To tell you the truth, it was boring. I can't even imagine what they covered in Week 1 of "GD114: Digital Imaging" (which might as well be called "Basic Photoshop Basics") because in Week 2 we covered such advanced topics as "Which one is the lasso tool?" and "How to switch the foreground and the background color."

Which is not to say I didn't learn anything — I picked up a few keyboard shortcuts and I figured out how to do a gradient mask, which is something I was actually wondering how to do the other day. Plus, I figure theoretically the course will get more interesting when we get into vector drawing and other things I have no experience with ... but, then again, if I was going to do vector drawing, wouldn't I fire up Illustrator?

Anyway, we were given some time to play around with CS3, which is a pretty cool program. (I dig the way the pallets are arranged ... pallet management is always a headache for me and I've been using the pallet dock lately in a similar way to the CS3 pallet system, so yay to Adobe for reading my mind.)

Here's what I came up with: