After I got my first edit from Harry, the first thing I did was quickly downloaded the Adobe Photoshop CS3 from www.mininova.com ... This website doesn't exist anymore because of certain legal issues but you should try other sites like http://isohunt.com/ or http://thepiratebay.org/ in case you want to get a copy too. I'm sure you people do know how to download torrents but no problem if you're new to this then please visit http://www.wikihow.com/Download-Torrents, it's easy to understand :)
After installing the software, I was blank !!! :P Trust me, so blank that i didn't open it for the next couple of days, because it looked so complicated in the start and now, I never use any of the toolbars because I play the game using shortcuts and my hands move so quickly that you guys wont have a clue whats happening :) and whats the good part, every single person who is eager to learn and will follow up regularly, EVEN YOU GUYS CAN BECOME LIKE OR EVEN BETTER THAN ME! :D
So after a couple of days I started surfing the internet for free tutorials as on how to get started with this freaking complicated crap I had just installed. Then I figured http://www.youtube.com/ helped a lot. They have a lot of free tutorials on how to start working with Photoshop. Then I slowly started with how to change the color of a car, change the color of the hair, change eye color, then moved on to how to swap faces, swap bodies, extract background etc. Eventually I almost learned most of the tools. Talking about tools, frankly speaking if you know the entire set of tools in Photoshop, thats all you need to learn! Remaining is your CREATIVITY ! We will get back to that later on don't worry :)
So after I learned most of the tools then my Dad noticed my interest and gave me even more support. He told me to join some course but then I told him not now, let me get along properly and then we will think about it. So after a while when I really started building my interest I decided to get certified by Adobe. So I began hunting for the certified Adobe Training Centers in Dubai and just my luck I tell you guys, The only one Adobe Certified Training Center in entire GCC is in Dubai :D ' SitesPower Training Institute' http://www.sitespower.com/ . So I went there during Ramadan time with my Dad and luckily they had an amazing offer. Buy one course and get one course free :D Luck I tell you :P I took two courses and got two free. One course was charged @ AED 2500, so for AED 5000 I got 4 courses. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash & Dreamweaver.
So after I completed my course I enrolled for the ACE exam only for Photoshop which cost me 140$ per paper. I passed my paper and got my certificate.
Thats it for today people, I dont want to bore you people so tomorrow we will get started with the first lesson : )
to be continued . . .
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