Saturday, June 30, 2012

Transition in Adobe Bridge

Organizing your files is very important to us Multimedia Student, because you've got to create many and tons of files in your desktop and whatever device that your using. Like pictures and videos ( videos are big in memory compare to pictures). Adobe bridge helps us to arrange files from folder by folder. If your a first timer, you'll be confuse because that's what happened to me before but if you use it very often you'll get use to it. You can find it in your Adobe Photoshop Software, any CS(Creative Suite) you have in your desktop. You'll find an icon "BR" on the top of your toolbar. Before using Adobe Bridge I have my own discipline to organize my files in different folders whether its videos, or photographs or its graphic designs. It is a better and easier way to locate files that is even hard to find. If you want to edit or just post process it you can do it here also. You can also customize the colors that you prefer.

Having the basics are more important because when using the basics, you've got to explore more about organizing stuff. This is base on my experiences on Adobe Bridge. I've learned that when importing photos from your camera that, it is better to plug the memory card on your desktop than USB cable lines, because once importing photos you may move the cable wire accidentally, then moving process can be cancelled but when plug in memory cards direct on your computer, you may drag and drop it so no damage won't affect your importing process. I'm amaze on the keywords and filter things, because after you put in the keywords that you want and just by clicking the filter tab you can see there the files that you want to use. And there's this Camera Raw thing that after clicking it, you can edit the colors, you can also crop there. Collections are ways to put them in folders, you can drag the photos there and you can also label them on which you prefer. Smart collections are the automatic ones that helps you find the files faster. Or you can see them by ranking stars.

One thing is the review mode it helps you mark the photos and videos easier, by simply pressing the ctrl + B , then it is in the large and carousel like. The pictures that  you don't like, you can press the down button on the keyboard so that it will disappear on the screen, and when returning on the work space, all the photos or videos that are in review mode are in mark control. There's so much things to discover and Bridge is the easiest and the most organize file that I encounter, i'll be using it for the rest of my life to be organize and having a clean computer as well.

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Friday, June 15, 2012

What I Am Now

Thinking about the past were quite funny to remember, because all of the exhausting days, the tiring and stressful nights just to do home works are worth to work on, 2 more years to go and all of my hard work will  be pay off. This is for my future, to be a Multimedia Artist. Experts on how they do visual effects, digital editing like that stuffs makes me inspire to do that as well. But I'm not that fully skilled right now. Still learning to be the best Animator rather to be a best Multimedia Artist I could be. I have high dreams like the universe and a skill like a thunder.

However, after 1 year of study. I experience a lot and learn a lot, too. Just thinking about it now I can still feel the pressure. Final exams that make me stress every night, but this is for our own good also. It made me think that a little tolerance would pay off a year. As a 2nd year MMA student today, it is very easy for me to edit pictures and video because before I have problems on how can I do this or do that, where can I compare it to that, or what color combinations or what is bla bla bla. My point here is Im better that before and every semester I'm accelerating for what I'm good at. Every time I saw Billboards It make me realize or think deep if they put colors correctly? I am now more analytic and curious than before.

History of Arts are very helpful for us, because we know more now the styles and also what are their strategy to create art back then. Artist always make mistakes, and so do I. I always make mistakes often but professors correct it, and that is how I learn, learning from your mistakes make you a better person and a good artist in the future. So I'm glad that now I am studying thanks to my parents. 

Having stressful projects and home works are fun to do especially when it comes to editing videos or editing pictures, it makes me challenged all the time. Now I am confident of what I am doing right now, and I want to be the person to be headed up high after I graduate the course of MMA. I want to make my parents proud of me for what i'm doing right now. After all of that, my 2 months of vacation is like relaxing all day long and not thinking about anything except all I do is to explore new things that I didn't know, learn from Photoshop and etc. 

So to sum it up, 1 year of study and 2 months of vacation is a great deal for me. 2 months of vacation is like to loosen up a bit and not to be stressed. I've learn a lot after a year and I except that every semester I would excel my self and push everything just to be a better rather to be an inspiring MMA artist someday.