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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.