Tutorial?

Does anyone know of a good tutorial for getting started with graphic making? I already do simple ones, but I am looking to advance my skills a bit.

https://dawnstormgraphics.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/zenronguide.jpg

thanks, does anyone know of some good, free software to work with? All I have right now is Photoscape

Photoshop is the best i think .

It is good, but not free. I cannot afford it and would prefer something free for obvious reasons

Pirate it maytee!

Wanna learn blender(completely free)? xD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYj6e-72RDs

You can do quite a bit more than just 3d model with this software:

https://youtu.be/owid9yrq97s

Losta after effects like things and what not

Pretty steep learning curve though

If you do decide to take this path I'll link you to some of my favorite tutorials!

gimp (similar to photoshop) ....is free as far as i kno.

You can get a copy of photoshop4 for free. It's old but that's what they used back in the day.

I would love for you to link some of that

OOH, old software, always loved old stuff (perhaps too much, I still try to make ancient browsers run on modern machines a s a challenfe)

It's what I used to use in secondary school, so it's what, 15 years old at least?

It can do pretty much everything you need to be honest, it's just clunky and unintuitive.

I use GIMP2 nowadays, though mainly just for tweaking photos either are viable options and what you learn in one pretty much directly translates to the other. Just choose your poison.

Installing blender:

https://www.blender.org/download/

For windows, the zip folder will be a standalone where you won't need root or admin privilege to run, simply extract(unzip) and click blender.exe. The msi file is an installer that will require root or admin privileges to install. Blender's not super big so choice of installation is not a big deal.

Starting with blender:

I already linked 2 of these I guess but start with blender guru's entire series about rendering a near photorealistic donut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYj6e-72RDs&index=2&list=PLjEaoINr3zgHs8uzT3yqe4iHGfkCmMJ0P

For removing noise(grainy specks):

https://youtu.be/8gSyEpt4-60

Controls cheat sheet:

https://i.redd.it/mwnf8h8hn1ky.png

Modeling:

https://youtu.be/WZytYzZWCeE

After Effects like effects:



https://youtu.be/owid9yrq97s

https://youtu.be/pau2HJsIF7U

https://youtu.be/TWNLOjw5HYc

If you look at Astral's artwork inside his flash sigs gallery, you'll see some of the stuff you can do in AE. Everything you can do in AE, you can do in blender and the above tutorials show you how to start with it! There's a few particle system tricks that I can't find videos of atm.

UV map displacement animations:

https://youtu.be/VY9vHdwUo98

https://youtu.be/j5WHEG9OtHo

https://youtu.be/HNvqMvF45WM

Composition:

https://youtu.be/O8i7OKbWmRM

Raw .blend files:

https://www.blendswap.com/

This site contains a bunch of user submitted .blend files. Usually they have a license agreement attached and some are more permissive than others. All of em do allow you to click around and learn from them though.

Blender Math:

https://youtu.be/ko9cUUB-Tck

https://youtu.be/5CJbNubxM3g

Blender scripting:

https://github.com/a1studmuffin/SpaceshipGenerator

I found this a long time ago on reddit and his code is very understandable. It serves as a good starting point for learning blender's api's if you already know how to code.

Inspiration:

r/blender/

I may add onto this later or branch it off into it's own thread. I've personally done most of the tutorials listed here except for the donut one and that's just because I found about about it way after I had started using blender.

Hope this helps!

sweet, thanks

Dude you can torrent it or you can legally buy a license on Ebay for like 10 bucks and it will last a lifetime. Photoshop cc.



look here.



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Image-Photo-Edit-Editor-Software-CS-CS2-CS3-CS4-CS5-CS6-CC-Photoshop-Compatible-/152557440595?hash=item238521ce53:g:ceMAAOSw5HJXKAOi



Anyway i don't know where you can get any good tutorials.



And on top of that.... you have to get some software before you think about tutorials bro. XD haha.

I am not willing to torrent it and as I said, I would prefer free software

Get Photoshop CS2 it's avaliable though their website and is very slightly more advanced than gimp and it's probably a less steep learning curve.