HARD!
It literally seems like I make everything harder than it seems. Now I know when people want to learn something they find someone to teach it to them, or at least try to find a decent tutorial on the basics of the program/activity there learning, but I like learning things by my self (not always the best route). So I got pretty good with Photoshop taking this route, but than I noticed everything that is going on today and I see all the great artwork, that is on deviantART so I went on a hunt to find some good tutorials only to see that almost everybody had a different method (usually shorter) of getting the same effect. Whether it was a nice glossy overlay or a nice stock-to-digital look with fire some where in the picture (a cool spot, like replacing the hair with fire-hair). So it was a little bit harder to follow the tutorial.
So I decided I'll just take a step back, and learn photoshop all over again so I can get the "popular" controls down and make it easier to learn things.
If you have any ideas on learning faster simply message me.