because there's a difference between a tutorial and someone telling you the tool to achieve the result you want...
you still don't understand that though do you?
i mean Photoshop has almost 4-5x the amount of tools there that Paintshop does, and they're all accessed differently, with different tool settings.
just knowing what each of the tools is hard enough - and when you're pressed for time sitting there playing with ALL of them trying to follow a poorly planned manual is not helping an iota.
you see the tutorials run through them, you get to the end ... find out what YOU wanted to achieve in the first place was just a case of selecting 'such-n-such' tool and using it on 'such-n-such' setting.
yet you've just wasted 20minutes working on a peice of work that you'll never use in anything you'll actually produce, just to find out that one peice of information which someone could have easily just said!
whats even worse is i'm talking to people and i get half a dozen of on and half a dozen of the other ... people who've used these tools for years, don't know howto do simply bloody things. Suchas a simple 3D tube effect - in Paintshop 3 vector lines, changed width guasian blurred based on thier size getting around 40% of the original size each time. not even 2-3minutes you have yourself a convincing Cylinder which you can then edit for say tubing or something else - combine and use as a shader, i dunno.
in Photoshop however the affair isn't quite as simple is it?
and i've noticed ALOT of the tutorials around use the lights of the scene to produce certain effect... all well and good if you have a single light source.
not so good when you actually have a wrapped skin which turns almost 180° requireing the same light source to be in 2 places at once, yet if you did this they'd collide and ruin the effect.
so many tutorials and yet little to no leaneance for interpretation ... and then there are those tutorials which expect you to know what tools are what already ... so you find a tutorial to teach you the tools to run through a tutorial just to find out its a single bloody tool with a single bloody setting!
however wasted almost the whole day a) looking for these stupid tutorials, b) actually doing the tutorials i find
... and i can't just sit there and take down i've learn something like this because i want to know something and i'm not going to take anything in until i think i'm actually learning exactly what i need to know for it ... so as soon as the tutorial is done - poof i forget!
this is what was so dang infuriating the first time with all of this, you expect everyone should learn everything the exact same way - this is what everyone seems to dang well think. You run through some tutorials and such and suddenly believe you know all the answers ... but the thing is if everyone knows so many damn'd answers to write these things to teach others all the answers how come they can't answer basic questions?
Tsu'va Oni Ni Jyuuko Fiori Sei Tau!
One block follows the suit ... the whole suit of blocks is the path ... what have you found?
