I'm no Rembrandt.
I'm far from being a graphic artist, and no matter how good the tool, I'll never
have the eye (and primarily not the hand) to become very proficient at it. I have,
however, mastered enough of the basics of most graphic software in order to permit
me to crop and resize images, reduce their disk size to workable proportions (for
the web), and perhaps most important (though "importance" seems to come
with finally learning to master an additional, previously unmastered, aspect of
the tool) work with layers. Years ago graphics tools were fun to have around,
but not something with which I did any real work. Today I'm definitely able to
get them to perform for me, and they're even hard for me to do without. Yet even
so, with a tool such as PhotoShop there must be tens of sub-tools on the menu
or in the toolbars which I have no idea how to operate, nor even what they do.
Go to: Tools I've known and loved ... and often abandoned.