A talk about Photoshop--Mastering the Right learning method

Article: cloudy/Blue Ideal Moderator

Whenever and wherever you must remember, Photoshop is just a tool

First of all, Photoshop for me, is already a day to night, almost to the point of vomiting a yellow-faced woman. At first it was infatuation, then to familiarity, to indifference, to disgust. Now, detached. Photoshop is like the mouse I use on the Internet, I do not care about the mouse is how it is (although occasionally grumble that this rotten mouse!)! And what attracts me is just the content on the screen--works.

Many people do not know the meaning of this sentence, will lead to learn the process of Photoshop boring. In the beginning to look into the software structure of Photoshop, just get a head, if someone said, can help me do this this, you find, incredibly oneself can't make out.

Why, because Photoshop is just a tool, the use of tools depends on your own feelings, skills, not Photoshop itself.

Watch more, think more, extend more, don't blindly learn

It was funny to recall that the first time I touched Photoshop 2.0. At that time I think, this image processing software is really strange, a lot of tools to draw so many, incredibly can not see what effect. (Khan ...) Later photoshop3.0.5 came out of the time, I was only the first time, feel the strong software. Now finally to 7, Overlord is the Overlord ... I admiration. It's very interesting to learn about Photoshop. I have also experienced the process of reading, tossing books and writing books. Now look back, the market a lot of Photoshop garbage books, not only teach bad students and waste youth. What a shame. But then think about it, a lot of subtlety, only in the tacit, not in the precept. To reach a level, the detour is really long and arduous.

But some of these detours, should not go. For example , when the ice-cube tutorial comes out, everyone is learning, everyone makes ice cubes, does anyone actually observe the ice? Is there anyone who really studies the refraction of light? Do you have to use the photo studio to make ice cubes? Can I change the steps? What is its rationale?

I'm sure that a lot of people learn Photoshop's idea is this:

See an effect--surprised--I also want to do--learn--rote--and see next effect, stunned again ...

Is this effect useful to you? What did you learn? If you learn that an effect cannot be extended to use or change, it is useless.

Why is it that most books are rubbish now, because they do not start from the observation of things, not from the actual application, and always at the beginning of the menu, the panel, explain what this is, what is that? Faint...... Beginners are not scared to death by these things? A whole software manual. I might as well just look at Photoshop for help. 6.0 has the Chinese version, the suggestion everybody goes to see, the book, cannot find really good temporarily does not buy.

The right way to learn is this:

See an effect--surprise--I also want to do--learn--understand the extension--can I use this feature to make better results? -Is there any other way I can do that? -See the next effect, oh, actually this is ...

Photoshop is expensive in the fine

A lot of people learn this to learn that, the study is very superficial, always at the beginning of the study of advanced channels, lighting, color adjustment, or anything, as honest as a good. We all know pen path pen tool, but the real use of a few of the flowing? Do you know that path+hue/saturation is the easiest and most direct way to paint Photoshop? Jet brush, spray gun, produce a picture of fine quality, a large part of it depends on it. Layer style, very simple is not, it can make the popular button almost all style.

First of all must know a little bit, and then will go deep, do not feel that there is no use I do not learn, that no use I do not learn. If you go on like this, you will never learn anything.

You don't have to compete with Photoshop.

Photoshop is not pen, it's not worth everything. I'm going to make a really cool reflection ... I want to do a real perspective ... There is no need to use Photoshop to achieve it, why not consider other software? Why do you think I do not need Photoshop, I do not use the filter is not, I have to use Photoshop myself. It's too hard, it's not necessary. At ordinary times to study can delve into, practice, really want to work when you say I will use Photoshop to do that is a bit silly.

Here is a sample of Photoshop selected from my work, incidentally, we discuss and hope to inspire.

1, very early experiments, mainly glass balls and metal balls, and then want to test the cracks, directly to the metal ball there. It is mainly gradual and fuzzy, and cracks use clouds to get irregular curves.

2, also very early test, improved the metal ball, and tested the effect of burning paper and leather, sewing, wrapping cloth effect. Now it seems to be a very failed work, hehe. The main use of clouds, miscellaneous points, lighting to achieve.