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Hi all,

I'm new at this forum, at photo shop and all this graphic. So far I've only made one lousy lightning. It turned out well, and now I want to make more

The thing is, i was wondering if someone could give me a good link to a beginners site, with some nicely explained tutorials. Also, wich photo shop is best to use?

[ReFredzRate]

First of all, welcome to DEVPPL. I hope you stick around!

If you're new, start right off with Photoshop CS or CS2. I've been using Photoshop 7 from the start, and can't get used to CS.

Besides the version you should use, check out the Tutorials section on this website. Further you could check out http://www.photoshop-tutorials.biz or something like that.

(I've never even created a lightning, so you should be just fine!)

[webmaster]

Yeah welcome =)

I've just started using CS2 and I really like it, mucher better then CS1 and the earlier versions.

Take a look at the photoshop tutorials -section here on devppl:
http://www.devppl.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=73

[Excruciating]

CS or CS2? What the hell is CS???? ... The one I'm using now is jasc paint shop pro 7, but most tutorials isn't made for that, or at least I can't find all the tools described in the tutorials. Thanks for the sites, looks usefull, and thanks for the help

[Phate]

Paint shop pro is different from Adobe Photoshop

[ReFredzRate]

The other day I came across a website that has loads of tutorials for many different software packages. I believe Paintshop Pro was in there too. I'll have a look, see if I can retrieve the URL, because I'm not really sure what site it was.

[webmaster]

Ah its Paint Shop Pro you're using... There isn't many tutorials made for that, so I recoment Photoshop.

Here's a tutoriallist for PSP tutorials:
http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/Paint_Shop_Pro/All/

[Excruciating]

Hmm, I've just retrieved the adobe photshop cs2 trail, that is the one right? Going to buy it soon, if it's good that is

[ReFredzRate]

I hope it's a good software package for you to work with. Only sad thing is that tey charge you around €900 for it, some stores even more... You can buy an entire new computer for money like that!

[Excruciating]

And mabey I should... I apparently don't even have enough Ram for a simple tag! Isn't 512 MB enough? :O

[ReFredzRate]

I'm just using 256 for Photoshop 7 right now. I'm on my laptop, so it's a bit less powerful then my pc. I've got 512 inside my pc, but for 7 256 seems to be enough. My guess is 512 should be enough for CS2 though.

[Excruciating]

Arhg, how come I have to type with size 1000 before i can see it? Is the image to big?... Might explain why it takes so much RAM. Just solved it. 400x400 cm xD

[ReFredzRate]

Lol, making the image 400x400px did the trick right?

[Excruciating]

Yea Just made my first picture.. turned out well I think
<---------------------------------LOOK

[Excruciating]

How do you de-select for an example a text you've just typed? Where do I put a new font if I want to use t in cs2?