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Jenna French<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What did you learn?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before taking this course, I have never used Photoshop or really any other digital software like it. Through this project, I learned some basic methods which are used to optimize photos in Photoshop. For example, I learned the importance of making layers when either changing the levels, the brightness and contrast, and so on. Overall, I have learned many different techniques and ways to optimize an image. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was easy?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this project, I rented out a camera from the media center, and it took me a few shots to figure it out, but overall, taking and scanning the photos was the easiest part of this project for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was challenging?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most challenging aspect of this project for me was Photoshop. It took me a while to get a hang of it and learn where all the certain tools are located. It took some practice and some extra help to get through this portion of the project because I have never used Photoshop before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How could your submission be improved?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When looking back on this project, I think I could have improved the overall quality of some of the images. As I move forward in this course, I think I will get better at it because it just takes practice. For some of my photos, I wanted to use the clone tool, but I was coming across a lot of issues using it, so I decided to stay away from it and focus on other ways I could enhance the photo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though we did have a workday where we could ask questions, I thought it would also be helpful to go over the project as a whole again. For example, I had trouble with Brackets, and I think it would have been helpful if we went through this part in more depth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since this course focuses on 2D design, I think that I now have built a basis of knowledge about software like Photoshop. Now, that I have some basic knowledge it will be much easier to get through some more complex tools on Photoshop or software programs that I will come across in this course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While going over how to retouch images in class, I thought it would be interesting to focus on house plants for this project. I remember during a class demonstration we went over how to retouch a flower drawing in Gimp, and I thought with some editing, the result turned out really nice. Therefore, I decided to focus on house plants. There are many plants around my home and many different variations, which made this compilation of photos more interesting to look at. Overall, I knew that I would have a lot of content to take photos of or images to scan. More importantly, I was drawn to this theme because each plant is unique and the colors are vibrant, so I thought these images would transfer well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jenna French What did you learn? Before taking this course, I have never used Photoshop or really any other digital software like it. Through this project, I learned some basic methods which are used to optimize photos in Photoshop. For example, I learned the importance of making layers when either changing the levels, the brightness… Continue reading Project 1 Reflection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Uncategorized"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"french3","author_link":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/french3\/author\/french3\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":7,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":7,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/french3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/french3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/french3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/french3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/french3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/french3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/french3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/french3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/french3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/french3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}