> In the interest of changing the subject, and creating new threads, and all > that... > > I've been debating taking a Photoshop class. (7 is what I'll be using, and > let's not go there again, re versions. ;-)) > > So I am curious, if you use Photoshop, did you ever take a class in it? > > Or did you just learn it from books? > > Or what? > > Marnie aka Doe >
Learned it as a photographer for the college campus newspaper a few years ago (versions 3 and 4, I think, just to illustrate the range) and never took a formal class although I was being taught in a college newsroom. If that makes sense as written. There was a class in existence at the time, and I frequently overheard it while working in the area, but wasn't impressed with the teacher, and I know the only thing I learned from overhearing that class was that I wouldn't ever take a class from that man. Wasn't the same person wo was teaching me in one-on-one sessions, and who, herself, was at the time doing an independent study or something of that sort with a big-name local Photoshop artist. I also went through most of a "Classroom in a Book" Tutorial, later, which I think filled in a few gaps. But there are still many gaps in what I know. (I didn't finish the book because I still had a few chapters to go when I delivered my second child; suddenly I didn't have the time! Never went back and completed the book, for a variety of reasons.) Probably a class with a competent teacher would be effective. (In fact, in the same college, the photo adviser who taught me Photoshop one-on-one is now teaching the class; HER students are probably learning something.) Summary: in my case, OJT and books. ERN
