How did you learn to post process your photos?

[mongo]

Primarily self-taught - and by making many many mistakes. Good news is that Mongo practised so long on the mistake that he has just about perfected it

[Roosta]

Slowly and doing it all wrong the first, make that several times. LOL

I'm a lazy creature when it comes to techknowledgy, so I tend to brain suck others dry. Have the books, need to read and sit infront of Laptop and do.

[rookie]

dvd's from a pommy mag photo plus and a little from youtube.still not very good

[Mary Anne]

Self taught not that I know much as long as I can crop, sharpen and remove some annoying flower or leaf and the dust bunnies I am happy..

[hawko02]

Haven't really learnt yet.
trying to sharpen correctly and use a bit of curves. The only help/instruction has been from this site and its members.

[PH005]

Self taught with some very handy advise from friendly members here on the site.

[Erin]

Definitely self-taught first, then internet searches (mostly of professional retouchers as opposed to photographers who think they know photoshop) and then magazines. Pretty much in that order.

[Dylan & Marianne]

mostly self taught - mainly, I looked at other people's pics that I liked, tried to figure out what they did to it, then looked for tutorials on how to do it.
youtube and www.photoshopessentials.com were my best friends! followed by the forums at luminous landscapes, and of course, from this forum particularly about wedding portraiture

[Tjfrnds]

Still learning and have a long way to go!
Learning mainly from internet searches and sometime video tutorials

[MegHenry]

The little that I DO know is mostly self-taught and picked up from random searches, forums (here is fantastic, ) and the occasional magazine. I get the feeling that I'm barely scraping the tip of a massive ice-berg though, haha. God, I hope it won't be like the titanic :P Lol.

[macrocephalic]

I voted for trial and error, although I'm largely still in the "trialling and making lots of errors" stage.

[jgknight]

Self taught basic stuff. No internet, no computers (hadn't been invented yet). Got a job in a photo studio and spent the next 15 years in TV stills, commercial and fashion photography.
I used to purpose-create my own developers for the type of end result I needed and would be made up from the raw ingredients. It was fun to experiment. I started ti 1961. hmmm. 50 years ago this month.

[Longshots]

Self taught - and importantly I started by self teaching myself traditional darkroom techniques first, then digital came along in the 1990's, and adopted digital from its birth. Learning literally never ends - which is why I enjoy it so much

[baldrick]

Self taught, after thirty years with my own dark room the principles are the same, it`s just easier. (and I don`t come out with a splitting headache)
Simmo

[mikec]

I am mainly self taught but I have to say, being only 3 weeks into a Bach. of Photography I've already learnt more about post processing than all that time, well at least all the behind the scenes workings that inform what we do in post processing.

If anyone wants a good book I can highyl recommend Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers by Martin Evening. It's one of our text books but I wish I found it years ago now.

[Bally]

Is still haven't a valid reply. Learnt how to get specific jobs done via books occasionally, more often the interweb

[NikonNellie]

I learnt and am still learning by a number of different methods. I had very basic formal lessons, e.g Levels, Hue/saturation etc. Most of what I have learnt has been from the internet/this forum and reading books, as well as trial and error - not being afraid to give things a go. The undo button can be your best friend!

[Irru]

The video tutorials for Lightroom 3 on the Adobe website (along with trial-and-error).
I really do recommend those videos though.

[Invictus]

A mixture of methods for me.
Online tutorials, looking at others examples, but primarily self taught.