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Learning programmes

The best way to learn programmes is by your self. That is how I mostly learned them. 

Sure, I had some help by tutorials online and from teacher, but just for how to start. Practice, practice, practice. For example: in first year (2006) of high school classmate told me about his hobby, and this is how I heard about Photoshop and wanted to have this hobby myself (''pimp out cars''). So I began with simple steps. First installing program, then knowing what every single button does, etc. ... If I had the product of ''pimping'' I would post it. 

Some car forum had this 'PS Contest' where they chose a picture of a car and you had to transform it into something interesting. I remember I worked on it for days. Now I would probably laugh at it.

I really like to watch tutorials for cartoons and just try it. I like this one.

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Starting point

I went to high school for design and photography in Ljubljana. 
In first year we used Corel Draw and Photoshop (If you knew, how to use it) for designing. Through the years we had to use 'more difficult' programmes, Adobe Collection - mostly In design, Illustrator, Flash and Photoshop of course.
So I guess I will save some money, by not going to all those teaching courses. 
Today at DMP we got an assignment to install at least 3 programmes. But I have to install only 3Ds max and Adobe lightroom. Everything else has been on my computer for over 3 years (except AutoCAD).




Proof: 

Desktop Toolbar

I own a laptop. HP Compaq 6820s. I used it through high school and never had problem with it. Currently I have installed on it Windows 7 Ultimate (original!). 4GB ram and 32-bit operation system. In the near future I am planning to by a new computer... Never mind, I wanted to say, that my HP is strong enough for all Adobe programmes, but  3D modelling slows it down.


Opinion about art and creativity
We are all artists, but some are not afraid to show their creative side. Others do not even notice they are. 
If your life goal is to be creative, the path to success will have lots of ups and downs.
Not long ago I signed up for creative mail support, called Creative Pathfinder. Author is Mark McGuinness. He himself is considered as creative person. Every week he sends an email where he talks about diferent creative problems. For example, What is creativity? How to become more creative? How to handle creative block? ... etc. ...

I do not regret that I signed up for this course. It is free and I recommend it to anyone. I've learnt many things about how to work productive. The most important thing is that you should never give up. Doesn't matter how much others are pushing you down. You just go forward. In many cases, if you come to some new place (example: job, school, ...), there will almost every time be one person that will despise you. No matter, if you have never talked to him or did anything, he will not like you and will try to knock you down. I was thinking why are they like that? I think they see competition in you or an obstacle. Or they just feel better when they have someone to watch all the time and spend every bit of energy they have, to ''destroy'' you.

I feel sorry for them. Otherwise I love to help others (if I can). This helps me to improve. No matter what problem is, I take the challenge, consider it and help. Learning something new.

Another problem is creative block or resistance is one of most problems. I really like what Mark said in one of his courses:

''I’m not really going to start work right now, I’m just going to get my equipment out and look at it.''

Never say, I do not have any idea and walk away. Get a paper or computer, and just scribble. If you do nothing, you will accomplish nothing. It is true and it works. This is how I started writing this post about my opinion.
If you have noticed, most of us have adopted ''reactionary workflow''. Without even noticing it.
As Mark says:

We are constantly bombarded with incoming communication: email, text messages, tweets, Facebook posts, phone calls, instant messages, etc. Rather than be proactive with our energy, we spend all of our energy reacting, enslaved to the last incoming item.

It can really sabotage your work progress.

Problem that  is motivation. We get ours from things/people that surround us. Some can motivate themselves. It is amazing what motivation can do. You can spend 2 days working on project, without sleeping, because you feel happiness and joy when you do it. But before this happiness comes motivation.
Motivation can disappear as easy as it comes. Especially when someone else ruins it. If this person is you boss and he destroys your motivation every time he speaks about you project, you are at wrong place. He doesn't deserve your work. And even if you worked for him for years, the sooner you realise that you deserve more credit, happier you will be. Life will be happier. Job is always available, you just have to find it and earn it.