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Is there a Photoshop Queen

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Andrew NZ

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I recently upgraded from LR5 to LR-C, which I am pretty happy with (though unimpressed with face detection which I find creates more work than it saves). I also got Photoshop 2022 as part of the package. I was a pretty experienced user of PS 15 years ago, I created a number of javascript PS scripts at that time which were fairly widely used, but in recent years I have been using Elements which so far has done everything I have wanted (maybe some better text controls would have been nice). Anyway I am finding PS2022 rather unfamiliar and possibly somewhat oriented toward working on the Cloud - which I have no desire to do. Can anyone point me at any good resources. A PS e-book equivalent to the superb LRQ books would be great but any resources of any kind would be appreciated.

Cheers Andrew from New Zealand
 
I am not certain if there is a "queen", but the folks who put on the LR Summit also recently put on a Photoshop summit: https://www.pssummit.com . Many of the instructors have their own web sites and often run classes in case that interests you.

Good luck,

--Ken
 
Hi Andrew, welcome to the forum, I can't help you with any e-books for Photoshop.
However there's quite a few YouTube channels that cover off using Photoshop. But there's also a lot of channels that are less than perfect.
I'll post a few links (in no particular order) to those that I have found interesting.
If you find learning from books easier there's a number of authors that produce works on using photoshop, though they tend to be expensive, two to search for are Martin Evening and Scott Kelby.

Also Adobe have lots of learning material available to view, in PS itself it has an interactive "Help" feature that is quite useful:-

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/tutorials.html

YouTube links follow:-

https://youtube.com/c/Photoshoptrainingchannel

https://youtube.com/c/phlearn

https://youtube.com/c/PiXimperfect

https://youtube.com/c/TerryWhite01


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Thanks so much for your input Ken and ST-EOS, those links look particularly useful.

Cheers Andrew
 
Take a look at anything by Adobe's Julieanne Kost.

I'd calm your fears about Photoshop now being "possibly somewhat oriented toward working on the Cloud". A few Cloud features are very much "in your face", but they are specific to certain optional workflows rather than a reorientation of the product.

Yes, the home screen invites you to load photos that you may have synced to the cloud from Lightroom, but you don't need to do so and can open them directly from Lightroom. You can disable the home screen entirely in Preferences, or just hit Esc for a more conventional appearance.

Similarly, the default save screen gives you the choice of saving to a Photoshop Cloud Document, which is new, or a file on your hard drives as before. You can disable this default screen and have the old-style save dialog. At some point I did that, and now I can't see how to get the new-style dialog back!

These two are very obvious at the start of the editing process and again at the end, but between those points you may not even notice the other cloud features like Libraries.
 
Thanks ever so much JohnBeardy, those are exactly things that made me nervous about the whole system.
 
Similarly, the default save screen gives you the choice of saving to a Photoshop Cloud Document, which is new, or a file on your hard drives as before. You can disable this default screen and have the old-style save dialog. At some point I did that, and now I can't see how to get the new-style dialog back!
"Reset All Warning Dialogs" on the Prefs>General tab should get that dialog back, John.
 
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