Tips from books and you tube-Photoshop top 40 by Deke MCClelland

When starting this course I had never used Adobe Photoshop before so it was all new to me, and even in year 2 my skills on adobe are a lot less skillful than other members in the class. I would watch other members in my class and the things they did and try to learn from them, but as soon as they ventured into the complex system of layers I got lost very very easily. To be honest I didn’t want to be badgering people for help when there busy getting there assignment ready to hand in, because I have been in that situation and its rather annoying.  I mentioned to Phill a lad on my course about how little I know and how did he learnt these skills and he introduced me to you tube.

 Before the 6 weeks previously I had bought several books on adobe Photoshop and books with advice in which I found useful these books being:

*Photoshop CS3 essential skills by Philip Andrews and Mark Galer

*Collins Digital SLR Handbook by John Freeman

*The Photography Bible By Daniel Lezano.

And yes they did help me but some of the sections were far to long and were step by step but it didn’t tell you where to find the tools (which for a numpty like me was rather hard)

 So I Gave you tube a try and entered the details in you tube them being:

*Photoshop top 40 by Deke MCClelland.

I found this very useful because he shows the views what to do by filming his computer screen; he directs you to the tools and shows you how to use them. His demonstrations are done on adobe Photoshop CS4 but he shows the viewers where these tools can be found on CS3 (the software I have) which are usually the same as the same as CS4.

I have learnt a lot from these demonstrations and I am now writing them when I get free time down in a book in step--step instructions where I can find the tools etc. With an index in the front of book so I can look up a skill I have forgotten and go to that page which for me was rather a good idea if I do say so myself.

Here are the links to the certain video's i found useful, i tried to attach the you tube to my blog but it was unsuccessful.

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_g9kiIAT78

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REll3OCahcI 

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfDSWzIIVoM

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t18GgtPsjY

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph6bCtx6U4s

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME3rai0yUF4

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WBhdy2cu04