what is the best way to learn Photoshop?

[David Rowland]

i currently am subscribed to http://www.lynda.com on $25 / month package… lots of photoshop content.

I cant recall how much material is on the adobe DVD, maybe not enough

[Andy Gorman]

http://www.photoshopgurus.com/

Brilliant resource.

[Robert Lambie]

andy’s link is very good, i used to use that a while back… lynda.com is great as it shows you video tutorials. if you are a bit like me… crap at reading instructions, better to be told… lynda.com is worth paying. :lol1:

[John & Dawn Roddick]

Thanks folks – I’ve had a look at both and they seem to provide what I’m looking for

[autosign]

There’s loads of stuff online, I also have the Photoshop WOW book which is pretty good.

[Robert Lambie]

quote autosign:

There’s loads of stuff online, I also have the Photoshop WOW book which is pretty good.

but not WOW? 😕

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: just joking… i agree.. lots of freebie downloads too.
a couple of years ago, my brother downloaded the photoshop bible for free on a website. (not piratee one) but i cant imagine why it would be totally free if not pirate. anyway… obviously deals are out there… for me its alwaysvideoo. but i guess its upto the individual?

[James Martin]

Dawn

I learned photoshop and continue to use photoshop classroom in a book.

This title and others are featured on this adobe site but im sure you could get second hand copies on ebay.

http://www.adobe.com/products/adobepress/

Jimmy

[Martin Pearson]

I learnt to use photoshop with "Classroom in a Book" as well but that was a while ago because it was photoshop 3 then!!!
I found it to be really easy to understand, taught me a lot and was very useful to refer back to just to jog my memory if I hadn’t used certain tools for a while.
I would imagine the upto date version for photoshop cs would be just as good and it also seems to be a lot cheaper now !!! If I remember rightly I payed about £45 for it at the time but I have seen the latest version for about $34.

[George Kern]

I started using Photoshop back in version 4.0 (1996ish) we had it on a computer at school and I was hooked since then. I have learned my by just dabbling around when I first started more then anything else. You have to know in your head that by just trying things and trial and error you will not break the software so just play around with as much as you can, remember there is always the undo feature and the history palette. This software was the key influence in the career path I ended up taking, so from first hand experience I must say the next best resource to just learning from my own mistakes were online tutorial websites and eBooks. I went and still do attend college courses on graphic design and don’t find half of them as useful as these sites such as photoworkshop.com & lynda.com (those are jus 2 of many)

[David Rowland]

another place is to type into iTunes podcasts the word "photoshop" and see what you get. Quite a bit on photoshop on there

[Tim Jay]

Work through the tutorials on http://www.palnetphotoshop.com that’ll certainly get you going and it’s free!

[Andrew Bennett]

Thanks for that Tim, the link doesn’t work for me though 😕

[Andrew Bennett]

Does now
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/
😀

[Tim Jay]

That’ll be a problem with my spelling then… good thing I don’t have a job that’s dependent on my ability to use write! 😳

[Andrew Bennett]

Good post though, do you have one for illustrator at all?

[carla ritchie]

weve found our freinds youngsters no more about this kind of stuff than we did so weve learned a lot from freinds ask around theres surely some 1 who can show u a few things id be glad to if i can help.