hey beast welcome you will have tons of fun here. this is a link to the faqs at the bottom it should answer the questions you might want the answers to http://photoshopcontest.com/faq/help.html hope it helps you out.
-matt-

THIS IS DA LINK TO CHECK TOO.WELCOME.
http://photoshopcontest.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=4161

Welcome Beast, chop like crazy!

Yay..tiny red text rules !


Hello

Dude,(edit:err Dudette) I suck at PS. My best chops are full, overwhelmingly full of things I overlooked, bad lighting, bad bad shadows, mismatched textures....
And I gotta deal with guys that can do absolute perfection when they want too, a couple examples-reyrey, Claf, billtv and quite a few others have made images that have no faults that i can find, literally none,
nonetheless, I've done well enough that occasionally i can strut around like a peacock and get away with it.
Keep being the panicky overexcited guy ya are right now, and you'll
find yourself ...impressing yourself, and i offer one little piece of advice,
just don't be lazy about it, don't look to learn shortcuts to make it easier,
just make the images and if ya run out of time, then ya run out of time, there is always the next. Get what you want into the image or move on.
Don't let anything frustrate you, nothing.

Hate to say it, but the "RED TEXT" is actually a signature move by a couple of folks who ...uhhhh...who are not very friendly to the site in general.
I'd lose it.

Go figure! Lol, too bad there isn't grey. I loathe the fact that people would terrorize websites for fun... Lives? Thank you for the advice::once again::

Forgive me but it is quite late, and I need sleep. Have an excellent night. Thanks all for the help!

::don't eat cows::

test "a"
test "a"

I never noticed before that the "a" is actually different in the italicized text, not just slanted.

Huh.

Oh, yeah, anyway, WELCOME to PSC!

Lol.

Welcome to PSC.

If you look at some of the portfolios of some of the best here, they didn't start out that way or they were pretty good in the beginning, but got even better with time. I am not even close to being the best here, but in just under a years time I have improved in so many ways. You will learn as you go grasshopper which is the best way to learn imho. Some of the flaws that seem to be pointed out the most here is shading, lighting, perpective, compostion, and text on images (not too many fans of that method, unless it's done tastefully). Other than that, it's mostly about enjoying what your doing and learning from others as you go along. Good luck and welcome!