You Suck at Photoshop - Distort, Warp, & Layer Effects

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The first episode of the comedy series You Suck at Photoshop, in which the character Donnie Hoyle teaches distort, warp and layer effects while his personal troubles keep intruding. The Photoshop techniques are real and the delivery is deadpan.

HN people remember it fondly as the funniest Photoshop tutorial, and point to it as a starting place for faking images.

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@VikingCoder2024 · in “Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]”
If you want to learn how to make better fake videos, you might want to start with "You Suck at Photoshop" ▶ this video
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@KolmogorovComp2023 · in “You Suck at Photoshop (2008) [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@circa2016 · in “You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]”
You instantly brought me back to the "You suck at photoshop" series. Enjoy and you're welcome! ▶ this video
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@0xcde4c3db2016 · in “You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]”
At the beginning he says something like "this is basic to intermediate, but for you this is going to be stupid hard", which is from the first (?) YSAP, "Distort, Warp, & Layer Effects" [1]. [1] ▶ this video
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@michaelbuckbee2012 · in “Two Universes”
Something not really mentioned in the article is that Portal is very funny. The voice of Glados is constantly messing with you: asking you to bring your daughter to work with you for testing over the acid pits, lying to you about obvious things, etc. This personality and sense of humor helps drive things forward and keeps you entertained while you're fiddling with what are essentially logic puzzles. I've never really seen a website or app pull off humor to the level that Portal achieves. The closest thing I can think of would be something like the "You Suck at Photoshop" tutorials on YouTube: ▶ this video
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@patrickgzill2010 · in “[dead]”
Maybe they need some lessons from Donnie Hoyle...(fictitious teacher of Photoshop and guy with personal problems) ▶ this video
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