Alert! Alert! Alert! Fun website time!
For those of you who aspire to be Photoshop experts, it’s probably going to be a lifelong process. There is so much offered in the program and it’s constantly being updated that you will never really run out of things to do. (That’s a good thing!) Because you can customize almost literally everything you do, combinations of photo correcting and/ or illustrative styles are endless. Want a brush that isn’t available? Make it! Heck, if you’re abitious enough you could even sell it. Keeping photo correcting skills up to date couldn’t hurt either. If you’re good enough, you could make some pretty decent money from putting people in or taking people out of photos (or just correcting blemishes and such).
There is a site of people who happen to be Photoshop buffs and they hold contests, competing against one another to see who can pull it off the best for whatever they are told to do. If you’re looking for what you CAN do with lots of practice, worth1000 is the place to aspire towards! The makers even have published a few books that you can purchase at major bookstores and online. The site itself offers a handful of fun tutorials as well. They are very specific as to what they can be used for, but it will really help you learn your way around the program. Warning: they are not for beginners. Don’t frustrate yourself beyond anything you can’t handle. You’re new to Photoshop and shouldn’t be running Hell’s Gauntlet.
So if you’re up to it, visit www.worth1000.com and enjoy!