Programmers are so sad sometimes — this is like asking "how can I learn to be romantic?" or better yet "how can I give myself heart surgery?" If the programmer

Programmers are so sad sometimes — this is like asking "how can I learn to be romantic?" or better yet "how can I give myself heart surgery?" If the programmer is really asking "how can I be a graphic designer?" then the answer is simple: Spend the thousands of hours that any other designer spends to become a graphic designer — that may start by playing with Photoshop, but to be good at it requires everything from art history courses, hours of the critique of your peers and teachers who are professionals, the other courses to get your degree, an internship and a few slightly disappointed first clients who were your guinea pigs (hopefully they knew they were guinea pigs by the way). There are no silver bullets, yes someone can make something slick — but that's a decorator not a designer.