Of all the image processing software I've seen while sitting on a screen, I've always thought that Photoshop is the most powerful, and I haven't had any doubts about it until now.

It was only a year or two after I got my first computer that I started looking for Photoshop software.

It was really hard to find at that time.

There is no network to provide download services, and I don't know where to sell them, so I can only buy CDs to install them.

In retrospect, that experience was magical.

At that time, computers were still very niche, and people like us who were relatively early on to computers had just moved from DOS commands to the Windows interface, and there were basically few applications and very few people selling CDs.

I should belong to the first group of people in China to buy CDs.

Unlike the "boom" that only a few years later, when CDs were sold everywhere, many people still had floppy drives on their computers and had never even heard of them. Writing about this scene reminds me of 20 years ago, when I first had gout, people saw me limping and asked me if they kindly added if they didn't close the window at night, and no one knew what gout was at that time, and I had to explain it one by one.

Wandering around Saltu, I managed to find one.

Q: "Is there a Chinese version of Photoshop?" ”

Answer: "It's all foreign!" There are subtitles though! I can read it! ”

"I want Photoshop!" ”

Answer: "I can't read foreign languages either, I also read subtitles!" ”

Find another one.

Q: "Is there a Chinese version of Photoshop?" ”

Answer: "It's all foreign!" There are subtitles though! I can read it! ”

So, when I asked again, I changed it.

Q: "Is there any drawing software?" ”

So the normal communication began.

Basically, there is no drawing software. No way, farewell.

"Don't go yet, I have something else here, Chinese subtitles!"

Later, it felt like it was only a few months, and there was suddenly more software. This time I asked again, people knew, at least no longer recommend Chinese subtitles to me.

There are a few that do. It's a pity that basically some of them are in English.,I can't understand it after buying it back and installing it.,There's no way to use it at all.。

That's not the way to go.

Later, I bought a genuine software from Photoimpact4.0, which was not expensive at the time, only a few dozen yuan, and if I remember correctly, it was 68 yuan.

This software can be said to have been with me for more than 20 years, and I am still using the original version of 7.0.

Extremely skillfully used.

Until now, every time I open it, I see the splash page, which is also very kind.

In fact, I used this software mainly to do typesetting design, that is, to deal with some illustrations when editing "Oily Youth".

It's not about processing photos. So I've been learning to use this function for a long time.

As a result, I didn't have a handy processing software after shooting.

For some flaws in the photos, I basically use Photoimpact 7.0 to deal with them, which is very troublesome.

It's not that this software is much worse, but I haven't used this feature since I started using it, which causes me to always process photos according to the design thinking and method, and use the concept of processing pictures.

Of course, it's always unsatisfactory.

I have to change the software.

During this period, Photoshop has come out of the Chinese version.,It's not the Chinese version.,Someone made a Chinese package based on the software.,After decompression, it will replace the English annotation in the original software.。

It's done so little well, at least not in the way I haven't. I bought a lot of discs.,Can't complete the installation of the majority.,Even if there can be a normal installation.,I also endured the inexplicable annotations of those translations.,But because I'm used to it.,I always feel awkward about the concept of Photoshop's layers.,Plus I didn't have a lot to deal with at the time.,The most important thing is that there was no network at that time.,I didn't see the amazing effect of the photos processed with Photoshop.,Of course, I can't find the information on how to use this software., It's just that after trying to operate it a few times by myself, I don't need it.

Unload.

The second time I missed Photoshop.

At the same time, I was not idle, slowly looking for drawing software, and slowly found all the software I could find over the years to try one by one.

Painting sound and shadow.

Painter。

sai2。

Light and shadow magic hand.

Sea。

……

Neither.

Photoshop comes to mind again.

No way. After about 25 years, I still went around and came back.

In almost all the graphics processing software I have used, I have never learned the system, I just look at it for myself and try the functions slowly.

In fact, it's not graphics processing software.,A lot of things are almost like this.,After starting, it's the first time to poke it yourself.,The advantage of this is because it's all figured out by yourself.,It's more impressive.。

The disadvantage is that I don't learn systematically, and many functions are not used because I haven't used them, so I don't know what I can do.

Over the years, the software I have studied most seriously and systematically is 3DMax, which is half a month of full-time study organized by the unit.

During this half month, I studied carefully, took notes, and memorized steps.

I was able to animate the four words that rotated at the beginning of the CCTV news broadcast.

