Hey i need help with finding a good tutorial to lift up my photoshop. I take a lot of teens pics and i want to tweak them in a funky way which is in fashion now. But am really nervous re photoshop as i dont want refusals due to overprocessing. Does anyone know of  good tutorials?

also Kelby is good!

If you'd rather have a book, I recommend Photoshop (for the version you have) Classroom in a Book. (also for versions of Elements).

I'm in my second (paid) year of Lynda, but also CreativeLIVE has free tutorials ( within limitations, i.e.they're shown live then rebroadcast on a loop for 24 hrs (sometimes more), after that you need to pay; you can't start and stop them unless you buy them. Usually totally excellent. I'm listening to Jack Davis's tutorial on Painting with Photoshop as I type.

the best advice i can give is to start from a GOOD image rather than expecting PS to make miracles.

because, you can actually do miracles with PS but in which field exactly ? if we look at Color Corrections there a re few gurus out there that with Lab Color will get incredible results, problem is it will create a LOT of noise and they never show you the image at 100% for obvious reasons !

as for sharpness, if the original is badly focused you have many good plugins and many other techniques to improve the image but then again it will not look 100% natural and it will add a lot of noise !

contrast, shadows, highlights, same as above and it will be a lot more obvious with images shot by night and i mean A LOT, so much that your only fix will be a de-noise plugin and a downsize of 50%.

of course if you print the photo it will look good but on a monitor all the issues are visible.

sensor noise is THE problem for digital photography, even at ISO 100 in daytime as you can see if you make extreme color corrections, noise will pop up from nowhere especially if your sensor has no AA-filter, and don't confuse AA with de-noising, they're two different things !

Thanks guys for good links!

Xanox i fully agree: i dont want to save any images but i just want to tweak them. I cannot imagine that those funky retro images that i am thinking of were shot that way. I always add the basic contrast, saturation etc, but there is def more photoshop in the pics i am thinking of. Or have i missed something? I can shoot a good, sharp photo but with my canon 50d and shooting RAW the photos are not automatically as super eye popping or tweaked as the ones i am thinking of. Sorry if sound fussy but i think you know what i mean...?

Xanox, stop being disingenuous: there are loads of sepia, cross-processed, tinted, faux-bleached, faux-IR and some here-today-gone-tomorrow styles on the agencies.
May not be your cup of tea, but it's not an unreasonable question to ask here.

Hey i need help with finding a good tutorial to lift up my photoshop. I take a lot of teens pics and i want to tweak them in a funky way which is in fashion now. But am really nervous re photoshop as i dont want refusals due to overprocessing. Does anyone know of  good tutorials?

Look on youtube there are plenty of Gods in Photoshop there with tutorials on every subject.

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