Reflection on Week 3

This week, we were asked to familiarize ourselves with InDesign and Photoshop and gain a basic grasp of some of the more heavily used functions on these programs. While I’d worked with both programs in high school, the functions I performed were all very similar and repetitive. In other words, I wasn’t really used to the programs as a whole but I did know how to do specific, irrelevant things.

Learning how to do new things is always a little overwhelming, but I responded to the tasks at hand by attentively watching and trying to learn and then giving it my best shot. In the beginning, I think it’s a waste of time to be concerned with the finer details, so I tried to not get too hung up on every little button I saw in front of me and focus in on what I had to do. I found both programs to be a little frustrating because I don’t yet have the know-how to easily make things happen in them. I reacted in a frustrated way at times. I think I reacted in a frustrated way because I don’t like feeling incapable and I was a little incapable at adeptly navigating these programs. However, I look forward to using each of them more this semester and expanding my skillset along the way.