A post that is neither fic nor even about fic

[ratherastory]

Okay.

So I have a not-so-legal copy of Photoshop CS4 on my computer. Shh, don't tell anyone, 'kay?

Anyway, I have discovered, much to my chagrin, that I understand diddlysquat about how it's supposed to work. No, seriously. I can't cut and paste shapes, I can't even find a fill too. It's embarrassing just how badly I suck at figuring this out, and usually after I futz around in a program for a while I can usually make out the basics. Hell, I once figured out an entire image editing software that was in Portuguese, and I don't even speak the language.

Dear flist, help a girl out. Are there good tutorials out there? Preferably with screencaps and plain language, or at least language that will explain to me what all the technical terms mean? I have this shiny toy, and I really want to play with it!

Thanks in advance!

Comments

[hereare-mysins.livejournal.com]

No need to embarrassed. Photoshop requires a lot of practice. I've been using it since PSC2 and I'm still learning.

Deviantart has TONS of tutorials that have screen caps. Just type Photoshop CS4 tutorial on the search bar and it should give you some good ones.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

It's like it's in Chinese, I swear! Or possibly Swahili. :P

Thanks for the tip! I'll check them out when I get home.

I wanted to make a banner or something maybe for my LJ, just fiddle with things, but I can't even figure out how to copy/paste sections of an image. I can sort of manipulate a single image, but that's where it ends, and that really kind of limits what I want to do, you know?

Eesh.