photoshop 3

I'd stick with mspaint j/k yeah I would get to know it - hopefully you mean cs3..photoshop 3 was early '90's or earlier...

 

i hope you mean cs3, photoshop 13. it's great for raster artwork, not so much on vector.

 

LoL threw me for a loop with the thread title. Since Photoshop 3 came out in '94 I don't think you would be making wraps in that anytime soon. CS3 (is actually v10.0) is perfect

 

I use cs3 and ai all the time. Excellent programs..and you will need both-- imo
The brushes hold no value as they are generally free and easily created.

 

There are a lot of great tutorials on it that are pretty easy to follow. I got a copy of Aurora Graphics Pro Designer 1 and 2 that were excellent tools to learn from. They are designed specifically for teaching how to design in Photoshop CS3 for the sign and wrap business. I highly recommend both of them, it will save you tons of time than trying to learn it from a book. I took a few Photoshop classes at the local college but they are more greared toward photo manipulation and photo retouching, it gave me a good basis to start but though overall it was a waste of time because it was not geared toward the sign business. I did not care very much about learning how to erase wrinkles off some dried up old fossil and making someones boobs bigger. Get the DVD's you won't regret it!