Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Walkthrough: writing a popular Photoshop tutorial

Let me start this tutorial with the words: "Unique tutorials are popular"...Bet you were not me, surprised, but you know what "unique" in the Photoshop World?
The answer is: rare, trendy and usable.

Let me explain:

-Rare: something that looks impressive but with no real use for a website. People want, the tutorial only it show and say: "Hey I did this in Photoshop!".
These "rare" are, as the name says rare to see because people are experimenting with Photoshop as much as in the old days.
Since few people do become easy popular.

-Trend: something that is any of a fan or you hear it everywhere, like a movie, a game, etc.
This kind of tutorials see you there now and then, you come out, if people dare to, what you have seen.
Again, since few people do become easy popular.

-Suitable: Tutorials about something every Photoshop user will create, because you need it or it, like a forum will need signature, a website template, logo, etc. would.
You find this kind of tutorials everyday, but nothing new, just improved and consequently not so popular.
Only the first 5-10 tutorials about one new thing are gaining in popularity.

Now, as I you the type of the tutorial, which become popular declared have, let me take you as a popular tutorial should be through some things,:

-First of its kind: the person to write the first tutorial about something, the functional or nonfunctional how logo tutorial or an aurora borealis tutorial could be a movie. It doesn't matter, what is certain that the first out there about only.

-Gut explains: it no matter if you think your tutorial for Photoshop Advanced, always you write as if you were talking about user a first time Photoshop.
They get some more loyal visitors and a few hundreds, of the on your website or a forum to stick, because you feel that you can learn something if you explain it.

-Be creative: try to create a tutorial, that if people on the net look become questions: "How did you do that?" Show me how! ".
Before you publish a tutorial showing the final result to people your same or higher level of Photoshop knowledge, and ask how you could improve, this helps you to increase the quality of tutorial.

Now you know what kind of tutorials become popular and how to like: write, there are up to you what you want, write a tutorial... my advice is: you curious on how "Things" in Photoshop can be done, and you try not attempting to get the same result write it a few times more because I sure get a similar result or something else that makes a great tutorial to.


Source: [http://www.miligraf.com/t.php?id=233]

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