Workload..What Workload..!?
Were back! This week was the start of college again after a long half term break, and start we did! We have been given 2 brand new assignments “A3 Back to Basic” and “A4 Picture This”.

My initial reaction…Uhh Ohhh! The thought of working on two assignments every week was quite a scary thought at first, but when we had discussions and got the chance to read through the assignments, the initial shock eased and eased. I do believe that I will cope pretty well, as long as I manage my time a lot more efficiently than the last assignment, as this time I have to account for two assignments and not the one, and I want too evenly work them as well. With this in mind I have already spent possibly double the amount of time on my time planning than I did the first round, and it’s not even finished yet. I’m extremely pleased with how thorough I am creating this time plan so far and I hope to plan both assignments all the way to the end deadline date, well in fact with a day to spare.

Out of both of the assignments I’m most looking forwards to starting the A4 assignment, as this will require us to use “Adobe Photoshop” which is completely new to me and I have absolutely no idea how to use this software, so I’m eager to first of all learn the basics, and hopefully eventually be able to use the software better than a complete novice. I do believe that my lack of experience with the software may put me behind when attempting the tasks set that require the use of this, but its not something that is putting me off and making me weary of the tasks when they do come around, instead I’m defiantly looking forwards to the challenge and hoping that it is indeed one that I can complete.

In conjunction to the A4 assignments I have been introduced to some very interesting websites, which I spent a serious amount of time browsing, these being the “Designers Republic” websites www.thepeoplesbureau.com and www.thedesignersrepublic.com. I was introduced to these as part of the assignment is to compare a Bitmap Graphic image to a Vector Graphic image, created by the Designers Republic. I really admire their work and their style, I was also quite surprised at the amount of well known companies to me that they have worked for so in actual fact I have seen their work before just never knowingly so. I would like to possibly purchase a few pieces from them for my room their fantastic!

New skills gained from this week has to be finding out the difference between a Bitmap and a Vector, at the start of the day everyone may as well of been talking in a foreign language, I did know what they were but I never knew the difference. I didn’t struggle to learn this however, I picked up it fairly quickly which was a relief to me but its new knowledge gained with plenty more to learn.

Also I received feedback from my first assignment this week, unfortunately I received both as a referral but I was pleased to find out that I didn’t have a great deal of work to change, it will possibly take me an hour maybe a little more to complete which I am going to complete as quick as possible to hand straight back in so I can completely concentrate on these two new assignments. A very interesting week! Jamie