>* beginner’s goal should be accomplishing a task* Yup - I learned Photoshop in the mid 1990s because I was given a task to make some marketing material for th

>* beginner’s goal should be accomplishing a task* Yup - I learned Photoshop in the mid 1990s because I was given a task to make some marketing material for the architecture firm I worked for... and they paid hourly for me to go to the Kinkos near the office as they had workstations with Photoshop on them. If you have a goal/task that you need to create then you will learn faster. You can't just sit down in front of a piece of software, such as Autocad or Photoshop and "learn" it unless you have a goal... There is a bad-ass piece of software called "Bartender" By Seagull Scientific and its used extensively in the cannabis industry to make labels - I love that software and I had to learn how to use it as I needed to design and print Cannabis labels...