I gave up on 'Photoshop for Dummies' days ago.... reading about computer programs is not the most stimulating experience. I only got through one (long) chapter before I couldn't take it anymore; I was turning the computer ON. Gasp! Besides, I have watched my Dad use the program, so I knew that I wouldn't be completely lost.
I was.
It took a little researching in the Dummies book before I figured out how to open a blank file and create layers to which I could paste my pictures. Then there was a bit of, "Daaaad!" before I felt like I could use the program without throwing the computer into a snarled, unworkable state where important pictures are either ruined or ceased to exist, like socks in a dryer.
But persistence prevailed and I am very proud to say that I have 7 portfolio pages done! They aren't incredible masterpieces or anything, just groupings of my renderings meant to make my portfolio easier to look through.
Rendering is a fancy word for 'coloring', and it's one of my favorite things to do. We had to render all of our projects in school, and to get us used to that, we had a rendering class. These first 7 pages of my portfolio are assignments from that class. The page below was a part of an assigment where we just had to copy an image from a magazine. My rendered image is the sofa and tables in the foreground.
Getting my hands wet have made me realize that I still have a lot more work to do. It's a little overwhelming but I refuse to get dicouraged. I know that each day I get something done is one more step that I have taken in the right direction.
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