My first rendezvous with Photoshop was when I was eight, and my dad brought home my family’s first computer. He was getting into DTP (Desktop Publishing), so he got a copy of Photoshop 6.0. When I first saw it, my eyes sparkled with curiosity, wanting to click every button and move all the sliders just to see what they would do.

While the other kids my age were playing games like Super Mario or Contra (90s kids would understand this), to me, Photoshop was a game in itself. It all started with putting my face on Snoop Dogg’s body, making my cousin’s heads big, swapping the faces of my friends, and turning my relatives green like Shrek.

I got into Photography with my first camera as a college student, and as everyone does, created a photography page on Facebook and called it “Picture Imperfect” (now “PiXimperfect”). In my journey from then to now, I have won several photographic competitions, such as Nikon’s #IAMShutterbug, and also received the “All India Gold Medal in Digital Painting” by Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation.