As I previously mentioned in an earlier post, I upgraded to CS6 on my home computer. While I had been working in CS5 and CS5.5 in the workplace, I only had CS4 on my home computer.
Once you load a new program (suite) you end up opening the different programs and figuring out what is new, and where to find tools that are moved and if they work the same as previously or are there new tricks to the trade. For the most part, the work I have done in page layout has primarily been in Indesign. There have been times when I have done basic edits in Photoshop and Illustrator at work but most of those things have been handled by an art department. Of course, there has always been Acorbat for PDFing files. At times, I will start some project at home to improve and/or relearn skills in Photoshop and Illustrator .
Playing around can be very time consuming. You set up new workspaces. Then you start looking at your old projects/files and open them in the different programs and play around with them.
- You try to figure out how you ever did that (what filter or effect you used)
–mind you some of these files where 10 years old - Look up web sites and tutorials on the various programs,
- Sart reading articles about designers and artists
- Forget what you were originally doing
- Go back to the file you had open and then continue...
That's it for today. Gotta get back to life's confusion.....
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