I was never one to write in a diary in my younger years, so it's no surprise that journal writing doesn't come second nature to me, but I desperately need a medium of this sort to try and focus my attention during my 'Road to Understanding Photoshop". Its been ten years or so since I was introduced to Photoshop and I have tried so many methods and means to attempt to learn this particular piece of software, but up until now I realise that I have been doing it all wrong. Reading text books was obviously not the answer...if I managed to stay awake after each chapter I was very lucky. So, in my search of the Holy Grail to learning PS and after reading millions of forums (ok, maybe a hundred), I finally think I have found the path to Photoshop enlightenment...well, hopefully.
I have now taken the advice of the Photoshop Nation and am now watching video tutorials on Lynda.com, and wow...I'm finally getting it! And in the mean time I am doing tutorials till they are coming out of my a-, uh..ears.
Why? Well, first of all I don't really consider myself an artist. I have zero drawing/panting skills and I'm lucky if my stick men look anatomically correct. But, (and here comes the revelation of biblical proportions), I have vision, dammit! I have had these pictures and scenes and worlds and universes racing around in my head since I was a boy, and they need to get out there before I truly go round the bend - Please don't mention this to anyone I know after reading this cause they all think I am certifiable. I always thought I would be a writer, you know, the guy who paints with words....and maybe I will still push out a pulitzer prize winning novel in my spare time. But all I have ever wanted to do is transfer the pictures in my head onto some sort of legible surface in order for it to be viewed - I know, I know, the time my mother praised my 'Eiffel Tower in Chocolate Pudding' doesn't count.
What I am trying to say is now I am attempting to get serious about creating some good pieces in Photoshop and I really, really need to give myself a swift kick up the a-, uh..backside, to get this done. I have never been one for taking criticism, as I believe I am my own worst citric, HOWEVER, in this learning process I realise I have to join the real world and take the blows with the praise. It's time I joined DeviantArt and stopped just supporting it.
Be gentle, I'm new.











---Kostas
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" Life is what you make it "
Please take a look at my groups FanZone [link]
and Essential Photography [link]
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" Life is what you make it "
Please take a look at my groups FanZone [link]
and Essential Photography [link]
Welcome to DA.
Keep up the good work. Your eye for fantasy in the photo manip. media is fun.
You know you can also post pics of yourself as art, right? <wipes drool from mouth>
Be well.
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I made a deer-centaur but haven't put it on DA yet. It's in my blog: [link] Please check it out, thank u.
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