Dorking out over Photoshop =)

[the_muppet]

So I've been dorking out over Photoshop a little bit lately =) I installed it on Wednesday and spent the whole frickin day working through my highly anticipated hissy fits over how I didn't understand any of the tutorials, etc. Which, seriously, I didn't. Actually, just one I did understand. The rest of them claim to be basic ones for beginners, and then just go off on one about "then I did this and that and some other highly unlikely word I've never heard of" and they think that's for beginners? *snorts* It isn't.

So here's what I did so far. And I kid you not when I tell you I've no idea what I'm doing - I randomly click shiny buttons and see what happens - *clickety* - and that's about the extent of my 'knowledge' so far. I barely understand layers, I've yet to use a brush or a texture cos I have a mental block in understanding those too - oh, and text is beyond me. Literally. Although suzyx has kindly offered to help me out with some text advice, and from_the_corner has been great in offering concrit to every effort I throw in her direction ;) And although I understand you need some knowledge to use 'curves' properly, I can't resist the urge to fiddle around with that little squiggly line *lol* so I've sort of experimented with that =)

So - here they are so far. I know they're all pretty bland, but I'm learning - I hope!
{ batch 001 }

1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20
21	22

Anyway, only posting these here for you guys to tell me where I'm going wrong with cropping, etc, and if any of you would like to offer any advice/tutorials/guides, please make sure they're idiot-proof. Please. I'm not sure how many more hissy fits my desk can take =)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY bookwormprinces!! Have wonderful birthday sweetie =)

Hope you're all having a lovely weekend =)

*hugs all*

Comments

[sue91.livejournal.com]

Hey, I think they're lovely :) Especially for a first attempt :) I like the style of #12, #17 & I think my absolute favourite is #22!
I fail to see the difference between #19 and #20, but maybe that's just me *lol*
And I have no idea who most of these people are *lol*

I'm seriously bad at adding text to my icons/graphics myself, so I understand what you mean xD I can never think of something intelligent to write on my icons, so 99,9% of them are without text ;)
And I've still got no idea how the whole curves thing actually works, but I agree, fiddling around with that squiggly can get quite obsessive *lol*

There was a lovely 'how to use textures' tutorial somewhere, I'll look for it and send you the link. I think it was 'idiot-proof', but I'll read through it again ;)

*hugs*

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

The difference between #19 and #20 is very subtle actually, and it's just that #20 is lighter than #19 =)

I will go through and tag these properly sometime, but they're Emily Browning (16-20), Jennifer Garner (22), Audrey Hepburn (21), Drew Barrymore (14 & 15), Billie Piper (10 & 11) and... some model (8, 9, 12 & 13) =P

I do have ideas for text to add, and a bunch of text only ones I want to do, but whenever I try and do text it just looks crappy, so I need help there - though suzyx - whose text icons I love - is gonna help me out there after the weekend =) Though of course any idiot guides you find are more than welcome, please!

And *lol* at your super-quick email reply last night! Mine will be... not quite so quick today I'm afraid =P

*hugs*

[sue91.livejournal.com]

Okay, thanks for clearing that up - now I can actually see it =P

Thank you =) I did recognize Billie Piper and Emily Browning, but not the others ;)

Looking forward to seeing your text-only icons, after suzyx has helped you :)
I guess, with text on icons you just have to keep it simple, meaning no overly curly fonts and yeah... If I had ideas for text to put on my icons, I'd manage, somehow... At least I think so. Although I really need to get myself one of those great simple fonts everyone seems to be using *lol*

And, as long as you had to wait for my email, you can now take all the time in the world to reply =P

♥

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

I have a collection of silly/funny badges I'd like to make icons from, so that's a starter for me ;)

I just got your email with the tutorial link so i've bookmarked that to look at later - my computer time is a little limited today so I'll probably check it out properly tomorrow - though I'm hoping sometime this evening to get on here long enough to reply to your latest email ;)

*hugs hard*