Wrap-Up Blog Post

December 14, 2014 by breannafee Leave a comment

Throughout the semester my favorite project has been the Photoshop collage. I thought it was a fun and creative way to show off my skills I learned on the program. In addition, I thought that the directions and the purpose were straight forward and easy to follow. By completing this class I feel very satisfied with the skills that I have acquired. Before the class, I did not know what any of these programs were (aside from Photoshop) let alone how to use them. Now I feel semi-confident in using the programs and I could even teach someone how to use them. From my AMDT class, they stressed the importance of knowing how to use Illustrator, many of my peers had never even heard of the program and here I am designing my own logo with the software. Overall, I think that knowing how to use these programs is going to give me a leg up against my peers when it comes to class, job oppertunites, and so on. In the future I hope to become a broadcaster of some sort, therefore I am pressuring a communications path. This class definitely did influence my career choice. I learned that I do not enjoy the editing and creating process of communications. I found myself more frustrated with the programs than enjoying them. Therefore, I want to do more in front of the screen communications instead of behind the scenes editing. I feel like I learned a sufficient amount of skills from the programs and cannot think of anything else that I would have wanted to learn about. Next, I only used the class material given to us to complete the assignments. To be honest, I didn’t even think of looking else where for information on completing the assignments. In conclusion, I think that this was a very useful class that has taught me a lot. However, I ran into so many problems every unit that it made me frustrated with the class and often discouraged me. Whether it be not knowing how to use the program or technical problems, you name it, I had it. In addition, I thought that the Illustrator tutorials were incredibly hard and time consuming. Have so many to complete when we were just learning how to use the program seemed a bit excessive, in my opinion. But, I did enjoy the creative aspect of this course and enjoyed the freedom we were given.