Until today I was the biggest technophobe you could ever meet, I hate technology and it isn't very fond of me either I have always felt.
I always had in my mind that there were two types of people in the world, those who succeed and those that don't. That was what my mum always taught me the whole way through high school, then I came to college!!!
The motto is still the same concept wise but I changed a few words, there ARE two types of people in the world, those who can use computers and those that can not.
I am one of those few that just can not get my head around it. Especially things such as Illustrator and Photoshop.
Both equally as essential on my course and ironically both equally baffling to me!
Personally if I could I would write everything by hand, use a dictionary and use camera's that need developing using film instead of everything being digital, usb and auto-checked.
But, perhaps I'm just old fashion OR! I just haven't given myself and technology a chance to get to know one another well enough...
Any one would think I was stubborn like that...
Anyway, today, as part of my 'I've come back to college so I may as well do well while I'm still here' philosophy I tried really hard and paid more attention to my CAD class than I think I ever possibly could have done in my life, and I have to say, I really enjoyed it once I figured out what I was doing.
I still think polaroid camera's and fine art are more my thing but this modern technology stuff isn't half bad!
This you see above is genuinely my first EVER attempt at Photoshop, I know it isn't amazing or really exciting to look at but I am personally quite proud of the achievement. I feel a bit like that grandparent everyone has that discovers texting for the first time and think's it's a revelation 10 years too late but still! Better late than never at all with these things!
I wasn't entirely sure what to do for my photoshop assignment so I chose a place I like and an image I like, so, before you there is Camden Street Market and a Brit-Punk fashion model.
The background layer I did not alter but I did import the Brit girl onto the image using a lasso tool and dragged it over from one image to this one.
I'm thinking next time I need to be a lot less safe and a lot more confident with what I'm doing but for now, I'm quite happy with the results and I someone somewhere will agree, it isn't half bad for a beginner.
Fingers crossed anyway!
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