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- ciggytoo, on 10/17/2008, -6/+48This list is weak. It has stolen toots from Corey Barker, Felix Nelson, and Bert Monroy, but the links don't lead to planetphotoshop.com or photoshopuser.com, so I call humbug. Buried.
- silver26, on 10/17/2008, -4/+37People automatically digg any list of Photoshop tuts without looking at them
- GoldenChaos, on 10/17/2008, -9/+25Although I can't see it, at some point in your Photoshop career these things become common sense. To create x object you just go through the natural progression of layering colors and such on top of one another to form a concrete shape, while using filters and blending options for textures and details you'd rather not "paint" yourself. I mean, at some point it really does boil down to whether you have artistic skill - you're better off taking an art class to get better at Photoshop than reading a tutorial. I used to subsist on them when I was starting Photoshop six years ago or so, but after going through an art program at my school and learning the real ins and outs of all the Photoshop functions, tutorials look like they would hinder someone - even a beginner - from learning that Photoshop is a tool to bring out your creativity, not a step-by-step process to be followed to make a generic effect, and as such I pretty much never use any of the "skills" I learned from the tutorials. The effect that you want to make comes from your imagination, and you figure out how to build it, just like you would figure out how to paint a painting and what brush techniques to use to achieve your desired emotion and effect. While a tutorial may help people learn the most basic functions, the super-specific tutorials that wade through incredible amounts of blending options with specific decimal-based numbers do absolutely nothing to help you learn Photoshop.
- ivansusanin, on 10/17/2008, -2/+15who the ***** keeps photoshopping ipods and macbooks all the time? is there really that high a demand for that *****?
- MacParrot, on 10/17/2008, -0/+13Why do people complain about what makes the front page when the obvious answer is obvious?
- nebbyneb, on 10/17/2008, -0/+11...along with 500 other tutorials I hope to one day have time to go through!
- Raxem, on 10/17/2008, -1/+11Some of us don't want to go to school just to learn photoshop. While it may have hindered you and what you do, they have taught me everything I know. It is the only way some of us can learn how to use the program. And I don't feel tutorials have limited my creativity... Just because a person follows them doesn't mean they have to follow it step by step and can't throw in some of their own spice. I have a good time simply reading through a couple of tutorials at a time to implement some new techniques in what I am going to make next time, creating a larger and larger library of what the program can do and how I can use those techniques as a whole in my works.
Maybe for someone like you, GoldenChaos, tuts are bad, but for others they are very good. - inactive, on 10/17/2008, -2/+11he gave links fool. you could, you know, follow up yourself instead of being a lazy retard.
- pinstripewizard, on 10/17/2008, -0/+7I don't know why he's being dugg down. It is true, text and logo outlines look terrible rasterized.
- lilcleo001, on 10/17/2008, -2/+9dead
- Wilsomatic, on 10/17/2008, -5/+12Was looking good until I saw "Making A Print Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop". Working in print media graphic design, I know just the sound of it would make a printer cringe! If it's going to be printed, text must be vector... That is unless you want it to look *****.
- Delvis, on 10/17/2008, -0/+6The thing with tutorials is they expose you to parts of a given piece of software that you wouldn't otherwise get to see. So when you're going through these, you're in effect expanding the palette you have to work with when you're working towards the "effect you want to create". Same as in any art - creativity is paramount, but technique is what unlocks that creativity and allows it to be expressed.
- namelessXsilent, on 10/17/2008, -3/+9yea well when the site is down you cant look at them... so i dugg it to come back to it later
- BSDaemon, on 10/17/2008, -1/+6Umm, yes they do. Try hovering over the links. Welcome to the Internet, noob.
- snowblind113, on 10/17/2008, -0/+5its a small video series by this weird dude called "you suck at photoshop"
- xSledgewick, on 10/17/2008, -0/+4Yes it does.
It's a series of videos that show you how to use Photoshop, with a guy being a ***** the whole time. It's pretty hilarious and actually teaches you pretty good. - samfishercell, on 10/17/2008, -0/+4He's being dugg down by the same morons that keep digging these Photoshop tutorials up.
He's pretty right on (although Photoshop has evolved to make better use of vector text and such), but that makes the people who spend time making banners for their friends on the Counter Strike message boards very sad. - OldManNiko, on 10/17/2008, -2/+6You know the biggest problem with these "Top X of topic A" sites is that they never actually had anything to do with the "Top X" of "Topic A" before they spent the 30 minutes needed to google search the stuff. Elitebydesign.com, the site generously hosting this list of tutorials they didnt write, is sure generating add revenue for themselves by having this list up on digg.
