Hey, I would just like to know what are your guys thoughts about this, I'm thinking about getting it as it teaches you heaps of cool things just wondering if you think its necessary.
Cheers

In all honesty mate, there are so many good tutse here and out on the interwebs for free...I would search some of them first and then see if I needed to buy the book/program.

But then Im a cheap bugger

here are some links you may find usefull
http://photoshopcontest.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=9076
http://photoshopcontest.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=7391
http://photoshopcontest.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=7472
http://photoshopcontest.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=5565
http://photoshopcontest.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=2127
there are some real good tips and tutes in the last two the first three are to do with tablets as I remember you asking about them before. I hope that helps mate

Thanks, viewing now

I bought this when it first came out a while back. In all honesty most of the techniques shown on the DVDs are already out on the web in various places.

However what you do get on the DVDs is a full-screen recording and audio of him doing the work. He explains each step in detail (sometimes TOO MUCH DETAIL). So if you have trouble following the tutorials on the web this is a nice alternative.

You also get all the hi-res stock photos that he used so it's a nice addition to your library. I think you even get any actions and/or brushes he developed which is a perk. Oh and the coffee table book is kinda cool as a conversation piece.

Edit: I'm not even sure where I put my discs anymore. I copied them to my USB drive so I wouldn't have to swap out the discs.

Everthing you need to know is out there on the web, some may say. And I dunno these dvd's. However I've seen some of the gnomon workshops and from that I do know that it may be very inspiring to watch a skilled person at work. Well that's how it works for me, it instantly makes me want to chop.
And imho that's where it all comes down to if you want to learn, practice, practice, practice. Chop, chop,chop. One may have all the libraries, dvd's and tuts in the whole world, but if he doesn't try, he will not come very far.

really?
8 forum posts and 0 entries posted, i think its time to chop

I say Learn the Way You Gotta Learn.

Some of us are great at finding tut's off the interWeb and learning from those. Some of us like to watch a movie of some dude or dudette doing the work and following along later. Some of us like it printed out in front of us, the book sitting beside our computer while we translate what the f*ck the writer is trying to say to us. Some of us are Very Cheap (like most Australians and Frenchmen ) and actually learn better when we find it for FREE. Some of us learn faster and deeper after we've invested our hard-earned sheckles into a learning program or book.

My point: you gotta figure out A) if you wanna learn B) how you learn best.

Me? I went back to college at 40 years young (see other thread to find one of the benefits of returning to college at 40 ) and in the first day of trying to keep up my notes on Dreamweaver and Illustrator and Photoshop and Macs vs. PCs and "her" phone number etc. I did something very weird for me. I closed my notebook and stopped taking notes. I ended up on the Deans List. In college and highschool the first time through I hardly got passing marks and thought I was a learning-disabled EEEDIOT. Closing my notebooks went against all that I'd been "taught" on how to learn. But it saved my life and now I can enter less-than-embarrassing (mostly) entries here at PSC.

My point (if not taken before): A) get clear with your nasty self if you wanna learn B) how you learn best. C) ignore all the ways you DON'T learn.


Okay - as I said in the OTHER thread (where I mention breifly my relationship with a wonderful 24 year old, but which I will NOT dwell on!!!!) I'm feelin preachy today. Forgive me my trespasses etc. por favor.