Unless you already know a great deal in Photoshop, you need to learn a lot in Photoshop first. It is not something you can be taught here on the forum. I can give you a few tips though.
Photoshop is great for digital painting. If you are wanting to work in the digital environment much like you would with sketch paper or canvas to draw or paint an image, then Photoshop is a great medium. But I am thinking you might be more interested in creating patterns for fabric. Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW would be better for that if this is the case.
Photoshop is a raster (bitmap) based program. It uses dots (pixels) colored in and built up one at a time to create and image map (array of dots in this case). It excels at photo-manipulation and digital painting. Examples of what Photoshop is great at is touching up photos, combining elements of photos, and digitally creating a painting or drawing. Photoshop images have a fixed number of dots at a fixed size and resolution. You can not enlarge a Photoshop document and have it retain the same image quality because you have a fixed number of dots in the image. Is is extremely important that you create your Photoshop document (digital canvas) at the full printing size and resolution you will need in the end or you will end up with a lousy and unusable image for your needs.
Illustrator is a vector based program. It uses lines (curved and straight) and nodes (points) as mathematical expressions to create an image. It excels at creating cartoon like artwork and graphical patterns. Since the images are not bitmaps but mathematical expressions, vector images are inherently scalable. You can resize them any time to any size and they do not loose image quality. It is exceptionally difficult to create a photo-realistic image in a vector art program although it can be done.
Depending on what type of images you ultimately want to create, the best I can recommend is various books and classes at your local community college to help you learn one or more of these programs. There are online tutorials for all the different graphic art software out there as well. The books are available obviously about anywhere (I now prefer Amazon and Kindle digital books), but typically classes only on Adobe software are offered at colleges. I have never seen classes on Corel software except for online tutorial offerings.
Hope this helps get you going in the right direction.
Photoshop is great for digital painting. If you are wanting to work in the digital environment much like you would with sketch paper or canvas to draw or paint an image, then Photoshop is a great medium. But I am thinking you might be more interested in creating patterns for fabric. Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW would be better for that if this is the case.
Photoshop is a raster (bitmap) based program. It uses dots (pixels) colored in and built up one at a time to create and image map (array of dots in this case). It excels at photo-manipulation and digital painting. Examples of what Photoshop is great at is touching up photos, combining elements of photos, and digitally creating a painting or drawing. Photoshop images have a fixed number of dots at a fixed size and resolution. You can not enlarge a Photoshop document and have it retain the same image quality because you have a fixed number of dots in the image. Is is extremely important that you create your Photoshop document (digital canvas) at the full printing size and resolution you will need in the end or you will end up with a lousy and unusable image for your needs.
Illustrator is a vector based program. It uses lines (curved and straight) and nodes (points) as mathematical expressions to create an image. It excels at creating cartoon like artwork and graphical patterns. Since the images are not bitmaps but mathematical expressions, vector images are inherently scalable. You can resize them any time to any size and they do not loose image quality. It is exceptionally difficult to create a photo-realistic image in a vector art program although it can be done.
Depending on what type of images you ultimately want to create, the best I can recommend is various books and classes at your local community college to help you learn one or more of these programs. There are online tutorials for all the different graphic art software out there as well. The books are available obviously about anywhere (I now prefer Amazon and Kindle digital books), but typically classes only on Adobe software are offered at colleges. I have never seen classes on Corel software except for online tutorial offerings.
Hope this helps get you going in the right direction.
