Collaboration is key

The lesson that stood out to me the most in Chapter 2 was the collaboration tools. Thinking back, everytime I had to get advice or a suggestion on a document I was creating, I would email the document back and forth between editors. It would end up with confusing naming conventions such as "Draft4" and Draft4Final."  The Applied Labs on TestOut were the most complicated for me because I never used these features. I'm going to go back to master this section because I found it very useful. When I have to edit a document for work, I can just give access to the individuals who I want to look over the document instead of going back-and-forth with countless drafts as I used to do.

To Compress or "Un-compress", that is the question

File compression is a term I've been hearing for years. I always knew what it meant...sort of, but could never really explain what was actually happening. One of the selling points of my camera was that it can shoot in Uncompressed Raw, which was supposed to get you even better image quality than shooting compressed. After watching and re-watching lesson 1.1.13 File Compression for clarity, I feel comfortable enough to know that I don't need to use that setting at all and I can save space on my memory card.

Off to an Exciting Start!

Starting this journey is definitely one of the most exciting things that has happened to me in a couple years. Furthering my education has been on my to-do list for years so after leaving the military, I went for it. I have to remind myself to stay motivated and remember that I am the only thing standing in my way.