I was having a fun MSN conversation with a colleague several months ago, and it started off when I saw she had marvelous wallpaper on her notebook.
Me: “Wow – Star Wars: Clone Wars wallpaper!!!”
Friend: “nice anot… i compose it myself… haha which is superimposing 2 pics together…
Me: “Not bad not bad. I have no photoshop sense – wish I had the kind of skills you have haha.:)”
Friend: “i wish i have ur brains then… haha”
Yep, so lecturers sometimes talk nonsense and fun on MSN too. But seriously, as far as Photoshop is concerned, I have no brains and am an utterly clueless noob. I mean, I can handle some of the easier functions, like resizing, lens distortion correction, color alterations, but anything that goes into layers and histograms is like venturing into the Bermuda Triangle for me.
But one of the nice things about working in an IHL are the tools in the computer labs. There’re several dozen computer labs in my faculty alone, all armed to the teeth with all the expensive software that I could never afford. Photoshop CS3 costs a not-very-modest USD630 for instance. The tools are all there for students to learn and do their practicals, or at least before they wreck the PCs (typically) by downloading all sorts of funny things from the Internet. And there’s at least one lab in the faculty whose computers are Photoshop CS3 equipped.
So, here’s what I’m going to do. My newest mission for this month: Learn Photoshop CS3. The library has like several person high racks and shelves of nothing but Photoshop books from versions a decade (?) ago till the most current versions. Starting today, I’m going to exhaust this library and park myself in the lab whenever I’m free to learn the tool. If nothing else, it’ll let me correct all the mistakes I’m making in my crappy photos.:)
wa, when u r expert already can teaching me haha… i only know how to cut out head n put on another body plus clone haha
i meant “can teach me”
I myself got started using Photoshop Elements only; it often comes pre-packaged with the mid-priced digicams, and can be purchased for less than a hundred even if not too.:)
Photoshop’s fun, I don’t remember reading too much of those books, typically look for online tutorial on specific effects when I need to. The pain is finding a good tutorial, some of them have horribly fake result, and is just a big waste of time.