Photoshop help?

[b5blue]

 Photoshopping is something I want to get into this year. I don't know squat about how to proceed?  I just bought a decent cheap little Cannon camera to go with my Cannon copier and some photo grade paper. I'm running Windows 10 on a new HP15 laptop if any of this matters?
Anyone who has been fiddling around with this stuff have any recommended starting point for a newbie?   

[DC_1]

If you plan on using Adobe Photosop to modify your pictures just look on YouTube. There are plenty of instructional videos from the basics to more advanced techniques.

[Mike DC]

 
I use the open-source version "GIMP". 

It's not as easy to use as the early versions of Photoshop.  But the later versions of PS aren't as easy as the early ones either.  Lots of complication.   IMO the earlier PS versions were the easiest thing I've ever used for this stuff. 

[Troy]

Gimp and Photoshop are very powerful - and complex. For basic editing I often use "Paint.net" (NOT Microsoft Paint - although that has certainly gotten better).

Troy

[b5blue]

Youtube Adobe, GIMP and Paint.net ....I'll check it out.  

[green69rt]

If you have Windows then you should have WIndows Live Photo Gallery.  I use it for cropping and resizing pictures for this forum.  It has a lot more stuff that I don't use.   And it's free with Windows.  Just open it up and use it to find the file you want to resize.  right click on the picture and pick resize from the drop down menu.  Choose a size ( I almost always use about 600 ) and ok,  It even renames the file with the new dimension so it will load on DC.com.

[Brock Lee]

 IMO the earlier PS versions were the easiest thing I've ever used for this stuff. 

I agree. I have the Adobe CS4 suite, but when I need Photoshop, I use the older 7.0 version as it is much easier to navigate.