Greetings from the planet Photoshop!!
I am finishing up my third of five weeks of class and I have to say, it is going much better than the first week. It was hard in the beginning because I had never had ANY experience with Photoshop. I had no idea where any of the tools were or how to do anything. Monday and Tuesday of this week we worked on our Photoshop final project, which included three elevations and a floor plan of a Kitchen that were originally drawn in Auto CAD. We had to bring them into Photoshop and add cabinet doors, counter top texture, wood grain on the cabinet facing, refrigerators, stoves, ovens, microwaves, ect. It was time consuming but some what easy, once I chose the cabinet doors, I took a sample of the wood grain from the door and added it to the cabinet facings to all the elevations. The counter tops were the same through out as well as the wall coverings and the crown molding. So really, it is rather simple for a final project. However, it was still very time consuming. At the end of class today, I had finished 3 elevations. Tomorrow (Wednesday) we are starting the second half of the class-Sketchup-so tomorrow after class is over, I hope to finish up my Photoshop project, which is due on Monday. I can't wait for this class to be over. It has been a lot of fun learning but I'm ready for it to be August. There are so many things happening in August!! For one, I'm moving on August 16th to my new, clean, Bridgette free apartment and then I have Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays to visit with my family that I haven't seen in like a month. THEN Lauren's wedding on August 29th and the fall semester on August 31st...THEN my 21st birthday!!! I am super excited about that!! Plus a few other surprises in August :)
Well that is all for now, I hope all is well with my readers and I can't wait to see you soon!
Love Always,
Emily
P.S. I haven't printed any of my photoshop work yet, so I can not post any of it but I am hoping to get some pictures up soon, so stay patient!! Thank you!
Love.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Summer Classes-
Hello!!
It has been way to long since my last post, I have been busy working!! I had my textiles class in June and it went well, I pulled out an A in that class. However, I am now in Photoshop/Sketchup and I want to cry, just a little bit. I kind of knew it was going to be hard after a senior in my textiles class told me that the only way I could get through Photoshop/Sketchup is with my bible but I underestimated her exaggeration. We are practically teaching ourselves...from a book. My teacher will "lecture" (roughly show us) what we will be "learning" in the chapter for the day and then she lets us get to work doing the exercises for the chapter. It has gotten better, since I now know where most of the tools are but the first few days were ROUGH. The book would say "hold down the ctrl key and click the Add Mask Layer at the bottom of the layers palette" doesn't sound that hard to the average Photoshop user but when you don't know what the heck the layers palette is or that these tiny little buttons on the very bottom of this "layers palette" even exist, this task is some what difficult. The first full day of working in Photoshop began at 9 AM after an hour lecture of how to begin in Photoshop, and ended at 3 pm. After 6 hours of work, I finally finished all 23 exercises AND the DIY (Do Independently Yours-a little thing my teacher made up to torture us. Just kidding, in actuality, it is an assignment that uses the skills that we "learned" in the chapter. For example, the first day we had to create 3 greeting cards using the skills of a pattern, a mask, a gradient and a knockout. By the time I had finished all the exercises, I had a small understanding of how to do use a pattern and a mask, however the gradient and the knockout I was lost. So of course, I looked it up on google and found a wonderful website with tutorials about these, and many other lessons. Today, was day number 2 of week 2, however yesterday (day 1 of week 2) my teacher was sick so we did not do any exercises but had a reading assignment. I spent the day catching up on sleep and watching movies (I had already read the chapter for that day). So today we did what we were suppose to do yesterday, but tonight we must read the chapter that we should have done today (Chapter 6) PLUS the chapter that we are suppose to do tomorrow (Chapter 9). It is a lot of reading, but there is only one exercise in Chapter 9. So my optimistic teacher is cramming 2 days into one tomorrow in hopes to give us Thursday to do our Photoshop project, which I have no idea what that will entail. I have a better handle on what Photoshop is and it is really cool to see what you can do with it but it is going to be a long 3 and a half weeks.
