[Boudica]

To be honest I was in the same boat. All of the tutorials were for creating one piece of artwork, but I you go to a site like nettuts.com, and do one or two per week, I PROMISE you will pick up on which button does what.

Practicing with these type of tutorials and do more and more advanced one will increase your skillset very quickly.

Stick to it for a few weeks and you'll see!

Hope that helps, don't forget nettuts.com

Cheers!

Ah thank you! That's awsome (sorry for my slow reply...).

I'm going to have to just give it all a go.

[tygr]

When I started I just played around in photoshop, experimenting to see what everything did. Then, I went through a magazine and tried out some of the tutorials in that (You can find great beginner tutorials at PsdTuts or Abduzeedo) and from there, got more familiar with the software. After that, I just tried to copy others works: I'd look at their works and try to recreate what I see. I'm still far from being good at graphic design, but I'm still improving.
Here's a great quote to work by:

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[Dismas]

When I started I just played around in photoshop, experimenting to see what everything did. Then, I went through a magazine and tried out some of the tutorials in that (You can find great beginner tutorials at PsdTuts or Abduzeedo) and from there, got more familiar with the software. After that, I just tried to copy others works: I'd look at their works and try to recreate what I see. I'm still far from being good at graphic design, but I'm still improving.
Here's a great quote to work by:

Spoiler:

That is a very good quote. I've done graphics for a few years and I can definitely say it's true.