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Iffah, CMM student.
“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That’s my intent.”
— Saul Bass
#8

This week, our 2nd tutorial of the week, which was supposed to be yesterday, was changed to an e-learning tutorial due to CCN day, which was today. Yesterday, the whole class still went to the Mac Lab to do our Photoshop tutorial. I have been actively using Photoshop for almost 5 years, but some of the things in the tutorial I didn't know about, or even noticed before.

Firstly, there's the history palette. I just found out you can change the number of history states that is stored in the system until you close the Photoshop application. I never knew I could do that and I was so thankful for the tutorial because more than once, I've worked on an edit or GIF for Tumblr and realised I made a mistake too late, as the default history slates saved is only 20. This would definitely help me in my future projects.

There's also the Pen tool, which I never realised exists on Photoshop, until I did the tutorial yesterday. While the Pen tool on Illustrator is for drawing, the one on Photoshop is more of a selection tool than a drawing tool. The last thing on Photoshop that intrigued me was the Content Aware Scaling tool, which amused a few of us in the lab because this happened as I was playing around with it: (Look at the dad's face!)

So yes, those are the three things that were the most mindblowing to me. I'm so excited to continue learning Photoshop for the next part of this module :)

Next, going back to what we learned last week, we were asked to look for some bad avertisements, and I was flipping through the May issue of Seventeen Magazine when I came across this:

At first glance, yes, it is visually appealing. However, I had no idea what they were trying to advertise - A phone? Neon paint? - until I read that tiny note at the bottom claiming Essie has been "America's nail salon expert. Since 1981." This is an advertisement for nail polish, which kind of shocked me since there was just a picture of a phone covered in what looks like paint, but I now realise is nail polish. Maybe Essie is an already established brand of nail polish in the States, and that's why I had no idea what they were advertising at first...Either way, I feel like they could have at least included a picture of a nail polish bottle to make it clear what they are actually selling.

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