My week has been pretty disappointing at nearly every turn--starting with my eye doctor's appointment on Monday. Luckily, it seems to be improving somewhat, though the seminar I had really been looking forward to yesterday turned out to be a major waste of time.
I was supposed to leave the training a Photoshop guru. Instead, I found that--judging by the super useful tips our facilitator was sharing with us--I'm already practically a guru. I know how to use the pen tool and everything. That's right. I can make a COB. Aren't you jealous? Apparently there was more than one person present at the seminar who would have been because they asked the facilitator to go into greater detail about this tool. I mean really...how much is there to learn? And he literally talked us through every step: click, drag, opt+click, drag.
What a drag. On top of that, many of the "techniques" taught in the seminar that weren't simply shameless self promotion on the part of the facilitator verged on offensively cheesey and not the kind of design I would care to pursue. You can call me a snob if you like. It's probably true.
Yes, I now know how to create a fake 3d lamp from scratch and make lightning with five filters or less. Because I'm going to use crap like that every day. And, if I"m "retouching" a photo I run into situations all the time when I feel the need to light the unlit candle in the room or open the wine bottle that the idiot photography failed to notice was still sealed. Even if I did encounter such a circumstance, I think I could probably figure out how to fix it on my own. To his credit, the facilitator was an amazing digital illustrator--if you're into hyper realism--but considering the majority of his audience were either photographers or designers and not illustrators, he could have improved his subject matter.
At least the day wrapped up nicely last night. I met some friends at AMC 29--just sounds weird with one less theater--to watch the Robotech movie on a bigger screen. It was overpriced, but fun and we all had a good time laughing at the cheese and ridiculous dailog. Ah, thank God for Robotech. And Flight of the Conchords. Listening to their goofy music in my car has saved my brain this week.
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what happened at your eye appointment? Nothing bad, i hope!
Nothing bad. No worries. I just felt like it was a waste of time and money and very frustrating. Poor service and all that... and I still don't know why I'm having a hard time seeing properly sometimes since my prescription supposedly has barely changed.
Did you see Dr. E? Or are you talking poor service at the front desk?
What happened to the 30th theater? AMC 29 is just silly.
And I know COB!! But that darn pen tool really is quite tricky. I'm getting better with it, but it's still one of my weakest areas.
I didn't see Dr. E., but I should have. That was the biggest problem. I felt swindled by my former boss. That's not a happy feeling.
I totally agree about the 30 vs 29 thing. Wtf? Neowolf explained it to me, but it still didn't make sense to me. Apparantly there's some extra huge theater upstairs that they never use.
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