Photoshop help

[The Tea Boy]

ok guys i now have photoshop 7, ive never used photoshop ever, and i dont have a clue what im doing, i know what i want to achive eg; colour photo want to turn black and white but then keep main subject in coulour, if you know what i mean. so really my question is both how and where can i find guidence on using photoshop so i can keep having a play?

Regards

Matt

[DIW35]

There are a load of tutorials on the net. Just Google photoshop tutorial and you should find a few.

Probably the best thing to learn about PS is layers and masks as both are very powerful tools, and you will probably use them in just about any type of image manipulation you want to do.

[SamHH]

The thing you're talking about is called spot colour. Do a search on here or the Web and you'll find plenty of results. More generally, I've just learned by experimenting. If I'm struggling with something in particular, a Web search will usually get me a result pretty quickly.

[L4MBOLUV3R]

its quite a simple thing todo but since im on cs3 its kind of hard to guide you through it. one possible way its to duplicate the image on a new layer. make one black and white and the other u keep in colour but cut away the surrounding unwanted area