Between the Lines - Hard Drive Organization
I’ve decided to write a few articles/tutorials that are a “must read” when learning how to use Adobe Photoshop and techniques used outside the program that NO website ever explains.
I’m a Pro computer user and an amateur photographer looking to improve my skill set in photography. The “Between the Lines” articles will be written to help you, as it has helped me with my computer background.
Hard Drive Organization
First, just a quick FYI, this article has nothing to do with large hard drive storage or how to backup your work.
Currently I’m learning how to use Adobe Photoshop, and I can’t do it reading books, so I use the internet to find great tutorials to create different effects. When someone finds a great tutorial on the internet, 99% of most users bookmark that link to the tutorial, but I strongly recommend NOT doing this [only bookmark the website to revisit for new tutorials]. The reason is, the website takes the tutorials off it’s website and archives it, where only paying registered members can have access to it in the future. An awesome website with amazing tutorials that does just that is PSDtuts+. PSDtuts+ offers advanced tutorials to viewers, so if you’re a beginner, visit this site later.
The best way to save these tutorials is locally on your hard drive. Here’s how:
1.] You have to create a folder somewhere on your hard drive that you can remember finding at a later date and simply name it “Photoshop Tutorials”.
2.] Find an article you’re interested in and click the link to open the complete tutorial. On PSDtuts+ website, the tutorial is all on one page, but other websites have several pages [I'll explain how to organize these later]. Highlight the title of the article, right click your mouse and choose “copy”.
3.] Go to your web browser where you can “Save Page As” and click on it. Find your folder where you chose to store all your tutorials and create a new folder. Rename that folder while it’s highlighted by right clicking the highlighted area and choose “paste”.
4. After it’s renamed double click it to open it, and hit “save” if the entire tutorial is on one page. If it’s multi-page, create another folder, but this time give it the name of which page it is. Go to each page and follow these same steps until all the pages are saved.
***If the file doesn’t save, remember to shorten the folder name of the tutorial, and this will fix the problem***
Hope this helps. Keep in mind the other benefits of doing it this way. If you have a laptop and want to practice without having any internet connection, this is an awesome way of doing it. If the tutorial you saved was helpful and it’s still available on the website, don’t forget to leave a comment to the tutorial, because the boys and girls go through great lengths to put it together. The more positive feedback they get, the more they’ll share, that’s how the world turns.
Save as many tutorials as you can, because when you’re learning how to use Photoshop, each tutorial will teach you something new. Just like taking a class for it in college, your professor will give you different tutorials to practice at home and turn in for homework. Through much practice you’ll learn. Finding the time to do it is my personal biggest crutch. Good luck.
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