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This week, I also did some photo IDs and gave feedback on a bunch of InDesign trainings. It’s super helpful to see where people tend to struggle or make design mistakes at the moment because I’m about to start help train layout designers at the Daily Texan (wish me luck).
In other news, Angie tells me Dr. Iverson’s class really appreciated the animation (credit goes to her on the scuba diver, though)!
I use Live Trace a lot at the Daily Texan to vectorized stock icons for infographics, but I rarely use it for photos, so this training was neat to do. I have a Macbook Air, though, so every time I tried to copy the AI vector into Photoshop, my computer got hot and froze up. It seemed to work with just one vector layer instead of multiple, though.
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!
I did the CLIO training today! I had a hard time with the CSS earlier, but it came to me today. For my course content, I “taught” some basic Spanish concepts.
I’ve been an STA at LAITS for around 6 months and it has been a great experience so far! Suloni, thank you for being such an amazing supervisor. I really enjoyed working here and will miss working with all the super talented STAs!
I was constantly amazed by the design skills of the STAs & the artwork created here. I learned a lot about Web Design, Responsive CSS, WordPress & Photoshop during my time at LAITS. I was a newbie to Photoshop when I joined here but I was quite surprised at the plant illustrations that I could create – Thank you Valerie for answering all my questions related to Photoshop so patiently!
I think the STA program is a wonderful place to learn new skills and apply them and I’m grateful for the opportunity to be a part of it. Thank you everyone for making my time here so fun and memorable!
I’ve been looking for funding opportunities so I will be moving on to a Teaching Assistant role for McCombs School of Business for a Data Management course. I will miss being an STA! This is my first job in this country after getting a work permit so I will always cherish it. Cheers to all the STAs and wish you all the best for your future endeavors at LAITS and beyond. Thank you!
Lots of professors are requesting graphics this week because classes start on Wednesday (although they had all summer :/). We’re pretty swamped right now, and so I took over the studio portion of this from Poonum so she could work on something else. It was pretty simple to do, even though they ended up not needing the graphics.
