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One Million from Photoshop
Rating: 4.8 out of 5(38 ratings)
273 students

One Million from Photoshop

From a door-to-door sales agent to a successful entrepreneur, freelancer, and instructor. All through Photoshop.
Created byCristian Barin
Last updated 1/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Freelancing, entrepreneurship, the principles that made me successful
  • Who is Chris Barin - the person, the entrepreneur, the Photoshop instructor
  • My mistakes in business and in life
  • About Facebook Ads, Performance Marketing, Ad Agencies

Course content

2 sections • 36 lectures • 8h 0m total length

  • Promo1:47
  • Introduction10:57

    Discover how Chris Barron earned over a million dollars using Photoshop, built from nothing, through design wins, app ventures, and a Romania-based oatmeal startup.

  • Early days and role-models7:09
  • Growing up in the 90’s in an ex-communist country7:57
  • My first computer & competitive gaming23:47

    Starcraft taught me to balance speed and focus, manage multiple tasks, and take extreme ownership, lessons I apply to business and personal growth.

  • Specializing on one thing?8:56
  • Personal development: not a definitive list!10:47

    Explore how self-help and personal development, filtered for value, helped a teenager level up through audiobooks, courses, and disciplined practice, inspired by Tony Robbins and Derren Brown.

  • The only job I’ve ever had: cosmetics sales agent9:18
  • Back pain: the struggle and my solution16:56
  • Be happy with what you have – really?22:46
  • My first attempts at being an entrepreneur15:03

    Chase entrepreneurship with relentless experimentation, from blogs and a video channel to online poker, MLM, and a bagel shop, learning from each misstep and continuing to grind.

  • The unseen side of freelancing10:16
  • What’s crowdsourcing and why should you care?10:43

    Crowdsourcing on 99designs lets clients post a brief and see finished designs from dozens of designers competing for a single prize, while designers submit multiple proposals upfront without guaranteed payment.

  • $1247 after just 3 weeks20:30
  • Here’s how I learned Photoshop as a complete beginner15:26
  • What made me a successful freelancer4:59
  • Speed - A step by step approach11:30
  • Hard work - What that actually means11:33
  • Consistency by numbers12:12
  • Working smarter & finding inspiration12:17
  • Trance states & intense concentration5:59

    Harness trance states as deep concentration that fuels peak design focus, minimizes interruptions, and helps you deliver your best work while embracing growth.

  • How I got into mobile apps & how to ace interviews20:17
  • From Photoshop to mobile apps to $750k17:08
  • Google (Play) – a very questionable platform12:41
  • Running a team and being a role model23:23
  • About Udemy & making online courses15:52
  • Here’s how I got so big on Udemy15:51
  • How I promoted my courses9:20
  • How did I spend all that money?21:30

    Spent earnings on essentials and comfort, a prime Bucharest home, tailored shirts, and fast cars. Budget bled on six projects across three platforms; learned MVPs and clear leadership matter.

  • Ohvaz – Healthy Food Start Up & E-Commerce11:51
  • Hate16:56
  • The truth about Facebook Ads Agencies & how I grew my e-commerce business15:36
  • Improving the website to improve the conversion rate13:16
  • Content marketing - the next big thing!17:30
  • Tell your own story14:37
  • Final quiz

Requirements

  • If you've seen one of my design courses, that's great, but it's not mandatory

Description

This is my story - how I went from a door-to-door sales agent, living with my parents, to a successful entrepreneur, freelancer, and instructor. All through Photoshop. Find out how I earned over one million dollars by using Photoshop in a smarter way.

What's included:

  • how I grew up in Romania, an ex-communist country;

  • how I learned Photoshop and how I made over $50K by freelancing;

  • what made me a successful freelancer: 6 principles that made me great;

  • a complete breakdown of all my earnings and how I invested it in several companies;

  • what I did to increase my productivity and concentration;

  • the principles of growing an e-commerce business (selling healthy food);

  • what I learned about Facebook Ads after spending $40k of my own money;

  • content marketing, performance agencies, and buying ads.

This course is NOT:

  • A business course;

  • A guide on how to make money;

  • A training program that teaches how to get rich.

Please see this material as entertainment.  Watch it if you want to learn more about me, Chris Barin, and how I managed to create a fantastic career, financial stability, and a great life, all through Photoshop, working hard, working smarter, and working long enough.

I hope you'll see that I'm not a genius, I'm not special, and that you can achieve at least a part of my success by following certain rules and principles. There are many other entrepreneurs that have books and courses, but this is different due to the fact that I started from the bottom and I worked my way up through Photoshop.

I describe everything, step by step. From the first $1000 all the way to over a million dollars. Watch this course if you want real insight from a real person.

Who this course is for:

  • People who want to start their own business
  • Entrepreneurs that rely on paid advertising or content marketing
  • People interested in e-commerce
  • If you want to know how you can use Photoshop to create a stable income and a successful career

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