The Last Poster Wins [v30]

[Neo Emolga]

I think the last laptop I used (not counting my work one) was the one I got from my college way back in 2003. It was kinda scrappy and it was definitely pretty clear it wasn't meant for games, but it was able to do most of the Photoshop stuff I wanted to do. Although back then, I was kind of a Photoshop newbie and didn't even tap into like 5% of the resources it had to offer.

[Chakramaster]

My grandmother bought most of us in our family a laptop after my grandfather passed away back around 2004. It was one of the better ones at the time, but wasn't big for games and such. I didn't really get into the internet thing big as I am until late 2006. Then wanting to know how to create avatars/signatures around 2007-2008. A friend of mine got me CS3 (photoshop) and I tried, but could never figure it out.

[Neo Emolga]

I discovered Photoshop in high school around the year 2000. I was taking a photography class and we used that to manipulate some of the imagery on a digital platform, and I immediately LOVED Photoshop for the crazy and cool things you could do with it. Although I didn't really start getting better at it until like 2004. It was funny, I saw other forum users on a message board with banner signatures and I absolutely loved them and wanted my own. I was absolutely driven to get good at making them.

[Voltaire Magneton]

I also learned Photoshop in high school, it's a subject area lowkry similar to Home Ec, but it's a sub-area titled ICT.

[Neo Emolga]

Yeah, it's astounding how little is actually taught in these classes, because not even my college classes taught me anything that I didn't already know from what I found and created through online tutorials. Those classes really only teach you the very, very basic stuff like "go here to create a new file" and "here is the brush tool." Best way to learn is try a tutorial, but also grasp how to do each step and to make sure your result looks similar to the example.

[Chakramaster]

Mine never look "similar" at all xD. I try to look and see what tools someone uses, but 9/10 they use shortcuts and I can never tell what tool as active. So I don't know what to switch to or how to find said tool. xD