Tutorial and hint for Photoshop

If you are new to Photoshop, then you may feel overwhelmed. Like learning any new program, it will take some time to get an overall feel for how the program works, the basics, and then of course- learning tricks to cut corners or achieve the best desired results. Here are some excellent sites that I have gleaned from the web, that can help you get started using Adobe Photoshop, and have you making excellent images in no time at all.

Well, it stands to reason that if you want to learn more about how to use Adobe Photoshop that you should go directly to the source. So that’s what we are going to do.


· Here is a link to many tutorials and tips provided by Adobe. Some of the tutorials include topics such as: Edit in Perspective with Vanishing Point; The 3D Picture Trick; and How to Animate a Layered Photoshop File http://studio.adobe.com/us/search/sort?sort=topic&product=15&topic=0&type=all&level=all&x=8&y=6

· This site is aptly titled, “Photoshop Tutorials and Training.” It is a wonderful resource with tons of tutorials written by Photoshop gurus. There are easily 100 tutorials listed on this site. http://www.graphicdesign.com/Photoshop/tutorials/index.html

· About.com’s Graphic Software Guide: Sue Chastain has created an entire online course for learning the Basics of Adobe Photoshop. The best part is it is entirely free. You can even have the lessons delivered to your Email! Here is a link: http://graphicssoft.about.com/c/ec/1.htm



· Laurie McCanna’s Site offers great user-friendly Photoshop tutorials and tips. http://www.mccannas.com/index.html

· This site: Photoshop Support (Photoshop Tutorials & Photoshop Plug Ins) not only has great free tutorials, but also has excellent graphic based lessons as well as free videos that you can use for instruction. They are QuickTime and easy to download. http://www.photoshopsupport.com/

Error Code 704

I searched for why GMail would not work and all I really found was this blog entry on authenticgeek.


Error Code 704
April 06, 2006
Gmail has been a really great tool up until yesterday and today. Server errors, 704 errors, emails that show up 40 minutes after they've been sent... other people using gmail don't seem to have the same issues but I have them across all my machines and browsers. Is it fixed yet?


Update: As I mentioned before, this never seems to be an issue with all users. Search queries for "error code 704" from google (irony?) spike on this page usually for less than an hour at some peak times (6AM, 10AM PST) so I suspect it's a scaling issue which google is dealing with by shedding certain groups of users. I believe the best way to deal with the issue is to blog about it considering that issues with gmail went away shortly after I did the same.

I wonder if anyone else has any ideas why that does that to me...
And another great question..
Should vegetarians eat animal crackers?

~Corena