Improving slowly but surely...

Just a few weeks ago I dedicated a whole blog post to my lack of Indesign skills and expertise. Anyone who read that post would know how much I despised the software, how inept it made me feel and how much I was longing to be free from ever looking at it again.

Then something inside me snapped and I decided I had to practice and I had to make myself better at it. It may never be a love of mine but for the sake of experience and (hopefully) a decent mark in my exam, I needed to practice.

After a few long, tedious and, at times, hair-pulling hours I began to improve. I didn’t panic as much when the picture box didn’t fit. I didn’t give a loud, exasperated and dramatic sigh when the headline was wrong. No. I copped myself on and I asked for help. My classmates, Amy and Lorna, who were both in the same boat as me, were on hand to help and so we gradually got our bearings with the software. I have realised that not panicking is one of the most important things when it comes to Indesign. In fact, it’s the worst thing you could do. Do the opposite. Play around with the tools and figure out what’s what.

Now, I’m not saying I’m ever going to master Indesign but I feel I’m improving slowly but surely. Today’s class was really good and I feel I benefited from it a lot. Although Photoshop goes over my head a bit, I decided to concentrate on my Indesign page. After seeing it as a PDF format I knew I had some changes to make to it and so I concentrated on those for the majority of the class.

I feel that with a couple more hours of practice I will be able to navigate my way around the software and be as ready as I can be for the lab assessment. Wish me luck!