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Self-taught PS for three months, the deepest feeling.

Because I am interested in photography, and PS is closely related to photography, I have taught myself PS for three months. To this end, I not only bought related books, but also bought videos to learn PS in the cloud classroom. Watch videos when you have time to learn various moves of PS. In these three months, I learned to use PS for portrait beauty, such as acne, mole removal, skin grinding and so on. I also learned how to use quick selection tool, pen tool, color range and other methods to cut pictures, and learned simple image synthesis and color adjustment.

After learning so many tricks, I feel very powerful and have a sense of accomplishment. But when I was reading the book PHOTOSHOP Portrait Photography Post-technical Professional Course, I suddenly found it more and more difficult to learn PS. Although I have learned some tricks before, all the tricks mentioned in this book are based on understanding the basic knowledge. In other words, if you don't understand the basic principles of PS, such as tools, selection, layers, masks, color adjustment, etc. It is actually very difficult to learn the tricks in the book. Every step of trick decomposition has a basic principle. Even if you learn this trick, you won't extrapolate.

I realized the problem of self-learning PS. No wonder I haven't made progress for so long. Not even a solid basic skill. How can I expect to make substantial progress and become a master again?

Teacher Cat said that it is more useful to master the most basic principles than to learn a bunch of seemingly useful tricks. Only by laying a good foundation can we maximize the power of each move.

It seems that he has become a collector of tricks these days. But fortunately, I found the problem in time and got feedback. The next step is to adjust the learning methods in time.

This is my understanding of learning in recent years. Finally, to sum up:

Learn a skill, first lay a good foundation, and then learn tricks in depth, otherwise you will only become a trick collector in the end!