I usually am absent from this forum 9 months out of the 12.

Is that when you read the books that all your tutorials come from, when do your  9 months start again?

Miz u always make me laugh with your responses....hahaha...and i do appreciate your willingness to share what u know.

my problem is the way you make out that you've discovered something new, well in actual fact it's stuff that is available in any Photoshop book or across many Photoshop tutorial sites,and have been for years, they certainly aren't 'Secrets'

... and post about it daily.

Crap.  I agree with the pimping comments, but does that make me a hypocrite or what?  I watch Robert's tutorials and I wish the Photoshop Masters could just ignore his threads.  We are not all naturals at it and some of us have actually benefited from his videos... please don't chase The Miz away.

Even if EVERY trick of Miz' tutorials COULD be found somewhere in a book (or in 10 books), then I would still prefer his video tutorials, and not just because they're free! 

Many people (especially the not so young ones like me) hate studying bulky photoshop books - video tutorials are easier, and much more "hands-on".
It's nice to view one of them, then go to photoshop, try it out and say "hey, it really works". 
Of course Miz did not INVENT those tricks, that was done by those fantastic Adobe software guys.   
So thanks Miz for not making me read those tough 'n bulky books - you made it so much easier for me/us.

Firstly it is not that he is selling something that bothers me, it's not the way he keeps posting threads that then drives traffic to his own website, it's not even the adverts or any referral links on the websites that bothers me.

What bothers me is the titles such as "Some SUPER SECRET Techniques Revealed for the first time here" when in actual fact they are not secret and they are not new.

I'm sure like me you occasionally read threads where someones photographs have been taken and then vector art created from them, or when somebody sells someones images on eBay, and I'm sure like me you think it's a bad thing that someone has taken the time and effort to create such an image only to have it ripped of by somebody else who then takes the credit for all the hard work involved.

Well the tutorials on his site are not new, there are hard working people that create these tutorials and techniques, and either publish them on websites for free or publish books to gain their compensation.

I'm not saying he had done anything illegal but IMO the title of this thread and others suggests that it is he that has created these techniques.

Form your own opinion it's a free world apparently.

What bothers me is the titles such as "Some SUPER SECRET Techniques Revealed for the first time here" when in actual fact they are not secret and they are not new.
 

It's sarcasm RT.  He's just having a little fun.  I understand that it rubs you the wrong way,  but I think you misinterpret what he is doing. 

Oh well, let's get back to making money.   

Keep posting Miz

some of us like it

Firstly it is not that he is selling something that bothers me, it's not the way he keeps posting threads that then drives traffic to his own website, it's not even the adverts or any referral links on the websites that bothers me.

What bothers me is the titles such as "Some SUPER SECRET Techniques Revealed for the first time here" when in actual fact they are not secret and they are not new.

Firstly , who forces you to read or to watch ?


Secondly , did you thought that maybe some newbie or a person with less knowledge than you claim to have , is learning about blending modes , levels , curves etc , and probably find his tutorial useful ?

Maybe even someone heard about burn tool or blend if option from miz for the first time.


I can consider my knowledge above the level of most of his tutorials , but I watch them still sometimes,  I find that we do same thing in a different way , but I find his less complicated.

If I was starting to learn I would find them exactly like the title of his post are


Than again , maybe you are one angry bookseller 

I AM a Photoshop expert. I teach a summer college course o it each year at a local university and make my living designing web sites for myriad companies (the photography thing is my hobby). However, it's always fun to see how people reach the same results through different techniques.

Keep posting MIZ...I like your "super secret techniques" approach...it's like getting the "private eye decoder ring" in a box of cereal!   

Remember, Miz, some people either don't get your sense of humor for one reason or another, or simply don't have a sense of humor themselves. Your best bet is to simply dodge their flaming arrows and expose your backside to them in a gesture of respect.

To all of you that are bothered by the Miz just stop reading his posts.  He's obviously been a help to a lot of people and if you can't see that his 'top secret' heading was 'tongue in cheek' then you need to get a sense of humour. Why do people get so offended by someone trying to have a bit of fun and at the same time help others.