Reflecting on my time spent in COM 210, there are a few things that come to mind. The first being that I overall enjoyed this course. I had some experience in most of the programs we learned and used, but it was very helpful to not only gain more experience with these programs in a class setting, it was also nice to get critiques and tips on projects created with these programs.
My favorite project was the Photoshop poster I created. I was the most familiar with Photoshop beforehand so I felt the most comfortable using that program. Additionally, the skills we learned with multiple layers, merging layers, and opacity of layers was a skill set I had been working on previously and I was helped very much by the tutorials.
I learned all I wanted to from the tutorials and anything I didn’t I researched and figured it out on my own. I think I would have liked to learn other programs like Adobe Lightroom that I am less familiar with because I feel like some of the smaller Adobe programs are very useful but don’t get much attention.
Moving forward, I think the skills I learned will be very helpful in my future career. One of my possible is running/working with a production studio, which would require knowledge in Premiere and Audition. Additionally, an alternate career path I’ve considered is a graphic designer and in that case the tools I learned in Photoshop and Illustrator will directly be essential to the work I’d be doing.
I found that when troubleshooting a problem YouTube tutorials proved the most helpful due to the abundance of content available on the site, and the visual element of being able to see where something is located or how to adjust it, compared to just having to read it all.