The Damaged

I like to think of myself as a creative person, someone that takes advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to me and grasp life by the balls if that is what is called for. So in line with this self image I like to take advantage of new opportunities to broaden my horizons and indeed my creative opportunities.

Actually let me self pre assess and designate a little further than I have been by saying that my day job involves working with data quality software and managing large databases for a large company, so I am by no means a ludit or remotely technophobic.

Alright with all of that out of the way, I’ve over the years spent time with programs such as Photoshop, Audition, After Effects, basically going down the whole Adobe suite of software and pretty much all of them whilst of course empowering in their own ways have been a massive headache at the end of the day. Causing me no end of grief due to annoying interruptions due to crashes (which even worse can lose you work) or the ever present problem of importing and exporting files between programs. The number of issues that I had trying to use quicktime files that were encoded on a Mac was simply absurd. Iost about 2 days of work time just agonisingly reencoding every video file.

I know there is usually a better way but my real issue is that there are so many effective traps in these large expensive and popular programs which you are always going to have to stumble over to learn to use the program.

So I’m not a big fan of Adobe’s software quality, but you know I’ve learn the ways to use their products now so it’s not my problem anymore…

From what I can see there are three types of people in this world. Each deals with things in his or her own way and there are benefits and…hmm, problems. I’m not decided which is the best avenue yet, so I’m thinking I might try the other ones out and go from there.

Which one are you?

1) The avoider: its all too much for you, so what do you do? You pretend it isn’t there, of course. Anyone who says that sweeping things under the carpet is bad news has never seen what actually happens when you sweep things under an actual carpet: you never see them again, bingo, they’re gone. The negatives? Sometimes you trip up…

2) The person who goes for it and tries to sort it out in a blind panic: this often has fantastic results. Somehow, all the mess and confusion of your plan works out and you end up better off. Brilliant! Negative things: sometimes it all blows up in your face.

3) The pretender, cool and calm: this person is possibly the most dangerous. But pretending something isn’t a problem, as we all know, is often a great idea. Ignore it and it will go away. Pretend there’s no problem and with enough brain power there isn’t one! The negatives? Sometimes people can think you are deluded…but wait a minute, maybe they have a point?

I won’t tell you which one I am (Mum says I am a combination of all three…which does not bode well…). But still, as long as I’m having trouble with buying a new carte r4 I’ll have plenty of ways to try and sort it out.

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