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Published: 2009-07-17 00:13:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 20828; Favourites: 115; Downloads: 642
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To view this tutorial, please click fullview or download.This tutorial was made based on using Photoshop 7, but many of the tools are the same in other versions of photoshop too.
A tutorial I'm working on that shows how to use some of the tools. Everything is color coded related to each tool.
This is not finished yet, I have a lot more to add, but I decided to upload this part now and just add to it as I finish more.
I hope you find this useful. (if you do any comments and suggestions are welcome)
And if you have something you'd like to learn more about or if you have any questions about what I've already covered in this tutorial, feel free to ask me
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One of the few tutorials that I rarely see are guides to Photoshop's tools so it was refreshing to see this guide.
I liked the use of color in the first example of the toolbar to help separate and identify each of the tools covered in the tutorial and it was a good idea to utilize those same colors throughout the tutorial as an easy reference as to what each section covered. However, I think the colors were overdone and in some cases, particularly with yellow, the text gets hard or even impossible to read. It would be best to use only black text and then to separate the sections using colors or putting borders around the examples in the respective color.
While there is a lot of information here, the tutorial could benefit from being broken up into multiple pages so that you can include better, clearer information on each subject.
Lastly, the tutorial ends abruptly at the bottom with a blank white space. This seems like a mistake and should be cropped in closer to the last line of text or you could utilize this extra space to add more information to your tutorial.
I think it's a great start and you've got good subjects to cover, but it needs improvement.
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This was useful, thank you. Is there a way to resize a layer once you have already pasted it onto another picture?
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If it is a separate layer you should be able to resize it by pressing ctrl + t (on a pc), or cmd + t (on a mac).
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This is a very useful tutorial. Thanks for making it<3
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Thank you. This makes a good reference for basic functions.
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Also sweetie sometimes i click a brush (if i do a brush stroke)& it totally goes somewhere else i know im doing something wrong its sad cos i end up going on gimp !I know im using a wrong setting or something do you know what i may be doing wrong its like i go to do a brush stroke & it ends like up the top of the page or somewhere totally different i know its to do with the brush dynamics but could you help !
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if it is a normal brush without a bunch of random shapes, it should go where you click it, but ones with lots of shapes such as the one of the leaves, that has to have the dynamics changed so that they are closer together and the spread is lesser
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this is excellent for someone whos just got photoshop sometimes its so hard just to find just basic tutorials like this yesterday i was designing a slide for a presentation & i got stuck just doing text on ps oh man i searched & searched then i found this little tutorial that helped ! thanks sweetie us newbees need help like this sometimes !Your site is great thanks !
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bright colored text (yellow, cyan, green) + white background = my eyes hurt
other than that, its fine
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thanks, yeah i tried to vary the color, maybe i should have made them darker. next time i make a tutorial i'll keep those types of things in mind
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Thank you sooo much! I've been so confused by layers and background and overlay, you make it so simple! Thank you!
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cool, i'm glad i was able to explain it
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Oh, this is very handy ^_^
Good luck with the rest of it
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thanks 
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Sorry for getting back so late to this reply
you're welcome =]
Hmm, I actually wouldn't know. I'm totally new with photoshop so every info you put in your tutorial is welcome
Again good luck with it. I'm sure it will be usefull to a lot of people ^_^
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ok, well then i'll try to add as much as i can to it
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kind initiative ! thank you for your help.
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photoshop 7, but the tools in this probably are similar or at least some should be the same
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Ah... okay. In that case it is useful. xP
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