Canadian Thanksgiving

This past weekend was Canadian thanksgiving and I met up with a friend who works frequently and in depth with adobe photoshop. He works for the school of dentistry at the University of Toronto and as an employee he gets to enroll in courses for free. Funny enough he's taking a course entitled "intro to html" and a course on "dreamweaver". Sound familiar? We've decided to keep tabs on each others' work to compare notes. I think this could be a fun exercise and only one that can be done thanks to the internet. We discussed the 'power' of photoshop and he described some of the applications he used it for and explained how it does have its limitations. For example he designed a large banner/poster on photoshop and he felt that if he had more familiarity with adobe illustrator the task would have taken less time. This just goes to show that as we become increasingly competent with an application we are able to evaluate how it serves our purposes and consider if other choices might be more apt for a given task.