One Million from Photoshop (Udemy.com)
From a door-to-door sales agent to a successful entrepreneur, freelancer, and instructor. All through Photoshop.
Created by: Cristian Barin
Last updated January 2025
What you will 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
How it compares
Against the other 1,210 rated Udemy courses in Business on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.9 out of 5higher than 99% of them
- Reviews39#1,192 of 1,211 by number of reviews
- Length8 hourslonger than 83% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2025earlier than 63% of them
Course 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.
Instructor Details
- 4.9 Rating
39 Reviews
Cristian Barin
Chris Barin is a professional web and app designer with nearly 10 years of Photoshop experience. He's also an Adobe Certified Instructor and Certified Photoshop Expert.
By being self-taught, he managed to gain the trust of over 290.000 students from all over the world through his Photoshop courses. A staple of his materials is a hand-on, down-to-Earth approach that focuses on getting maximum results with minimal effort.
Chris started out as a freelance web designer and built a loyal client base, earning over $50,000 by designing sites part time. Today, he runs his own Android design studio, 20+ strong, creating fantastic looking apps for clients; his apps have over 100 million downloads to date.
Passionate about teaching, Chris teaches on Udemy because he has been disappointed in the quality of training materials available for people who want to learn design. In his courses, he holds nothing back; he documents and shares his entire experience on how he managed to stand out from the competition and do the work that he loves full-time.
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Reviews
By Sovon Santra on 7/7/2026
Hey Chris, thank you for creating this course. I learned a lot of things from this course and will surely implement them in my work. The way you describe every aspect of becoming an entrepreneur from scratch and the problems you face and overcome is incredible. Thank You.
By James Burns on 1/25/2025
Great course if you want to dive deep into seeing a perspective of some other person. How he dealt with his problems
By Fabio Calero on 7/8/2024
This was a very honest and insightful recounting of Chris's journey to success. I found it very valuable to hear his stories and learn from his successes and failures.
By Cynthia Calhoun on 4/3/2023
Thanks for sharing these personal experiences. Some of the things Chris shares, I have experienced too. It's also good to see how he deals with life's lemons and how he overcomes them and makes lemonade. :)
By Doua Gonne on 8/12/2022
I really enjoy hear Chris’ experience with various circumstances of life. It’s very inspiring and I that Chris is a great life, Photoshop and business coach. Thank very!
By Pash T. on 4/25/2022
What a great insight into Chris's life, the challenges and how he faced all that, a great learning experience for me, he is a great inspiration for me who wants to be an entrepreneur.
By Tom Grudzinski on 4/12/2021
Christian puts his heart and soul into this. Well prepared thought out and delivered. Transparent. Inspiring. Engaging. Love this instructor. One of the best!
By Jac Constantino on 3/11/2021
Fascinating stories and very inspiring. If you've taken Chris's Photoshop courses, you'll really see his passion behind how he teaches things. He teaches in a supremely practical manner and it has helped me in sifting through the irrelevant things about my career transition to designing. No doubt this short course gave me an understanding why. Chris is a great teacher and it's really good to learn from his experiences. If you're curious about learning Photoshop, I think you'll have get the bang for your buck with his courses. I know I did.
By Krishna Singh on 2/1/2021
This course is awesome, we can easily understand each and every options. thanks Cristian Doru Barin, this course was very useful. I honestly recommend this course.
By Peter Bucsko on 1/27/2021
Nice story, and also some wise advices from Chris again! Inspirational videos, while also presenting the things as they are!
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