Bram vanhaeren biography
Bram Vanhaeren on Photoshop 25 under 25: How Adobe changed my life
Do what you love. Follow your dreams. Before you know it, you might be writing a similar story yourself.
– Bram Vanhaeren
I am a young creative from Antwerp in Belgium. I am 24 and I have been working with Adobe Photoshop for over 10 years. I didn’t understand a single word in English when I started working with Photoshop, so I basically just started playing and experimenting with the program. A couple of years later I decided to go to a creative school to study commercial design.
That is, until they kicked me out after six months.
The reason? I wasn’t allowed to work with any Adobe program! I had to draw my designs by hand and well, I’m a terrible drawer. My teachers told me I was by far the worst illustrator of my year – my portraits got rated 3/20. So I failed my class and was asked to leave the school. That left me with two options. A) Find a new passion. Or B) prove them wrong. I decided to prove them wro