Just been on a photoshop course and wanted to scream!

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I'm learning Photoshop and enrolled on an evening course to learn. One of the main reasons was it forced me to spend 2 hours playing with Photoshop. This was the 4th week and the instructor was talking so much rubbish.

Raw is a waste of time and tiff is the format to use on your camera.
Photoshop is just for photos, if you want do a poster or a logo you need to use illustrator.
If you want to resize an image for a photo frame, just resize image, they then show us by stretching the image to fit the dimensions

I could go on.

I get time to play with Photoshop, but not sure I will learn anything on the rest of the course.

Google and YouTube will be my instructors
 
Vector graphics do make the best logos, so there was a small amount of truth from your slightly stupid sounding lecturer :lol:
 
Sounds like he doesn't know what he is talking about, ask for a refund.
 
I think you will be entitled to a refund, if you had to pay for this course.
 
Check out PSD tuts. Just on my phone so can't post a link. Some great tutorials on there.
 
Talon said:
Vector graphics do make the best logos, so there was a small amount of truth from your slightly stupid sounding lecturer :lol:
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Yes there is some technical truth but advising people they need to spend another £500 before they can design posters or logos is wrong.
 
and why would anyone not recommend shooting in RAW :( If you want some high quality structured learning vids Kelby training or Lynda.com are good
 
pablo_paul said:
and why would anyone not recommend shooting in RAW :( If you want some high quality structured learning vids Kelby training or Lynda.com are good
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+1 for kelby training :)
 
i'm not one for meaningless confrontations... but if i was in the class i'd have to question his reasoning. Has anyone questioned him or have they all just gone along with it? :shrug:
 
leftcurl said:
i'm not one for meaningless confrontations... but if i was in the class i'd have to question his reasoning. Has anyone questioned him or have they all just gone along with it? :shrug:
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I did, but I was the only one and they kept dismissing me so I gave up.
 
Yes you can create logos in Photoshop, but quality suffers if you enlarge them by large amounts when printing.

Create a logo 25mm square in Illustrator then enlarge to A1 and there is no loss of quality.
 
Striker said:
Yes you can create logos in Photoshop, but quality suffers if you enlarge them by large amounts when printing.

Create a logo 25mm square in Illustrator then enlarge to A1 and there is no loss of quality.
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You can work with vectors in both programmes. They just give you different options for different things.
 
Agreed, you can create shapes and text etc in Photoshop, but if yhe image is 300 dpi so are the graphics.

Place an A4 image into Illustrator where all the same graphics have been set and the difference on printing is staggering. But then you are keeping the image at one resolution and vectored graphics at another. depending whether we are going to hi res epson proof or computor to printing plate the graphics can be anything up to 10 or 12 times higher quality

At the end of the day it is down to what quality you want on the finished item, and if your output device can output and combine different resolutions.
 
This weeks update.....

The internet does not support capital letters

:lol:
 
Just out of interest how old is this prize F***wit.

Seems to me someone needs to be talking to the school about this because the guy seems to be being payed for talking rubbish.
 
You can use photoshop to do posters, pages and also logos, but it is not the best tool for the Job. No printer would thank you for doing so.
 
The issue with any course is you tend to get the "teachers" idea of rght and wrong rather than what may be the truth.
With courses run by bigger national companies the course is often set, meaning you may get a better balance of facts. With smaller more local clases you tend to get less set classes so it's often more or less made up as it goes along.

To a certain extent he/she is right, Illustrator is better for logos ect. The raw v tiff may be a personal preference or may be done because windows can easily view a tiff without codexs, or it may be because you get the benifit of a higher bit without the issues regarding the various camera raw version and compatibility issues with different raws.

I'd be tempted to ask him why he prefers tiff to raw. although by the sound of it you may be better off changing to another class somewhere else.
 
Ask him how he would advise you shoot Tiff on a Nikon D3100.
 
4737carlin said:
What a clown, how do these people get this possitions in the first place? sounds like he would be better of teaching people how to empty bins
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Sounds like he's teaching the way he knows how to teach and may or may not be following a guide for the course himself hence why he is offering his own personal opinions on what programs and what file types to use, this doesn't make him wrong, nore does it make him an idiot like some of you folk are trying to make out, also what is so wronge about being a refuse disposal expert? Beats being a worthless bum living off the goverment.

All you have to go by is the OPs comments about this Teacher and as he is on this course to learn about photoshop he isn't exactly an expert himself, depending on how much this course has cost I would probably see it through unless you really feel that you are going to get nothing out of it and your a smartarse know it all then ask for your money back and go home.

Maybe persue a career in supplying pitch forks and fire sticks too smart arse internet users.
 
Morgan I don't want to cause an argument but I disagree he's not an idiot.

What digital camera do you know that shoots tiff files, what site doesn't use capitals ? If it refers to url's then that should be specified.

Using photoshop should be his only brief and he sounds like anything he's not done in photoshop needs another program but hats just my assumption.

I was taught technicians engineers certificate Maths by a bloke like that, he was teaching ONC Maths instead, I never did finish my college.

I have also been taught t night school by someone like that and paid out a fortune but complained and left the course, it's a lack of management knowing the problem and putting it right.
 
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