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Even since then, Photoshop (and GIMP) has been a constant in my life for a variety of reasons. For lack of a better term, image editing is \u201cfun\u201d for me. I remember procrastinating on homework assignments to make banners and edits for my online platforms, though I never thought of what I was doing as \u201cart.\u201d I never even considered how Photoshop might benefit me in an academic or professional sense. Even today, I still turn to image editing projects (mostly for Tumblr) when I don\u2019t want to finish an assignment or feel an overwhelming sense of writer\u2019s block. It\u2019s therapeutic. Nostalgic. Ironically, I did some image editing for Tumblr while procrastinating on this Photoshop assignment as well.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s funny how once you\u2019re assigned something, it no longer becomes fun. Out of all the projects we\u2019ve done in class so far (albeit there have only been three), this Photoshop assignment has given me the most trouble. The only real explanation I have for this is that, because I\u2019m aware that Photoshop is the program I \u201cknow best,\u201d I\u2019ve put an unreasonable amount of pressure on myself to create something new, unique, and beautiful. And, as I\u2019m sure we\u2019ve all experienced many times in our college careers, the more you stress over an assignment, the harder it becomes to finish it.<\/p>\n
I suppose the question that I\u2019ll throw into the void is this: did anyone else (who had familiarity with Photoshop) feel similarly about this assignment? Or perhaps you were most familiar with HTML\/CSS and found yourself having trouble finishing the website assignment? I wonder if Photoshop differs from, say, Markdown and HTML\/CSS because it\u2019s visually based. When push comes to shove, it\u2019s easier for me to force words and code out rather than an artistic rendition of a vision I have in my mind. Maybe this means I\u2019m not as good at Photoshop as I thought. Maybe, at the end of the day, I’m still more of a writer than an artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"