I.m nobody.s Grandpa
I.m doing a bit better today, so far at least. A lot of it has to do with my class last night. In addition to finishing the Never Ending Masters Of Doom, I.m taking my first class at Santa Rosa Junior College . beginning and intermediate Photoshop. It.s been forever since I felt I .knew. Photoshop, so much so that I don.t mind starting at square one.
The teacher. well, if Mr. Rogers were an Adobe Certified Instructor. you get the idea. So that.s a little annoying, and it.s also the first computer-related course I.ve taken where we.re not in front of computers. It.s a lecture format, which struck me as rather weird. Okay, I.ll deal.
At one point I felt rather old. Mind you, in terms of the overall age of the class, I.d say I.m the median, as there are plenty of older and younger folks. But the teacher went around asking us what versions of Photoshop, if any, were we familiar with. There were a lot of CS folks, and a few version 7 people. He got to me and I said that the last time I felt comfortable with Photoshop was version 3. There were gasps. .Wow, version 3!.
Okay. Look people, this goddamn program was first released in 1988. It.s not like it.s a goddamned antique. And, yes, I remember when Adobe bought it but that hardly makes me some kind of fossil.
The class, overall, was fairly boring as he went over the difference between a bitmapped image and a vector image, etc. But I do think this is the class I need to understand Photoshop. Oh, and Julie, the new marketing woman, is in the class too because she actually uses Photoshop here at work. Yes, I.m making sure she.s fully aware of my qualifications and that I.m ridiculously over qualified for customer service.
The teacher. well, if Mr. Rogers were an Adobe Certified Instructor. you get the idea. So that.s a little annoying, and it.s also the first computer-related course I.ve taken where we.re not in front of computers. It.s a lecture format, which struck me as rather weird. Okay, I.ll deal.
At one point I felt rather old. Mind you, in terms of the overall age of the class, I.d say I.m the median, as there are plenty of older and younger folks. But the teacher went around asking us what versions of Photoshop, if any, were we familiar with. There were a lot of CS folks, and a few version 7 people. He got to me and I said that the last time I felt comfortable with Photoshop was version 3. There were gasps. .Wow, version 3!.
Okay. Look people, this goddamn program was first released in 1988. It.s not like it.s a goddamned antique. And, yes, I remember when Adobe bought it but that hardly makes me some kind of fossil.
The class, overall, was fairly boring as he went over the difference between a bitmapped image and a vector image, etc. But I do think this is the class I need to understand Photoshop. Oh, and Julie, the new marketing woman, is in the class too because she actually uses Photoshop here at work. Yes, I.m making sure she.s fully aware of my qualifications and that I.m ridiculously over qualified for customer service.