Typography

I've been working hard on masks this week and I'm getting better at making them.
Especially about clipping masks, I even found it fun to use! I'm glad that I made a progress a bit.

In class on Wednesday, we moved on to the next lesson, which is about type and typography.
We discussed about what is a good typography and how to use types effectively in the Photoshop.

For the assignment of this lesson, we made a label for a soda.
It was a little hard to make the label look like wrapped around the bottle, but I think I could manage...hopefully.
One of the point of this assignment was to show an instance of text effects that are not shown in class. Therefore, I looked through the web page that my teacher told us (here the link), and I found this interesting tutorial to make a "Grunge Rubber Stamp."
Link→ http://www.biorust.com/tutorials/detail/181/en/

With the tutorial, I successfully made a type that looks like a stamp!
I put the stamp at the right bottom corner of the label.

It took time (honestly, a lot), but it was a interesting assignment.
The assignments for the class are getting more difficult to deal with but certainly, it is getting more fun to work with! (well, if I had plenty of time to work, it would be even better... haha)

Here is the label that I made for the assignment.

How do you think?

Reviewing for Tomorrow's Class --Masks--

Since we didn't have enough time to start working on masks last time, we are learning about them in tomorrow's class. Therefore, I just watched the 5 videos about masks suggested on the assignment sheet as a review.

Well, honestly, I'm already confused a bit. I can see that masks will be really handy once I get used to using it though. Especially, the refine the edge tool seemed useful to me. However, till then it will be really hard to deal with.

I think I really need to pay attention in the class tomorrow, and I should read the section in the text book before class so that I can follow the lecture.

Let's see how I can handle masks tomorrow.

Superimposing Layers

Well, first of all, I have to admit that I'm not a kind of person who can deal with high technology that easily. I can do the basic operations on my computer but that's it. I never can fix my computer by myself if I got virus or something.

Before I wander off the topic, I want to say that it is also not that easy for me to learn the Photoshop! But, now that I already know about the existence of layers (yes. I didn't know about the concept before.), the lessons that we are dealing with now are not too hard. Good.

The first time I ever used a photo editing software, I had a hard time understanding what a layer is. I read though many web sites and blogs that explain about the software, but still the concept was ambiguous to me. However, when I used my imagination fully and visualized the image of superimposing thin, clear papers, I had an aha moment finally.
Now I can use layers without any program.

Well, see? Even a person like me can learn how to use technology!

Since my teacher said the technique we will start learning today, masks, will be difficult to understand, I'm a bit afraid. Hopefully I can get the idea by the end of this week!

Practice, practice, and practice!

Learning Photoshop

Since I don't have a blog assignment for this week, let me talk about what I'm learning in class.

Now, I'm learning how to use Photoshop!
Actually, I haven't used Photoshop before, and one of the reasons why I'm taking this class is that I can learn about it.

I used to own a free software for retouch which can do similar basic operations as Photoshop. So, retouch is not a totally new thing to me. However, since I'm using English version of Photoshop (of course! I'm now studying in the U.S.), there are so many words that seem unfamiliar to me, some of which I totally don't know and some of which I actually know if they were in my native tongue. Therefore, it is a bit overwhelming.
Even after 2 years of studying in the U.S., it is still challenging for me to start learning a new subject because of my poor English vocabulary.

Hopefully, I can feel a bit more comfortable with using Photoshop after a few more weeks of practicing!


Oh! By the way, today is Valentine's Day! Hope everyone is having a great time with the loved one.

 

Miss my family and friends in my country...

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