start investigating places! Research is one of an artist's best friends. You find someplace interesting and go from there

im not good at research, i always dozed off when we had to go to the library on those days

internet research is faster and more fun

you could start by browsing through random pictures on Photobucket and Flickr, just like you do with JPG mag

ya i know, but i see all these cool effects that people do and icant figure out how to do some of it

experiment