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How did you learn Photoshop?

I just started teaching photoshop last year myself, before i knew nothing about it. I started watching online tutorials and reading up on it, but the best thing I found was BERT MONROY.

Bert is one of the leading digital artists in the industry. He has his own internet TV show called Pixel Perfect on www.revisionthree.com. He has over 100 episodes that show you how to do all sorts of stuff. He is also the cowriter of the the first photoshop handbook. Read up on him, he can teach you alot.
 
I took a class at my high school last year that was all about photoshop and how to use it and what it can be used for. I think you can get books check online there might be books or you might find an online guide to photoshop.


Its an easy prgram once you get the basic knowledge of how to use the tools
 
I started using the predecessor to Photoshop, Digital Darkroom, and then started Photoshop with its first version after Adobe bought DD. My boss at the time showed me how to do the basics that I needed for my job (levels and color separation, mostly), and I taught myself the rest. Of course, back then, Photoshop didn't do all that much, and it was really easy to master everything fairly quickly. Then all I had to do was learn new features as they came out.

However, nowadays beginners are diving into an extremely robust and complicated program. I ultimately ended up teaching Photoshop classes for years and was thrilled to see how much the classes helped beginners get up to speed very quickly. You can certainly teach yourself, but taking a class will greatly accelerate the process and will probably introduce you to methods and tricks you didn't know you needed.
 
A friend showed me what he knew, I picked up some bits, then went crazy and learnt a heap load myself, I am far from a intermediate user however.
 
Took a class in 6th grade on Photoshop for fun. :D

Of course I never actually used it much, until recently, which has prompted me to buy it.
 
Buying it is so overrated... :p But, as of recent, I really want to buy it, but no moola, just enough to pay bills and get my macbook :) Im happy about that.

But when I do get PS/AI, is it worth buying CS4??
 
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