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->''My name is Donnie, and you suck at Photoshop.''
->''You do, you're awful, and that's why you're here.''

''You Suck At Photoshop'' is a [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webby_Award Webby Award]] winning, 30 episode Platform/YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD19BCF9D57320E03 web series]] that premiered in December 2007. The series centers around a man named Donnie Hoyle, who wants very much for the viewer to know that they [[TitleDrop suck at Photoshop]] and that he's, very reluctantly, going to show them how to get better at it. While ostensibly a genuely informative 'how-to' series about how to use various Photoshop tools and techniques, it soon becomes clear that less-than-obscured subtext of the tutorials is the various ways in which [[CreatorBreakdown Donnie's life is rapidly disintegrating]].

You can find the channel behind the series [[https://www.youtube.com/user/MyDamnChannel here]].

Not in any way related to ''WebVideo/YouSuckAtCooking''.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AccentuateTheNegative: Donnie thinks he's doing this to the audience. In fact, even a less-than-attentive viewer would be able to quickly determine that Donnie's the pathetic one and that his Photoshop skills are almost entirely the only thing he has going for him.
* ArcWords: In the second season: "I'm going to kill you, Donnie Hoyle. I am going to kill you." [[spoiler: Every person that Donnie interacts with threatens him with this at some point, leaving it ambiguous as to who actually attempts to off him in the finale.]]
* BlackComedy: And ''how''. The main character who teachers the viewer about Photoshop is an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist, but his life is gradually falling apart, and worse and worse things keep happening to him.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Donnie may be a complete jerk [[spoiler:and may even be mentally disturbed]], but he does know quite a bit about Photoshop and its intricacies. The videos all teach real things you can do with the program; it's just that they're interspersed with a ton of BlackComedy behind the voice of an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist.
* CreatorBreakdown: InUniverse. Every tutorial. The photos and various techniques that Donnie's using are inevitably a thinly-veiled representation of whatever's gone wrong in his life that week.
* DeadpanSnarker: Donnie thinks he's this as well. He isn't.
* GainaxEnding: The first season finale features [[spoiler:Donnie somehow escaping a SWAT raid using Photoshop]]. The third season finale reveals that [[spoiler:Donnie is Ricky and the entire series was just him sitting in his basement, playing sounds and pretending to be different people]].
* PottyFailure: [=sn4tchbuckl3r=] tries to induce this in Donnie in episode 6 (and presumably succeeds).
* SadistShow: So, how are we going to torture and torment Donnie ''this'' week?
* TitleDrop: Every episode begins with Donnie informing the viewer that 'you suck at Photoshop'.
* TomatoInTheMirror: The Season 3 finale reveals that [[spoiler: Donnie Hoyle was Ronnie Cox the whole time, and the events of the series consisted entirely of "Donnie" talking to himself in his basement after hitting his head in a [[NoodleIncident "terrible fishing tacklebox accident"]].]]
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Initially, at least, [=sn4tchbucl3r=] is not a great friend to Donnie.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: To be true, life has a habit of dumping all over Donnie, but it's made abundantly clear that he's not a particularly nice or stable guy anyway, and that it's in many ways his own fault.