At the end of August of this year, some things changed in my life, both my personal life and my business life. I had previously had someone available that did my design work for me. I had little knowledge of how to do anything that involved graphic designing. Well, life changed, and that someone was no longer around to help me in that area. I was left with two choices. Either hire someone to do it and take away from my income or learn to do it myself and save money plus make that part of my work at home business.
I had an old copy of Photoshop CS2 and had little idea what to do with it. This was the end of August. I played around with it and started figuring some basic things out. As I used it more and more, I began to learn more and more. So me and my hubby ventured into buying the new updated version and we bought Photoshop CS4, the extended version rather than just the standard. For the past few days, I have been occupying myself with it and designing all sorts of things, some really good and some not so hot.
My point in saying all of this is that I was honestly surprised at just how easy it is to do all of this. I still have things to learn and I intend to continue to learn and put my knowledge into my work at home business, offering my graphic design services for hire very soon, as I get a little more experience in doing this.
Just prior to purchasing Photoshop CS4, I had bought Cover Action Pro, which contains some wonderful Photoshop Actions, making it possible to render some very nice designs without much effort. As an example of what Cover Action Pro allows one to do when using it and to show how easy it is, I designed a magazine cover for The Work at Home Magazine, and it took only about half an hour to do from start to finish. Keep in mind that I just started using Photoshop CS4 and am fairly new at this.
If I can do this, anyone can! I just used Photoshop CS4 along with Cover Action Pro. The Cover Action Pro works with Photoshop CS2, Photoshop CS3, and Photoshop CS4. This is what I made in just a few minutes….
The cool thing about this is that once you have a little experience in making these designs, you can hire out your services as a graphic designer and make money doing it. And if you practice and experiment with Photoshop for a few days, it’s very possible that you could be doing this in just a few days. It DOES take practice, but as I said, I am able to do this and if I can, anyone can. The only things you need besides a good computer is the Cover Action Pro and Photoshop CS2, CS3, or CS4.
