Started My PhotoShop Online Class

The images in this post are the ones I’ve decided to have printed. The editing will begin next week.
What a good day, this first day of studying, has been.

I got in two good hours at Lynda.com. Deke McClelland has a set of excellent tutorials on PhotoShop CS5. Right off the bench he did a presentation on setting color guides. Exactly what I was looking for.

Warning here, if you are totally new to PhotoShop this may not be the series for you. There are lots of different tutorials on Lynda, so shop around. You can try as many tutorials as you like on whatever subjects suit your fancy.
Second warning, if you’ve never taken an on-line tutorial you’ll want to approach it the same way you did the traditional classroom. Set up a clear, quiet place to study in, have pencil and paper at hand, take notes, do the exercises. Use headphones if you have some.
With video tutorials, different instructors will speak and move at different paces. I’ve dropped some because the sound of the instructor’s voice got on my nerves.
Deke moves extremely fast. If I miss something I just rewind the video, until I’m clear on the instructions.
Almost all Adobe CS (Creative Suites including PhotoShop, Illustrator, DreamWeaver, and InDesign software programs) instructors teach through repetition. One function will be demonstrated and then applied three or four times using the same function on a different object.
Next my Spoonflower color map arrived. Last week I downloaded the Adobe color library from the Spoonflower site. Serendipity, now I know how to get it on the computer.
(I will blog more about my reunion with Spoonflower. I initially had an extremely bad experience with the company, but decided to give them another try. Will keep you posted.)

Have a wonderful holiday, and remember to chime in with your comments, suggestions, questions and advice.
Creative Commons Copyright, 2011, Yasmin Sabur

Comments

  1. Cheryl RezendesSeptember 4, 2011 at 4:18 PM

    Those images are looking quite lovely! Very, very nice.

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  2. Yasmin SaburSeptember 7, 2011 at 7:15 PM

    Cheryl thanks for your comments. Extremely simple process, but I'm having fun seeing how far I can take it.

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