Potential Improvements

With how much stuff we go over in one day it’s understandable that some things slip our minds and or are not covered enough. Not to mention some things just happen that you can never fully prepare for that throw everything off course. So without further delay, some ideas.

Wacom Pen Tablet

• I feel like this really needed more explanation considering that most people in this class will be completely unacquainted with it.
• When demoing the device, people need to be able to see what you are doing over top of it. I’ve found that this is a necessary thing for people to understand that it works just like a pen to paper. Only digitally.
• Also there should have been a little more explanation of its capability’s, such as pressure sensitivity, and tilt that allow a user to interact far more naturally with Photoshop.
• Also some time spent allowing those who are interested to play with it would have been good. (I wasn’t sold on buying a tablet till I got to actually use one, now I own 3)

Printing 

• Go over all of the settings needed for a proper print with the entire class.
• Would have reduced the number of times we had to individually set up peoples prints.
• I myself had forgotten where some of the dialogs were buried.
• We had at least 2 misprints caused by a hidden setting that were incorrect

Raster VS Vector

• This is more fluff than necessary however I feel as though it might be a good idea to cover at some basic level that Photoshop is a raster imaging program. Basically that it’s manipulating a bitmap and as such has a finite resolution (and is why we had to “re-size” our images before printing). while a Vector program like illustrator or Inscape do not have a finite resolution.