But you had to master the concept of curves first! I doubt someone who never used Photoshop could get to that point in a week, much less in a day or two...
What Bruce said about things that other people do looking easy is absolutely right. It takes great skill to make what you do look easy to others. I've seen it happen enough times that now I instinctively approach with caution most anything that looks easy when someone else does it.
Photoshop is a great program, but nobody ever learned it in a hurry. I've done my fair share of wet darkroom work back in the 70's, very similar to what Bruce describes, low light (but not sports) and lots of pushing and "fixing", most of it 35mm, but only as a hobby, on a much smaller scale. Now that I am mostly Photoshopping (and trying to equip a makeshift darkroom), I can tell you that whoever claims "photoshopping" to be easy is either a dunce or a master of it.
And frankly, most of the people who talk about "simply pushing buttons" or "photoshopping the sky in or people out" here definitely do not strike me as masters...
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