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NAPP Editor's Choice 9/2010

Recently, I was asked by a young woman on how I developed my skills, in Photoshop. I told her that I had a friend of mine show me the basics of Photoshop, daily trial and error, and NAPP.

"NAPP?!.............What's NAPP?" I explained to her, at least the best way I knew how, that NAPP, which stands for National Association of Photoshop Professionals, is an online community that is dedicated to helping designers, photographers, and just digital artist develop their skills to a high quality standard. When I state "high quality", I mean your work looks very professional, not something that you tried because you were bored. While I was explaining to her what NAPP was, I, then, decided to post this on my blog.

I will state that I LOVE NAPP! This group of individuals are the best instructors a person could ask for. The classes are not a history lesson on tools and layers. They talk to you, like you would talk to a person showing them how to perform a technique. Honestly, I totally get that! Also, I can not express the excitement I had at the conference. NAPP holds a bi annual conference called "Photoshop World". One is held in Orlando, FL. and the other is held in Las Vegas, NV. I attended the conference in Orlando 2010, and I wanted to pass out from total joy. The instructors were very down to earth. I found that if you approach any of the instructors, it was not like you are talking to a resume, but to a real person.  I was able to meet one of the instructors that I look up to, David Cuerdon.  He was a very cool guy, that is willing to show you some of his best techniques. I felt tens times better when I won a GA Rockstar template set from him. Yeah, I know, nerd is the term to call me!

Also, NAPP offers product reviews, books, monthly magazines, and such great support. To this day, I am so thankful that NAPP has an excellent customer service rep, Sally Snelling, that is really interested in a person's success.

So.............in a nutshell, you have got to check these people out!
THEY ARE THE GREATEST!

NAPP website: http://www.photoshopuser.com/
David Cuerdon website: http://cuerdon.com/blog/
Tracy Berry portfolio: http://www.photoshopuser.com/members/portfolios/view/gallery/1266389