Adobe Photoshop Tutorial for Beginners: Using the Pen tool

I have posted sometime ago my very first Photoshop tutorial for beginners : http://digital-artbytes.blogspot.com/2011/09/adobe-photoshop-tutorial-for-beginners.html .

I know it took me some time to make a follow up of that one. So here's my second Adobe Photosshop Tutorial for Beginners, in video! This is the very first video that I have created and I'm still playing around with the tool that I am using. I hope this would be of help to those who wants to learn Photoshop on their own.

To view the video click the link below.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials for Beginners No.1 : Using the Pen Tool

I know the quality is not quite good. I was trying to balance quality and speed of download. I hope you'll find this useful. Some comments/feedback would be of great help. Thanks.

Rubber Beast Warrior!

Rubber Beast Warrior!

A rubber beast warrior, displayed at Baguio city's Burnharm  Park. This pic was taken on February of 2011

Halloween Art: Part 1

Halloween Poster #1: Beheaded

Halloween is fast approaching., I thought it would be fitting to post some Halloween inspired art work. Here's my first.

I created this using Adobe Photoshop CS5. 

Roxas City Sunset Wallpapers.

Roxas City is not very well known for sunset views.  With bay facing north, the view of the setting sun is often times blocked by either hills, man made structures and most often... clouds.

There are few places in Roxas City however that I was able to capture beautiful sunset views. 

New Road Sunset. (New Road, Banica, Roxas City)

The road has been there for years. Along with hundreds of residents, I pass by this road almost everyday. One afternoon though, I was attracted by what I saw. 

Hidden Sunset (Cadimahan, Baybay, Roxas City)

Hidden from most of the residents, I was awed by the beauty of the setting sun from where I sit.

Pueblo de Panay Sunset (Pueblo de Panay, Lawa-an Roxas City)

Pueble de Panay is one of the latest and one of  the biggest , if not the biggest, subdivision here in Roxas City. Currently, it is still in it's development phase. I was walking down its 6 lane road one afternoon and took a shot of this view.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial for Beginners

I. The Adobe Photoshop CS 3 Environment

In order for us to use Adobe Photoshop use effectively, we must learn the environment first. For this tutorial, we will be using Adobe Photoshop CS3.

Fig1. The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Window

Figure 1 shows the whole Adobe Photoshop CS3 window. In any development environment, it is important to familiarize yourself with its par.

• Menu Bar- Contains all the commands necessary to use the program
• Toolbox- displays the common tools (or commands) that you need in creating /editing your images.
• Toolbar- this one changes when you select a tool from the toolbox. It provides additional options for each tool, if any.
• Canvass- This is where you create/edit your image
• Layers - Using layers makes photoshop a very powerful tool in editing images. Soon in this tutorial we will discover the power of layers.

There are still so many parts that you will soon seen in photoshop. Some of the windows here will disappear and reapper and more windows may appear, depending on what tool you are using. I introduced only these parts so that you will not be overwhelmed by the vast number of tools available in Photoshop.

The Toolbox 

Fig. 2: The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Toolbox

As you can see there are 25 buttons in the toolbox, not to mention the sub options of those buttons that has a triangle on the lower right corner. To simplify this tutorial and not overwhelm you with all these tools. We will focus on a tool when needed. The most commonly tools that you may need to use are the Marquee, Move, Pencil/Brush, Eraser, Gradient/Fill Tool (not in any particular order). Of course the Text tool may be needed if your project needs it.

To avoid repeting the discussion of each tool , we will discuss each when we need it. First Let's create our first Photoshop Project