Photoshop Photography Image Enhancement Introduction
Channel: Philip Warner
Date: 2020-05-22

Why in Ronald McDonald's name another YouTube Channel on Photoshop and photography? What is it all about...? I have no idea? ... good enough answer... I use it often. I've found it might determine your future happiness.

Copyright infringement disclaimer: mandatory nowadays - even though someone ALWAYS thought of it first...

Please forgive any errors in acknowledging those who should be acknowledged and any errors that I may have made thereby. You know who you are, but I've just forgotten you over the decades, which amazes me not at all, due, no doubt, to my enjoyment of tapioca pudding in the morning.

Basically, I credit my knowledge--that I wish to impart on each of my viewers--to everyone who ever wrote a book, produced a training video, and tutorial, or any form of instruction, on the subject of image enhancement, development and modification of a photographic image using Photoshop.
 
However, of particular note, of really really particular note, the pioneers involved in Photoshop image enhancement and development, in order of importance and influence in my life, must be expressly acknowledged because they are special people in the field under guidance: David Biedny, Bert Monroy, Nathan Moody, and last but not in any way least Dan Margulis (who I believe is my unofficial mentor in "improving" images--whatever that means to you---using Photoshop).

Dan, is arguably the last of the pioneers and I'm more than glad to report as of this writing is still going strong. Read all of his books 36 times; the 35th time will only require one more reading to really "get it!". After Dan, you will be writing the recipes, not following them. All Photoshop training, after Dan, is just a repeat of a repeat. As is mine with an exclamation point!

If my presentation can be in any way distinct from the zillions of other Photoshop educational materials and instructional products found today, it can only be attributed to my desire in presenting, as a self-named guide of sorts, my personal learning curve, step-by-step, that I, initially suffered, before "getting it." Forewarned is forearmed...

Thereto, the critical 8 bit channel...

-  Why in Ronald McDonald's name another Photoshop, photography tutorial? What it's all about?





Photoshop Photography Image Enhancement -  Why in Ronald McDonald's name another Photoshop, photography tutorial? What it's all about? Oh, but Yes! Nothing I have seen, not one book, not one tutorial serious, nor one set of training videos that I have spent endless hours studying, has guided me through the three states of competence from the critical bottom, unconscious incompetence to the exalting heights of conscious competance



Clueless is the exact spot I stood before I even knew what unconscious incompetent meant. As a creative outlet, I was simply into drawing for fun... Children's books... I love kids... 
But the majority of my adult life was spent engaged in a mind numbing activity called "my job." since all I knew was a job keeps you alive. And I knew this was not going to be viable for long term happiness. 
I needed to get into something that I knew I could get good at and have fun at while I was learning the ropes. You must enjoy the path you are on... or will not take all of the millions of steps needed to take to reach the goal you have set for yourself. I cannot emphasize that part enough... The path, the movement of going down the path - from inception to achievement -  must bring you enjoyment everyday. Yup, everyday. When you wake up in the morning excited about the day, you know you're on to something.
To put a not to fine point on it: Movement creates happiness, not stagnation... and I knew this and I knew I had to escape stagnation. Movement is life. Stagnation is it's opposite. Once you are able to sustain yourself, your family, you WILL NEED to find your creative spark to sustain a happy life. For yourself and everyone you spend time with. 



Photoshop Photography Image Enhancement is my YouTube Channel guide through my personal learning curve that I would go through to finally understand to the best of my ability Photoshop and photography, primarily Image Enhancement.


I thought photography was going to be tough... but only a ride in the park compared to the learning curve I experienced in learning Photoshop. How should I compare this journey? I didn't just want to learn a few songs on the guitar, I wanted to learn HOW to play the guitar.