Becoming a Photoshop expert is probably on a lot of folks’ bucket lists. Who wouldn’t want to be a master of the most powerful photo editing program ever? But there were always two primary hurdles to learning Photoshop: the cost and the complexity. With the coming of the Creative Cloud, the cost factor has been mitigated for many folks. But what about the complexity? The first time you fire up Photoshop, it can be a tad overwhelming to say the least.
So if you’re just getting started, where do you go to get truly basic questions answered? Wade through the 746 pages of help and reference? Good luck with that. See you in a few weeks. Instead, you could head to a new forum Adobe has created where anyone can go to get basic Photoshop questions answered quickly and clearly. Not surprisingly, it’s called Photoshop for Beginners.
You just type in your question to see a list of related forum postings with answers and instructional videos. Plus, you can see questions being asked by other folks for some serendipitous schooling.
There’s also a FAQ for browsing.
And a set of resources for getting started, including foundational key concepts to get you off on the right foot.
This article was last modified on October 2, 2012
This article was first published on October 2, 2012
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