My initial reactions to using Inkscape were that it seems pretty cool, and I had never actually heard of it before. I took a Web Page Design class and Multimedia class in high school, but we always used Adobe programs like Photoshop to create our complex projects. Although the tutorial video I watched on YouTube claimed that Inkscape and Photoshop aren't the same, I found them to have similar tools, which hopefully will help me in creating things on Inkscape.
To overcome any challenges I might face, I can easily practice making things on Inkscape and just mess around to get to know the different tools. The program seems easy enough, but like anything, you only get better with practice, and I know from my previous computer classes how hard it can be to control tiny movements when creating computer images - one little shift of the mouse could ruin the entire project. My younger brother is also very talented when it comes to creating computer images (he makes his own computer games!), so if I run into any extreme difficulties, he can always help me learn too. Apparently this is a much more popular program than I initially thought, and I now see that there are many tutorial videos on YouTube that teach people how to do not only basic tasks on Inkscape, but also how to create more complicated images.
Overall, I'm excited to try and use this program because, well, it's free, and looks simple enough to figure out without having to watch too many tutorial videos (even though there are TONS out there for me to watch). This is also coming from someone with a small amount of techonological background, so for not-so-tech-savvy people, it will probably be more difficult. I'm interested to see how we use the program in this class and how I can incorporate it into my future classroom.
This is the YouTube video I watched, and I thought I would share it because I found it to be useful in explaining to beginners how to use the program and what it is all about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd02Q-54wuQ
I did Yearbook throughout high school and became very skilled at Photoshop as well and it did make using this program a lot easier. But working it was still pretty difficult so if we have to do more projects over this I might be Skyping you and your brother for some help.
ReplyDeleteHey, thanks for sharing the video. It had a lot of cool tips in it. I hadn't really ever heard of this tool either, but I think that it could be very useful. I am trying to figure out how I could use this is one of my classes and I think that will be afun thing to figure out.
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