Did you study or just practiced?

[marguitorres]

I've learned myself to use photoshop, and i found it great 'cuz despite i'm studying anagment i could learn something both funny and useful, i know some ppl that have studied graphic design and their jobs have nothing to do with their careers, anyway, what i want to know is if you learned to desing by studying a career or by yourself, tell me ur experience..

[unleash]

Experimenting is the key,

It's the only true way to learn new things

[supertackyman]

unleash said it all.
I taught myself, and read some books for pointers.
* gotta give biorust some props! *
sometimes the self trained think further out of the box than those who have been formally educated.
since they dont know any better.

[Sun Dragon]

I used some basic online tuts to get me started. I might take a course or program one day but it is not in my immediate future. At the moment I just like playing around and seeing what happens.

[wolly]

I have been using pshop for about 4/5 years now and everyhting is self taught or by reading books and tuts, to me its the best way,unfortunately when looking for a job they all seem to want the one with the qualification.

[kokopedal]

I was injured at work and while I was convalescing I began playing around with an old version of PS5. Mostly self taught, however when I lived in San Diego I joined the SD photoshop club. We met once a month. Most of the time I left those meeting feeling quite stupid but I stuck with it, I consider myself proficient enough with PS, now the rest is just up to my imagination.

[photostar73]

I have studied photoshop at school. I've done a photographic academy here in Italy, and I got a master class on photoshop cs.
The studies gone all on photo corrections and a little photomanipulation, then I expanded my knowledge either by studying myself and also with other private lessons with my ex teacher.
As for working on photos, I think is very difficult that can be achieved certain results without the advice and lessons from good professionals, but for digital art is probably the experience itself that can make a big difference.

[smclain]

I've learned mostly by trial and error. This works...and this doesn't. It seems to work best for me. I have looked up somethings, but more or less just learned on my own.

[CrazieCrunchie]

Just practicing although I think that those who study are probably far better than us amateurs lol.

[turvas]

Practice, practice, practice.

[Atomic]

I started doing flyers to help out my husbands band. I started with MS Publisher and thought that was it. Then I started asking other people who did great flyers, how did they do this and that and the answers were "PhotoShop", so then I went looking.
Since then, I have been teaching myself. I came across brushes by accident and now I am hooked.
Every spare minute, I just want to sit at the computer and play with photoshop.
I wish I had more available time to devote to it.

[pink3unny]

both so i didn't vote ...go figure :0

[b00sk]

Kind of both really, I do graphic design for work and pleasure!

I guess I'm just lucky

[yusreey]

Originally Posted by turvas

Practice, practice, practice.

yeah...just practice..trying..playing around with the tools...the keyword is "practice"

[Telos]

Where's the option "I didn't"

My studying involves programming so I've never studied how to design. On the other hand I don't consider myself to be a good designer either so maybe I should've studied some of that too. Luckily I've been surrounded by great designers who have usually helped me with the designs.