It's a pity that the version we first learned was in English, and for me, a person who is not good at English, it is a book from heaven.

Can only be memorized.

The teacher clicked to the second command on the left and then clicked on the seventh word on the command line that appeared, and we wrote down the second on the left and the seventh on the note, and we didn't know what this word meant, and I didn't know what the six words above and the words below meant. Anyway, it's the seventh point.

Then the second step is to order again, and I don't understand what it means, and it's hard to remember it again.

Needless to say, the effect is needless to say, at that time, Handan learned to do a news broadcast to rotate on the earth, if it was changed to a weather forecast to revolve around the moon.

There is no need to wait until now, and after a few months of not using it, all the operations are basically forgotten.

Some time ago, I saw that there was a 3DMax teaching at station B, so I opened an episode and watched it for a while, but it was still the same as listening to the book of heaven, and I never wanted to continue learning.

Now I still remember the teacher Bi Liwei from BJ.

What makes me remember this teacher is not because he used 3DMax to make us a pair of hands and doves of peace at the end of the training, and the picture of Bi Liwei's dedication was written after words such as friendship lasts, but his helplessness.

He was a teacher from BJ and later learned that he was very famous in that circle.

After being invited by Daqing, he wanted to bring us some new ideas.

In the first class, he said that he wanted to teach us how to pull out an airplane with only one box, and said that we would open up our ideas through this process, so that we could become masters in the future when designing without conventionality.

The lectures of god-level teachers basically start from the strategic level to develop ideas, rather than simply teaching skills.

I've been doing this ever since, and I don't know if it was influenced by him.

Classes begin.

He sat in front of the screen, a basic box (fortunately I still know the word, so I haven't forgotten it for so many years) completed the modeling of a box, a simple copy of the forward, backward, left and right, five boxes appeared, and then one end of the left and right boxes shrunk into a wing-like front and rear boxes, and one side shrunk into the nose and tail, and a prototype of an airplane was pulled out in a few seconds. He then stopped and told us to pay attention to what he was about to do next, reminding us that this philosophy was important.

Someone raised their hand.

The lecture was interrupted, and the teacher was unhappy and asked what was wrong.

He replied that he didn't understand.

So Mr. Bi repeated the steps of shrinking one wing at one end.

It's very simple to say, but it's just a question that I didn't think about.

Then ask if you understand.

Many people raised their hands, still not understanding.

I did a copy of the previous box again, and then pulled out the wings.

This time, they all raised their hands, and they didn't understand.

The teacher asked what he didn't understand.

Say that the box will not be built.

The teacher was blindsided at the time, and after many years, I could make up for it in my brain, and he should have been sweating at that time.

Finally, I asked, and after knowing that we had never been exposed to this software at all, I felt helpless.

Of course, his answer is not very emotionally intelligent (perhaps he has a very high emotional intelligence and has already answered very tactfully). He said, it's not worth it for you to ask me, and it's a bit of a waste for my students to teach you. In this way, this 3DMax master, who is famous in BJ, can listen to the data while modeling, and then the finished product is displayed on the computer screen very quickly, and gave up the idea of using Box to make an airplane for us. Commanding us one by one, we were taught to make the special effects that rotated out at the beginning of the CCTV news broadcast.

It's a pity that I didn't learn anything from such a great god, and I didn't even leave my contact information.

It's a shame to meet the right person at the wrong time.

To this day, I don't know what the concept of what he only reminded us to pay attention to, leave it as regrets, after all, life is made up of many regrets.

Since then, I haven't been systematically learning software.

After starting portrait shooting with a Canon camera, some photos have to be processed.

So I can only try to use Photoshop slowly.

Because Photoshop is one of the most powerful software I know.

Being powerful means having more commands and more places to learn.

Bought some online course resources.

It's too much, and hundreds of G's are given.

In previous chapters, I often complained that I had too little information when I was studying, so I read and studied every book carefully.

Now it's the other way around, and the information is too easy to obtain.

That's not a good thing either.

Books cannot be read unless they are borrowed.

At that time, the head of our department, Mr. Li Zhisen, once told us about their study back then, and some courses did not even have textbooks, so we could only go to occupy a seat early, occupy the front row as much as possible, and then write down what the teacher said as much as possible. Memorize it in a way that he can understand, and then sort it out little by little when he is out of class, and he is very envious that we have textbooks that can be reviewed at any time. He taught us to take notes, saying "because" and "so" can be represented by three dots in a math problem, everything is for the sake of fast.

