This week, I got to make my first-ever Photoshop product, and the process of making it was as rough as I thought it would be – maybe even worse.

When given the choice between creating a photo illustration in Photoshop and taking photos of sports, I will likely always choose to shoot more photos. In this assignment, that’s what I wanted to do. However, sports on campus and in Bellingham are hard to come by right now, and I couldn’t find any pop up games on campus. When it came to the afternoon before the assignment was due at midnight, I realized I was going to have to tough it up and use Photoshop.

I knew I wanted to do something with orcas, and I figured I’d do something relating to their poor living and health conditions right now. The end product is the result of a four hour long process of starting things over and watching endless Photoshop tutorials on YouTube and still not getting it right. There were multiple times in the total 4.5 hours that I considered trying to run outside with my camera and take photos of anyone doing anything sports related, but I knew that wouldn’t fly for the assignment.

This week’s assignment has turned out to be a learning experience for me because there are some things within Photoshop that I’ll never forget how to do because I had to do it dozens of times because I couldn’t get it right. It was extremely frustrating, but I got some worthy knowledge out of the whole ordeal.