"What an excellent learning opportunity!"
"You are a designer. And this computer is your design tool, so you need to understand how it works. If this doesn't work, you aren't working and you need to know how to fix it." Chris pulled the Mac's CPU out from under his desk and opened up the side so I could see inside. "Now, I used to purposefully order my computers in pieces and make my workers put them together themselves, but I won't make you do that."
THANK GOD. Because I know nothing about putting a computer together.
After explaining my computer's components to me, I definitely knew much more about technology than I had ever planned on knowing. We put the old Mac together on my new desk and I officially had my own workspace. We started it up and Chris gave me my first assignment.
Use the template from Adobe Illustrator in Photoshop to manipulate the colors and hues for options for a website background.
This is the link to the website, and the current background is my favorite. I call it blue pastel, and Chris was very impressed with this template and the four others I mashed up.
http://georgetowneventcenter.com/
Chris was quite pleased with my work and asked me if I knew how he wanted me to save the files. My blank stare must have answered for me, because he walked over to the white board on the wall and said: "What an excellent learning opportunity!" Chris began explaining the difference between Web files and Print files. JPEGs, TIFFs, PNGs, EPSs, PDFs, and GIFs.
Chris was right when he said he would teach me more in 6 weeks than I would ever learn in my 4 years of college.
Chris showed me how to manipulate the admin blog site for the live website and how to construct my backgrounds onto the website, and took this as another learning opportunity to teach me about HTML pages and Database pages.
Again, Chris was right.
He wants me to present my templates with him when he works with the Chamber of Commerce for the website. I was just relieved that he was so impressed with my work. "You know, you know more about design than you let on." I may not know my way around a Mac as much as he does, but I can look at something and tell you if it looks good or not. I was proud of my templates, and it was an amazing confidence boost that Chris was just as proud.
As we walked out, Chris gave me some end of the day advice. "Charly, don't ever give your work away for free. I learned that the hard way." He told me that he worked with companies in the past and when they asked him for a price reduction or for his work for free, he eventually got 'ripped off,' and between the company's guilt and his loss of profit, he said it was a lesson hard learned.
I am once again reminded as to why I am so grateful for this excellent learning opportunity.
THANK GOD. Because I know nothing about putting a computer together.
After explaining my computer's components to me, I definitely knew much more about technology than I had ever planned on knowing. We put the old Mac together on my new desk and I officially had my own workspace. We started it up and Chris gave me my first assignment.
Use the template from Adobe Illustrator in Photoshop to manipulate the colors and hues for options for a website background.
This is the link to the website, and the current background is my favorite. I call it blue pastel, and Chris was very impressed with this template and the four others I mashed up.
http://georgetowneventcenter.com/
Chris was quite pleased with my work and asked me if I knew how he wanted me to save the files. My blank stare must have answered for me, because he walked over to the white board on the wall and said: "What an excellent learning opportunity!" Chris began explaining the difference between Web files and Print files. JPEGs, TIFFs, PNGs, EPSs, PDFs, and GIFs.
Chris was right when he said he would teach me more in 6 weeks than I would ever learn in my 4 years of college.
Chris showed me how to manipulate the admin blog site for the live website and how to construct my backgrounds onto the website, and took this as another learning opportunity to teach me about HTML pages and Database pages.
Again, Chris was right.
He wants me to present my templates with him when he works with the Chamber of Commerce for the website. I was just relieved that he was so impressed with my work. "You know, you know more about design than you let on." I may not know my way around a Mac as much as he does, but I can look at something and tell you if it looks good or not. I was proud of my templates, and it was an amazing confidence boost that Chris was just as proud.
As we walked out, Chris gave me some end of the day advice. "Charly, don't ever give your work away for free. I learned that the hard way." He told me that he worked with companies in the past and when they asked him for a price reduction or for his work for free, he eventually got 'ripped off,' and between the company's guilt and his loss of profit, he said it was a lesson hard learned.
I am once again reminded as to why I am so grateful for this excellent learning opportunity.