No, I can say more, but that sums it up pretty well.
For my project I had dreams of learning how to use Adobe Illustrator or InDesign and combining that knowledge of what I had with Photoshop to create a really cool project. The project idea was to gather free images from the Creative Commons in Flickr and have a certain amount of images that were places, people, American symbols, and quotes and put them all together to create a cover for a U.S. History book.
The project idea was great, but it was the learning the programs that got a little dicey. A few months ago I wanted to learn Photoshop, so I took the basic class offered by the university. After the class I didn't touch Photoshop again until this project. I was thinking that some things had been retained but was totally shocked when the only thing I could remember doing was importing the picture by dragging it from Internet Explorer into Photoshop. So for this project I had to scale back my technology plans. Using the online tutorials I re-took the class and had to re-learn everything. You might think that I'm trying to fudge this, that I didn't really forget, but on my honor code, I knew nothing. I was shocked myself at my little retention rate. I knew what I had the potential to do, but not how to do it.
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So I imported images, created layer masks, used brushes and the many kinds of selection tools (magic wand and quick selection are the best - the magnetic lasso is probably the most difficult tool to control in the world), added layers, added shadows and embossing, combined layers, added text, and learned the basics all over again. I found that when I didn't know how to do something or couldn't figure it out with the "Quick Reference Guide" they give you, watching the video of the class and going with the instructor is a really great way to do it. Very helpful.
I'm not sure how I should turn in my products, but I will insert them here so you can see (in case I don't have enough ink in my printer to print them out right).
I imagine the top picture to be the front cover of the book, and the bottom picture to be the back cover. The back is my favorite - I love the images and the overall visual effect.
For each of these pictures I need to have an attribution to the original artist so here is a link back to each photo's original page on Flickr.
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