First Blog Of The New Term

Hi, hope everyone had a good New Year. Mine was okay, had a record 23 pairs of socks for Christmas. Still you can never have enough socks. Had plans to start teaching myself Flash CS3 over the holidays, with the book I bought. But with all the working, eating, drinking and being merry I didn't really get the chance.

First Tutorial Of The Term
I'm afraid I missed this one, but on discussing it with my course buddy Matt "From Cardiff But Wants To Be From Caerphilly" Neil, we have started Photoshop. Ive had previous experience with Photoshop, and did a little project. By the sounds of it the first lecture was covering some of the basics such as extracting. The project I undertook made use of features such as layers, masking, effects, opacity and many more. After this project I bought a great magazine called Advanced Photoshop, which came with loads of tutorials and examples of some pretty amazing artwork. After viewing some of the projects in this magazine I realised how powerful this software is and the potential it has, and also why it has become such a standard in the design and media industry. Another book I purchased to further develop my skills was Adobes official book, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom In A Book.

First Lecture Of The Term
Our lecture was based around the topic of design, and as designers we would have many options laid out in front of us. There are many things to take into consideration when designing something such as a website. There's the clients requirement and the target audience to consider. Also things such as timescale, budget, and the skills and equipment that are available to the design team. These are all very important factors that have to be addressed when designing a website for a client. When it comes down to actual content, we looked at different types of graphics that are available to a designer. There are now a large amount of graphic sources such as digital camera pictures and scanned images, to the electronic and software created images.