Okay, I’m about to say something provocative: I was not a fan of today’s photoshop experimentation. I couldn’t figure out the buttons. I couldn’t find the colors I needed. I couldn’t add, erase, or draw the things I wanted, where I wanted. To summarize, today’s class was a frustrating one.
I think a lot of this has to do with my background as a painter. I want to reach out and touch the page. I want to move things around with my own hands, not with a curser. “Playing” around on photoshop felt like trying to use chopsticks with mittens on. Why use photoshop when we could use real, 3D objects?
Yeah, maybe I’m being stubborn. Technology has never really been my friend and it’s probably a bad outlook of mine to just ignore all things computer. But why bother if it makes you frustrated? I don’t think it’s fun, so why bring about the headache?
While photoshop may feel like play to some, it feels like work to me.
I 1000% agree with you. Today’s class was definitely very frustrating for me. It was my first time using the program. Things kept disappearing on me, or hiding, or moving when I did not want them to, and in the end the computer just froze (I guess it was as tired of me as I was of it). I too have been drawing all my life and there is nothing like the hands on experience. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer to stick to physically drawing on paper using pencils, paint, charcoal etc.