Sunday 3 August 2008

Skillz

Applying for lots of jobs is a great way of finding out how many skills you lack.

Apparently one route into writing is as a sub-editor. But, never having completed a postgraduate journalism course, I've never had proper training in this field. I'm quite handy on the computer, and have used Quark and Photoshop quite often. I even used InDesign during my time at Gloria, a books publisher. So I know I can do it, but my lack of training makes me feel bad.

I've messed about quite a lot on Photoshop, it's really fun! Even though half the time I have no idea what I'm doing. Often the results can be impressive. Recently I was working on removing backgrounds. Here's what I came up with:




(We weren't actually there!)

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