Adey Baker
Member
I think Photoshop was designed by a committee and everyone went beyond their original remit and added extra features thus you can do lots of things in several different ways!
Whichever way you use first will probably be your favourite way even though the 'official' way may be easier!
I read 'conventional' photographic magazines (such as Amateur Photographer, Practical Photography) as opposed to digital photo magazines and over the years I've picked up useful Photoshop tips that are relevant to photography as opposed to...err...'manipulation' if you know what I mean.
Because they only covered one or two techniques in each article it was fairly easy to take them all on board.
I've no problem getting a photo ready to print because it mainly involves the basic functions of cropping, re-sizing, levels, sharpening and the occasional colour adjustments - but beyond that Photoshop is a complicated, mysterious beast to me, too.
I suppose all the features are there if you need them, but if you don't then there's no real incentive to learn them - you could spend a lot of time and money on a course to learn lots of stuff that you'd never require and playing around with all the filters, etc. in Photoshop is much more fun, anyway!
Whichever way you use first will probably be your favourite way even though the 'official' way may be easier!
I read 'conventional' photographic magazines (such as Amateur Photographer, Practical Photography) as opposed to digital photo magazines and over the years I've picked up useful Photoshop tips that are relevant to photography as opposed to...err...'manipulation' if you know what I mean.
Because they only covered one or two techniques in each article it was fairly easy to take them all on board.
I've no problem getting a photo ready to print because it mainly involves the basic functions of cropping, re-sizing, levels, sharpening and the occasional colour adjustments - but beyond that Photoshop is a complicated, mysterious beast to me, too.
I suppose all the features are there if you need them, but if you don't then there's no real incentive to learn them - you could spend a lot of time and money on a course to learn lots of stuff that you'd never require and playing around with all the filters, etc. in Photoshop is much more fun, anyway!
