Photoshop Techniques
I must confess I am short on time this week. My husband is back briefly on R&R from Iraq, and I selfishly want to spend ALL of my time with him. I know that in a few days’ time, when he is gone, I will mull over and work through these techniques we’ve read about this week— it usually takes me working on a project before such tools reveal their usefulness. I can read about a technique, but until I am working on a project and encounter a design issue (ie. how to achieve “x”), I cannot truly internalize the method. But it’s during one of these “design issues” that I have an a-ha! moment and remember a tool I’ve come across, find that book or web site, re-read the tutorial or example, and make brilliant progress in my work. Thankfully, we have spring break next week, when I can spend some extra time with these books and techniques and re-visit past and current projects with new ideas in mind. I do already have one idea, which I noted on Mark’s blog, that I can use the “wicked worn” look to great effect on my genealogy site, which one day will be much more than a sample page for our type assignment.
March 5th, 2007 at 11:19 am
I felt similar pressure to finish this week’s readings with a conference presentation and another paper due on Thursday (and don’t feel even a TAD guilty about spending time with your husband). Similarly, not much of what was in the Eismann book, at least on the instructional side, really did me much good since I have to sit down and actually try things out in order to really grasp what it all means and how it really works. I’m hopefully finally going to try Prof. P’s activity tonight when I get the inevitable writer’s block on these two papers.
March 6th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
I’m still not finding some of Photoshops tools unusefull…I guess all will reveal itself in time though (I’ve actually mastered solving most of my Photoshop problems with the tools I like, although I think this makes my life more difficult sometimes-must learn to accept new tools.) Dr. P said you may be able to help me on a small problem I’m having with importing gifs into Dreameaver. I can’t get the transparent background of the gif to remain once I import the image into Dreamweaver, and it’s driving me crazy. No rush on a response (definitly no need to respond while husband is back…I’m tackling my navigation bar and rollovers this week, so I have plenty to occupy my time.) If you know how to fix my problem though and get a chance in the next few weks, can you show me what I’m doing wrong? Thanks
Karin