Pencil drawing with Photoshop filters

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  Joer_B (@JoerB)

  03/18/2022 @ 3:51pm

  I think that's the only reasonable way to learn Photoshop - by playing with it and seeing what it can for you and your work flow. Or you could buy the 500+ page book explaining every tool, filter and feature...lol. Honestly, the application has gotten so big and complicated since I first started using version 4 that if I didn't already have experience with it and were to start learning the current version (22.5), my head would explode.

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  Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)

  03/18/2022 @ 9:20pm

  @JoerB Yes, I agree, PS is SO deep....so many levels and yes, a nightmare to master. But, I think that folks use the little bits they need. For instance, I use it for about 12 to 15 hours a week, but it's almost exclusively to do background and color adjustments for product photos--- Tens of thousands of them. So a pretty prosaic usage. My first copy of Photoshop was in 1990 (almost at first emergence) when I was the program manager for multi-media authoring tools at Microsoft (after a stint with the first version of Excel (started in 1986) and before becoming the full text search point person). I got to play with LOADS of fun graphics programs--2D and 3-D....BUT, I have never really done any serious art-work or art-photos on Photoshop, so my knowledge of all that is pretty nil. I do have the paradigm under my belt, so it's fun to play with the details and learn new stuff!

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  Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)

  03/18/2022 @ 9:26pm

  @JoerB Forgot to mention....that octagonal background was done with the "Plastic Wrap" filter. NEVER could figure out a good use for that before, but in conjunction with other filters, it has puts in an interesting element.