Online class is excellent because you can rewind the techniques at your leisure and Marina Shipova and she is extremely capable of teaching techniques with no book to follow at all…but this time around it had a WORKBOOK to follow along with where you use the files in the lessons.  It is EXTREMELY helpful to have a book that is further clarified by an instructor as you go, alot of books don’t offer online tutors as you go, instead they pretty much leave you on your own, but she encourages you to use your own material after each lesson for the actual grade which DOES ensure you understood it enough to repeat! It is hard for me to come up with a suggestion…however, perhaps for students that are slower learners or have fulltime time constraints outside of school, maybe just OBS recordings of following the lessons to prove you are doing the lessons like a basic class and a challenge path class for going above and beyond with your own image?  The most important thing is to KEEP up with the pace of the class because Adobe had multiple things to learn in each chapter!

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Putting PS in the hands of the creators gives people more power to “mislead” the public and needs to be handled carefully especially when advertising. For example, bigger size commparisons of products in proportion to people vs the size actually recieve, altered news images making people questing the validity of the event, weight loss adds with fake aftershots full of muscles or hair loss regrow promises where you can see mismatched skin tones, people advertising in cars or products they have never personally been near, promotions to follow people who are successful by showing themselves in mansions they don’t own, property pictures of perfect rentals that are filthy or damaged in reality, or just people try countless manipulation tactics on others by causing an ex, friend, or family member to think that they are better off without them as now suddenly they have been going on dates with or attending parties with gorgeous people they don’t even know. The liquify tool is commonly used in personal ads and covergirl photos and can lead to insecurities for developing adolescents like wishing for bigger eyes or perfect teeth and bodies giving them anxiety when they compare themselves to these digital paintings instead of authentic images of their role models.

Everyone naturally desires their human image to be a little better or wishes they had been a little more successful at this point, and no one likes to be looked down upon because their place of living is a mess but maybe they are full time workers or parents, and otherwise would not have posted at all. Things like face filters can be all a person needs to boost their confidence and begin a new path they would have shied away from before, but somewhere there needs to be a balance or confession before others start to assume EVERYTHING they post or advertise is a lie. If you want someone to believe you 100% of the time, photoshopping yourself to the extreme is not a good way to start.

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One of the best lessons you can find that spans multiple design programs, will be a tutorial on layers. Adding layers can help save you a lot of “do over” time because each step you lay on top, you can throw away without hurting your original file. I found them confusing at first. There is a game called Fishworld on Facebook that uses 3 very simple ones so that you can create a little “scene” for your fish to swim by. This way, you can place a mountain behind a waterfall and then a tree in front of that for example and the tree won’t disappear if it is on layer one, the waterfall is on layer two, and the Mountain is layer 3 in the back. There are many thousands of objects and backgrounds to play with and it is a lot of fun to see what others create. There are lots of movie and tv themes, something for everyone. See how my fish, lower fog layer, and nymphs are floating in front of a scene I’ve created with layers behind them?

Today in class we began with a pizza, there were toppings to add, and a whole salad bar with toppings to pick from. Adding the layers, painting the sauce (mines pesto), “blur/cooking” the cheese and cutting out a slice were excellent tutorials designed by Professor Brock at Peninsula College. Many of the classes can be taken online from beginner to advanced levels of many design programs and also incorporate website, wordpress, and marketable skills.

A final important nugget for thought is how you choose to export to the web matters. According to Difference Between JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP Image Formats (guidingtech.com) these are the main differences and I have examples at the bottom of this page.

• JPEG is the most common format for photographs and natural scenes, but it loses quality with every save.
• PNG is a lossless format for images with transparency, text, or sharp edges, but it has a large file size.
• GIF is a format for animated images or images with limited colors, but it has a small color palette and does not support transparency.

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• JPEG is the most common format for photographs and natural scenes, but it loses quality with every save.
• PNG is a lossless format for images with transparency, text, or sharp edges, but it has a large file size.
• GIF is a format for animated images or images with limited colors, but it has a small color palette and does not support transparency.

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