LEARNING CURVE FROM OLD STYLE ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CREATIVE SUITE 06 WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL [NOTHING IS THE SAME] TO AFFINITY...I\IS THERE A WAY TO REVERT BACK?

[TD HANSON]

I was using a PC running windows xp Professional since it came out, but my fossil PC STOPPED OPENING. To make thing worse my loving family put me into Assisted Living to enable them to steal my home including tools for working wood and metal [one was a Bailey 5 velocipede lathe...do a search it's was a beautiful Pine green with cream pin stripes]

My true dilemq is I BOUGHT A MAC 27" and photoshop is now leasing their products so l turned to Affinity, but since 2019 I have not gained an insite  and by this have not made a single graphic. I  would appreciate any help. I have purchased classes and the have not helped as l learned Photoshop from scratch exploring filter, the tool bar. The learning curve was staggering until l realized the key was to concentrate what l had learned NOT what there yet to learn.Within 90 days I was designing Utah High School State championship Programs that were comparable to sports illustrations cover designs except our digital press looked clearer than National Geographic.

The company, NewslettersInk had the account until our business was "Pretty Womaned" by a Nebraska jerk which forced my retirement. He sold all the presses, shears, and computers to someone in Brazil. Later l learn3ed mt ex traded the company, the client list in exchange to the debt she had created $4,500.000.Than god l gave my shares to her when l found out she was spending lines of credit like there was no tomorrow.

I worked every day on my own stuff and was happy as a lark until l lost everything. . .even my fossil PC and 4 Bookend Hard drives [my entire portfolio since 1996, the year l began.

Sorry for the rant but l wanted to share my situation 

Thanx in advance to all my unknown friends,

Below find an example of a decorative hat, or levi jacket pin usinf a template and filling the voids with brushes l had desined8 ON 10X 10 002.afphoto8 ON 10X 10 002.afphoto

 

Thomas D. Hanson

[Bad_Wolf]

Hi Thomas, and welcome to the forum,

"Affinity Revolution" has many exciting courses for beginners and experts about the Affinity applications. They also release many YouTube tutorials. These courses and tutorials are genuinely excellent!

I hope you find your creativity again.

[jmwellborn]

Welcome to the Forums @TD HANSON!  There are also many excellent tutorials in the LEARN AND SHARE section of these forums. Some recent ones posted by @TrentL are, I think, especially helpful, because they explain each issue in detail, with plenty of examples. If you will fire up your MAC and watch them, I think you will find that your creative juices will start to flow again. The official Affinity tutorials are also superb. With those, I have found that hitting the pause button and writing some notes, before resuming the tutorial, sometimes helps, because some of them are pretty speedy.

Finally, just post away here in the Forums when you would like help learning all of the wonderful things Affinity can do. There are many exceptionally talented and knowledgeable people who are available to help. I couldn’t have made it to first base without them! (Not sure which base I am on at this point, I might add, but I am having a lot of fun every single day.)

Most of all, I hope that as you and your MAC learn the software, you will find that the hours and days once again fly by in a new and special way! 

Best wishes!

[Granddaddy]

In addition to Affinity Revolution (I've bought many of their courses), I can recommend the hundreds of video tutorials from InAffinity

https://www.youtube.com/@inaffinityforaffinityphoto3220/featured

Finding what you need is made easier by the author's superb, categorized Video Index at

http://changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/inaffinity_video_index.htm