[Sakura]
LOL Arisa, I use Sai and I totally fail with the shiny. ; __ ;
I used to retouch wedding photos for a studio, so that's all I really know what to do with Photoshop. MAKE PEOPLE LESS UGLY :'D
Oh heck yeah! My grand dad gave me a photography book and it shows you how to do all sorts of things with PS for photo manipulation. I haven't yet but I wanna work on my vacation pics from two summers ago. I took lots of nature shots and I wanna do the one thing color, everything else black and white. I think they'd be good to add to my portfolio. Nature shots FTW!
And it's not hard to make Shiny with Sai... What's hard is doing hair. I STILL don't know how to digitally shade/highlight hair!! Give me a colored pencil and we're good but the computer makes it hard for some reason >.< Maybe because I like to soft shade where hair looks best cell shaded?