Recently we've been doing a lot of work in Photoshop and this got me worried about my digital artistic "skills". I was quickly relieved though when I saw that one of our assignments had tutorial videos linked with it on how to draw well in Photoshop. I watched all of the linked videos and followed their examples step by step until I finally understood how to use the tools effectively. At that point I realized that if you boil it down, all you need to be a good digital artist is knowledge of how to use the tools. Many of the examples shown in the videos used filters as well as the burn and dodge tools to add noticeable differences to the otherwise simplistic art they had created. Now that I'm pretty familiar with the tools in Photoshop, I am pretty confident about my digital art skills. I'm sure I'll never be as good as the artists who make beautiful images with only Photoshop, but for now my skills are good enough. As for real life application, many illustrators and animators enjoy how simple it is to make art with Photoshop. The ability to be able to change artwork as well as revert changes and do just about anything in Photoshop helps most people with actual jobs when using Photoshop. Seeing as many illustrators today use the tools of Photoshop to help make art much quicker and better, I can conclude that understanding tools is the most important part of Photoshop. If someone had amazing artistic skills but no idea how to use all of the tools in Photoshop, they would be unable to do anything. Whereas if someone knew how to use all of the tools but didn't have quite as good artistic skill, they would at least have a masterpiece. Therefore, understanding how to use the tools of Photoshop can not only increase your artistic skill but also make it easier to get a job in the digital art industry.
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Citations: http://www.creativebloq.com/computer-arts/how-photoshop-changed-my-life-2108912 and http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2011/04/what-is-photoshop-to-you.html
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This week has been my favorite week of scientific visualization so far, not only did we get no assignments, but we also got to freely explore in Photoshop. We learned how to use more tools to edit images and make them look better and even applied them to an image we found off of the web. This made class much more fun and interesting, being able to apply what we're learning about to an actual photo helps give better understanding of how it can actually be used. Having no assignments also made class less stressful and I got to focus more on what we were learning about instead of due dates. This has also been the first time I felt like I was using Photoshop as Photoshop, and not just a tool to get work done. Essentially, the free time to use Photoshop this week helped me to actually understand how to use Photoshop and I now feel that I am fluent with Photoshop. I hope we get to use the skills we learned this week in more than just a few assignments because when I think of Photoshop what we're doing is usually the first thing that comes to mind. Like I said though, this has been my favorite week and I hope that the rest of this year is just as fun.
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Quarter one is finally coming to an end and I am proud to say that I have actually learned something in scientific visualization. Usually in school classes will teach the same thing as the previous year, elaborating on it a tad bit more, but seeing as this is my first year in a digital art class, there was no previous year of information I could relearn. We learned about the history of digital careers, what parts make up a PC, copyright laws, the design process, and the elements and principles of design all in nine weeks. I enjoyed learning about the principles and elements of design the most because I actually got to use Photoshop for the first time. By the end of that week I got down most of the basics for Photoshop, but I still have more to go. Using Photoshop helped me visualize what I was doing by creating images that showed the elements of design instead of just writing about it. I hope we continue to use Photoshop in the future, and I'm pretty sure we will because it is a digital art class. This class was the only class this quarter that actually gave me lots of work to do, but I'm sure there will be even more work next quarter. All in all it has been a pretty good quarter and I look forward to having a great experience with digital art.
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AuthorMy name is Andrew Prichard and the this is my first digital arts class, I look forward to a good year with lots of hard work. Archives
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