Digital Photography Community

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Photoshop Tutorial - Basics - The Edit Menu

This is the second tutorial in our series of tutorials on the Menus in Photoshop.  It is very basic reading and a general introduction to the tools and options found in the Edit menu.

Friday, March 02, 2007

Photoshop Tutorial - Basics - The File Menu

In the next eight tutorials we will be looking at the eight Photoshop menus and some of the more common options and submenus inside them. This tutorial will cover the File Menu and its common options.

The eight menus are of course the ones that you see at the top of the Photoshop program window (minus the "Help" menu, and Mac users have a "Photoshop" window, since OS X adds that extra window as a matter of course).

The Photoshop Menus

This Photoshop tutorial is again meant as a foundational lesson, and if you are generally familiar with the program already, you will probably want to skip this lesson. I won’t be using many screen captures on this one. Mainly because it is easy to follow on your own screen, and it would take up too much space.

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Photoshop Tutorial - Welcome & Basic Overview

For intermediate to advanced users, this tutorial won’t hold much (if anything) new.  More exciting stuff is coming soon, don’t worry.  And meanwhile you can read it just to criticize my gramer (pun intended) and you might learn something you didn’t know.

In this Photoshop tutorial, the following will be covered:

• Program Layout - where & what everything is
• Program Menus
• Work Space
• Palettes
• Tools & Their Options
• Short Cuts
• Image Window

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Tutorials Will Include Videos

I have decided to make the process even easier on myself as well as others by doing screen-captured videos.  I will record me doing what is described in the tutorial and then I will use Google Video to host it.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Sub Categories Online

Well the sub categories are now online.  Again, I just made them match the forums.

It will take a while to put content in even each of the categories, but I plan on doing it.  I figure once there is enough content up I will begin promoting my site.  There really isn’t much capital invested in this site, and there isn’t much of a business plan so I won’t advertise it at all, I don’t think.  I’ll just finally link to it as well as spread the word cheaply - mostly word of mouth.

Four Years of Photography

Ok, I didn’t get around to making an entry on the 15th.  My wife finally did clamp down on making me pack at least my camera gear so I could take a family photo while I was up there.

I think the entry would have been something like this:

Wow, only four years have passed since I first had the idea that I could become a professional photographer!  It seems like it should at least be a decade.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Digital Photography Categories Fleshed out

Well I have been thinking for a long time about putting together the tutorials and articles that I want to publish on this site.  Over time I have tried to break up the concepts into a few categories.  Here are the parent categories I will be focusing on:

• Announcements, News, Misc
• Digital Photography Equipment
• Capturing Digital Photos
• Photoshop Tutorials and Helps
• Printing Digital Photos
• Photography as a Profession
• Personal Ramblings

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Digital Photography Community Forums Now Up

Well the site is coming together.  I am tweaking the default templates to give me a layout that I want, and the biggest news today is of course the launching of the Digital Photography Community Forums.