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What’s the deal with photoshop tutorials?

I’ve started with photoshop around the year 2000, and after some time I’ve tried to get as deep into photoshop as possible. This went well in the beginning…I believe 1.5 years. After this period, I wasn’t satisfied that much with my own results but realized that there are almost no tutorials which I didn’t know or which didn’t explain how to get a result in a way where I believed I’d know a better way and most of the times a better result.

So what’d I do?

Frankly said… I kept searching the net for tutorials…and what a surprise…I really didn’t find any more, until today. This means about 6.5 years without finding qualitative high tutorial resources which explain NEW stuff. At some point I thought I didn’t need the tutorials anymore, anyhow, as I’d know the techniques well enough to get the desired effect with my knowledge without problems.

This is pretty shocking, in my eyes. There are so many podcasts, of known photoshop-experts or forums or tutorial sites of thousands of people, and they ALL explain basic routines which are available everywhere anyways.

What’s the sense of this? I have no idea. Absolutely none. Especially from people who call themselves experts and publishing so called “advanced techniques for photoshop” I really really expect something NEW, perhaps difficult and some other aspects. And I expect that those people show highly advanced stuff… but in all the evolution of the net, this hasn’t happened. The tutorials stayed the same over the years, just the number of low-quality tutorials grew rapidly as many beginners in photoshop seem to feel the urge to publish tutorials they’ve learned from somewhere else.

I thought I wouldn’t need tutorials anymore as far as I’ve gotten and as good as I’m in photoshop atm, but I’ve come to the point where I noticed many limitations which could be minimized through the right tutorials.

So, one beg to ALL of you, who really are good at ps and didn’t start with it the last months and noticed some similar problems: If you find a high-quality tutorial, hand it over to me. I hope I don’t know it yet and it teaches me something I couldn’t do myself right now.

Thanks in advance.

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Everybody wants his clothes to look cool, I guess. At least the way he thinks it’s cool.

Main problem with usual shirts and pants is, that everybody gets them everywhere and so they’re everything but unique.

I just found something what I think is just AWESOME. So many people are designing…everything.. so what’s the deal with clothes? Sure… you could easily design a shirt and get it to the shirt-print-store, but that frightening expensive. What I just found is Design by hümans.There designers can upload their shirt-designs, get votes and customers can sells awesome shirts.

Perfect, if you ask me. Check it out

http://alteregophotography.deviantart.com/art/Spartan-88566625 when I saw that on deviantart, I said to my girlfriend that this guy’s looking pretty gay…. her answer was: “he’s looking even more ugly than you!!!”

that’s gotta be true love… O.o

The following videos were made for a fictive movie-show.

One part is the intro to the show, the other one is meant to play for subtitles like name of the moderator or a songtitle.

The idea behind it was to create the fealing as you’re watching at photos of that very time, the fifties.

Intro-sequence

Subtitle-sequence  

For the exams we had to create a styleguide.

For those of you who don’t know what a styleguide is, a short explanation: Let’s pretend you’re a designer (perhaps you don’t have to pretend ) and a customer wanted a coporate desin or even a coporate identity of you. means, you’re desiging the whole look and feel of the customers business. Now you’re done with the designing work and have to present it to you customer. ok, so far, so well, but the customer wants to USE everything you made, so you’ve got to give him some rules how to handle which part of the design. just telling him wouldn’t be enough, so you’re creating a styleguide, which contains all of that information.

Now as we just had to create certain things and not a whole coporate identity, the styleguide hasn’t become very big. My given terms were: Razor FM – 97.5 – Rock and Roll Radio.

That’s what I came up with in the end. I’m not that happy how some things turned out, but it’s ok. At least I think it is. (Quality is pretty messy, to get it as small as possible for the net. original work is printquality.) German, btw.