My grandfather was a carpenter and built things in three dimensions.
I build things in two. Photoshop is my hammer ... and that's all it is. It
can make things of great beauty; it can make steaming piles of crap. I,
like most people, manage to create something in between.
Like any tool, it's all about who's wielding the hammer. I just do real
nuts-and-bolts stuff: image editing, resizing, a little pixel-pushing here
and there - the basics. And that's what I'll cover in the first few days of
this tutorial. Luke, the artiste, will take you through the more fine-artsy
stuff (days four to six).
Here's the rundown of what we'll be covering.
Day 1: Cropping, changing mode, resizing, file formats
Day 2: Selection tools, filters
Day 3: Text tool, layers, the rule of 51
Day 4: Merging graphics, the path tool
Day 5: Faking images - think lights and shadows
Day 6: Making illustrations
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