- tsuki
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- Oct 6, 2021
A few years back I was given an interesting challenge: A local university reached out and asked whether I could take a cohort of students and teach them Digital Imaging / Adobe Photoshop in just 3 MONTHS. The idea was to take a group of students (many of whom had never used Photoshop before!) to a semi-professional level within a 3-month module.
Quite a big ask!!
At that time I'd been a professional Digital Artist for 15 years, and didn't think it was possible to impart THAT MUCH KNOWLEDGE within such a measly amount of time – but I was wrong...
You see, when I really thought about my workflow (creating Digital Art for the pro-markets), I only ever use a tiny fraction of the software – returning to the same tools time and again. Investigating further I learned about a mathematical principle called the 'PARETO PRINCIPLE' (shoutout Tim Ferris!), and had come to the following understanding:
Sounds too simple to be true right? I taught the course, and when students started handing assignments in: we were STAGGERED. The quality of the work rolling in was way beyond our expectations... the system really worked.
More info: https://www.neo-stock.com/core-skills-photoshop-video-training
Price: $137 | Size: 17.18 GB (Folder)
The course was so effective, it was demoed for university open days, used for community outreach programs, and I even received invitations to teach the methodology at other campuses.
Throughout a few short years the Core Skills methodology has been taught to thousands of students across a huge spectrum: from young tweens to 80 yr old elders, from hard to reach youngsters to differently-abled / neurodivergent students – and that's BEFORE we took this thing online!!
Quite a big ask!!
At that time I'd been a professional Digital Artist for 15 years, and didn't think it was possible to impart THAT MUCH KNOWLEDGE within such a measly amount of time – but I was wrong...
You see, when I really thought about my workflow (creating Digital Art for the pro-markets), I only ever use a tiny fraction of the software – returning to the same tools time and again. Investigating further I learned about a mathematical principle called the 'PARETO PRINCIPLE' (shoutout Tim Ferris!), and had come to the following understanding:
Sounds too simple to be true right? I taught the course, and when students started handing assignments in: we were STAGGERED. The quality of the work rolling in was way beyond our expectations... the system really worked.
More info: https://www.neo-stock.com/core-skills-photoshop-video-training
Price: $137 | Size: 17.18 GB (Folder)
The course was so effective, it was demoed for university open days, used for community outreach programs, and I even received invitations to teach the methodology at other campuses.
Throughout a few short years the Core Skills methodology has been taught to thousands of students across a huge spectrum: from young tweens to 80 yr old elders, from hard to reach youngsters to differently-abled / neurodivergent students – and that's BEFORE we took this thing online!!