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I never cease to become more amazed by the sheer .... cleverness of photoshop. A recent message exchange about just that got me wondering.
Could there be, anywhere, anyone who truly does know everything that photoshop can do?
so many different ways to achieve so many different things and still functions that I never use, filters with so many variations .... really is a very clever little piece of kit.
(still miss a dark room though .... sometimes!) 
Yep , been using Photoshop since Version 4, now using CS2 and still stuck in second gear !!
I dont know but I would guess that you would need to know a lot to be adobe certified.
I reckon I maybe know 5%, some days it feels like 1%.
Unless you're a Photoshop guru like Martin Evening, Scott Kelby or someone like that, I doubt you well ever exhaust the possibilities that Photoshop has to offer and each new version gets even more bells and whistles.
It's certainly fun to have a play and learn something new. There's also more than one way of achieving an end, you learn constantly. That's where a site like this with so many Photoshop users comes in handy.
I joined NAPP for a year, but to be brutally honest, they aren't really interested in overseas members as few of the special offers are available outside the US/Canada. I refused to renew for that reason, though the NAPP forums are very good indeed.
Maybe someone should start a thread for people to post some Photoshop tips, though do state what version you are using. If there's a workaround in Photoshop Elements for those who are using that, so much the better.
Jo
Photoshop is a pro tool aimed at a number of different markets .. because of this there's a lot built into it, however a vast amount of it works in the same way. Once you have an understanding of the process you have a better understanding of the overall program. I would expect that many of you know far more than you may imagine you do !!
That said photoshop is a complex tool and one I have been using as both a photographer and non photographer since year dot. We subscribe to a couple of photoshop mags and used to attended courses etc but even then with the new developments they make there's always something new to learn.
Adobe are simply very, very good at what they do. I for one applaud them for it. CS3 has no real competition and the beta tools are alredy proving very, very useful!
Dan
Quote: Adobe are simply very, very good at what they do. I for one applaud them for it. CS3 has no real competition and the beta tools are alredy proving very, very useful!
Not in favour of this petition then Dan?
To be honest it makes no difference to me either way. We use Photoshop in a professional capacity and if it were three times the price it would still be worthwhile us investing in it .. there is a version for home users at a sensible price already. it's called elements
I'm old enough to remember version 1 and we ran scanned files through it. Scanned images were rare in '90 and we would wait eight days for images to come back from Birmingham.
It's difficult to imagine how it revolutionised the industry despite the fact that the machinary to run it ran into several thousand pounds, but we'd been sold on the hype of Star Wars and a couple of US agencies had racked up a couple of very impressive 96 sheet boards using a Beta version.
If anyone fancies using version 1 download it here.
Of course true designers still use Superpaint
...unless you were a Letraset man
Quote: I joined NAPP for a year, but to be brutally honest, they aren't really interested in overseas members as few of the special offers are available outside the US/Canada. I refused to renew for that reason, though the NAPP forums are very good indeed.
Perhaps it's just a sponsor thing, like with EPZ's ?
Quote: Could there be, anywhere, anyone who truly does know everything that photoshop can do?
you could spend a lifetime learning it and still learn new things in your second life I started at 2.5 - the first PC version I believe!
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