Suggestions for a Photoshop Noob!

[Gunbucker]

Hi all,

My PS skills suck rat's a**. With just some understanding on messing around with curves, it's just shoddy rudimentary at best.

I'm not interested in correcting a bad image, but more on strengthening the points I want to put across in an image, such as adjusting the overall tonal hue to set the mood.

Would you PS gurus advise a good book for me? Or would it be best if I attended a course

Thanks!

[lumpyme]

the best is to experiment and try urself, mayb get a book to guide u but u def. have to try urself to appreciate the tools...

[catchlights]

post the original image to show.

[Gunbucker]

Thanks guys. I'll post a case study image later tonight.

Cheers!

[Celeste Shuen]

Originally Posted by Gunbucker Would you PS gurus advise a good book for me?

Hi,

I'm not a Photoshop guru, so my suggestions might not be that appropriate.
For correcting colour across the entire image, I benefited tremendously from reading Professional Photoshop and Photoshop LAB Color (both are by Dan Margulis); as well as, from joining the online reading groups for these books at Digital Grin.
These books are available at some of the libraries under NLB.

[Gunbucker]

Originally Posted by Celeste Shuen Hi, I'm not a Photoshop guru, so my suggestions might not be that appropriate. For correcting colour across the entire image, I benefited tremendously from reading Professional Photoshop and Photoshop LAB Color (both are by Dan Margulis); as well as, from joining the online reading groups for these books at Digital Grin. These books are available at some of the libraries under NLB.

Thanks Celeste!

I'm also a smugmug user, but didn't know they had an online reading group, way cool!

Regarding the LAB book, I have that one, only made it to the first few chapters . Great book btw.