Taking Advantage of Online Tutorials

There are so many tutorials for many graphic design programs that teach people how to use the software. I was looking on YouTube and there are many videos available that are easy to follow and quite educating. About any program you can think of was available online, such as Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks. For each video there were countless numbers that were available online that teach about anything you would like to know. The videos show you step by step instructions on how to create, fix, or enhance something through these programs. I think that having these programs available for free online, it should be taken advantage of. In class we learn a certain extent of information on these types of programs; but it is up to us to go above and beyond what we have learned. If we are really passionate about learning the crafts of design then we have to take time outside of class to learn much more. In class instructors will only supply us with the beginning tools. With the availability of tutorial videos online, there is no excuse as to why we should not self-educate to enhance our own design skills.