Re: working with black and white photographs I second that! If your new to Photoshop, however, I would seriously
recommend Photoshop CS2 Classroom in a Book. Even after almost a decade
of using Photoshop, I never bothered to get familiar with the whole tool
until a couple years ago. Then after you have gotten a general taste of
Photoshop, The aforementioned book is unbeatable. In fact, there is a
companion book to "Restoring & Retouching" by Katrin Eismann called
"Masking & Compositing," which I worked through first. I am now working
my way through "Restoration & Retouching" and don't let anyone tell you
"Anyone can 'Photoshop' a picture." I have heard this unfortunate
statement on radio and television. I took a recent Photoshop User's
Group course given by National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP)
http://www.photoshopuser.com/
Visit this site to see if classes are coming to your location at some
time. It is worthwhile and very motivating.
The instructor ended the day by saying Photoshop is a life long learning
process. As stated above by Hebee Jeebes, it takes practice to learn
this process well.
Help files are more like an encyclopedia, which does not take you
through the learning process in a logical way.
I have heard some kids say anyone can do Photoshop. They learn
something like how to remove blemishes and wrinkles with the "clone" and
"healing" tools or how to remove "redeye" and think they are experts.
Jim Hawkins
http://www.j-hawkins.com/
mailto:photo@j-hawkins.com
PS: I wish they would add an option to the "redeye" tool for other
colors. Some animals, display "greeneye". It can be fixed in other
ways, but I think a simple target color option added to the redeye tool
would be a nice option to the default "red".
Jim Hawkins
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