Want to guess what it ... *voices rises to a squeak* ... was!??
Adobe Design Suite CS Flippin' 4!
*gaspchokedie*
I started using Photoshop by the equal influences of my sister, Sara, and my online RPG addiction. She learned how to use it in her photography classes in college and when we would help her in her studio a few years later (2003, I think), she taught me how to do some simple things. I honestly can't remember, but I don't think I was terribly enthusiastic at the time. I think we were using Photoshop 5 or so then.
At the same time, I was doing Harry Potter roleplaying online, writing like a crazy girl. On those forums, they always have all of these generic avatars and signatures, that they just pass around and find free on sites. However, when I switched my roleplaying site, the new site, MH, had a quantity of Photoshop users, who would make custom signatures with models that represented our characters. It was so fun to personalize each character that one day I sat down on Sara's horrible, large, chunky black PC and conjured up my very own signature, using Ashlee Simpson as my model.
There it is. I just logged into my ridiculously old Photobucket account and found it.
I personally think that it was a good try for my first creation. I guess it was an omen of sorts. After that, I used Photoshop all the time. I downloaded it our family PC and trucked away at it, from . Five years later I can use Photoshop, as well as Illustrator, have made graphics for a band, Chamber of Commerce, realty, a small newspaper, an ad booklet, the Green Bean Coffee Cafe, three different websites for the Green Bean, a website for KC Elrod Photography, and of course, graphics, photography and photo editing for Sara Wise Photography, in which I am a company partner (of sorts). I went from the really old, beige, whirring PC, to a pretty white iMac named Johnny, to my new iMac, the silver & black beauty named Ernie. I've had Photoshop 7, CS, CS2 and now...
CS4.
And that is my story. Kind of like a rags-to-riches thing. Lol, it's so epic written down.
Say goodbye to the crappy, old, slightly not-so-legitimate Creative Suite 2... *waves*
Btw, want to know something really awesome?
I got that whole suite, which consists of about 9 different programs (which I intend to learn and use to their greatest potential), for $600. "What?!" I hear you say, "I thought Photoshop cost thousands!" Well, you're kind of right. I was eligible for the educational discount from Academic Superstore.
Buying it straight from Adobe, with no discounts, just Photoshop is $699. The whole Design Suite is $1799. I saved eleven hundred dollars.
So, anyways, isn't that awesome...
peace out,
caroline
p.s. i promise i'm not bragging, peeps. ;-]
*envy envy envy envy*
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