Technology...

[parasitegirl]

Time had passed.

I've updated to Adobe Photoshop C. I was making do with an Photoshop Elements from 2008.

I opened it and was humbled and felt a million years old.

Ahhh. Step-by-step tutorials. You are my new friend.

The thing I have going for me is my general aesthetics...thank you four-years of art school and life...and the stuff I managed to figure out when I had to make original teaching aids for elementary school.

But four years of art school...couldn't you have been a little more with or ahead of the times?

I'm a little older than most people guess. There were no computers in my foundation/freshman year...and yet so much time painting tiny squares with guache in color and design classes. There weren't really any computers in the classrooms that I remember...although I was more involved in the fine-arts/drawing section of the school than design.

I remember pushing for our school to have EMAIL and explaining to some of my roommates how I could send email to people far far away and it wouldn't affect our long distance bills...and them not getting it.

Ahh. humble humble humble.

Comments

[meddevi.livejournal.com]

I had CS2/3 at various jobs, and PS 7 on my laptop - until I got the new one, and CS2 (since it was free) was too buggy to run with Windows8...so I sucked it up and subscribed to the whole Adobe Cloud...and yeah...every new update is a bit boggling, and I feel old. They took out things in Dreamweaver I used all the time.

[kimuchi.livejournal.com]

In that same time frame I had a summer job at Madison helping incoming freshmen set up their email accounts. Many of them had to be taught what it meant to point or click with a mouse. Now all those kids are in their mid 30s, and I bet many of them are watching their own young children use the iPad like it was the most natural thing in the world!

[parasitegirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, thanks to HS freshman I knew I was introduced to local bbs/chat lines around age 14:15. My art school years would have been, um, 93-97?

Although I remember those of us in B&W photography being very skeptical of the student working in digital...

[mekyria.livejournal.com]

Photoshop has changed a lot. What I really like is that plugins make your life so much easier nowadays. They are easier to purchase then in the olden days though unfortunately still ridiculous expensive.