Any tips for Adobe Illistrator or Adobe Photoshop?

I’m sure there are a bunch of us that could give you tips, but that’s kind of hard unless you tell us what you want tips for. What are you trying to do, what do you want the outcome too look like, ect? Once you give us some more details I think we will be able to help you a lot more.

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Illustrator

Photoshop

Also, this book was recommended by my buddy, adobe certified in photoshop,

I think if you ask a more specific question better answers will come. There are about 100000 tips i can think of but, im not gonna type them lol..try to narrow your questions down like “what are some tips on drawing an illustration of my brother” or “what are some tips on color replacement in photoshop” Just a suggestion…

I’m a bit of a newbie… I know some basic stuff but some more background knowledge would be helpful…

Get a good book and follow along with it. There are the Adobe classroom in a book series of books which are pretty good, and I saw on my recent excursion to the bookstore a directly competing book done by a company that wasn’t Adobe, but done in a very similar manner. Both will introduce you to the layouts and buttons, then go through increasingly difficult or different exercises to learn how to use the tools. Short of taking a course at night school or community college, this is one of the best ways to jump into the programs and get a good sense of what you can do with them.

@dynamicduo – that is an excellent series.