Saturday, January 24, 2009

Photoshop for Newbies" makes "Photoshop Geniuses"

By David Peters

All of us can learn Adobe Photoshop. It is dynamic software that is focused on every aspect of image editing. It was initially used for paper print editing, but with the advent of technology it has gained wide application in the Digital Imaging Business and applications.

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.

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.

Well you have decided to learn Photoshop. Do not go to any website or any tutorial if you are a beginner, just go to the help command and mug it up, mug up all the commands possible. Then just run each command individually, this is nothing new; this is what all of us did when internet explorer was first launched. It may be hard the first few times, then you will get used to. Then with a little editing sense and practical knowledge apply the commands to edit any picture.

There is special software called Photoshop plastic surgery that our doctor uses to demonstrate when you are in for a cosmetic surgery of your nose or whatever organ. You can change seasonal effects from summer to winter.

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!. - 20896

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