Digg is becomming less a place to find meaningful and popular content and more a place where we link the next top ten list and rake in the google Adsense dollars. Elitebydesign web page creation company has pulled this twice in two days. - inactive, on 10/17/2008, -1/+4digging also saves things for later, champ
- Darkaged, on 10/17/2008, -1/+4http://www.jauhari.net/how-to-creating-the-magical ...
- thescimitar, on 10/17/2008, -2/+5Amen to this. Overused "effects" are pervasive in crap design (and photography, and retouching, pretty much all of the digital creative). What kind of architect only knows how to design specific structures? Gotta learn the tools in your toolbox, rather than final results and a path to get there. The latter can be done by a monkey (or a creative who will do your job for 1/10th the price).
- BrewBeau, on 10/17/2008, -1/+4Why would there be any demand for that?
- doronster195, on 10/17/2008, -0/+3The question is, did it provide you with 23 incredible photoshop tutorials? If yes, then digg up. If no, bury.
- TCDToxic, on 10/18/2008, -0/+3We dont talk about "using digg as a bookmarker so you can check out the stories later when the site is down or you dont have time" club.
- slumslum, on 10/17/2008, -0/+3http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Big_Fat_Brain/You_Suc ...
- TalkGibberish, on 10/17/2008, -0/+2It's less about making a Mac, and more about learning new things. Applying the skills you learn from these tutorials is what makes them useful.
- RecoDesign, on 10/17/2008, -0/+2people are just ***** and want to be mean. kinda like squashing an ant for no reason.
- passedoutghost, on 10/17/2008, -0/+2Why not?
- brodiquine, on 10/17/2008, -1/+3Agreed. InDesign ftw.
- samfishercell, on 10/17/2008, -0/+2Anyone who buried this comment for "InDesign" should delete Photoshop off your computer right now. Go'n. Do it. You have to use MS Paint from now on.
- chilibeanie, on 10/17/2008, -0/+2Really. When you retouch for a living, you're presented with a image problem and you gotta make it happen. You don't get a tutorial. You must know your tools, how things look, and how to recreate that look. That's where an art class is a great suggestion.
Not to say you can't pick up some tips from tutorials. I find them fun to skim, but kind of tedious to follow. - frogman54, on 10/17/2008, -4/+61. 4 sentences, 2 questions marks.
2. I like macs.
3. Rainbows are pretty.
4. I just don't see the point of spending time learning how to create something that has thousands of stock images all over the internet. Sure I could learn a few techniques from the tutorials, but why not make something original like a cool space computer with lasers and stuff.
5. ???????????
6. Profit. - samfishercell, on 10/17/2008, -0/+2Correction: Everyone who has an internet connection THINKS they're a designer now. ;)
- inactive, on 10/17/2008, -3/+5tl;dr
- dehlz, on 10/17/2008, -0/+2actually this is the first morning in a long time where there were no political stories in the top 10...probably won't last long though.
- panacean, on 10/17/2008, -1/+3shame it doesn't teach you proper grammar
- Paulorific, on 10/17/2008, -0/+2These comments aren't even saying anything stupid though. Saying things like "this is good" would grant a bury if the article actually wasn't good, but if it isn't good then why does it have 2000+ diggs?
- PatoLucas, on 10/17/2008, -1/+3Thanks a lot, it seemed that by now a lot of people would know that if you submit stolen content to Digg eventually you'll be called for it.
- macbookcoard, on 10/17/2008, -0/+2Welcome to Digg, sonny.
- LinDeviant, on 10/17/2008, -0/+2I noticed that too! As I look at the front page right now, there isn't a single political story in the Top 10 or on the FP itself.
- Setari, on 10/17/2008, -0/+2The people that can afford to pay for photoshop very likely use it for professional work, not for filter-whoring that only passes as "art" when used in forum sigs.
- fixerofthings, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1np
- tdillo, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1You could say the same about cooking and using recipes. When I first started cooking as a hobby it was nice to get some cool recipes and make things that I would either not have known about or would have ruined without a recipe. (Painting by Numbers so-to-speak)
Later, as my skills improved through practice I could begin to tweak and experiment with recipes. In this sense, I would use a tutorial as a starting point or perhaps for inspiration.
Eventually, I might reach a point where I had mastered the tools, in which case, I doubt I would even be reading an article about tutorials. - fwertz, on 10/18/2008, -0/+1Exactly!
- Rkstar, on 10/17/2008, -4/+5Everything I need to know about Photoshop, I learned from Donnie Hoyle.
- irishjays, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1dugg for American psycho reference in their slogan.
- animatorjim, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1ssshhhh. . . Quiet!
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