This week I’ve been continuing studio graphic training, working on IDs, and starting COLA Guides edits. I met with Abriella, Thuy, Bridget, and Sheryl to talk about these edits. Today (Friday) I’ve spent most of my shift working on captioning for the E316M class. It was my first time doing real captioning edits (I did a bit for the Texas Politics podcasts, but that just involved copying and pasting the auto captions from the UT Libraries’ software). This was a bit more intensive than I expected, just because it involved a lot of rewinding and some guesswork to get each and every word as close to as what was really said as possible.

 

 

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This week, I did ID edits and continued the studio graphic training, as well as helped edit STA poster photos. 🙂

Here’s a (very) rough draft of where I want to go with the studio graphic canvas banner! I’ll overlay an envelope distortion like this over the photograph I’m using, I’m excited to see the end product.

I’m also excited to start the E316M captioning project, as I’ve been training to start next week 🙂

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This week I worked mostly on photo IDs, color correction training, and wrapped up my Clio training. I’m fairly happy with how my module turned out — it’s basically a survival course on basic German for tourists (because in my humble opinion as an Anglophone traveler it’s quite easy to become complacent and not make an effort to respect different cultures and at least try to use their language, but I digress).

Here’s a couple IDs I did as well.

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With only two days working this week, I didn’t have quite enough time to achieve anything extraordinary — the biggest thing I’ve worked on is the Clio Part 2 training. Thuy has been wonderful in helping me along the way, and right now one of the things I’m trying to fix is the background; as you can probably see, it repeats, and unless I find a huge high resolution image, I need to find a way to design the background image so even when it’s repeated it looks relatively seamless. In any case, this is what I have so far.

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It’s been some time since I updated my blog! Over the last week, I wrapped up support work at the RSC — so I’m back to working from home. As of yesterday, the fall semester is back in session, so I’m beginning to adjust to my new schedule as well. Since I neglected to update my blog last week, here’s some examples of what I’ve been working on!

This simple deer trace took a long time to complete! This was due to my Photoshop settings being set slightly askew, but eventually I ended up with this satisfying final product 🙂

Here’s the first round of edits I made for part three of the AI shape manipulation training!

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