The first day of this week in photoshop was a continuation to the elementary navigation of the software. This is necessary as there are several ways to do any one thing in the program and the lecturer needs to at least touch on each of those in order to give the student the knowledge to find their own way to complete a given task. These tasks included; 'undoing actions in photoshop', 'tools panel overview' and 'resolution & image size'. Each of those are chapter subtitles from "Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book" released by Adobe Systems in 2011. I use a combination of keyboard shortcuts, button actions and menu operations to gain the results I require. What I use for which task has been dictated by my memory and experience with the software, so it was refreshing to see different approaches to old habits.
Key points to remember, there is more than one way to skin a cat - especially in Photoshop & a pixel is a pixel - nothing more (resolution).
Drawing was also a continuation of the exercise begun last week. This was to enlarge via a grid in contour line a photograph of old Renoir and likewise for the drawing Picasso made from the same photograph. The Images to the left are the original photograph and my attempt at the first task. I screwed it up a little by blocking in shadow, but stopped when Steven busted me and after I felt the drawing had reached a concise end. Again I found this to be a refreshing return to basics. Simply drawing is something I find extremely rewarding no matter what the subject is. There is something therapeutic for me about dragging and pushing a piece of led about a piece of paper. Latter Steven asked us to draw an irony and then a metaphor.
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