But Scott Kelby and his group exist on tutorials, thats what they are all about. Most people need this to get started, they need to be shown the way and then they can go off on their own tangent.

So I guess I’m saying there’s a need for both.

Great post, I’ll be reading it again as its one of those that I think keeps revealing itself the more you read it.

thus, that’s where the basic of understanding how Photoshop came off,
and of course by relying on the tutorial alone is not enough,
but sure we can learn many things from the tutorial… and sharpening the basic skill like playing with brush, working with layer, and color…

Yes, we just need to see it from difference perspective when doing the tutorial,
don’t just follow the steps aimlessly,
understand why they do it and why do they want to do this ways…

tomasz

The galleries on your website are so prolific with imagination, I am in awe. But I am also inspired. Beyond the first thought that my own work is dull and routine by comparison, by looking at your images and reading your words I am finding many ideas in myself. Thank you for the stimulus towards creative wanderings in my visual brain.

But then. But then, I wonder, how did he DO that? The nuts and bolts inside of Photoshop. How in the world can I actually DO that?

Which brings me to make a suggestion to you: Now that you’ve convincingly trashed the idea of Photoshop tutorials – why don’t you do a course of tutorials? You could do it for NAPP or Kelby, or post them on your own website, or Bert Monroy’s host, or wherever. I’ll wager that I am far from the only one who would benefit from absorbing some of the technical principles that you’ve applied in your images.

Many salutations on your fine work!

Tom B