I do the tutorials and all that. I just screw around on Photoshop trying to find cool FX, but I'm not seeing very much improvment.
Suggestions on getting better.
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, Jan 29 2006 09:46 PM
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Posted 10 February 2006 - 07:15 PM
Just keep making things... try diffferent effects on all sorts of pictures... try making your own backgrounds not using gradients. Use rasterized layers on your text and differednt renders and styles. MAKE ALOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS. thats all i can say if u wanna get better.
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Posted 11 February 2006 - 06:36 AM
Let me ask you this - how long have you been trying to use Photoshop?
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Posted 11 February 2006 - 06:44 AM
read more tuts and play around more, and dont just do what you know. if theres a button and you dont know what it does, press it and find out.
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Posted 11 February 2006 - 04:42 PM
Thats how I learned, tuts only helps after you got the basics. Start by messing around like spleen says and don't give up. If I improved from my first ugly sig to my current, you can do anythingread more tuts and play around more, and dont just do what you know. if theres a button and you dont know what it does, press it and find out.
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Posted 11 February 2006 - 06:49 PM
I try many different things, filters, looking at other art, many things. I rarely use tuts though.
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Posted 11 February 2006 - 09:05 PM
learn the basics and the tricks of the trade and you can make anything
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Posted 12 February 2006 - 02:28 AM
Agreed.I just got my photoshop today and I'm improving quickly.Too bad I don't know what to make. 
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Posted 12 February 2006 - 03:26 AM
Join a GFX site. When you finish whatever you are making, post it up there and ask for CnC. They'll tell you what you did wrong, what you did right, and how to improve on it. It's arguably the best and fastest way to get good.
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Posted 13 February 2006 - 12:46 AM
Take the tutorial - and then deviate from it. Thats what I used to do. I'd find some tutorial, take elements from it, then remember some other tut, take elements from it, and so on and so forth.
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Posted 25 February 2006 - 12:41 AM
Hmm, so far i've only read 3 tuts and one face to face tut which helped me jump start my sigs. If you are getting no better with tuts, avoid them then, since i have difficulty following them (sigh, i have lack in co-ordination if that explains it), but yet, just for now, until you've learnt all the basic tools, then maybe try learning some general sig tuts to start you off, just keep trying 
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Posted 14 March 2011 - 01:17 AM
find a really ugly picture of someone and make them look good. The first couple times some things might look a bit fake, but it all comes with practice.
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Posted 15 March 2012 - 07:06 AM
it all comes from mastering the basics..
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 06:54 PM
Checking some quality tutorials (basics , sigs etc.) should help any1 improving his skills step by step.
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Posted 14 May 2012 - 08:37 AM
Practice makes perfect... Try making your own title screens for games you like, or try the album cover meme .
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Posted 09 June 2012 - 06:58 AM
Hmm could I see some of your examples?
