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Introduction

It's one of my biggest desires to master Photoshop. I have always learned best from other people. I do spend a lot of time looking through Photoshop tutorials on youtube, and other guides and tips. Sometimes that is not enough.

Are you just browsing through or do you plan on participating in some way?

I would love to learn some tips and tricks of Photoshop from people in the know. I would really like to get a good work flow down, so I am it's master and not the other way around. Once I learn more, I could be a very good teacher for others. I am tech savvy. I have been a photographer for a good while, in the manual style. And I do tech support by phone for wireless home networking customers. So you can imagine I am pretty patient with people to be able to do that 10 hours a day.

What version of Photoshop are you using now?

My Dad gave me his 2nd registered copy of Photoshop CS (version 8). I work on a mac laptop. I do plan to get a more sophisticated set up once I can afford it; more current Photoshop, a nice monitor, one of those spider things or better to calibrate it, etc.

What is your level of expertise in Photoshop?

I can do a lot of the basic things pretty easily like making adjustments to the brightness, contrast, and some basic color correction. I can combine images with layers, even cutting a piece of a photo out to put on another photo. But I struggle a little with this. I sometimes forget some of the steps in the process, and have to re-figure it out. I would like to learn a decent work flow, and learn to work more cleanly and precisely. I want to learn more advanced graphic design techniques though.

What do you use Photoshop for?

Most important to me is to learn how to make my photographs look very professional, even slick and magazine-like. I am also a collage artist. I've done them by had for years, and would like to take that to the next level with Photoshop. I work with video, and would like to learn how to design graphic lettering or logos for myself and clients too for intros and documentaries that need that.

What do you hope to learn or to contribute to this group?

I will bring to this group creativity, a constant hunger for more knowledge, and the ability and desire to teach others who ask for additional help, once I get it down more.