Photoshop guru's official tutorials?

[JgraphNet]

Hi guys !

Just stumbled in on this thread an think it's an exciting thing your working on there.

Actually, I'm planning on making a "come back" at Photoshop Gurus now that I've seen what you've done with the place and that's an awsome piece of work all togheter.
A very big Thank You So Very Much for that !

At the moment I'm heavily occupied with producing the first of a three part Photoshop training title and it's scheduled to launch in early January 2011, so I'll be busy with that one until mid December - or something...

I think I could be able to contribute with video tutorials since making video based online classes is part of my business - but there may be a few "issues" I'd like to bring to your attention.

First off - I'm not English speaking, meaning English is not my first language and it will reflect in the videos, of course.

Next - I have my own company and brand. Not that I will boost it heavily in tutorials ment for PG, but you might think it is conflicting with the intention of creating a PG Official Tutorials section.

As well as having my own brand, I also have a music theme I'm using and a template for the flvs's (mp4) I'm rendering out from Camtasia.
I'm recording at 1024 x 768 pxl and render out to 800 x 600 pxl at 15 fps, tweeked to give me a nice filesize of around 1 MB per minute of video.

Now the "come back" I was mentioning in the beginning here is planned to be done with posting a number of tutorials in the Photoshop Tutorial Videos section of this forum and I'm currently recording them as I get the time to do them. They will discuss a variety of topics and some of them are inspired from questions put in different sections of this forum - old ones as well as more recent ones.

So there's video tutorials coming - one way or the other - but I just wanted to tell you about this right now, if you think there might be some way i can be of assistance to you in this project you are working on.

If not, I will still - however - post video tutorials in the proper section of this forum.

However this may turn out, I whish you good luck with the project and hope to hear more from you about it.

--- DKJ ---

[Gaussian]

This is still happening, just a bit slow because I have been extremely busy with many other projects.

@KRF - we will do something similar to the process in the vid you posted.

@JgraphNet - Great to know you are coming back. I'll try to address each of your questions, let me know if I miss anything.

1. It's ok that English is not your native language. As long as the tutorials are clear and the viewer can understand what to do, I think it is not an issue.

2. As for promoting your own brand... be careful about it. The main gold of these videos will be to promote PhotoshopGurus and help users of our community. if we can see that is the main focus then it's ok to mention who you are. We just don't want these to be blatant adverts for other websites.

3. Your own music is ok, just make sure it is easy to hear you when you are talking.... for example make the music very quite or turn it off when you speak.

4. As for resolution I think we will need to come up with a standard. I think 800x600 is a bit small, but I guess it depends on if you are zooming the camera or not. If it's possible to render your videos at full size I think that will be better, because youtube will create a scaled down version anyway.

Any other questions let us know. Thanks everyone for contributing to this idea.

[Dezigns Unlimited]

I agree, the vids need to be at least standard HD format..

[JgraphNet]

Thank you for your reply, Gaussian !
I fully understand the situation at hand since I'm up to my ears with projects myself. No worries

As for #2 - my own brand - I will certainly not use the video tut's for advertising site or services. My brand is the same as my username and I use that to present myself and to copyright the videos. That's it. Advertising site and services I can do at apropriate places.

As for #4 - resolution - I use a 24" monitor, so recording at full screen will produce an enormous video. Both in dimensions and filesize. But if we can come up with some kind of agreement on a standard I can use that specific resolution for tutorials made exclusively for Photoshop Gurus. No problem.

As for the generals of this discussion I will PM you with a link to a short tutorial planned to be posted here when I get my shi.... uhm .. stuff together, for you to make an opinion from.

--- DKJ ---

[Dezigns Unlimited]

It doesn't matter what size your monitor is, you can set the dimensions in the recording software...

[JgraphNet]

I know. Just need the standard.

--- DKJ ---