Exactly five years ago today, January 8 2007, I uploaded my first ever video tutorial to YouTube. I remember sitting down at midday and recording a tutorial looking at how to create a bolt of lightning in Photoshop CS2, and then uploading it to an old YouTube account I already had going. It took me two takes to record the entire thing, a far cry from the hours of preparation, recording, editing and presenting that my videos take nowadays.
Today is December 25th and if you’re like me you’ll be spending it unwrapping a few presents, enjoying a meal with the family, and relaxing around the bright lights of the Christmas tree. It’s a time to appreciate what I have, and reflect on the many good things that have happened over the year.
Sometime over the last weekend we accumulated our 300th Facebook user who liked our official 3photoshop page, and I just wanted to thank all 300 people who have clicked the ‘like’ button and joined our community on Facebook. I really appreciate all of your support.
It’s been almost a month since the release of my 11 hour video training series ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Photoshop Elements 9’ so I thought I’d take the opportunity to update you on the latest happenings.
Today I’m pleased to announce the release of my 10 hour video series ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Photoshop Elements 9’ via digital download with a DVD version coming in the next few days.
The course focuses on all the key Elements of the software, right from importing and tagging images in the Organiser to printing and exporting in the Full Edit Mode. To browse the course, view sample videos or purchase the download/DVD please click the link below.
Over the past few months I’ve been thinking about re-recording my popular video series ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Photoshop Elements’, updating it from version 6 to 9. It’s a lot of work so it wasn’t a decision I could take lightly, as not only would I need to update parts of the course that had changed through the versions, but also add additional content on other essential commands and new features that came along with version 9.
A few weeks ago I stepped down from my position of moderator at photoshopforums.com to focus on other things including writing and recording more tutorials for this site. During my 27 months at PhotoshopForums.com I wrote 13 quick-fire tutorials for the Tutorials and Featured Tips section, some of them, I'm pleased to say, receiving over 5000 views.
As the first ever world cup kicked off in South Africa last week, 3photoshop.com was celebrating a moment of history too - albeit on a smaller and slightly less physical scale, our 100th tutorial!
A couple of weeks ago I booked a weeks’ holiday in Tobago, then, without warning, some volcano in Iceland decided to erupt resulting in the UK and other European countries closing their air space. The saga began as an understandable reaction to some kind of volcanic dust entering our skies and ended with the longest and most expensive grounding of flights in European history.
Only this morning I was out walking when an elderly gentlemen stopped me and asked if I could direct him towards Long Melford. It being a town only 20 minutes from where I live, and one I regularly drive through while on my way to Portman Road (the home of my favourite football team) I immediately suggested he turn his car around, take a left at the mini-roundabout, follow the road for around 3 miles until he sees a signpost for Clare, take the left and keep going until he cruises down a big old hill and into the town of Long Melford.
Having launched on 21 October 2009, I have to say I'm immensely proud of attracting that many fans in the space of 144 days, especially considering that after a relatively slow start we saw 72 people become fans inside the last 72 days, indicating that as we grow, the rate of fans clicking on that little 'become a fan' button has grown too.
Today 3photoshop.com announces our new premium download service making the popular video series ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Photoshop Elements’ available for download at the bargain price of £7.99. Here are the advantages of purchasing it-
There are many ways to keep in touch with 3photoshop.com and receive news of our latest content.
I've added links below to the social networking sites we operate on, and our RSS feed for anyone wanting to keep in touch through their email account or RSS reader.
I've also added my personal Twitter page for anyone wanting to read what's on my mind.
Over the last few weeks I've been busily compressing our entire quicktime video collection to flash. Even though there's no change to the size, the collection itself, or the way they play on the site, I figured for full disclosure of what the site is going through (aka a site blog), I'd keep you updated on the latest why's and how's. For the technical stuff, read on.
Just over 3 weeks ago I posted a November update to my Youtube channel, today, as we head towards mid December, I thought I'd add it to the site just in case any of you missed it.
Essentially it's a quick promotional video for 3photoshop.com. It runs for just over a minute, and quickly explains how you get to the site, what's here when you arrive, the benefits of registering and information about our Facebook and Twitter pages.
Keeping up to date with new tutorials and the latest site news has never been easier. We’re on popular social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, so if you have an account please consider adding us to your friends list.
We plan on keeping these pages up to date, and using them to gain more opinion on future tutorials and ideas to improve the site.
It’s been almost a month since the launch of the new 3photoshop website so I thought I’d take this opportunity to tell you about some new features on the site, and what I’ve still got in store!
After nearly a year in the making, welcome, finally, to the new and improved 3photoshop website. If you’ve visited before, you should notice a considerable difference (and improvement) between the old site and the new. If it’s not apparent from the look and feel, then let me assure you, things behind the scene have not just been updated, but completely ripped out and rebuilt. Why would I do such a thing? For two (main) reasons! One, we now have a community instead of just a website, and two, it’s made it so much easier to update and maintain.
Long before I converted this site to Drupal, back in the days of the static-HTML version, I longed to place a poll on here to give me some sort of idea as to what the viewers of the site wanted to see more of. At the time, building a complex poll way surpassed my capability and perhaps was too intense to pull off easily with the software I was using, so I looked for a free service on the world wide web.
First launched in March 2007, 3photoshop.com is a website offering free and premium Photoshop and Photoshop Elements video and text-based tutorials. The site contains a blog providing the latest site-based news and information; as well forums where registered users can discuss issues and get help on problems.
First launched in March 2007, 3photoshop.com is a website offering free and premium Photoshop and Photoshop Elements video and text-based tutorials. The site contains a