Posted by Simcha on January 8, 2002, at 14:01:41
In reply to Re: butting in... » Katey, posted by kiddo on January 8, 2002, at 10:26:56
Kiddo,
For me the best place to learn it was at a Community College in Chicago. You get the same teachers you get from Mac University and The Art Institute of Chicago for about 1/4 the tuition!!!
If you are willing to put up with the bureaucratic BS and perhaps some out of date equipment (sometimes) and surly administrators then this is a great deal! I loved my professors for Web classes and design classes.
I learned the following at Chicago Community Colleges:
HTML
Illustrator
PhotoShop
Quark
Freehand
And a little bit of JavaScriptThis set me up for a career in the Web World. It's a little more difficult to enter this world now but when I started there were no certificates. The only thing a potential client cared about is whether or not you could do the job they wanted to get done. Ability weighed more than certificates or degrees. Ahhh those were the days..... ;-)
I'm glad I got in when I did....
> You aren't buting in at all, I appreciated the additional feedback. How did you learn, if you don't mind my asking-sounds like you took a course? Where did you start?? It drives me crazy to have software and not know how to do anything with it. Sounds like you've become another pro. Do you know Flash as well? I have that, something called Freehand, and Image Ready, but haven't even opened those two. Always something to learn...
>
> Kiddo
>
>
> > photoshop 5 is the home owners version- mostly for screwing around with already created images. photoshop 6, however, is awesome. photoshop literally lets you create something out of nothing. i made all of the backgrounds on my website in photoshop, as well as most of the .gif titles. software is so much fun to playwith- at school i used to spend my lunch in the computer lab working on my site- those computers had *everything* including illegal flash.
> >
> >
> > > > > > The little Bob pics have provided opportunity to re-learn and get to know the new Adobe Photoshop -graphics software anyone can do it but takes time to learn..
> > > > > >
> > > > > > dreamerx
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I've used Micrografx a lot, have Adobe Photoshop, but rarely use it because it's so different and seems too complicated for the fact I don't have the time I used to for experimenting and so forth. Are you self taught or did you take classes, etc.?
> > > > >
> > > > > Did you use a filter for that effect? You know I actually opened PS just to play around, and quit about 30 seconds later. Any tips/hints on 'quick sessions' to learn?
> > > > >
> > > > > Think we should move this thread to PSB before Dr. Bob does it for us? hehe
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Kiddo
> > > >
> > > > No quick sessions....I learned by just clicking round on anything , making mistakes. Did a course years ago , the manual was HUGE , I never read the monstrous thing . It was the first time that I used the pc and wasn't afraid to press buttons the tutor eventually left me to my own devices.
> > > > Usually I fiddle round with several layers of pics then merge them and of course there are so many pluggins/filters for free on the web.
> > > > Just get some music going and go play ........
> > > > that's all for now cause I'm starting to sound rational;^)
> > > >
> > > > dreamerx........ now attempts to re-direct
> > >
> > >
> > > Your attempt worked! If it isn't a quick sit kind of thing, then I'm doomed. Exactly how long would you sit at one time, and how long did it take to learn? What version do you use?
> > >
> > > I don't understand how I can format, install hardware, and build a pc, yet can't learn PS, I did have more time to doing that kinda stuff many moons ago....
> > >
> > > You were starting to sound sane, and it was kinda scary 'cuz I was starting to understand, or maybe you weren't sane-and I understood because I'm insane as well :-)!!!!
> > >
> > > Kiddo
poster:Simcha
thread:16410
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20020102/msgs/16473.html