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In fact, itвЂ™s AWFUL, but I have seen crap in professional publications that was almost as bad as that. That doesnвЂ™t look too great, does it? Part of her clavicle is missing, it looks like someone threw acid in her hair and some of the background is still there. Use the goddamn magic wand, you say? OK then. You want the girl, but not the background. I mean twisting and turning with it, mastering your form and creating a perfect outline of something. And I donвЂ™t mean just click, click, click like youвЂ™re connecting the goddamn dots. The pen tool is the difference between amateurs and professionals. If youвЂ™re going to do anything approaching real design, learn the pen tool. If I could only give you one piece of advice, it would be learn the pen tool. Magic wands are for amateurs and fairies. HereвЂ™s a Photoshop pro-tip for you: Forget the damn magic wand.

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Chapter 3: Learn What Your Software Does Best

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Pro Tip: Adobe has tons of tutorials on their site for everything they make. Not to mention that any book youвЂ™re likely to buy is already out of date. I guarantee youвЂ™ll learn whatever youвЂ™re trying to learn better and easier that way than from a book. If thatвЂ™s not enough, look around online for a tutorial for whatever it is that youвЂ™re trying to learn and follow the tutorial. You can learn the same things, only better, by following the FREE tutorials that come with your software, written by the people who produce the software. And if thatвЂ™s all it teaches you, you donвЂ™t need that book. ThereвЂ™s no way that a book like that can teach you anything but the barest framework of design. Graphic Designers spend years learning our trade and honing our craft. Well, I hate to break it to you, but Graphic Design is the same. Would you buy something thatвЂ™s called Neurosurgery for Dummies? Of course you wouldnвЂ™t, because it would be preposterous to think that you could learn all you need to know about operating on someoneвЂ™s brain from a gimcrack book. Second, if a flimsy little book says that if can teach you in a few chapters what it takes professionals years to learn, itвЂ™s lying. So, why would you buy something that says you are? And even if you do find Photoshop to be intuitive, once you move on to InDesign or Illustrator, you will lose any confidence in that assessment.Дo not buy anything even remotely like that book.

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Yeah, good luck trying to learn anything in Photoshop other than maybe how to make a lolcat in less than a day. Do you feel confident enough to start making your own wedding invitations or your dogвЂ™s website? No? Did you get lost in Photoshop and end up just writing your own name in different fonts, and adding drop shadows and beveled edges to everything because thatвЂ™s all you managed to figure out in the three hours you spent messing around with it? Did you get confused by the fact that Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator have different keyboard commands? Do you even know what Illustrator is for? Do youВ have the slightest idea of what to do with it? Probably not. Of course, as soon as you installed the software, you opened it up and started playing with it.

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Download trial versions of the software, which are good for a month, and play. Pro Tip: Do not invest thousands of dollars in crap you might not need. Start stealing from your kids college fund now. However, if you are going to be a proper graphic designer, eventually you will need one. Unless you are a creative professional, you probably donвЂ™t need a Mac, no matter how spiffy you think they are. Now, IвЂ™m definitely not saying that you should run out and buy an overpriced Mac right now. Nowadays, most printers print from PDF, so thatвЂ™s not an issue anymore, but you will have to trade files at some point. Why is that important, you say? If youвЂ™re going to be a graphic designer, inevitably, you are going to have to work from someone elseвЂ™s cobbled together files from 2002, which I can guarantee you are made in Creative Suite, most likely on Mac. YouвЂ™ve got the Creative Suite, right? Good job, because no matter what anyone tells you, the Creative Suite and Mac platform are still the standards of the industry. So, you want to learn graphic design, eh? Why? DidnвЂ™t you read my warning about how itвЂ™s a crappy job? You still want to do it? You are insane. TodayвЂ™s prompt: Take a complicated subject you know more about than most people, and explain it to a friend who knows nothing about it at all.