I am teaching myself photoshop...

[May-chan]

it is hard learning and getting used to things...

and ESPECIALLY hard as I do not have a template!!!

I'll be posting questions and such here (in this thread) in hopes that someone who knows their stuff will be able to assist me... I have no questions atm because it is past twelve and I am sooooooooo tired... so...

here is my first ever photoshop work of art... and a broken wrist...

[Cow Belle]

Wow that's sure looks good. Did you use a wacom tablet fo that?

[May-chan]

no, like I said... I have no template... all by mousy-painfulness

[Cow Belle]

Oh bummer. Still awesome work with the old mouse. (Nice colors too)

[dmalex]

wow that is really good


i have a stupid question about photoshop but i dont know exactly how to word it (im going to try though)

why does it seem like every good internet artist uses it?
and how hard is it to use???

[Beyond]

Awesome!

[May-chan]

why does it seem like every good internet artist uses it?
and how hard is it to use???

Well it's popular I guess, a lot of artists use a bunch of other things or things in combination I know so /shrug

and it has a lot of bells and whistles that's why I'm figuring it out and will have questions for any passer-by who is a veteran with the program...

[Cow Belle]

Um..... I'm not to sure but I think as the name implies photo-shop. It's a program that let's you work (shop) on art (photo). The big thing I think they like to use for is the fact that they can use tools to help make there art better. You know stuff like layers and the paint bucket. Also a lot of web-comic guys use it so they can add text and/or word bubbles with easy.
With Photoshop you can also color in stuff. With the layers system it's easy to add the darker shadows to add depth.

Also it's really sweet to use a Wacom tablet so you can draw on the tablet so that it shows up on the document.

[dmalex]

hmm the layering sounds interesting...

and thanks people for answering my question

[Raijin]

Ive recently been learning digital painting myself. Get a wacom board its alot easier. But I must say that is really good.

[May-chan]

Ive recently been learning digital painting myself. Get a wacom board its alot easier. But I must say that is really good.

easier yet... costlier... yes

tomorrow I'm gonna work on learning layering and such... maybe make a bunch of trees and hills and create a simple landscape...

[Cow Belle]

Check ebay. You can get old ones for dirt cheap. ^_^

[Lucky]

Lucky bugger, All I got is Gimp. I free photoshop knock off that's NOT ueser friendsly in the slightest.

>_o


Realy good tree thow. Your 1st and done with a broken wrist? Bravo!

[Mistress Guendolen]

Hey, that looks really good. Much better than my first attempts with Photoshop. Mind you, I prefer to scan a hand-drawn image and then do the color, shading, etc. in-program these days.

[Raijin]

Ive recently been learning digital painting myself. Get a wacom board its alot easier. But I must say that is really good.

easier yet... costlier... yes

tomorrow I'm gonna work on learning layering and such... maybe make a bunch of trees and hills and create a simple landscape...

Nah I actually got mine for a good cost, its not a huge one its a smaller one. BTW if you need any help with anything I have taken a few photoshop/adobe base classes in college.

ALSO I am so doing this when I have time to digital paint. Going to start a Quick Drawing topic or somone else can and you basicly draw/digital paint/paint what ever a piece of artwork really quick and post it on the topic. ^^