Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Intro to Graphic Arts Week 2

     This week in class we were introduced to  Adobe Photoshop. I have never previously used Photoshop, but it seemed pretty easy once i got over the learning curve from the change from Adobe Illustrator. I do like that you can touch up photographs and correct scratches in family heirloom photos. 
     I can defiantly see myself using this program to assist in my scrapbooking because all those old family photos that I have yet to scrap, due to I didn't like the scratches or bend in them can now be edited. I can correct all those boo-boos and create those family tree pages, that I have been planning in my head for ages.
     We had 2 tutorials to complete that used Photoshop. I had some serious difficulties with the "Save As" in Photoshop. I could click on the "save as" in the drop down but nothing would ever happen. Luckily, I was able to save my work under the previously saved state and to to class and do the save as to change the doc title and format there. My husband had the same issue as well. 
      For our project this week we created tri-fold menus. I did one for Taco Bell. I enjoyed creating my menu and managed to only go get Taco Bell once while working on the project.  Looking at
 all those photos of tacos, chalupas and nachos is so hunger inducing!! Looking back I wish I would have picked another restaurant instead of Taco Bell because their menu is so extensive that fitting the entire menu onto a letter side tri-fold menu was challenging and didn't leave much play room.

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