Today, we took a floor plan from CAD and brought it into Photoshop to add the ceramic tile, the mahogany counter tops, the bar stool texture, the carpet,etc. to render the floor plan. This is why Photoshop is being used more rapidly in the Interior Design field, we can take the floor plan, or elevation of a room, and bring in the EXACT carpet, wall covering, couch, table, etc. to give the client a better idea of what the space will look like, rather than a hand drawn, rough idea of what the room may look like. As much as they try we can not replicate the exact texture of a certain carpet or wall covering. I'll be learning how to do that in the fall, I'm not particularly looking forward to that.
Well, I guess I'm done ranting about how hard school is now, and I'll get back to reading my chapters for tomorrow. I hope you all have a wonderful, blessed day and will post again soon, hopefully with pictures next time. It's hard to post pictures of Computer Aided Drafting stuff but I will try!!
-Emily
It has been way to long since my last post, I have been busy working!! I had my textiles class in June and it went well, I pulled out an A in that class. However, I am now in Photoshop/Sketchup and I want to cry, just a little bit. I kind of knew it was going to be hard after a senior in my textiles class told me that the only way I could get through Photoshop/Sketchup is with my bible but I underestimated her exaggeration. We are practically teaching ourselves...from a book. My teacher will "lecture" (roughly show us) what we will be "learning" in the chapter for the day and then she lets us get to work doing the exercises for the chapter. It has gotten better, since I now know where most of the tools are but the first few days were ROUGH. The book would say "hold down the ctrl key and click the Add Mask Layer at the bottom of the layers palette" doesn't sound that hard to the average Photoshop user but when you don't know what the heck the layers palette is or that these tiny little buttons on the very bottom of this "layers palette" even exist, this task is some what difficult. The first full day of working in Photoshop began at 9 AM after an hour lecture of how to begin in Photoshop, and ended at 3 pm. After 6 hours of work, I finally finished all 23 exercises AND the DIY (Do Independently Yours-a little thing my teacher made up to torture us. Just kidding, in actuality, it is an assignment that uses the skills that we "learned" in the chapter. For example, the first day we had to create 3 greeting cards using the skills of a pattern, a mask, a gradient and a knockout. By the time I had finished all the exercises, I had a small understanding of how to do use a pattern and a mask, however the gradient and the knockout I was lost. So of course, I looked it up on google and found a wonderful website with tutorials about these, and many other lessons. Today, was day number 2 of week 2, however yesterday (day 1 of week 2) my teacher was sick so we did not do any exercises but had a reading assignment. I spent the day catching up on sleep and watching movies (I had already read the chapter for that day). So today we did what we were suppose to do yesterday, but tonight we must read the chapter that we should have done today (Chapter 6) PLUS the chapter that we are suppose to do tomorrow (Chapter 9). It is a lot of reading, but there is only one exercise in Chapter 9. So my optimistic teacher is cramming 2 days into one tomorrow in hopes to give us Thursday to do our Photoshop project, which I have no idea what that will entail. I have a better handle on what Photoshop is and it is really cool to see what you can do with it but it is going to be a long 3 and a half weeks.
Today, we took a floor plan from CAD and brought it into Photoshop to add the ceramic tile, the mahogany counter tops, the bar stool texture, the carpet,etc. to render the floor plan. This is why Photoshop is being used more rapidly in the Interior Design field, we can take the floor plan, or elevation of a room, and bring in the EXACT carpet, wall covering, couch, table, etc. to give the client a better idea of what the space will look like, rather than a hand drawn, rough idea of what the room may look like. As much as they try we can not replicate the exact texture of a certain carpet or wall covering. I'll be learning how to do that in the fall, I'm not particularly looking forward to that.
Well, I guess I'm done ranting about how hard school is now, and I'll get back to reading my chapters for tomorrow. I hope you all have a wonderful, blessed day and will post again soon, hopefully with pictures next time. It's hard to post pictures of Computer Aided Drafting stuff but I will try!!
-Emily
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