Throughout these past two weeks figuring out how to productively spend my free time has been a daily struggle. However, being able to take a walk at least once a day has been a calming and mindsaving exercise. On these walks I have been able to take pictures and document interesting “pandemic things” in my city. These range anywhere from empty streets, blocked off beaches, or social distancing lines outside of grocery stores.
I have been applying these images to my productive free time spent learning how to use Photoshop. While this learning time was very engaging and exciting for me in the beginning, I have started to grow tired of being on the computer and instead found myself more willing to take pictures on my walks. I think the next step for me would be to find that spark of inspiration again to help me be more enthusiastic about using photoshop. My goal is to at least become intermediate proficient on the program before the school year begins in the fall. In the meantime I will continue to go on the daily walks and document the scenery. I believe that if I keep doing this I will have enough images to choose the best from and photoshop them to include animated elements that bring back the normality to the scenery.
With the design process I think I was able to make this activity work to the best of my current capabilities. Obviously, nothing is perfect and I fell short in the inspiration portion of the process. Since I have exhausted my use of technology, learning how to use photoshop just felt like another mundane computer related activity. I believe by easing my overall use of technology learning Photoshop will be exciting for me again. I am still determined to complete my goal.
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