Reflection

This week we were asked to watch a series of videos about Photoshop and InDesign and the then create a template newsletter. We also looked at typesetting and marked up a newspaper outlining different terms.

At first I was intimated by this lesson and I was afraid I would be awful at it. I was not confident in myself before I even began trying to do it.

I had taken a class about Photoshop my senior year of high school so once I began watching the videos I was familiar with the tools and I enjoyed doing it. I thought InDesign was a bit trickier as I had never used it before but the step by step videos made it not so bad. After I finished the videos and saw what I had created I was impressed that I had done that and that it really wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.

I think I first reacted to this lesson with fear and hesitation because I did not want to be horrible at it and I thought not having the skills would make it a difficult process that took a long time. Once I got into it I had much more of a positive attitude and I was enjoying learning about it. I think I am quick to jump to the conclusion that I am going to be really bad at something and that makes me not want to do it. However, I tried by best and I was happy with the results.