One final technical issue I had is that the project files they provide already had the changes made, which made them completely useless for following along with. Obviously a lot of people have had success with this teaching, but unfortunately it wasn’t right for me. Rather than, for example, 25 minutes looking at every possible variation on the brush tool before I’ve ever really used that tool in a project. Then gradually you work on bigger and more complicated projects learning tools and procedures as you go. I would have preferred a project-based learning system where you work on a simple project which introduces the most basic tools and features. It would be like teaching you to cook by spending 30 minutes on all the different spatulas, then 30 minutes on the whisks, and so on. Then you’re on to another tool, then another. Instead it begins with a deep dive into each individual tool showing the dozen different things each tool can do, but not with any goal in mind, just explaining the tool. I was hoping for a step-by-step guide where we would learn by doing, starting from a blank slate. Simply wasn’t for me and didn’t work for my learning style. If you haven’t tried this course you really should. I found it really pulled together the things I had learned in the first 7 lessons and also the ideas I had learned using the free tutorials and in fact I can now appreciate them even more. And then finishes with a photo that he walks you through the full edit using all the main tools and concepts covered from layers, to masks, brushes to cropping, colour changes to retouching. The shortcuts, the pros and cons, the gotcha’s. Why? Because Aaron doesn’t put you to sleep, he shows on photos what they can do, should do and you might not really want them to do. Further to walk through every single one of them, sometimes in great detail, others less so because they are either not really applicable to photo editing or are covered in gory detail in a whole other offering is pretty amazing. Consider that when you open PS you are confronted with 3 main screen areas, 28 tools and 10 top level (and I can’t be bothered to count the submenus) menus it is pretty overwhelming. Just finished the last lesson in Photoshop 101. A little note which has nothing to do with the training but more to do with the layout of the website, would have been nice to have click and play functions options like in youtube, press the bar key on the keyboard to pause the video and back again to play it, double click to expand the page to full screen.Wow. The beauty of this tutorial is that every single video is somehow connected and you feel like you are drawn by it. At first I was thinking that even for a complete beginner this course might seem a little too fast and it feels like you are missing a lot, for example what I tried at first was opening photoshop and try to follow the lessons step by step and definitely not easy, but then, chapter after chapter, he is repetitive, goes over things very often giving you a hint of what was previously shown and said and it is very easy to reconstruct what was previously learned. I am amazed by the simplicity he has when talking about topics in this tutorial. When you have a great Teacher like Aaron everything it’s easy. I have just completed the Chapter 7 | Basic Photo Editing. It’s refreshing to see such quality product and service at a reasonable price. Really looking for ward to progressing through the other lessons and applying these skills to many of the images I have taken over the years. Early days yet but I am extremely happy with the content, delivery, material, overall quality of the package and of course the price. I have picked up some really useful tips from those, which I just either didn’t know or never practiced in the past. I completed this basic course and whilst I skipped a lot of it (because I was very familiar with much of the content, I focussed own the photo editing and workflow training. Took out an annual subscription I am really happy with the training opportunities this subscription offers me for the next year. I stumbled across PHLEARN, tried one of the free tutorials and saw what was being delivered and unbelievably (with the Xmas discount) how cheap a years subscription was. I have on and off for many years, used PS, without any structured learning experience.
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