As I know, Photoshop is an excellence graphic design and photo retouch software.

Many Peoples use Photoshop to create excellence graphic for their own web. Including me!

Do you see the header image of this blog?

I design it myself… In a minutes!

Photoshop skills have become a common phenomena around the blog publisher and Photoshop have become the most reliable Software.

I knew Photoshop 4-5 years ago, introduced by my brother. And together we try to learn it to the deepest.

At that times, we’re still practice our design skills with the Version 6 of Photoshop.

Although it didn’t have features as complex as now, Photoshop 6 was great that at time.

We even happen to put a bad guy’s head onto the dog’s body! Â ha-ha!

It’s really fun making graphic creation with photoshop.

I have create many-many graphics from blank document or by combinating pictures and patterns together to get new results.

And not to mention how many graphics I have created, I can claimed myself as a photoshop-freaks!

I Learn my Photoshop skills mostly from books and Self-Learning DVDs.

I keep buying new books about Photoshop and keep follow the new improvement of Photoshop.

To mention some of them:

• Cheap and Dirty Tricks to Photoshop
• Photoshop Bibles (from Photoshop 7 to CS2 )
• Photoshop for Dummies (I use this dummies book too! easy to understand the new features on every version.)
• Photoshop 101 Special effects with filters (my favorite one)
• many others

I also bought lots of Self-Learning DVDs! I run across many different producer to learn their tips and tricks. Some of them are:

• Total Training For Photoshop Series
• Lynda.com
• Mark’s Photoshop Tips (My Favorite!)

Mark have a great job on presenting the core key to easily tweaking an image. I love the ways he teaches me. Fun and relax. Just like he was asking you to play with photoshop. Not to learn with photoshop!

Why don’t you visit his own website? here is his web URI : www.designsbymark.com

I’m sure he will teach you a lot!

Hmm…

By the way, talking about website, I have a cool site to recommend you. If you really want to learn photoshop, you can begin with this online resources.

This site have around 10.000+ Photoshop tutorials! All those toturial were submitted by more than thousands of web owner to promote their photoshop sites. Although some of the is little spammy, I’m sure you can grab many wisdoms here.

Check it out at :

• www.good-tutorials.comÂ

if you have time, you should check this one too:

• www.tutorialized.com

Have a nice day!

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