The best way to learn is to use it and experiment. >3 Most of what I learned in Photoshop and the like is playing around with it as well.

Yup. I tend to like to select the layer I wanna edit the blending mode of, and just scroll through the blending modes to see their effects quickly (you can do this by selecting the layer, then select "Normal" next to layer mode [or whatever mode you have it on] and press the down/up arrow).

Yea thats wat i should do :P Grrr I gotta get the full version, my trial ends in a few days ._.

Just one little comment... her hair line looks a bit jagged? (SP?)

but the skin looked good~

Jagged.

is it rlly bad or do u have to pay close attention to notice it?

Not sure if you've came across this but:

http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorials/photoshop

They have lots of tutorials there, including photo manip.

tyvm blaaaaah! ^^

Ewww. I guess it is...

LOL.

Maybe I was just paying close attention... coz... i deliberately looked for differences to see wat you've done... (it was like a spot the difference game!)