I guys! thats right! i really would like to learn Photoshop, but i would like to learn from the best. I would like to know if anybody would like to recommend to me any course on-line and preferently is certified by autodesk. I know a little abou 3d SM, but I would like to learn now on serious and profesional way. thanks in advance! best regards

and do a search for photoshop tutorials and give the ones that you find a go - there're hundreds of them out there on the web.

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Getting hold of as many tutorials is the best way to go, however don't follow them blindly. Change some of the settings they use or look for different ways of doing things from what you are told. Dont like a element in their finished version? Leave it out and put in something else.

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What I am trying to say is that you will devolop your own favourite tools and combinations of functions when you use photoshop. This helps to create your own artistic style, and when looking for tutorials, find those with images that you feel drawn too.
P.S. I can not recommend Computer Arts magazine highly enough and you may want to check out my favourite digital artist, the link to his site is attached. Message edited on: 01/11/2005 05:13

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Also check out the "Classroom In a Book" for Photoshop. When I took a Photoshop class as college, the teach used this book to take us step by step through all the various tools and their abilities. You get the basics in a straight-forward clear presentation.

I must agree with that. Adobe Photoshop Classroom In a Book for your version of Photoshop is great. Comes with a cd with the files containing the start, end and miscellaneous images for the projects in the book. It's also the recommended reading for the ACE tests.

Play with every feature, tool, and option and experiment ... before, during, and after you read all the books, manuals, and tutorials. Ask questions when you see an effect you like. Study as many Photoshop files from other artists that you can. And play, play, play. Above all, experiment.

Guess I agree with SeanE really. I found Deke McClelland's Photoshop Bible useful in understanding the reason why PS is the way it is, but you still have to put in lots of time with it to get the benefits. The plus side is that PS is accessible, coherent and stable.

sorry to delay too much to asnwer... are so valious your advices, and I appreciate too much! try and mistake from now and on... Let make to work web search engine for photoshop! just do it ! thanks!

I can't really say there's a best course, after time you'll just see that it's another way of doing something and you'll be able to add your touch to it. Check out some magazines, those have always given me some great tutorials not to mention books and just trial and error. Personally I like to fumble around for a while and get the hang of things. If I get any questions I turn to the manual. Goodluck getting started!