He envied me back then, just as I envied me now.

Now you can find all kinds of materials, and even the classes have video playbacks.

I've always felt that it's not a good thing to have a replay of a video, and some people will think that it's okay to delay because of the replay, just find a time to watch it.

But after a few classes are delayed, it is more than ten hours.

Hesitate.

It became dozens of hours, and there was no time.

As a result, there are several hard disk videos stored in the computer, and there is no way to start if you want to watch them, and it is estimated that you will not watch them anymore, and more and more videos will increase the cost of buying hard drives.

Because I don't want to have a headache after saving up a lot of materials and not having time to read them, I always say that since I have signed up for class, I will not miss a class, listen carefully at the time required by the class, and finish the homework as soon as the teacher asks for it.

Otherwise, it's better not to learn!

Because the Potoshop online course I bought gave too much information, I couldn't start for a while, and after a delay for a while, I felt that I couldn't go on like this. So I joined a WeChat group for free classes, and the teachers in it spoke very well, although in the end their original intention was to let the students who attended the free classes pay for their paid courses, but it did not affect my learning from them.

The routine of these free classes is basically like this.

It is usually more than two hours. In the first hour and a half, the teacher talked about the basics, and he explained them in great detail.

Everyone is very serious and can keep up. When everyone was almost up to scratch, and then a few conceptual jumps, jumping directly from the equivalent of elementary school difficulty to high school or college difficulty, he clicked a few times with the mouse, quickly adjusted a few parameters, and the picture immediately became extremely beautiful.

But the vast majority of people don't understand and can't keep up at this point.

Because there is no playback, the final effect cannot be made. At this time, it is the time when the teacher begins to introduce their paid courses, and the special emphasis is that each lesson has a playback (there is no playback for free courses), because it is impossible to make the aesthetic effect of the teacher's example in the free class, the key is that it is just a few steps away, and it is impossible not to be impressed by the final work sent by the few students who can keep up. Under this kind of divine operation, there are many students in each free class, who pay more than 3,000 yuan (basically this price) that only this class can have, and buy the benefits of 8 or 9,000 courses to become VIP students.

I don't speak, I just watch them pay.

This is just right for me, I happen to lack the basic knowledge of software without a lack of ideas.

In this way, I will gain something for an hour and a half every day, and then I will study the next day, and this is how I learned in this half year.

After about half a year of free classes, I basically have a general understanding of Photoshop software, at least I know what kind of photos can be processed.

When I was discussing with Jing Xiang today, I told him that my first computer hard disk was only more than 400M, and people who sold computers said that such a large hard disk could fit the Encyclopedia Britannica, and I thought it was really big. He said that programmers in those days had to write programs that were streamlined and streamlined until they could not be compressed. Now that the storage space has increased, the pursuit of the user experience has begun, and the little code added for this purpose does not need to consider the memory occupation at all, which leads to the software getting bigger and bigger, and the use of functions is also becoming more and more convenient, and many effects that used to need to be done step by step now only require one command.

It's really a lot easier to learn than it used to be.

It's also much easier to use than before.

It turns out that I'm smarter than before, hey, sometimes it's really hard to be confused!

That's how I went to school in free online classes. Looking at the scene where I can now at least use those concepts that were like listening to the sky according to the notes I took on the side, sometimes I feel unreal when I think about it.

At this time, I think back and find that some things in the past missed a step and did not keep up with the loss of this millimeter will really lead to a difference of thousands of miles now.

A few years ago, I had a communication with a movie friend, and I said that the first time I looked for Photoshop was around 1998, but because it was the English version, I finally gave up, and he felt sorry for me, saying that if I started learning it back then, I can now eat well with this technique alone.

I remembered that my wife said that I should not eat these hobbies.

However, this can't be helped, if you miss it, you miss it, and it's not just this software that you miss. We all lived from 1 year old to 100 years old, and we didn't live backwards (anyway, I haven't seen the plot in the movie "Rejuvenation" in reality).

So we're all missing out on many.

Sometimes it's people who miss, sometimes things that are missed, and the most regrettable thing is that there is a short-lived opportunity that appeared at that time.

It's nothing.,Let's start over.。。

At least one of the Chicken Soup for the Soul says it well: "The best time to learn something is when you are young, followed by today." ”

Since it's useful, let's start learning!