^^true. stick to learning everything about photoshop besides filters first and learn about design. then incorporate filters into your work once you have knowledge of all that. I started usin photoshop only knowing filters and alot of my work looked like amature clusterfucks of preset filters. Now filters are usually last resort for me or used discreatley.
If u feel like u kno enuff and u ready to get into plugins and filters and stuff PM me i got hella shit i can give you for free.