Photoshop

I've recently tried to flex my creative muscles, for both personal reasons, mostly betterment, but partly because I've needed mildly different images then I was able to find, such as this one;

The original image had brown hair, but I needed it with greyish white, which I was able to do. But as I fiddled, and fooled around, trying to make things work, things kept coming to my mind about what I was doing, and what I probably should be doing to make it "proper". It could only be taught from basics, but then the rest was inspiration, like painting, or drawing. It takes time and practice to get it right. In layman's terms, learning Photoshop to create art in a digital formal is like learning to paint or draw, it takes practice (time), and inspiration.

However, after some more time of fiddling, a few hours really, things began to make more and more sense, and something nagging at me came to the top of my mind, despite it being complicated, it was rather easy to figure out the basics, it was frankly, user friendly, especially in transferring images. One thing that I had played around with in my past, though never used to it's full extent, was dreamweaver, another program made by Adobe for the HTML and JavaScript programmer (technically scripter but we can look over that.) One of the things that is sometimes a bit of, frankly, a pain in the butt, is moving between programs especially editing programs, and making it an easy flow, not having to stop, think, configure, play around, then finally be able to what you wanted to in the first place. But that wasn't quite so with PhotoShop, it was veryeasy to move between programs, easily transferring the image, and then being able to manipulate it further as I needed.

In short as an overview, in case you don't like reading huge amounts of text, instead just like to read the last paragraph, in the digital world of PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, and other editing programs, it takes time, practice, and inspiration to use photoshop, yet, it is an enlightening and easy experience due to the program's ease of use and user friendliness, especially with our most daunting of tasks, working with finished products, by moving them between programs, then finally to our clientele, be it that I have none... Yet...

Dedicated to Chantel Odom