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Jeffrey7
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May 25, 2023
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your tutorial *removed*

  • May 25, 2023
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I just tried the tutorial for your getting started thing with the elephant and the instructions it gives you don't work. Great start.

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Participant
January 29, 2024

the tutorial does not work.. it does not advance to the next slide until you do the action... but then does not show you or tell you what the action is. and when you figure it out and do it. it still does not advance

IT DOES NOT WORK...AT ALLL!!!!

Jeffrey7
Jeffrey7Author
Participating Frequently
November 24, 2024

I agree, it's missing critical steps. When we write SOP's it's so important that we have people test out the steps that we write because there might be a phrase of familiarity that was accidently mentioned, that a new person might have no idea on what it means, and we need to clarify and improve it so it's easy for a first timer to follow without any hassles. That process was not done on several of these tutorials. They look nice, but the functionality wasn't tested well at all to be designed for someone just starting out, which is pretty weird when it's supposed to be, wait for it, a turorial to teach people how to use it. You know what I mean? I feel you.

Participant
June 18, 2023

I have to agree, the tutorials in general are kind of bad. I'm a bit familiar with the Elements version of Photoshop, but still confused about some aspects of masking... So I'm trying the full version of PS now and following along with the masking tutorial feels like a bad joke: The one where you try to select the headphones to mask out the background tells me to click on the Object Selection tool in order to refine the interior part of the selection, and then it just leaves me hanging... It doesn't tell me what to do next, I can't move the tutorial forward, and if I try to restart it I'm told to finish the current task to continue... But it gave me absolutley no clue how to do so. I've been fooling around with this for 20 minutes now and I'm still lost.

Jeffrey7
Jeffrey7Author
Participating Frequently
November 24, 2024

Right? Stuff like that. It's like, make the square by pulling the xenoflabbing tool to the gronk, and then continue, and you're like.... what? How do I make a square? Where is the xenoflabbing tool on the tool list? WTF is a gronk? and there's no way to move forward and going backward just undoes what you did, but you still don't know how to do what you wanted to do. 

Jeffrey7
Jeffrey7Author
Participating Frequently
May 30, 2023

I tried the tutorial with the elephant and dots background, and on several steps it's missing a step to get to a tool, or on how to reach an effect, or to acheive a next step action. I gave up about half the way through because it kept missing a step or lacking a description on how to do something. There's too many to list. 

CShubert
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 25, 2023

Sorry to hear this @Jeffrey7 not what we would like to offer up.  Please share with the team what didn't work or was the issue. What browser were you on, was the issue with the tutorial steps or results?

 

Jeffrey7
Jeffrey7Author
Participating Frequently
November 24, 2024

I wouldn't want to try and narrarate it in a setting like this as a commentary, especially since it pertained to missing technical steps that I already didn't understand. For best results, you'd genuinely have to run through it and idenify them yourself. I tried to follow it, and it keeps skipping steps on how to get a tool or how to generate things. 

Kevin Stohlmeyer
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 25, 2023

Hi @Jeffrey7 what specifically doesnt work?

Jeffrey7
Jeffrey7Author
Participating Frequently
November 24, 2024

I wouldn't want to try and narrarate it in a setting like this as a commentary, especially since it pertained to missing technical steps that I already didn't understand. For best results, you'd genuinely have to run through it and idenify them yourself. I tried to follow it, and it keeps skipping steps on how to get a tool or how to generate things.