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.