New To Photoshop Cs3! Help?

Can someone give me a simple guide? Call me small minded but I get overwhelmed by the humongous archive of How Tos that come with the help (F1) of Photoshop. It's the 'extended' version.

Basically, I wanna learn how to make layouts for websites, and skins and stuff. And I also want to learn how to actually photoshop images. You know, put fake tans, red eye reduct, ect. etc.

Thanks for reading!

 

http://www.pixel2life.com

Start there, in the Photoshop section.
Then Google and learn...

 

lol learn by experiment mostly, tuts are all right, but try to aquire your own style. Make something you made and no one else knows how.

 

Simple Guides? Well you can always google tutorial sites. Some are

HERE...
www.pixel2life.com
www.good-tutorials.com
www.tutorialized.com

or any other gfx site.
And sYke is right, you learn alot from experience.

 

Yea im knida new to this to jus wonderin which program is best to create new images.

 

well i learned how to give myself a fake tan lol

using the burn tool hee hee


but all those cool banners and stuff that on websites

you know, the really spiffy ones

am i using the right program for that?

and what's this about 'slicing for coding'? how does that work and why would i want to hire someone to do it for me?

 

you need to slice and code a skin that you make so it can work on an actual website and make all the links click-able.

 

is it hard to do?

 

Well it just takes time...
It takes time to learn everything with tools and coding.

 

well uhh, nice introduction. I hope you find what you are looking for then.

 

oh god..

i tried to do the FIRSt thing there, which was making the stepping into the picture 3d affect..

and all i retained was 'make ne wlayer, delete old one, marquee new one... fill old one'

i was like gah!!! i dont even know HOW to do the basic steps except actually load the picture onto photoshop

and make fake tans using the burn tool

 

lol

You just need to find a tutorial that explains all the tools etc..

or search some vid tuts..

and about coding, you don't do that in photoshop.

You make the layout in photoshop, and then you code it so that all link work etc.

slicing is pretty easy, if you know what to slice..
and if you want something to be coded, ask someone it probably is to diff for you to do it yoursellf.

 

yea, really first thing is first, i need to know the tools and stuff

the How To archive this program comes with is humongous yet... so vague

 

Moved to correct forum .

 

While we're on the subject, is it worth upgrading to CS3 or is it just worth saving the money and keeping good old CS2?