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Stop believing Photoshop, Pixelmator, Illustrator, or anything else is too hard. These tools can have a steep learning curve (not as bad as you’d think), but so
by tumult 17y ago
Stop believing Photoshop, Pixelmator, Illustrator, or anything else is too hard. These tools can have a steep learning curve (not as bad as you’d think), but so did programming when you were starting on this game.
Knowing how the tools and palettes work in Photoshop makes you a good designer like knowing Java's syntax makes you a good programmer.
- frisco 17y agoAsk someone who doesn't know how to program to read just a few lines of code. Though it's very naturally readable to you -- and in general, if you didn't know a new language you could try reading it line-by-line like English -- it looks totally impenetrable to them. I've heard people tell me that they have no idea how I do anything [programming] when they look at just a simple script in PHP or Ruby. Knowing the Photoshop interface is clearly not what makes you a good designer, but in general it is a necessary-but-not-sufficient prerequisite to being really good.