A few things from photoshop class

[Tarzanman]

I wasn't being a smart-ass. I am dead serious. If all you are learning to do in a photoshop class (that you're paying money for) are simple color swaps (no matter what tool you are using) or texture mapping then you should look for a better class.

There are half a dozen ways to change the color of an object and none of them are particularly difficult. Google 'photoshop tutorials' to get a glimpse of the masterful techniques that can be learned (and practiced) for no charge.

I would be upset if a class spent more than 20 minutes explaining that color can be manipulated when there are more powerful (and less intuitive) topics that are more important. For example, you could probably spend half a semester just exploring the different blend modes.

Sorry for trying to open your eyes a little. If you like your class then fine.

Also, I am no guru. I could spend 5 years doing nothing but studying digital art and photoshop and still not know everything there is to know about it.

[blondebabe36]

I wasn't being a smart-ass. I am dead serious. If all you are learning to do in a photoshop class (that you're paying money for) are simple color swaps (no matter what tool you are using) or texture mapping then you should look for a better class.

There are half a dozen ways to change the color of an object and none of them are particularly difficult. Google 'photoshop tutorials' to get a glimpse of the masterful techniques that can be learned (and practiced) for no charge.

I would be upset if a class spent more than 20 minutes explaining that color can be manipulated when there are more powerful (and less intuitive) topics that are more important. For example, you could probably spend half a semester just exploring the different blend modes.

Sorry for trying to open your eyes a little. If you like your class then fine.

Also, I am no guru. I could spend 5 years doing nothing but studying digital art and photoshop and still not know everything there is to know about it.

I get HOPE, so it's free. For the two restoration photos, the objective was to show that we knew how to restore, and for the hatch and bike, the objective was to show that we knew how to mask. As I said, I wasn't just changing colors, I used blending tools, healing tools, editing layers, all that good stuff. And yes I could go find 'photoshop tutorials' but then it wouldn't be hands on, and I wouldn't get professional critiques - then and there, and I wouldn't get college credits. And Photo Imaging isn't my major, I'm going to school for Commercial Photography. Gwinnett Tech's photography program is one of the highest rated in the southeast. This has produced some of the photographers that have gone on to work for TIME and NAT GEO, so even if I was paying, I'm pretty sure it's worth it.