Photoshop 101 for Dummies!!! (a noob tutorial)

[Sweet Raine]

this would have been sooo helpful when i was starting out... >>;; oh well. great n00b tut!

[Eclipse]

^ same here, no one would explain anything to me

well here it is for you kiddos who know absolutely nothing xD

[Noobone]

yeha man, thanks. it helped me out a little

[Rae]

wait--SS...aren't renders used for special effects? in photoshop that i have (full version, not tryout) renders menus are used for lightrays, and etc etc that has connection with special effects! do you mean render menu or what?

[Eclipse]

^ uh no. i'm not talking about render effects. I'm talking about stock renders, if you find a render of Riku on the internet, it's basically a screenshot of riku that was cut out from the background

the render is a cut out. i'm not talking about the special effect render, i'm talking about stock renders.

[var1ables]

It's a good tutorials on the VERY BASIC things.( i mean the stuff that my graphic design class covered in the first day of photoshop) It is good none the less.

[Eclipse]

^ yeah. well a lot of guys don't know what gradients and layers and stocks are and stuff. so i just wanted to explain it in a tut ^.^

I notice this thread got stickied <.< sweeet. hopefully this well help noobs everywhere!! xD

[212]

Thanks!!!!! I need tips for photoshop 7.0.......

[C4strife]

Originally Posted by _Odin_

Silver, magicbox.to-fi.com is gone. the host family was gone.

anyways, good guide for GFX noobs.

I think I found the new site:
http://magicbox.tragicflaw.org/index.php

Enjoy.

Originally Posted by Silver Silence

^ uh no. i'm not talking about render effects. I'm talking about stock renders, if you find a render of Riku on the internet, it's basically a screenshot of riku that was cut out from the background

the render is a cut out. i'm not talking about the special effect render, i'm talking about stock renders.

I demand you change the wording. A render is an abstract 3D model created in Maxon C4D.
You are talking about a pre-cut stock. I do not want hundreds of n00bs running around throwing around the word render when they don't even know what it means.

[var1ables]

Originally Posted by tux_

I demand you change the wording. A render is an abstract 3D model created in Maxon C4D.
You are talking about a pre-cut stock. I do not want hundreds of n00bs running around throwing around the word render when they don't even know what it means.

It already is, i was reading a tutorial on http://www.tutorialfx.com/ and it said render when they meant stock.( in i think two tutorials i believe). I got what they meant so i just kept going.

[Eclipse]

^ well it depends, tux_. Cuz I hear people using the word render for pre-cut stocks as well. Well i changed it to the word "stock render" in the tutorial

[Esp-Ada]

So like how does one put a border in a sig, Im curios because I can't seem to figure it out. Oh yea and when I use the pen tool the color the is currently selected spreads over the area with the points it doesn't just make points like in your pictures.

[Eclipse]

there are many ways to do this. you can take the rectangular marquee tool, and draw a box around the layer, then right click>stroke. the larger the pixel amount you type in, the fatter the border will be ^.^

or you could go to the blending options of the layer by right clicking the layer and then selecting innerglow on the background layer, which would make an innerglow around your background which is also a border ^.^

Oh yea and when I use the pen tool the color the is currently selected spreads over the area with the points it doesn't just make points like in your pictures.

that's a simple answer, because you have to put the opacity of the layer that the pen is drawing on, to zero. that way, the color doesn't show up. if you check my pics, the layer is on zero opacity =)

hope that helps

[RTP49]

Aww... I already know all this :<

Well, at least I know it's great for getting to where I am fast.

*gives rep*