🫐 First week back! 🫐
Transitioning Back
Summer break was really fun! I spent a majority with my family, it was super nice to be able to spend time with them. We watched the World Cup together, it was really memorable this year.
Now that I’m back, I’ve been getting used to walking around on campus again and working out my schedule with my job. As everyone is settling into their classes and deciding whether to add/drop, my work as a Design STA has been very manageable!
All week I have been working on the STA cutouts. All it involves in cutting out the background of each photo of the STAs’ and cleaning it up. Photoshop has been the platform I’ve used for it and it’s very simple work!
Usually the flow for me in doing this project is:
- Identify the student I’m going to mask the background of
- Open one file in Photoshop
- Drag the rest of the files of that same student into the same Photoshop file
- Use the object selection tool to select the subject
- Apply a layer mask
- Clean up anything the selection tool missed
- Repeat until all photos are properly masked
- Export all layers into separate PNGs
- Place the files into the right folder
It’s pretty simple once you finish the first STA! It’s a lot of files, but I do have ample time to get it done. Getting back into properly naming files is a good habit I need to keep building, too.
Overall, my first week back has been really good!