What Photoshop World Actually Looks Like When You Show Up for the First Time (And Why You Should Go)

What Photoshop World Actually Looks Like When You Show Up for the First Time (And Why You Should Go)

There’s a specific kind of overwhelm that hits you when you walk into a room full of people who are all dramatically better at your craft than you are. It’s equal parts terrifying and addictive. I felt it the first time I stumbled into a design meetup in Austin, surrounded by people casually discussing techniques I’d never heard of, and I’ve been chasing that feeling ever since. That’s exactly what comes through in Watch the full tutorial on YouTube - a short but genuinely compelling interview from KelbyOne featuring Kim Roy White, a freelance photographer who showed up to Photoshop World for the first time and somehow left with a Canon 5D Mark III.

Photoshop World 2004: What the Conference Floor Taught Me About the Tools I Was Ignoring

Photoshop World 2004: What the Conference Floor Taught Me About the Tools I Was Ignoring

I’ve been doing freelance design work long enough to know that most of what I’ve learned didn’t come from manuals. It came from watching someone else work and thinking, “wait, you can just DO that?” That’s the whole premise behind Photoshop World, the conference that pulls together photographers, designers, retouchers, and every flavor of creative in between to do exactly that. Share what they know. In Watch the full tutorial on YouTube, Scott Kelby sends Photoshop legend Bert Monroy to walk the floor of Photoshop World 2004 in San Francisco, and what Bert captures isn’t just product demos.