Alanna's e-Communication Blog

The Nature Man      We were assigned to edit a photo of a man by adding on different scenery pictures to him. I, unfortunately, was gone a day, and basically had my life completely thrown off track. I haven't been able to enjoy the class or keep up with everybody since. By now, I'm just trying to keep getting stuff done, so I can get the grades in, since I'm struggling in this class. Basically, my entire completion of this project has been working in between other projects and coming in during lunch. I went in with an idea, and just went for it, improvising for the most part. I would've spent a longer time carefully planning out a beautiful image, but I couldn't do that with the time I had to work on it. Keep in mind, I have other classes that need me to make up work and continue to give out homework, so stress was already high. Still, I finished the project.      I definitely learned the kind of stress photoshop brings to people who aren't experts in i...

Photoshop Tutorials We were assigned to follow tutorials of photoshopping different photographs. It was difficult, but I eventually finished. We simply followed along the tutorials, learning the different aspects and tools of photoshop. I had some troubles along the way, but eventually finished. Once I thought I was finished, I realized my name wasn't on most of the images, so I went back and put my name and hour on. I learned that technology is not your friend, and photoshop is no excuse. It doesn't attempt to make things easier on you. Things will go wrong, and for some odd reason the software will completely change up the image and not let you undo it. It was not an easy or fun experience, to say the least. I kept up with deadlines, luckily, but wasn't enjoying this project whatsoever. If I could go back, I'd avoid any distractions and just get the work done with. However, I still got everything done on time, so keeping everything on time would be good to d...