Originally posted by ramseybuckeye I think I first used it about 22 or 23 years ago. One of the few software packages that I’ve used that seems to have multiple ways to do everything. I’ve been to a few of the PS seminars where the developers and Scott Kelby showed you ways to do things, they were always good.
I didn't know it's been going that long. 20 years maybe, but 30!
I tend to think that it's because there are many ways to do the same or similar things, that this adds to users' confusion. When I started using it, a long time ago, I worked out a method, then I would read something showing me another way, only to get confused with my original method. I sometimes still get momentarily confused, but I have learnt to drag myself back to what the program as actually doing which is operating on individual pixels via stacked layers - as I see it. The fog then starts to clear. My rules one to three are to duplicate the background layer, name every layer created and work non-destructively. I wonder when the original designers realised what a wonderful beast they'd created ...?