The Final Workshop of the Challenge!

Today the final workshop took place. 

Ami arrived and we set up the table and equipment ready for the arrival of the first student which was Melissa.

Here's how it went with Melissa

First I ran her through all the tools that she would need to use on Photoshop. Then I showed her from my notebook my own *how to remember photoshop drawings*. I requested that she copied them down too so it would help her. Then she started to colour her character using photoshop with me overseeing. She did need help occasionally from me which I gave but other than that she was really good. Melissa grasped the use of the tools quickly.

Next up was Callum

Callum arrived about half an hour later than Melissa, as planned. This worked really well and the timing was just about right. I repeated the steps above with Callum. Callum didn't need that much tuition with using the  basic photoshop tools as he had previous experience. However, there were still things he didn't know how to do so I was able to demonstrate and guide him. Callum did really well.

Amber

The last student should have been Amber, my sister, but instead of carrying out this final step on the same day with Amber, I decided to make other use of my time with having Ami (my mentor) here to plan the final stages of the challenge.  Amber will do this last part under my leadership on another day.

Colour Scenes

Another chunk of time has passed in between sessions. This time because we've been away, but it's good that I can pick up this Arts Award Challenge as and when.

Today we were scanning in the scenes that I have illustrated using Ami's printer and we loaded them up one by one onto Photoshop. We used Photoshop to colour them in which was fun because I got to decide the colour of things.

After every scene was finished, we gave them page numbers and named them. Then we ticked them off on the rough scene layout in the scrapbook so we knew where we had got to.

The more I did, the better I got. Things are progressing well.

Learning Photoshop

My last session until after Christmas with Ami took place today. We decided to start learning about Photoshop. I do have Photoshop here at home and have played around with it previously but I've never had proper tuition so really starting from scratch.

Ami was a great teacher. She got me to write down all the tools that were necessary to carry out the steps that I'll need to colour and edit my characters with.

I think I picked it up quite quickly. Now and then I forget things but because I made notes with key pictures I can always refer back.

I now know how to use the Magic Wand Tool, Eye Dropper, Crop, Zoom, Paint Bucket, Colour Select, Text to name but a few of the skills I have picked up. I am sure there is much more still to learn but hope my skills will improve as I go along.