Edit No. 2

Time for the edit of the day !

This is my work ... a quick one to let you all know about, the way I call it - ' The Cinematic Effect '

Have a good night and be prepared by tomorrow for the first Lesson,
'Understanding the Different Color Modes'

:D

Before we Start !

I guess we are ready for the first class :)

Now before we start we need to know some basics and have the software too otherwise there is no point in me just blabbering anything :P 

Basics :- 

1. You dont need to know anything about Photoshop before you start. :P No I am SERIOUS ! :)
2. Please be regular. I know I sound stupid but matter of fact you dont want to miss the chance of getting free stuff from me! Yea thats right I will be giving out Adobe Products and the best you can get out of all is Adobe CS5 Master Collection and a lot more so be regular :P 
3. Feel FREE to call me any time you want incase you have any sort of doubts at any time of the day @ 00 971 55 88 00 210 :) 
4. Lets get started ;)

And just so that you people can be comfortable with coping up with me, I am going to make sure that I am not going to go through any section of Photoshop which are not required for normal people unless they want to take this seriously and upon request which I will us a more advanced methodology of teaching.

So ultimately what I am trying to say is that I will teach you all everything in the easiest possible way and enough to start editing just like ME ! 

Isn't that all you need !? :D 

Edit No. 1

Alright people, I will be uploading 1 extraordinary edit every night, could be mine or an internet material. This is just to show you people the beauty and capability of what Photoshop can do to an image :)

And dont worry, it is not as complicated as it looks, some of them can be done in just minutes & YOU can also do it once you start learning gradually !

For tonight, this is something called 'The Mental Wave Explosion Effect' (Internet Material)

Brilliant isn't it ? :D

Do not forget people like I said, you can do this :)

Have a good night :)

The Beginning ! - II

Just one more quick post on how I started everything and then we will quickly move on to the lessons. :) Please bare me :P 

After I got my first edit from Harry, the first thing I did was quickly downloaded the Adobe Photoshop CS3 from www.mininova.com ... This website doesn't exist anymore because of certain legal issues but you should try other sites like http://isohunt.com/ or http://thepiratebay.org/ in case you want to get a copy too. I'm sure you people do know how to download torrents but no problem if you're new to this then please visit http://www.wikihow.com/Download-Torrents, it's easy to understand :)

After installing the software, I was blank !!! :P Trust me, so blank that i didn't open it for the next couple of days, because it looked so complicated in the start and now, I never use any of the toolbars because I play the game using shortcuts and my hands move so quickly that you guys wont have a clue whats happening :) and whats the good part, every single person who is eager to learn and will follow up regularly, EVEN YOU GUYS CAN BECOME LIKE OR EVEN BETTER THAN ME! :D

So after a couple of days I started surfing the internet for free tutorials as on how to get started with this freaking complicated crap I had just installed. Then I figured http://www.youtube.com/ helped a lot. They have a lot of free tutorials on how to start working with Photoshop. Then I slowly started with how to change the color of a car, change the color of the hair, change eye color, then moved on to how to swap faces, swap bodies, extract background etc. Eventually I almost learned most of the tools. Talking about tools, frankly speaking if you know the entire set of tools in Photoshop, thats all you need to learn! Remaining is your CREATIVITY ! We will get back to that later on don't worry :) 

So after I learned most of the tools then my Dad noticed my interest and gave me even more support. He told me to join some course but then I told him not now, let me get along properly and then we will think about it. So after a while when I really started building my interest I decided to get certified by Adobe. So I began hunting for the certified Adobe Training Centers in Dubai and just my luck I tell you guys, The only one Adobe Certified Training Center in entire GCC is in Dubai :D ' SitesPower Training Institute' http://www.sitespower.com/ . So I went there during Ramadan time with my Dad and luckily they had an amazing offer. Buy one course and get one course free :D Luck I tell you :P I took two courses and got two free. One course was charged @ AED 2500, so for AED 5000 I got 4 courses. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash & Dreamweaver. 

So after I completed my course I enrolled for the ACE exam only for Photoshop which cost me 140$ per paper. I passed my paper and got my certificate.

Thats it for today people, I dont want to bore you people so tomorrow we will get started with the first lesson : )

to be continued . . . 

The Beginning !

Ok, first of all I would like let you all know that this is no professional teaching class. I will be explaining myself each and everything so that it will be easy for you all to understand rather than just copy pasting all complicated stuff from the internet which doesn't make sense at all. 

Now, I'll let you know how I came into this field, though I am not a full time designer I hope you people might have seen a couple of works on my FACEBOOK profile, so in fact I am a part time designer. Again, I don't design or edit for money, actually not that I don't or not that I haven't been offered but its just that I never did for some strange reason which I myself don't know :P. 

Frankly speaking it all started from one person, a good friend of mine who used to edit a couple of pictures using Photoshop and upload on FB. At that time he was very well known for all of his edits. Then I badly wanted one too, you know the excitement of being in a good edit :P ! In fact even a small reason as of to why you are here to learn yourself :D so then I asked him for one too and he never says no to anybody, I mean he is a total down to earth person so in just a day or two he did my edit and uploaded it !!! At that point of time I was all crazy about that one edit of mine and I myself have no clue how much I appreciated and thanked him for that. Below is the one work that got me started into the total different world of Graphic Designing & a picture of the ONE person who played a very important role in my life and about whom I have been talking all about ! 

My First Work from Scratch :) 

The one and only - DJ Harry Joseph :D 

to be continued  . . .