Tuesday, January 27, 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.

Photoshop has a wide variety of graphic tools available. There are many types of software that are commercially available like Ability Photopaint, Corel painter, Corel photo-paint, Graphic converter, Photo Mechanic, TV paint and many versions. Each of the Photoshop version comes with various applications and options that can be accessed from the help menus of each version.

You can animate a speech bubble with Photoshop. You can change the color of the lipstick color, the eye color, the color of the dress and every nook and corner of any image using Photoshop. There are thousands of methods followed in animating an object. Many combinations, adjusting aura, red eye correct, 3D mirage and on and on and on for every task you can write pages and pages and pages of articles, but the foundation for all this is just the few commands in the file menu, edit, insert and view options.

Animation is another feature of Photoshop you can fade the pictures out and in, you can manipulate the dark lights, you can create rain effects for the videos, you can create bumping balls, and many more 3D images too! It is a very, very interesting and colorful journey one you peep in to the various tutorials that are available for individual activity. The Adobe Photoshop site has elucidated tutorials for each such feature! It is in the interest of the learner to spend some time to go through it.

Basics, refers to the very many short cuts available in Photoshop that you can get used to so that as you climb the ladder of advanced lessons the software becomes easier. You can download and practice some of such short cuts from the various search engines. The cross processing effect in Photoshop can be used to create leaves and flowers in Photoshop. Basic cut and paste options go a long way with the other manipulative points in Photoshop to create an effective digital output.

Do what your heart tells you cannot! that is the key to success. Only baked bricks last long. So spend some hard time running the basic Adobe Photoshop commands. It will have it's own charm.

Adobe Photoshop, is just like any basic application, in short it is a digital crayon set. The only difference is we have seen only 7 colors in a crayon, but adobe comes out with millions and millions of color combinations and goes in depth to edit every color of nature. Every color of nature! Well it is a never ending project! - 16089

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