Like a lot of people in this class, I am already fairly familiar with Photoshop. Having said that, it's been a while since I've used it (almost 3 years I believe) so when we had some class time last Thursday to play around, it took me a while to remember how things work. But I LOVE the Layers book. It is simple and easy to understand. (And the author uses a Mac. What could be better?) Like Karen said, the author even has a website where you can download the pictures he used to make following along even easier. This book really makes me want to buy the Photoshop software so I may have to look into that before the semester ends.
I wish I had some of the projects I created in my high school class where we learned how to use Illustrator, Photoshop and Flash, but all that stuff was saved to our student drives and deleted at the end of the year. The final project we did involved all the software to make a little movie with voice overs, sound clips, animation, original drawings, edited pictures, etc etc. But I bet that after I finish this class I'll be able to make an even better version of that project. So that's one of my goals for this semester.
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Having server space at an institution is always great when you're AT that institution. As your story illustrates, there's nothing like having your own backup on your own drive (usb flash drive or portable drive) for your own records. I recommend you do that for this class, too, "just in case." Also, for prosperity sake.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're getting to know Photoshop. It seems as though I'm always re-learning it, finding new features, even learning new procedures for things I always did the hard way. We rarely ever "know" these software systems--we just "practice" them.
I knew they would do that, because I took the class in two separate 9 week chunks, one at the beginning of the year and the other at the end. I'd already started to work on the video the first semester, but I found that when I came back to the class at the end of the year, they'd deleted everything that I'd done! Very frustrating!
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