Regarding whether to sign up for a class, I think it depends on the individual, mainly on the individual's goals. If you simply want to use this knowledge for entertainment and help yourself at ordinary times, then there is no need to apply it, just learn it piecemeal. On the contrary, if you intend to use this knowledge to make a living or find a job, you'd better apply. After all, systematic learning is much faster than piecemeal learning.
Let me talk about how to learn.
Art design also belongs to an operational knowledge, after all, it needs some designed software, and in my experience, theoretical study is not recommended. I know you can download a lot of information online, and I have read it once, but it's useless, such as memorizing shortcut keys, memorizing codes and so on. As some great gods have said, if you study like that, you will find this knowledge more and more difficult for you. Listen to the class if you want to learn, and follow the teacher step by step no matter where you are. Of course, at the beginning, the teacher may have finished drawing a picture, and you haven't finished drawing a line, but after a long time, you will get faster and faster. And when you can completely follow each step, most of your basic problems will be solved. It's good to go to the group where I studied at that time. Every night, people talk about it. The top three are 3 18. The middle three are 2 12, and the last three are 43 1. When it is hot, if you have a better place, you can leave me alone. If not, you can go. It's really useless just to look at the materials. You can learn faster by wasting time and hands.
3. What knowledge do we need to learn?
The first is photography. We must take pictures of our children. If you can't take pictures, you have to steal other people's pictures from the internet to use. In this way, you can never make your own personality and characteristics. Secondly, image processing, mainly using Photoshop software. This is also the most important technology to master. With ps, we can design more things of our own. Finally, we'd better know a little about HTML, which is the basis of web design.
In my opinion, this is how design should be learned.
Art design is also a kind of design. Whether my friends want to learn or myself, I think it is a complete waste of time to stare at some fixed materials, just like I used to recite texts at school. When I get a strange thing, I will try to touch it. What do you mean? I just do it myself. No matter what software you choose, you can get started faster as long as you do it yourself. As for which key is for what purpose and where it is placed for what purpose, let these problems be digested in the process of tinkering. You said that a software is so versatile that you want to memorize the functions in your mind before operating it. I can't do it anyway. It's really smart if you can, but it's also quite troublesome.
5. Colors that many people ignore.
Yes, color things are more automatic now, but you still have to judge for yourself. Color is the first key to grasp human vision. Color can make people have different reflections and associations by combining specific images and using different tones. Color does not exist in isolation. It should not only reflect the texture and characteristics of this thing, but also take into account the visual changes of the distance. For example, red is a powerful color. Green, biased towards natural beauty, quiet. But if you don't have your own understanding and everything is rote, then all colors are the same in your eyes, and there is no difference.
6. Personal interests
To learn something, interest is the first thing you need, but you can't just learn for interest, you have other purposes. Simply put, there are other pursuits. Like what kind of god I want to be, and so on. If you are interested in learning, you will learn happily; If you study with a goal, you will learn quickly.
7. I am very busy, so I have no time.
Honestly, have you said this sentence? I believe many people have said that. This is the first sentence that comes out when you learn something. Ok, let me ask you, what do you study? Yes, your pocket is bulging. So what are you busy with? Is it the same? Then the problem comes, you are a person who is unwilling to pay until you see the result. The first thing you worry about is whether you can learn well, and the second is what will happen even if you learn well? If you have this mentality, then I'm sure you can't learn anything well. When we are young and go to school, we can actually see the results. The result is to see that all the other children have passed the exam, and then they are happy to go to the senior grade. So, you're thinking, I've studied well, I can get in, I can go to senior three, and I don't need to say the next thing. This is why it is difficult for us to learn when we grow up. Because it is difficult for us to see the results, and sometimes even if we can see them, it is hard to believe.
8. Tell you a time rule.
This is the law of time, which was discovered by a scientist, but the specific name has been forgotten. Generally speaking, when you continue to learn a knowledge, you can always become an expert after studying for three years. I haven't verified it, because three years doesn't sound like a long time, but it's really difficult to do it. But I believe it's true. This is somewhat similar to what the ancients said. What I mean by this is that when you make a choice, you must have an attitude that your wallet has been paid or not. Just can't be perfunctory, let alone fishing for three days and drying the net for two days. If you don't learn this thing bit by bit, you should either be serious or not do it at all. Learn to forget a little, when is the end? If you say you are busy, please review what I said above.
9. Having written so much, you might as well write more.
I know what else you care about, and whether this knowledge has a future. Yes, many things we learn when we grow up have a long life. Nobody wants me to study here, and it's useless there. How to judge? It's simple. Look at people around you. When many people are trying something, but many of them are doing it well, then you don't have to learn and there is no cake for you. But also, there are many people doing one thing, and most of them can't do it well, so you can learn it, because there are still many people who haven't eaten the cake, to be exact, they don't know how to eat it yet. There is also a third situation, that is, the big cake has not been grabbed, that is, no one has made it yet. I know you are interested in this, but can you find your ability? Are you willing to spend a lot of time looking for this? The result is uncertain, I'm sure you won't.