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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3868991" data-attributes="member: 32740">Do all the tutorials if you haven't already.  Join the mailing list which is a everflowing font of talented, helpful people.  Recognize that any version of CC is still comprehensive software that takes time to learn, more time to learn well, and unless you're a natural even more time to really master.I started with CC2 and it wound up almost untouched on my hard drive for a year before I finally had time and inclination to really work with it.  Now, of course, I have CC3 - and have had it for at least a year - but it has been largely untouched on my hard drive and I've continued to use CC2pro instead because I haven't had the time or inclination yet to really work with its new/different ways of doing things.You can also download other CC3 maps and take them apart or rearrange them to see how they were put together.  I did that in CC2 with the sample "Jaw Pensinsular" map.  I'd finally been working with CC2 for a while when I noticed that map actually wasn't put together very well (as I saw it) and had a lot of graphical "garbage" to clean up.  So I cleaned it up and learned even more about what to do and what to avoid.  Patience and perseverence DOES pay off with CC in my experience.  You can do quick with CC and you can do beautiful, but not really both.  Every thing _I_ draw with CC becomes a greater or lesser project unto itself and VERY seldom have I been able to just whip something out in an afternoon that actually LOOKS stunning.<a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~duanevp/cc2/cc2.htm" target="_blank">http://home.earthlink.net/~duanevp/cc2/cc2.htm</a></blockquote>

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