Photoshop ..term 1

This term we learnt how to use Photoshop. Overall I enjoyed learning how to use Photoshop, but it did have its difficulties.

When I was using Photoshop I found sticking to one idea very hard. Each lesson I would open Photoshop and start playing, then dislike my work and start all over again. Obviously this was quite time wasting because if whilst I was experimenting and I liked something that I did, the next time I would try to re-create things I would completely forget how I did it?!- and because I did not think ahead...... I chose not to save the experiments because I never thought I would use them for things like my blog. The thing that I struggled with the most was getting my head around the different tool's and how to use them. Also when masks were used but went showing up and tool's didn't do their job...it made my head spin!

During the creation part of the assignment my planning sheets did help, if only I kept a file on the computer! So maybe doing my planning in my book wasn't the best idea in the world but it did help at times. I tried to organize my time so that I made my first avatar in the 1st Week and my 2nd Avatar in the 3rd Week so that during the 1st week I had the opportunity to experiment and try to imagine what I wanted my Avatar to look like and also complete character planning info etc.

The character planning templates were very useful when it came time to thinking of how my Avatar was going to look and how it lived and therefore what the Avatar needed to survive

Unfortunately my blogging this term was not amazing and it is defiantly something that I need to improve on for next term. The reflections and step-by-step's of my Avatar are very basic but I have defiantly learnt what to do for next time.

The Photoshop unit has taught me many things to do with the software. Thanks to the assignment giving us a lot of room to experiment, I learnt what many different tools do and what effects they can create.

Looking at my final avatar's I am pleased with them, but imp sure with each day you are using Photoshop, you learn something new so therefore if I was to create another avatar I would be able to do much more with it.

If I was able to change certain aspects of my avatar I would probably just go through again and make it neater etc ... Just make it look more professional

If I could start the project again I would defiantly save each stage of my Avatar to make for a more interesting blog!

Overall I am pleased with the progress that I made in Photoshop this term!