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I've wanted to make high quality graphics for a really long time now, but I just don't know where to start. Participating in SotW sounds like a lot of fun and I'd really like to try it out, but my graphics really, really suck. If the next theme is gonna be films, I'd really like to try it, since I have a few ideas up my sleeve. I just don't know where to start. I don't even have any programs installed for this purpose, I'm actually as inexperienced as possible. I could download PS or AE and just fire away but I want to have some calculated way of going about this.
If this is a little vague, I'm sorry, but I could not be more inept at this.
 
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You can start off by downloading Photoshop, you get a free 30-day trial when you first download it, then you can either pay for it or torrent it after the 30 days. If you wouldn't like to do either of those things, you can use a program called Gimp, which is pretty similar to Photoshop and it's free. The best place to go in the beginning is YouTube, it is full of extremely helpful tutorials for beginners and they are relatively easy to understand. If you are looking to make signatures you can visit DeviantArt, as it is full of tutorials on them that aren't too difficult to understand. Practice makes perfect. You aren't going to be an artistic genius in the beginning, it does take time. You will make your fair share of god-awful pieces, but that's just a part of design. I still make ****** pieces to this day.
You can start your free trial of Photoshop here: https://creative.adobe.com/products/download/photoshop?promoid=61PM825Y&mv=other
You can download Gimp here: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
And you can find signature tutorials on DeviantArt here: http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/?q=sig+tut&offset=0
If you need any help with the tools in Photoshop or how to do certain things, feel free to shoot me a PM. :smile:
 
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It seems Art Art has answered your question so I'll be closing this now Casp Casp . If you have any further questions or concerns on this topic let me or Art know, or report this to be reopened.
 
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