Intro Goals

Why did you take this class?
Graphic design is something I have been obsessed with since I was 9 or 10 years old. On the virtual website, Neopets, I would not care about playing the games, earning money, or any of the options normal fourth graders would focus on. I would join guilds, make layouts (obsessively), talk to people about different ideas about what would look best, and help people out. My weekends would consist of sitting on swimchick.net or any other resource site teaching myself how to use Paint Shop Pro 7 & 8, downloading brushes, and really looking around at other people's layouts for ideas to make these guild pages look amazing. I decided even before middle school, before I even had a chance to grow up, at just ten years old that graphic design is what I want to do with my life.


What goals do you have for the class?
My main goal in this class is to learn about what skills are needed to make it in the real world. What I taught myself in elementary school is mainly how to manipulate cartoon images, adding layers and brushes, fixing colors, to make a fun edited picture with a place to put information. The real world of graphic design requires logos, album covers, and other media which is important to learn. Another goal is to learn the Adobe programs well. Jasc Paint Shop Pro is a great program, but not widely used. Photoshop has endless resources, is used by everyone in the graphic industry, and is important to learn. But overall, the main goal is to expose myself to instructional graphic design and to learn what the industry has to offer.