092507 Artist Kenneth John KEN
i love working in adobe photoshop. i started with adobe photoshop 2 in the mid 90's. and have used every version since, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, cs, cs2, but not the newest version cs3. since i no longer am involved with education world, i don't get the free copies anymore! :-(
it's so much fun to create and it is a necessity for artists now. the painting i did below, finished it about 10 minutes ago, snapped a quick digital picture, took it into photoshop, adjusted the levels of black and white, adjusted the skew and warp, cropped it, saved it in a .jpg file and the proper pixel size for this blog and put it on my website, took about 10 minutes. but don't get discouraged if it takes you a lot longer, i have taught photoshop for 12 years at the college level, but even still a lot of my former students are much more advanced at the program now then i am, i know the basics and intermediate level real well, they have moved on to the advanced levels.
if you are new to graphics in ANY form and going to invest in some graphic software, start with photoshop, it is the industry standard for bitmap or raster graphics.