My Experience with Photoshop

Being able to work with Photoshop these past couple weeks has given me time to look back on my previous experience with the program.  When I was in my junior year of high school trying to decide which electives I should take, I had trouble deciding between a multi-media class and a Photoshop class.  I ended up choosing the latter because I had always wanted to work with Photoshop, so for the second half of my senior year a couple of my friends and I learned the basic ins and outs of the program.  Our teacher taught the class in a way where he would go through different techniques with us step-by-step using multiple examples and then he would give us a project to work on that incorporated those techniques.

There was this one unit where we learned how to use shapes and manipulate them and the project for that unit was creating our own unique soda can label.  There was another project where we had to choose a magazine cover and recreate it.  There was so much that I learned during this class and I had a lot of fun too.  I thought that having this experience, the image unit in this class would be a piece of cake.  I was wrong.

I had not used this program since high school and it turns out that Photoshop is not like riding a bike, not for me anyway.  I remember opening the program for this first time after three years, and although it looked relatively the same as then it still intimidated me.  There were so many things that I had learned but now realized that I had no idea how to do anymore.  Creating the images for the assignment were a little more challenging then I expected them to be but I am happy that I was able to work with the program again.