I spend 85 percent of my time using Photoshop to clean up or manipulate photographs for use in a small weekly newspaper. The other 15 percent is used to create ads but creativity is sometimes stymied by the advertisers, who can be quite adamant about how the ad should look—even if it to the detriment of the advertisement. I don’t get bothered by that because if the advertiser is determined, nothing I say or do will change that. Instead, if I think my design has merit, I save it to my portfolio folder. That said, I almost never draw anything so when a tutorial calls for drawing, I use the image on the site as a guide, when I can, by pasting it into my document, decreasing the opacity and locking the layer. This allows me see readily see if I am pulling the handles correctly for the shape I want. It’s like teaching a child to write: you make a light or dotted-line version of letters and have the child trace those.
Now let’s move on to this Funky Retro Type Photoshop Tutorial by Tyler Denis that I found at Design Instruct.
What I did different: I chose my own colors; I added an inner glow using the defaults except for opacity, which I changed to 50%. Learning to design means willingness to experiment. It’s like art or cooking. Take a chance. At least with software, you can start over or toss the file without losing anything but some pixels. No, you haven’t lost time because you learned what doesn’t work. Next time you’ll probably learn what does.
What I did different: I chose my own colors; I added an inner glow using the defaults except for opacity, which I changed to 50%. Learning to design means willingness to experiment. It’s like art or cooking. Take a chance. At least with software, you can start over or toss the file without losing anything but some pixels. No, you haven’t lost time because you learned what doesn’t work. Next time you’ll probably learn what does.
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