I’ve started working on the math book the kids have been begging me to write.
It’s been quite the project so far. I’m the project manager, curriculum developer, content writer, and art department. I do just fine until I hit that last one.
My history with graphic design software has admittedly been fairly limited. I started out on some proprietary software that came with my first printer. It allowed me to do minor desktop publishing, but not much else. I then moved to Image Composer. I actually miss Image Composer sometimes. It let me do everything I needed to .
But my laptop had to be upgraded, and Image Composer left. I was soon gifted with Adobe Photoshop, which I couldn’t figure out without a couple of books to help me out. I did finally figure out how to do simple tasks with it, but I know I never used it to its fullest capacity. Knowing I was struggling with Photoshop, my cousin gave me Paint Shop Pro. It made so much more sense, but I knew again that I wasn’t using it well.
That laptop stopped working, and I moved to this one. Because of how I moved, I have none of my software with me, and ended up without any sort of image editor on this computer. Just before this laptop popped a resistor in December, I put GIMP on here, but never got the chance to play with it.
Now that it’s up and running again, I’ve downloaded GIMP (which seems to elude me in certain aspects). I’m trying out Illustrator (which I’m supposedly attempting to use correctly according to the book I scanned the other day), but it’s proven to be just as user-unfriendly as Photoshop initially was. In desperation to get some graphics work done, I finally downloaded Paint.net 3.0 yesterday. While it let me get some of my work done, it couldn’t handle the same need that GIMP couldn’t handle.
I’m baffled. I think I need a graphic design mentor at this point or something because even the tutorials are leaving me frustrated (when I’m used to picking up things quickly).
