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So last night after speaking with one of my friends, Andy, who is big into ruby on rails and has developed his own website, Piggy Back Me, I decided it was time that I learned how do some graphic design of my own. I too am planning on writing a website for fun and want to have some good icons and logos on it and since I’m not made of money and don’t really know too many people that are good, why not learn?

Andy pointed me to a good site that had 49 different photoshop tutorials, after digging though there for a while I came across Tutorial9 and spent a few hours playing with one of the tutorials on there. Here’s what I’ve got to show for it:

Notepad image created from Tutorial9 tutorial on photoshop.

My thoughts on this tutorial: While what I produced it pretty sweet looking in my opinion, I really didn’t learn a whole lot, save how to use the Pen Tool when it’s set to you Bezier Paths. The tutorial was very laid out step-by-step and didn’t explain the reasoning behind a lot of it. That being said, I’m going to continue one with more Tutorial9 tutorials because I think after a few I’ll start to pick things up and should know enough to get my hands dirty with a simple logo or button image for my upcoming site.