Facing a Wall in photoshop (maybe)

[dreamy palm]

I'm into learning photshop for four months now. I think everything goes fine but except from the fact that i think i'm repeating the same process and idea for the most time in any project and I'm starting to get demotivate and feel bored about it. Anyone with the same situation please give me advice!

[broken flicker]

I'd say its not a waste, you'll get good at quickly doing the basics. But have you considered thinking of things you want to accomplish, and then searching a video on how to do them and learning that way too?

[tight tree]

Yeah, what the other poster said.

Ask chat GPT to provide you with a new brief, and instructions on how to fulfil it.

[dreamy palm]

I’ve always wanted to do posters but i don’t really have a clear image of what I’m trying to do in first place and i don’t really know how to. Eventually I’ve tried doing many different styles for the commercials but it just demotivates me as the product came out pretty half baked and doesn’t please my eyes even though i put effort into it

[dreamy palm]

Do you need the plus version for it?

[tight tree]

no

[broken flicker]

Ya, every person that got good at it failed like that 100 times. Just take one piece of it at a time and try to make that one better each time. It will look bad for a long time, but after a while, very slowly you'll get better.

[broken flicker]

I've learned Japanese and Violin that way. It took me so long, i'm not particularly talented, but I just kept going back to it and making tiny incremental improvements each failure.

I live in Japan and speak it pretty fluently now.

[solid garnet]

What I like to do when I feel that I am just repeating what someone tells you to do in a tutorial, is to repeat said tutorial, but with a complete different subject. I have done that successfully with Blender for example, where you are told to create a donut for example 😁, but instead, try creating a bowl of soup. That way you make sure you understand the concept and not necessarily just repeat what you are told.

Also, make sure you always have the help files open (in text form) when you follow such tutorials because when you go off piste with the tutorial subject you can easily find yourself stuck and there is nothing more frustrating than not finding the answer immediately.

And then when you are comfortable with most things, meaning that you can reproduce steps, on a different subject, without any help, choose something completely diferent, and do the same thing.

One thing: Not all tutorials are equal: while I appreciate that some Youtubers take the time to teach other people, some of them are neither very educationally worthy, or competent. Be wary of tutorials that promise to do things very quickly (the 1 minute skin retouching tutorial! <- this is BS)

Of course the way you learn is very personal. Personally, I learn better when I understand the concepts, so that means I usually start with the help files, and I don't even open the software at first. For you, it's probably different.

Also you can try that
https://goodbrief.io/

Works better for graphic design than retouching

[dreamy palm]

Oh my god that’s perfect dude

Imma really make use of this website this is…

Can’t even put it into words lol cuz chat gpt didn’t do this

[solid garnet]

I think you should have a look at my profile picture! 😂
There are other websites like that: They give what a client would ask to a retoucher/graphic designer, that's called a "brief"

You can try google searches like "random brief generators etc"