I'm neither a student or a professional. I just use it for fun, and very occasionally nowadays. I have a pirated version, like most people, so it's not costly for me. Otherwise, I would not be able to have it, since I have an extremely modest income exclusively from Steem.

My uses for Photoshop have always been varied. I downloaded it at first to do basic image editing. If I needed to crop something, that's what I used. I also used it for blurring things. Then I started changing backgrounds, adapting compositions in photos for Instagram, etc.

Later on, I started making Telegram stickers, memes and funny pictures. I made montages with people over weird backgrounds. I made a picture of myself standing in the middle of a war in the Middle East.

Then I downloaded Krita in order to draw because my computer with Photoshop broke down. I used that to edit pictures and made more complex and original compositions with a very cheap graphic tablet that I bought.

It lasted me a few months and I published hundreds of drawings, but now everything is broken and my computer can't stand Krita, but I can do basic editing with Photoshop, at least, so I'm back where I started.

I've never used Illustrator, Inkscape or any of those similar pieces of software because I'm a bit reluctant to learn the new interfaces. I should use Illustrator, though, because graphic design is necessary for business nowadays.