I bought Photoshop Elements in 2009 and never did much of anything with it. I put up a mental block on learning how to use it for some reason. My sensei has been prodding me to use it for some time now. The week of Mart I was looking at my portfolio and suddenly felt an urgency to embrace photoshop. It was a little too late for me to get everything in order that week, but I'm now working on restructuring the way I present my work. It really does make a huge difference.
Instead of just showing an art director this:
I'll show them my ideas of where this little birdie could be used & how it would look:
Baby steps!