During a class project, the student learned several new planning and design skills, including using mind maps to gather information, creating mood boards for research, and laying out designs. Creating a poster in Photoshop for the first time was challenging, but practicing with a sample poster helped the student learn some tools and how to edit images. Overall, the student hopes to continue improving their skills over time.

1. Reflective journal
During this project I have learned about things that I never thought I could do. For example I have used
mind map to help gather little informations of what I was going to be doing, this is a plan method that I
have never used before, which really helped and its something that Iam plannig on doing throughtout the
year. Also using mood board helped with my research skills, although it took sometime to get images
from the internet and put it together on the other hand i think it saved me printig out images and sticking
them. Laying out is also something that I have never thought of doing, which now I will be doing, it helps
to layout my plan and how I want my final piece would look like, and the fact that I will point out if my
idea worked out well.
However, using photoshop for the first time was challening, knowing that I had to createmy own poster
makes it even harder, but by creating a york college poster first helped to get ideas of how the app works,
I think doing that I am atleast confortable wih some tools, I also think that by the time I made my coca
cola poster I got ideas of how editing and manipulating images on photoshop works. Overall, I hope that I
will improve as time goes on.