there are many such options in Adobe, brushes, buttons, color application, digital arts, effects, photo effects, text effects, web graphics, and web layouts, and many, many more. Drawing is an option in Photoshop that is a very interesting application that is used to create 2D and 3D effects, like a baby dancing, creating simple icons and buttons, metal effects, templates to create your own advertising page for an e-book and many, many more features.

As any art prefers, so does Adobe Photoshop require some time for learning. Adobe Photoshop has widest applications. It is not necessary that we need to master all. We can use it for our needs instantly with little time spent on the study of this wonderful software!. - 15465

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