When I was 14 I first discovered Photoshop in my graphic 

arts class and started to try out effects and retouching on 

my photographs. I had always been creative and felt the 

need to create art, tried drawing and painting, but never 

really found a passion for it. Quickly I learnt that I needed 

better quality images to work with in Photoshop and that 

my own images wasn’t really up to the standard I wanted, 

so I set about to develop my photography as well as my 

retouching skills. This was such an important step in my 

learning curve and a great contribution to here I am today. 

Passion for learning is a great motivational factor. I worked 

hard  to save up to buy a digital SLR camera for myself and 

soaked up tutorials on-line on photography and professional 

retouching in Photoshop. The more I learnt, the more proud 

I was over my creations, it was something very personal and 

it felt really good to have taught myself something I could see 

was valuable.