My version of photoshop, otherwise known as cut and paste. Still working on class prep. Enjoying the process of making the handout, but it is limiting when you have to run to Staples and get something copied so you can cut it out and glue it on. It's especially frustrating because I know that I could just scan it in and do it all in photoshop (for a more professional and pleasing finish as well) if only I knew how to do it. By next year at this time I am going to know a lot more about photoshop-which isn't saying much, because I basically know nothing now.
My little brother is a graphic designer and helps me out occasionally. Lately we have been working on a little project together and it has been so fun talking on the phone, scanning, emailing etc. art ideas back and forth for the collaboration. It'd be even better if we lived closer. For Christmas one year he bought me a book on photoshop with the instructions being all photos, not text. He knows I'm not one for reading instructions (haven't even used the visual instruction book-yet). I'm impatient, I know what I want to do, and haven't taken the time to learn how to do it.
While cutting and pasting and writing away, I am reminded of Tracy Porter's Dreams from Home. Oh how I loved that book. Not so much her style, as the book itself. The design, the layout, the collage elements. When I first found that book I'd look at it every night before bed and get so inspired to do something creative. In her dedications she wrote to her brother something to the effect of, "...to my brother, who laughingly told me to take my scissors and glue and make a career out of it- KMA." Which I assume is her invitation to kiss something. Always thought that was funny and true. He didn't get it. Well, we get it, now don't we? Yes we do! Off to take my scissors and glue and go finish making something.
