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Published: 2006-07-22 15:25:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 108487; Favourites: 3526; Downloads: 19310
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YAY! finally finished!!! Press DOWNLOAD IMAGE at the right to see the tutorial
This is the first tutorial of a huge list I'll be writing for my website. I hope you'll like them.
Took me 4 days to write
favs, comments and suggestione are appreciated... ........................
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What version is this for? I have PS Pro 8.. will this still work?
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No, that's a different program. Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop aren't the same.
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Doh! *smacks head!* I meant Photoshop Elements! Sorry..
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this is so helpful! i'll go clean up my photoshop now, thanks!!
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I loved the details about Photoshop. Never thought of these before.
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Awesome tutorial, There is one thing i would change/or add. Step 6, instead of calling them mistakes...i would say more like, if you dont like how it came out
something like that. Its not a mistake, i simply didnt like what i ended up with.
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yey. as a starter, this is a great help.^_^
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"you need to have a lot of patience on order for you to have patience."
^_^
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Thanks for this quick yet deep and useful guide. I've been using photoshop for many years and it keeps surprising me.
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This tutorial will help a LOT!!!!! thank u very much for doing it!!!!
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I thought I fully understand photoshop
there are some points here that I didn't know 
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Many thanks. Some of your tips helped a lot.
Fave'd - and for good reason, too
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Thank you very much for taking the time to create this.
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wow.
just wow.
Ok, so I have a powerful computing machine (I built it with the intention of running 3D programs like Maya) and it usually took about 15 seconds to open Photoshop, nothing to scoff at surely.
now it takes less than 3. O-O;
thank you sir.
thank you.
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Great tutorial. The only part I disagree with is the upscaling comment: I can't say I'd ever recommend up-scaling to 300 from 72 any portion of a piece you intend to leave viewable.
A rough sketch you'll paint over completely, sure, upscale away -- but if you leave the upscaled portion viewable, you'll end up with some bad jaggies and blurry junk, especially if you print.
(I'm sure you know this, but I'm not sure all your readers would.)
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That's the whole point. Making a thumbnail sketch (or speedpaint to define color) is a way to refrain from getting into details too much. So, if you draw it on 72 dpi, and up-res to 300 dpi to finish it, it's absolutely possible. I do it every time. There are several upres methods in Photoshop. I'll discuss them lat0rz
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Exactly. I understand what you mean, I do it with all my work, too. My criticism was only that I think your specific wording on that part (ie: "finishing touches") suggests something else (or it did to me, maybe I'm weird): doing most of the work at 72, and then upping to 300 only at the very end for a couple of minor details. Otherwise, yeah, quick sketch and block in colors at 72, then finish it, refine it, and detail it at 300 is totally do-able.
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You Are a GOD ... i think your loved by every photoshop trainee there is
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Congrats to your DD and a very well written tutorial
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I don't have photoshop, but I'm faving this in case I ever get it.
Really useful, awesome job.
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I don't really go back on my histories much because I made an error, I might go back maybe 10 tops, but I do like to use it for going back and screenshotting my progress since I do get pretty caught up in my colorng, I'll forget to screenshot or something and I like to screenshot progress on my bigger works just because it's fun to look how it goes from point A to point B 
Great tutorial
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Thanks a ton. I've been using PS since 5.0 and I didn't know a lot of this. This should make my work flow a lot smoother.
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That was great! I have a fear of opening internet and photoshop at the same time, but I think this will help greatly.
But I don't get step 1 D: and I have no idea what partitions & RAID 0 partitions are... urm, by discs, do you mean like CDs? haha.. I feel stupid~
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No, disks are the real disks in your computer. A hard disk (hard drive). A partition is just a divided hard disk.
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ahh
thanks
me and my computer ignorance, ahah xD
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he's talking about hard drives. Basically, Photoshop uses some hard drive space to put aside bits of data while it's working, so if you have a hard drive that's uncluttered to dedicate to Photoshop it will work faster.
RAID partitioning is a step towards really complex and I would definitely recommend someone who knows what they're doing to do it for you. RAID isn't very necessary though, it's mostly for security and backup purposes to keep data safe if a hard drive dies. So you can ignore the RAID part really.
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I think I get..it sorta
thanks a lot
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This is super helpful! Thanks so much for sharing your tips.
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This is really helpful thanks for that tuto!
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O_O wow, it's really a greaaat help ^^ thanx for duin it ^^ really useful :3
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Practically my life saver. Thank you.
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hey dude thanks for the RGB CMYK tip =]
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DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!! iv been complaining about my scratch disks for a month!!!!!!
thank you!!!! you are god!!!!!!!
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Great info! I honestly hadn't thought of reducing the number of history states (I never go back more than 5-7 steps, so I don't know why I need 20...).
And congrats on the Daily Deviation!
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Sweet!
Great ideas, one thing that urks me a bit about Windows is the fact they put a ceiling cap on Ram eg Vista Basic i use can use no more than 4Gig... ram is a cheap and easy way of fixing performance issues but Vista needs at least 2 Gig to do anything properly, that only leaves two gig to play with...
i wonder if there is a way of turning of this 'capping'
thing?....
Anyway
Great tut bro I cant wait for the next...
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You should switch to 64bit then. Only then you get to use a full 4GB capacity.
I don't know why, I'm not that nerdy.
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yeah... it aint nerd stuff tho.... it's money stuff...microshaft......
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I know this is an old comment, but it's not Microsoft who placed the limitation
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Thank you for these fantastic pieces of advice! There are million of things one is afraid to try or just doesn't know they have the opportunity to try! Thank you for sharing! And in such a clear, simple way!
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