Im a beginner with photoshop and i need help

i have Photoshop CS3


I have very little knowledge on how to use this program but i really want to learn how to use this program im completely lost and everything seems so complicated ive tried tutorials but they always have something i dont understand


what tutorials should i begin with


im a complete noob with this program how should i start and how can i make progress?


HELP would be greatly appreciated


and thanks in advance


:] Im a beginner with photoshop and i need help
You have several options. I would consider getting yourself a couple of books. One of them is Photoshop CS3 for Dummies. The Dummies series of books are aimed at the beginner or ';complete noob'; as you put it (and don't be embarrassed by that either, we ALL started somewhere!) =)





Another good one is the Photoshop CS3 Visual Quickstart Guide. I really like this series of books, I think they are very well written. You could also try the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book, these books are from Adobe itself, and they are tutorial based, so you go through it at your own speed.





You can order these books through Amazon.com.





One other source, it is a pay for use site, and that's Lynda.com. They have a very good reputation, I know people who love this site. You pay something like $25 a month, you can download and use the video tutorials at your leisure.





I know Photoshop can be very confusing, there's a lot there to learn. Take your time and experiment. And don't worry, even the experts will tell you no one can learn EVERYTHING about it, there's just too much there.





A couple of quick things to help you: when you want to try something out on an image, open the image in Photoshop, then go to the File menu, click on Save As. When the dialog box come up, give your file a new name (I often use the existing name and add something like Rev1 for Revision 1 or the date, say something like Tabby_cat_8_1_08 [use underlines instead of spaces, not absolutely necessary but a good idea just in case.] There is a drop down menu at the bottom of the dialog box, click that and select Photoshop for the file type. And make sure to select WHERE you want to save it to; you might want to create a specific folder for things you are working on. Then click Save (or OK, if it says that). What you have done is create a copy of the original file, something you always want to do. That way, if you really mess up you can always go back to that original file, or if something awful happens like Photoshop crashes before you have saved your work, you still have the original. Also, save often when you are working on something. Just hit Ctrl+S if you are on a PC or Command (apple key) +S if you are on a Mac.





Another thing: always keep your Layers palette open. As you begin to understand how Photoshop does things, you will find that Layers are your friend!





You can find out some of the basic stuff by going to the Help menu too. It does explain what the tools do and so on.





Hope that helps! Good luck and have fun!Im a beginner with photoshop and i need help
I can't even get the damn setup for cs3 to work on my computer, but I'm decent with cs2.





Youtube certain things that you would like to learn for sort of like a one on one tutorial.





The easiest thing to do is learn the name of what you want to learn, such as adding glows to lines and stuff, google glowing lines in photoshop. It works like a charm.





Good luck =)
try this one http://www.verbaska.com/


maybe it will help you :)