I learned so much! I don't know what, but I learned so much of it!
That...was hilarious! The guy's intonation is dead-on with that of those droning, classic video tutorials. The whole “Cheever miserable existence” vibe mixed with the “Arrested Development” cringe humor is genius.
Now, for the truth? In 1994 I had two two-hour lessons at my old job from a tutor who taught the whole art department. (With Illustrator to boot) Everything else, I learned myself by playing with the program.
Funny thing about Photoshop is that there are seven different ways to do every function it seems, and you really never stop learning it. It helps to have had classic art training, though. My years painting and drawing and so on aids me immensely with the program. It's a spectacular extension of a classically trained illustrator's tool set.
Dig in kiddies...there's nothing you CAN'T do with it! 
In fact, here's quick lesson. Lemme get an image here...like this one of Beyoncé.
Lookin' pretty good there. Bronze skin. Mmmmmph! Look at those legs!
You just wanna—
(MRS. LM Honey, I need you to—what the hell is that? Why are you zoomed in on her crotch? I—oooooh! Swear to God!
(ME No! Wait, this is for the blog, okay? Don't just assume! I-no! That's not how you turn the computer off! Don't—*
Stop educating! My brain's full!
Years ago I tired to figure it out. Not intuitive at least to me. I can get around in it but prefer Vector as my first choice for illustration and Illustrator is even less intuitive. I use a little program from England called Xara Extreme Pro, started with ver. 1.1 back in the early 90s and it does everything I need.
Its PC only and very inexpensive compared to Adobe products. I'm just a hack in all reality and use it for creating material for my Veterans For Peace chapter, fliers, buttons, logos, and banners and signage. Being a Vector program, it can scale up without pixelation. I can make huge banners, export as PDF and all the lettering and vector art is as crisp as if was a 100x100 bitmap.
I did have a little picture fun back durng the 2004 campaign with my Lord of the Rings series. I particularly like my CNN Eye of Sauron.
P.S.
If you want to see what the pros can do, check out the Xara gallery
LM, we're glad you like it. Mr. R used to be the manager of core technologies group at Adobe (that is, he was in charge of programming tools that were shared among the development teams, mining and refining useful pieces of code developed by one team that could be shared by others, and specific shared UI issues). Photoshop was his biggest, most heinous client. Someday, maybe in Austin, you can buy him a beer and he'll tell you tales from behind the screen.
The day the Acrobat team hired him out of management and back into a senior programming job (his first task was to figure out how to made it wrap text in Asian languages -- fun stuff) was a happy one indeed.
I loved all the saved gun palettes...
Now THAT is what I call multimedia entertainment!
Radio drama, animation, those gun palettes adding texture -- ai yi!
Dang I was late getting here today - the video is no longer available
I didn't like this one... thought it kind of stupid... must have missed something.
Doug --
It is available.
Listen folks. Lots of times people say a video isn't available when it really is.
Give it a moment. Breathe. Then try again. If we or YouTube or you gets slowed up, it will show up as video isn't available. But it is. Just not to you, right then.
k? K.
Thanks.
teh funny, it wuz
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