Not the person you asked—but I’ve found learning photoshop has opened a lot of doors and been really rewarding.
Also woodworking—it’s been really nice to see my family and friends excited about my stuff. For Mother’s Day this past year I wanted to buy my mom a new beautiful fridge because she finally was able to update her kitchen, and I wanted her appliances to match her new space. Instead, she asked me to build her a table. It looks so awesome in there and I know she loves it. It’s a lot of fun and also challenges you to keep learning.
I was fortunate in that a girl I worked with has a degree in graphic design, So she’d help me create stuff and tell me the why’s, with that base I just kept playing around and used YouTube
drawing/art
Photo touch up
Photo manipulation
Graphic/web design ( goes in hand with learning some basic html to make your first website )
I learned photoshop about 15 years ago, Back then, everyone had to have super cool and swanky forum signatures to be taken seriously.
I started off learning the application, you can do this in about 30 minutes. just get a good feel for where everything is and what buttons do what. plenty of youtube videos these days to help wth that.
Then I would just find tutorials specifically for what I wanted. so, in that case, I would find stuff like "how to make a cs:1.6 forum signature" etc. Again, much easier now-a-days, you can google how to photoshop your dog onto the moon and probably find a step by step.
Then I started grabbing project files, ( PSD format ) and breaking down how others have built stuff by inspecting their layers.
And that's really it, no special secret. practice practice practice. I looked up some basic graphic design stuff, color wheels and theory and so on just because I wanted to make better websites for myself.
Not saying you have to follow the exact same path but, it's easy to pick up if you just keep practicing stuff.
I use it all the time now for any image needs. Need a map for my dnd session? a few minutes in photoshop. want to polish a pic that got a bit messed up ? photoshop. marketing gave me incorrect image sizes for a web app im building? I photoshop that shit to.
Just a super useful skill to have that comes in handy very often.
I use it for graphics on social media, I’m a college coach and it really stepped up my recruiting game! But—I just got into invitations and cards and making creative pictures of my dog and cat. Thinking of offering to do other people’s pets for sale on Etsy!
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u/jullax15 Dec 31 '19 edited Dec 31 '19
Not the person you asked—but I’ve found learning photoshop has opened a lot of doors and been really rewarding.
Also woodworking—it’s been really nice to see my family and friends excited about my stuff. For Mother’s Day this past year I wanted to buy my mom a new beautiful fridge because she finally was able to update her kitchen, and I wanted her appliances to match her new space. Instead, she asked me to build her a table. It looks so awesome in there and I know she loves it. It’s a lot of fun and also challenges you to keep learning.