This week I worked with another student to create story from a series of sequential images — see Understanding Comics, by Scott McCloud.
The story we created starts in a zoo and ends in a cemetery, but I won’t go into the details because the story is (hopefully) self-explanatory.
For the production, we first thought we’d try to use Photoshop, but my partner didn’t have much experience with the program. She also didn’t have much experience with using the Mac OX, so those were challenges for us to overcome. After one day where we failed to make any real progress, I suggested that we use the highest level tool possible, like Office, since our final product was going to be 8.5″ x 11″ anyway.
That seemed to work. We did use Photoshop here and there, such as using the Clone Stamp and Cropping tools to touch up our images. But most of the time we used OpenOffice in presentation mode. Although the photo editing tools are pretty primitive, the benefit of using such a high level tool was that my partner was able to follow what I was doing even though I went through much of my activities very quickly.