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caution, newbie question......
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o.k. i'm asking for your help. i have photoshop 5.5 and i want to be able to use it! i've fooled around alittle with it (dressed up some jpegs, etc...) but i really want to be able to do something good with it. i have no clue what a "layer" is or how to make one and implement it in a picture ( i told you i was a newbie) is there any books i can read, or sites i can visit that i can basically "teach' myself how to effectively use photoshop?
thanks in advance for your info 
[ 07-06-2001: Message edited by: suprz ]
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"The only time that man gets to actually leave a physical mark upon this earth is in death, and even then, it is only a gravestone proclaiming his demise"
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Well you could try reading the Users Guide that came with your Photoshop 5.5 assuming you legally own it 
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Yes, you could read the User's Guide, but that thing read like a ... a... a User's Guide. When I started with Photoshop, I found that the Photoshop WOW! book was really good for giving me instruction that I could use in a way that made it easy to understand what you were doing and why you were doing it. This way, later, when you have to develop an effect on your own you have the basics to build with.
-Rick
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Visual Quickstart Guide for Photoshop:
is a great resource for a newbie. The whole Quickstart series covering all kinds of applications are great for someone who has never used the application and gets you a sense of what the application can do. It is not meant to be the end-all and be-all reference. For that you can use other books such as...
"Real World Photoshop":
which is a hardcore/heavy-duty, but FULL-of-great-resources book.
Or the special effects books like the "Wow!" series.
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Hi
Adobe puts out "Classroom in a Book" -it comes with a CD, and is very umderstandable reading.
LParrish
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If you want to start working on photos right away, try "Photo-Retouching Secrets" by Scott Kelby. He also has a book on special effects: "Photoshop 6.0 Down & Dirty Tricks", but I'm not sure if there is one before v6.0.
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I'll second the "Classroom in a Book" also. I have the Photoshop 4 and Illustrator 7 ones and they were very handy. There's a whole tutorial with little projects that you can follow along with. I think that 75% of learning the software is actually attained from really using it, and the classroom series really does a good job to at least get one started with using it.
Mike
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i just got illustrator 9.0 last night. boy, talk about lost.....oh well, i guess i better start investing in books 
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