Best free Photoshop download for beginner

Pinkypants

youtube has a ton of training videos on all sorts, including photoshop type stuff.

It's helped me out heaps in the past.

bribrian

PicMonkey.... :beer:

ChiefGrasscutter

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

One mistake a lot of people make with cheap/free photo packages is to do all their work on the photographs in .jpeg format. Everytime you open a .jpeg file, work on it and close it again you reduce the quality of the image (the software compresses it and "throws away" bits of the photograph). So it is possible to spend a lot of time "improving" a photograph and actually end up with something worse than you started with.
Scan your photos and save or immediately convert them as either .psd or .tif(f) format, these do not compress the image. You can open and close these hundreds of times and will not lose any picture quality

What - even if I set the package to save file with no compression at all when I save as a jpg?

neilwoods

Most programs wont allow you to save without compression, most are set to low quality and high quality.

Photo restoration is a very time consuming job and as others have said, not as easy as it looks (depending on the quality of the pics).

Also scanning them in is another factor.
one done

mart44

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

What - even if I set the package to save file with no compression at all when I save as a jpg?

There's a good question and answer page regarding JPEGs here. See the last paragraph:

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/formatsjpeg/a/jpegmythsfacts.htm

For the repeated editing that is necessary when photo restoring/colouring, tiff or the native file format of the program being used is better.