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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According to Industrial Light & Magic – Wikipedia, the special effects company, Industrial Light & Magic, behind Star Wars is also the same company where brothers John and Thomas Knoll built Photoshop. When Jar Jar Binks came along I just cringed until he finally grew on me. It is amazing what AI can now do but to me there is nothing as satisfying as owning, watching, or something handmade. I appreciate the hours artists put into their crafts everytime I try a new hobby on YouTube and fail at it. I love to look at the little figurines that toy hobbiests and gamers paint as well as extensive model train landscapes, the detail work is sometimes stunning. My jaw dropped when I got the see the minitures from Coraline at the MoPOP Museum in Seattle. Something tiny like origami can look easy, but in reality (when I tried it) my trashcan was overfolwing with wrinkled balls of despair, and I still have a knitting needle with the beginnings for a “simple Hello Kitty scarf” with thread only wrapped about it.

Photoshop has been used in many huge movies since and many easter eggs to Star Wars can be seen in TV, film, songs and parodies. It was even used to insert the droids into Indiana Jones! It will definitely increase in popularity as more and more young people attempt the easier new tools to add “hyperspace Star Wars effect” to their profile pics and give no empathy to the hundreds of layers and hours it used to take to make even the tiniest background edit. I admit it CAN be fun when you are expecting it to wow you like in Jurrassic Park, but now I can see it everywhere I look after learning about all of the little touch ups that can be made and about all of the cinematic effects it now comes with. Be sure to bookmark my site so you can enjoy all 3 of these little gem links!

25 effects in PS to play with:

https://designshack.net/articles/inspiration/film-photoshop-actions/

The droids and Indiana Jones

https://screenrant.com/indiana-jones-raiders-ark-behind-scenes-facts/

I even found a fun rainy-day poster activity:

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