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EXTREME PHOTOSHOP DVD

From an early age I’ve always been interested in art in some way or another and I’ve always created my own unique designs. I don’t know what it is but it never fails to give me a buzz, not to mention feeling very proud, of my finished unique achievements. However, nowadays it seems as though pencils and paint are becoming a thing of the past and are a tad 'old school'. Anyway as of late I have been particularly fascinated in learning how to use Adobe Photoshop. You see my art and design skills have always been with pencils and paint, so I thought it was about time I moved with the times and brought my artistic flair into the 21st century. Don’t get me wrong though, I’m not saying that pencils and paint designs are becoming extinct, far from it!. It is just that the more time I spend online, the more I seem to be seeing unbelievable and literally outstanding designs created with Adobe’s Photoshop software.

Now, there’s absolutely no denying that whenever I see these outstanding unique creations available online, I can’t help myself from thinking, I want to be able to do this!. What better way to do this than using Photoshop and some type of training material?. I have spent the past few weeks researching what people classed as the best software available for creating amazing artwork pieces using Photoshop. Believe me there are countless ebooks and articles on performing particular tasks available with Photoshop. The thing about me though is I’m more of a visual learner as opposed to reading and I just seem to pick up things a lot easier watching how things are done. I then researched for Photoshop training 'online' or in 'DVD' format, with larger screen videos making learning a lot easier for me to follow along. Anyway I found a great site called Lynda.com that offered what looked like some pretty good training Photoshop DVD’s. The only thing with this site was at the time of visiting, there were no less than 21 yes that’s not a typo, 21 different Photoshop training DVD’s!. Needless to say, when you’re a beginner, which do you choose?. As I wasn’t going to purchase every single one of them due to the astronomical costs involved!.

Through my research I even discovered tons of free tutorials on YouTube which I thought was great!. What more could I ask for?. The only thing with YouTube is that although there are plenty of great tutorials on there, they really do suffer in visual quality making it a little difficult to follow for us mere newbie learners. Still determined though I persisted in my searches and found what seemed to suit my needs. It was a Photoshop training DVD and it showed me exactly what I would learn from the training and it even has (on the website) a short taster of all the tutorials…This definitely looked like the one for me. The main thing for me was, would this particular unique Extreme Photoshop DVD live up to what the site was claiming?. After all, I was a complete newbie to Photoshop so the training couldn’t be too advanced so as to confuse me. The content of the tutorials was therefore a complete surprise as the main 'creative' functions covered are a great insight into the awesome power of Photoshop, and I have presented a brief description of them below for you to consider:

 

• Learn how to apply a great looking sketch effect to any of your photographs. Showing you in detail how simple it really is to create even if you are a complete beginner to Photoshop.

 

• Learn how to create an abstract image which imitates fibre optics, because when you see the finished image it really does resemble fibre optics...This effect is done using only Photoshop tools and is created from a plain white blank canvas.

 

• Create some convincing 3D ext and place it into a photograph with amazing realism. This is purely created in Photoshop with no other software involved. The results can be astounding.

 

• Create a pop art style effect from a plain photograph. This effect can be applied to literally any photograph, such as your favourite pop star or film star. Just go for it.

 

• Next take on a promotional theme. This concept is to promote a training shoe (or sneaker depending on where you live) This technique can be applied to many other products.

 

• Turn a simple photograph into a kind of fantasy theme with a glowing beam of light. Also adding some particle sparkles cascading from the light beam and some background bubbles.

 

• Create a convincing grass texture look. Again, this is created purely with the Photoshop filters and nothing else. Start with a plain white canvas and absolutely no photographs are used for this project.

 

• Transform a simple picture of a house into a scary haunted house. This involves changing the image from daytime to night time and adding all the other elements to complete the effect.

 

• Create a vicious looking claw slashing through a steel door. Again this is created from a plain white canvas and no photos were used for this apart from adding a little texture to certain parts of the image.

 

• Learn the technique behind creating an authentic looking movie poster. This is a great way to fool your friends into thinking you're a film star by creating an action thriller poster with you taking the lead role.

 

The above tutorials add up to over five and a half hours of superb training and will truly catapult your knowledge of graphical design and open up the Photoshop 'world' for you.

 

I have got to say that I was very pleased overall with the training techniques. I personally found them very easy to follow along with and in general simple training methods. It is a very simple package to use and is a professionally put together package with well designed menus leading to all the tutorials. I was so impressed with the overall service and more importantly the product

 

So if you’re looking for something powerful that isn’t overly complex, whether you’re a beginner to Photoshop or an intermediate, then the Extreme Photoshop DVD is just the ticket. Not only are its results assured, but the manner in which it delivers them makes it a clear front runner in terms of being simple and very effective for teaching its pupils!. No longer do you need to worry about paying tutors hundreds of dollars for expensive college courses, there's absolutely no need to waste your money anymore!. You'll learn how to create top-level special effects for eye-catching movie posters, album covers, brochures, mailing pieces, magazine covers, article illustrations, and a wide range of web site graphics and more.

 

Discard everything else you thought you knew about Adobe Photoshop and begin to understand the real techniques!. 

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