I have a few questions for those of you who understand photoshop (I've had it for several months now and everytime I try to do anything I get ridiculously confused!), if you don't mind!
1. How do I USE brushes? I have a couple but I have no idea what to do with them. Same thing with Textures.
2. How do you make pictures down to icon size without totally destroying the quality? I've been cropping and then cutting down to 100x100. Is that a typical size or am I going to small - I can barely see the picture and zooming in just destroys the quality as well.
3. One thing that is completely confusing me is text. How do you add it to a picture? Is it by a brush? Because the A tool doesn't work well and has minimal fonts.
4. Do you make your textures/brushes personally or find them from other sites/LJ users?
Any other advice is greatly appreciated, photoshop broke my brain.
*points at icon* That is the first one I've made on my own that semi turned out but I'm not all that pleased with it. The brushes did not work and I have no idea how to fix colouring other than playing with selective etc...and that's pretty limited.