Ask yourself what you want to achieve - if you want to create electronic projects, order your boards from the cheap manufacturers online. If you want to become

Ask yourself what you want to achieve - if you want to create electronic projects, order your boards from the cheap manufacturers online. If you want to become really good at the process of making PCBs, then look at making your own. This is the reality - unless you’re only interested in the most simple stuff (one or two layers but no plated holes, no vias, no solder mask, etc.), you can spend years trying to develop and tweak processes to try and achieve something that won’t match the quality and reliability of something you can have delivered in less 7 days for $10. Not to say that developing PCB processes isn’t fun to some people, and if it is then more power to you, but I’d rather spend the time on the electronics than spending all of it trying to build PCBs.