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[slack3r08]

What´s better for you guys online tutorials or good ol books?
or like me a combiantion of both, and of course practice

[funkysoul]

definately BOTH

[Bryn]

tuts for me. There is a wider range of tuts.

[saferwaters]

Both, books for basics and tuts for different styles etc...different ways to manipulate the basics (learnt from books)

[BeaverElfeater]

both, plus videos, people teaching me, and self experimentation

[Faken]

With a whip and knee-highs

Ignore me

[Silwolffe]

Personally, I find that using the stuff from books in Photoshop and working from there helps me. I barely use any online tutorials simply because I don't like the fact of 'copying' someone's style to learn an effect, regardless of what it may be.

I also use the Adobe help documents, they're very useful.

Practice; trial and error.

[Jamie Huskisson]

for me its video tutorials, but I like being able to read too

Video tutorials don't have the advantage of copying and pasting code.. but who learns from copying and pasting?

[blinek]

books, for shure. I think that they explain and elaborate much more then most tutorials do.

[slack3r08]

aeiko, on Dec 5 2005, 03:00 PM, said:

books, for shure. I think that they explain and elaborate much more then most tutorials do.

That's why i like to do a combination .. first read a book learn "why i would do stuff"... then if i want to learn to make an specific thing i look up a tutorial that covers the topic but i always try to use what i learn as a base then i would throw in my "techniques" and as some have said continue trying and failing till i get what i want...

[blinek]

kind of going along with my previous post,

I just books to get a basic understanding then just online tutorials for more specific things.

Alot like what you said slack3r

[iPod]

Tuts and the "Photoshop Bible"

For scripting and stuff like that i learn from tuts.

iPod

[Bryn]

Do you lot mean Ebooks?

[arcath]

Tuts definatley for me, 4 some reason i find it hard to read a book about each tool, i prefer to learn how to do by doing

[slack3r08]

Bryn, on Dec 5 2005, 05:40 PM, said:

Do you lot mean Ebooks?

E-books or traditional Printed books.. doesn't matter .. why ??

[Power]

Books take too long... So I'll say tuts are better for me.

[Vouksh]

Umm... I started out with tutorials, then I just kinda learned from there on my own. I've never read a book on anything pertaining to Photoshop, (X)HTML, or PHP

[SKETCHi]

I can honestly say that I have never read a book about Photoshop, nor have I followed a tutorial and attempted to recreate the outcome. I read tutorials just to see how others have done something. Not to brag or anything, though I must sound like an arogant ass, but I usually only look through the images and figure out how the outcome was achieved.

I find trial and error to be the best. When I first started, I didn't even think of looking for tutorials online. I was young, and it was Photoshop 5.0. I was basically using it for pointless things, but it helped me learn nonetheless.

Of course, further down the line (as I became more interested in learning everything about the program) I have had plenty of questions answered by my father. He went to school to learn it, and currently uses Photoshop on a daily basis at work doing color correction and retouching.

So, a combination of trial and error and help from some one in person. Having some one next to you is definitely more effective than reading an online tutorial or a book. But personally, trial and error has worked well.

It all really depends on the type of learning you are more comfortable with. Some people can read something, instantly remember it, and recognize it for further uses. Others have a hard time comprehending written text (lots of times due to the writers of the tutorials and books) and prefer having it told and shown to them in person.

So for all of you tutorial writers, there is one rule I've attempted (yeah, attempted... as in failed to many times) to follow throughout my writing efforts. It's simple, just write a tutorial as if you were explaining it to a child.

Well, that was a long post... Glad it's over.

Edited by SKETCHi, 12 December 2005 - 04:14 AM.

[Viesta]

haha