Question for photographers- how do I learn Photoshop?

Ha Ha! Something went terribly wrong with this one. OK, I need to stop posting these until I learn what I'm doing.

I've just threadjacked this one. Sorry!

I have found an abundance of free actions to play with until I have earned the right to buy one.

Thanks for all the guidance!

Here are some new ones

Original

Since the thread has been hijacked, I thought I'd show you the Fuji snapit action and the Chocolate Syrup 1.

First one of my daughter strait out of the camera (sotc)...

and now after fuji snapit (and a slight crop)

Now one of one of my sons sotc

and after chocolate syrup 1

Both of these actions are from Kubota's artistic pack 1

Hijakers

Thanks for sharing. It's really cool to see a before and after to know what can be done with a picture.

I guess it's not really a hijack if we are still on the topic of photoshop.