Be patient with adobe. Learn basics starting with tools and so on. I have started recently and it goes well so far. Wish you a good start!I have today took the plunge and signed up for Adobe CC with a special price offer. I think it will take a while to learn how to drive it and for now I will continue to use Elements (along side it) as I have for years
Why? I jumped straight into Photoshop and just... Learned it. I guess it's a good thing no one told me how hard it is to learn Photoshop because I'm certainly not the sharpest knife in the drawer and even I found it relatively intuitive and pretty easy to learn once I got started. There's no need to understand, much less "master" Lightroom before starting to learn Photoshop; you just have to decide you want to learn to use Photoshop.Start by using lightroom only and don't even go into Photoshop till Lightroom is mastered.
I learned photoshop first and used it for years before picking up Lightroom. The reason for the suggestion is the KISS method. Learning one task at the time is less confusing and you can truly master it a lot faster. And frankly, you can do probably 75% of you standard post processing in Lightroom. I took me a while to go what I thought at first was stepping backwards to learn and embrace Lightroom. LEarn a task and use it till you don't have to think about it and then move on the the next task.Why? I jumped straight into Photoshop and just... Learned it. I guess it's a good thing no one told me how hard it is to learn Photoshop because I'm certainly not the sharpest knife in the drawer and even I found it relatively intuitive and pretty easy to learn once I got started. There's no need to understand, much less "master" Lightroom before starting to learn Photoshop; you just have to decide you want to learn to use Photoshop.
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At the risk of sounding argumentative I guess what I'm not understanding is why this approach couldn't be applied to learning Photoshop. Now, I don't mean to "push" learning Photoshop over Lightroom - that's a race I have no dog in - but by the same token I am *very* opposed to what seems to be an all-to-common belief that Photoshop is difficult to learn; primarily because it's not. If you possess the faculties required to learn Lightroom, you could just as easily learn Photoshop.I learned photoshop first and used it for years before picking up Lightroom. The reason for the suggestion is the KISS method. Learning one task at the time is less confusing and you can truly master it a lot faster. And frankly, you can do probably 75% of you standard post processing in Lightroom. I took me a while to go what I thought at first was stepping backwards to learn and embrace Lightroom. Learn a task and use it till you don't have to think about it and then move on the the next task.
There are geeks like you and me that might can dive in and learn all if it at the same time but that is not the norm.
At the risk of sounding argumentative I guess what I'm not understanding is why this approach couldn't be applied to learning Photoshop. Now, I don't mean to "push" learning Photoshop over Lightroom - that's a race I have no dog in - but by the same token I am *very* opposed to what seems to be an all-to-common belief that Photoshop is difficult to learn; primarily because it's not. If you possess the faculties required to learn Lightroom, you could just as easily learn Photoshop.
I do have a question, when editing is completed how do you save ? I have found I can go to export but is there not a quicker way ?
Thanks but I can see file but not file save ?