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

Barin, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798191591476

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798191591476
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg