So at this point you’ve brought your two images into photoshop, cut the head out of one of them, and adjusted the colors and size so it fits the first shape. Not only that, but I gave you half a dozen ways to do each step and you know what? You now know the fundamentals of photoshop. You can now combine any amount of images together to your hearts content. I tried to error on the side of over explaining and will make sure to answer all questions asked and rewrite this tutorial as needed.
Many times using only the techniques taught above I’ll find myself with a photoshop document with 100’s of layers that turn out quite nice. In fact, I don’t remember the last photohops picture I worked on that had fewer then 100.
There’s a few places you can go from here. The best course is to use this knowledge and have fun making a few images, mastering the hot keys and navigating around. Get good and fast at tracing, color correcting, and coming up with inventive ways of combining these steps in unique orders. Once you’ve done that I have some more tutorials if you want photoshop for a specialized use. Because I'm well aware I have yet to get through it all, I've started posting external links in the form of ads on the right (so google can save me the bother of finding the relevant sites). Also, you can read my advanced tutorial on how I assembled a complex digital collage scene. (Essentially pushing everything you’ve learned here to the limit – far further then you knew it could go.)
I plan to have a tutorial on using photoshop to design a website from sketches to the finished look (and after that I have a tutorial on going from a static image into a fully working website for those wanting basic web design knowledge).
Next up I'll make a photoshop painting tutorial. I go over the brush tool, but focus more on different techniques various photoshop painters use. I learned quite a bit in the creation of this tutorial.
My last photoshop tutuorial is will be a series of tips and tricks. There’s a little bit of overlap with previous tutorials, but mainly covers techniques most people don’t know how to use. It covers new CS3 features – animating in photoshop, filters, little used tools, actions, js options, and who knows what else.
As a bonus I also have a pdf cribsheet of the hotkeys you can print out.
If you read and digest all of these tutorials (once I make them, that is) I have no doubt you’ll know the program as well as me, which is far better then anyone ever should.
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