I wish...
 

I have awesome photoshop skills like you people~!

Coming up with new cool siggies all the time...

Not only do I not have the skills, but I don't have the artistic talent either...

I'm so jealous~

You can have mine because it's just sitting in the corner gathering dust at the moment.

Thank you, how very kind of you -insert it into my brain-

Take lessons from Blahs!!!

It'll be like family bonding xD

Yeah i think one day I should sit with her and watch her do her stuff on photoshop!

I think I can learn a lot like that... just gotta find the chance...

No.. IT'LL BE CARBON BONDING!! LOLOLOLOLOLL!!

And actually.. I suck at making siggies now. I don't get any inspirations at all... that's why I've requested for siggies from others because I can't make my own... :cries:

^lol!

Speaking of signatures, Alan's spoiler sig is epic. I was considering doing something like that, myself.

I know @_@ Ish made of win

But on topic.. You can learn if you stick with it... my first sig was made with absolutely no knowledge of photoshop.. like.. ZERO! It was my first time using anything like it (other then Paint.... which can't compare at all) and I made a sig, it sucked, but it was a start. THEN I STARTED EXPERIMENTING AND WATCHING TUTORIALS FROM TIME TO TIME (Important, cuz if you just live off of tutorials you won't learn a thing, gotta make your own style with what you learn :P) If you just do that, in a few months you'll be really good :3 I ALSO STARTED OUT WITH NO ARTISTIC VISION too, but you get inspiration, something I've learned recently is that you can get design ideas from things as simple as just plates, furniture, house designs (watch the remodeling shows if you have to!), or even designs from nature :3

Sorry for the mini WoT xD

That's inspirational Leesa!!

I found tutorials hard to follow.. but maybe coz I've followed some crapped ones xD

maybe I should give it another go~ you make it sounds like it's not all that hard~

Just like there are designers who go to art school, there are also those who can make great designs without ever going to an art school.

Instructor made the whole class groan when he was like "you don't have to go to art school to be a graphic designer"... lmao!

HAHAH the whole class must be like "What the hell am I doing here!?"

It can be ^^ First few months I just spent experimenting with tools and layer options and stuff to see how they actually work, now I'm experimenting with actual styles :P

Yeah, lol.

-looks at empty wallet-

... sigh

there are also those who wish to learn graphic design but never dedicate their spare time to it.

example:

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Loveless, will you be my teacher? <3

I wish the same applied to physics, chemistry, maths, etc. :/

I can never be a teacher. I do not have patience. (:

@a.L: Well, it can... if you're a genius. xD

I can endure even the harshest instructive noise.

*kneels in front of Loveless*

Please accept me as your humble student. :cries:

But I can't.

. z Z

*getting dangerously close to kissing Loveless's shoes*

why don't you make a tutorial with al your spare time.........jk what spare time

i inglis no gud

I could never make a tutorial. Everything I do in Photoshop is experimental and I rarely remember the steps I take to get a particular effect.

I'm off to bed...

anyone got some good pointers on where I can find some nice and short tutorials?

lol this the name gives it away
www.sigtutorials.com

oh cool that looks good thanks!

no, use GIMP. It's free. Plenty of tutes out there. D:

/in a quest to seek open-source converts

I actually find that following tutorials teach you how to start mucking around and experimenting in Photoshop. I don't really remember much of when I first started with it, but with any new design/graphics program, I find it hard to even know what to do in order to start "experimenting".

Following tutorials is a nice way to get used to how Photoshop and their tools work.

That's also true! I think I actually didn't follow tutorials at first.. and mucked around like you did, but tutorials taught me a lot more other tools, so I felt that I should have followed the tutorials xD Maybe you should like.. muck around yourself.. then follow tutorials.. then go back to mucking around! LOL!!!

OK HELP!

http://www.sigtutorials.com/tutorial...signature.html

I started this tute coz it looks kinda easy.. which it was... motion blur, motion blur, Linear Dodge (:idea: That's new!)

And then... if you go down the to "Adding the Main Picture" part... it's suppose to each me how to blend the picture onto the background..

I cant get the add vector mask thing happening... I only have the option to Add Layer Mask, (i think after that I have the option to add Vector Mask but it doesnt seem to make any changes)

http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/p...-sigtute-1.png

I've still got that rough edge... What am I doing wrong or wat have I missed?

lulz. I actually don't know how masking works! I was supposed to learn about it but I forgot and when I remembered.. I was too lazy to follow tutes xD Hopefully someone else here knows how masking works HAHA.

Now that reminds me it happens to me a lot at most tutorials..

I follow it real well all the way until the end when it just doesnt work out

-rage quit-

xD

You're not the only one.. I feel that way too LMAO. I feel that way with a lot of things actually. I was working on a chibi but I had a "drawing block" and I haven't made any progress since.. I would open it a few times in attempt to fix it up but... I always close it after 5 minutes xD

I just blurred the rough edge and it looked alright..

that'll do xD

next...

ohh hmm I still dont see what it does but that made me played aorund with the layer option instead and it looked kinda cool...

Interesting... thanks En!