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Dear Friends:
I like to think of myself as a graphic designer. When I have to fill some form, that is the profession I like to search for. But frankly, that is just because I know is unreasonable expecting to find "Photoshop user" (or InDesign, Illustrator user, for that matter) in the same field. This is my first topic. I am usually lurking in this forum because "just reading" all the interesting topics that one can find here is too time consuming, but mainly because reading posts from Jeff Schewe or Chris Cox, people whose names I know and respect, truly "last word freaks" makes me feel somewhat inferior. When they say that Photoshop is, say, ebony (the color) it does not matter if I have been seeing it red for the last eleven years (I use ps since 1994), I have to force myself to see it under a different light, until I train myself to see it ebony: they know better.
When I first read the "Adobe Photoshop – User guide & Tutorial (Version 2.5 for Windows)", I knew I was a beginner user. Then I read the "Classroom in a Book" for ps3 and I was proficient, mostly because I am curious. Then I started working and gaining experience. When I started browsing the web (1997), Adobe was my home page, so I found terribly easy passing the ACE test for ps5. Seven years later, I have bought three Deke McClelland’s Bibles (ps6, ps7 & ps cs) not just because he is so fun to read but because I have been teaching half of this time.
As a graphic designer, things are different. Even when I see here how much there is to learn in Photoshop (color management, dng, camera raw to name a few), willing as I am to buy more books (say, Katrin Eastmann’s), I feel that the technical side is not what I miss the most. I know clearly when to use a path and when to use a mask, the formats that this choice implies; I find obvious when to save in jpeg and when to choose a gif and its impact on the file size, too; finally, I recognize immediately when a site is no more than a lot of filters and eye candy tackily stacked over text and photos. Well, I want my knowledge to be this authoritative from the artistic side. I would like to know about the finest places where I could acquire this kind of preparation, where do you go when you want a Degree in Graphic Design, or a Master, even if you can be a Ph.D in Graphic Design.
Please, do not question my vision. I could settle for a Photoshop/prepress operator/teacher but I am not fulfilled with this side, complex as it is. I hope that some of you already have this preparation and I would like to know where did you get it: even if I cannot afford it right away (probably), I would have set an academic goal. In fact, I think this absence what makes difficult to distinguish between a professional work and what is perpetrated in so many websites. I ask you for options, but also for a minute of reflection about how underrated this need usually is.
I like to think of myself as a graphic designer. When I have to fill some form, that is the profession I like to search for. But frankly, that is just because I know is unreasonable expecting to find "Photoshop user" (or InDesign, Illustrator user, for that matter) in the same field. This is my first topic. I am usually lurking in this forum because "just reading" all the interesting topics that one can find here is too time consuming, but mainly because reading posts from Jeff Schewe or Chris Cox, people whose names I know and respect, truly "last word freaks" makes me feel somewhat inferior. When they say that Photoshop is, say, ebony (the color) it does not matter if I have been seeing it red for the last eleven years (I use ps since 1994), I have to force myself to see it under a different light, until I train myself to see it ebony: they know better.
When I first read the "Adobe Photoshop – User guide & Tutorial (Version 2.5 for Windows)", I knew I was a beginner user. Then I read the "Classroom in a Book" for ps3 and I was proficient, mostly because I am curious. Then I started working and gaining experience. When I started browsing the web (1997), Adobe was my home page, so I found terribly easy passing the ACE test for ps5. Seven years later, I have bought three Deke McClelland’s Bibles (ps6, ps7 & ps cs) not just because he is so fun to read but because I have been teaching half of this time.
As a graphic designer, things are different. Even when I see here how much there is to learn in Photoshop (color management, dng, camera raw to name a few), willing as I am to buy more books (say, Katrin Eastmann’s), I feel that the technical side is not what I miss the most. I know clearly when to use a path and when to use a mask, the formats that this choice implies; I find obvious when to save in jpeg and when to choose a gif and its impact on the file size, too; finally, I recognize immediately when a site is no more than a lot of filters and eye candy tackily stacked over text and photos. Well, I want my knowledge to be this authoritative from the artistic side. I would like to know about the finest places where I could acquire this kind of preparation, where do you go when you want a Degree in Graphic Design, or a Master, even if you can be a Ph.D in Graphic Design.
Please, do not question my vision. I could settle for a Photoshop/prepress operator/teacher but I am not fulfilled with this side, complex as it is. I hope that some of you already have this preparation and I would like to know where did you get it: even if I cannot afford it right away (probably), I would have set an academic goal. In fact, I think this absence what makes difficult to distinguish between a professional work and what is perpetrated in so many websites. I ask you for options, but also for a minute of reflection about how underrated this need usually is.
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