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One Million from Photoshop: How a Self-Taught Designer Turned One Digital Skill into Freelancing, 120 Million App Downloads, and a Million-Dollar Care

One Million from Photoshop: How a Self-Taught Designer Turned One Digital Skill into Freelancing, 120 Million App Downloads, and a Million-Dollar Care

Barin, Chris

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ISBN13: 9798191591476
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
20 October 2010, 10:46. A twenty-one-year-old in Bucharest registers on 99designs. No training. No desk, just an old extendable table and a wooden chair with no back rest. A CRT monitor that made everything look pink. A cracked copy of Photoshop, because $700 for a licence was out of the question.

Three weeks later he won his first web design contest. The prize was $1,247. That was six months of pay for a door-to-door cosmetics salesman.

Chris Barin is blunt about what this book is not. Not a self-help book. Not a get-rich programme. I've failed a lot and made a lot of mistakes, and most of them are in here.

Inside:

  • Bread and margarine, hand-me-down clothes, and ex-communist Romania in the 90s
  • The computer he begged for
  • 333 contests, 578 designs, 42 wins. A 13% win rate, and what losing that often does to your head
  • The back injury, the two hernias, and what they cost him
  • Everything he tried that did not work: the blog, poker, a bagel shop
  • A studio in a villa outside Bucharest turning Photoshop templates into Android apps, 120 million downloads, and the day Google Play took the whole portfolio away for life
  • Running a team. Being hated online. A quarter of a million euro lost on a food brand. Where the money actually went
No mastermind. No networking. No mailing list. No rich friends. One self-taught skill and a very long stretch of work.

Written by someone still in the middle of it, not from an exotic beach.

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