Tutorial contest?

[Doug Nelson]

Ok, Gary, I see your point. Anyone have suggestions on topics that get asked about a lot but we're short on tutorials? Or should our first one be even simpler ("illustrate a common Photoshop task")?

And this might be needlessly complicating things, but I try to encourage writing the tutorials offline and then publishing them (I've gotten too many sad emails "your tutorial system ate my tutorial and now I have to remember what I typed") so how would it be to have a start date (a beginning of a month) so they could have 3 weeks to compose it, and a day or two to actually publish? Then the next few days would be the voting?

Or would that just make everyone procrastinate and eventually forget about it?

And has everyone subscribed to our "What's New" forum? That's the ony way I can imagine announcing to everyone short of having them subscribe to the entire RP Tutorials forum.

[Flora]

For breaking the ice I would start with a simple Tutorial... "Illustrate a common Photoshop task" is an excellent idea.

Originally Posted by Doug Nelson

...how would it be to have a start date (a beginning of a month) so they could have 3 weeks to compose it, and a day or two to actually publish? Then the next few days would be the voting?

Perfect! ... Similar to the Studio Contests:

from 1 October (very, very tight but we could try...) ...to 25 October for entries ... and from 26 October to 31 October for voting.

Otherwise 1 November to 24 November for entries ... 25 November to 30 for voting.

Originally Posted by Doug Nelson

And this might be needlessly complicating things, but I try to encourage writing the tutorials offline and then publishing them .... Or would that just make everyone procrastinate and eventually forget about it?

I don't think so, specially if the risk is to have to start from scratch because "the tutorial system ate my tutorial and now I have to remember what I typed" .... Once written offline it's only a matter of copy and paste...

[irshgrlkc]

As I follow this thread I am getting more and more interested in participating in a tutorial contest (especially after Littlecoo's suggestion to work on more beginner level tutorials). So if you decide to have one, I'm in. I rather like Flora's suggestion for the contest theme and time constraints.

[Gary Richardson]

I've seen a lot of requests for details on getting skin tones right, or how to "smooth" out skin blemishes (whilst keeping texture detail), seems that's a topic where there are a number of approaches to getting a good final result. (Haven't looked to see how many tutorials we already have on that subject, so can't at this moment say if we're already oversubscribed or not).

[CathyH]

I have never writen a tutorial, but the suggestion of a contest, has made me wonder if I could do it, and if so what on.

Cathy

[palms1]

Dear all i have been reading through this thread and found it interesting, not though with thought to writing a tutorial. ( not got relevant knowledge of ps etc ) but as i suppose a avid tutorial reader and hunter of ! !

My point being there are ample tuts on "how to make a Sketch" and "how to work with layers " but not many in basic procedures ( in plain english )

For instance using selective colour ? ok i can see something is too red but which slider do i use and why ?

Replace colour i have to go to help everytime i use it

another one i hear used a lot is gradient maps again why ?

One other problem is there are some great tutorials around, this forum included but because i use ps7 they dont apply to me or i cant work out how to adjust them

hope this has given you some thoughts and i wish you well and hope that the contest takes of because i will be there looking, reading and hopefully learning

thanks

Palms

[soleah]

Not sure if I'm up to it but I am very much interested in reading those tuts. Like everyone else here, I hope the contest takes off. This is a great idea. GOOD LUCK!

[Doug Nelson]

Ok, I put it up.

I hope everyone gives it a try.

[Flora]

Originally Posted by Doug Nelson

Ok, I put it up.

I hope everyone gives it a try.

... Great!! ... Here or do we create its own Threads??

[Cameraken]

Hi Flora.

The contest rules are here.

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/rp-...er-2006-a.html


Ken

[Flora]

Thanks Ken!!!