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Learning to paint

Learning to paint - Photoshop Tutorial

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Learning to paint

- I think I've mentioned that I've been using Photoshop for 30 years, as long as it's been out. But here's the thing, Photoshop 1.0 right out of the gate cost $895, far more than I could afford. So how did I acquire it? By painting. Let me explain. Macworld Magazine, which was a big print publication in those days, hired me to write an article about all the color painting programs at the time, programs like Pixel Paint Pro, Studio 32, and I know you're going to think I'm making this up, Color MacCheese. But what I really wanted was the sidebar in which I covered a couple of up and coming photo programs, one called Letraset ColorStudio and the other called Adobe Photoshop. So in other words, I got Photoshop by learning how to paint. In this chapter, I'll show you what I've learned in the 30 years since.

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