At the WVU Pres I currently have three projects I'm working on simultaneously. I'm still editing the content on the website and I'm still conducting image searches for the book cover of The Pale Light of Sunset. I am also using Photoshop to edit maps of Africa for a book that is obviously about Africa. Anyways, all I do is scan the maps and then drag them into Photoshop to edit the way they look. When I first them them you can see all the tape and inperfections within the lettering and symbols on the maps. My job is to use the tools in Photoshop to correct all of these errors so there are no more inperfections that can lead the eye away from what the map is really trying to convey.
I've had some issues with lining the maps up in the scanner. I actually had to redo an entire map because part of it didn't come through when I scanned it, which was irritating. The borders of the maps are sometimes difficult to fit, so I have to turn the maps a certain way before I can get them to fit. I also have to convert the maps to gray scale and bitmap and save them multiple times. This hasn't really given me any problems, it's just part of the process.
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16 years ago
I'm glad that you're getting to do substantive work with Photoshop in your internship. Did you have experience with the program before coming to your internship, or have you had to learn to work with it as you go along? If it's the latter, what's your learning process looked like?
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