Our last in-class workshop was a paste-up project. This is basically the process by which designers would organize and present their work to a printer in order to achieve a desired image. Thankfully all we had to do was cut out predetermined images and letters and rearrange them into a design that was derived from a reference. There are generally 5 pages to a paste-up book aside from the cover: the first page is a rundown of what images are printed in which colors… basically, it’s a series of arrows and color names. The second page designates what is to be printed in black, the 3rd shows magenta, the 4th shows cyan, and the final shows yellow.
The real pain was cutting out the letters to form a circle. It was time consuming and very frustrating, especially after I had been working on it for a good 20 minutes. However, the time it took to complete this quick little paste-up pales in comparison to the time it actually takes to complete one from scratch. I cannot even begin to imagine the stress and dedication it would take to have to do that. That is why I am proud to say that Adobe revolutionized our lives by publishing the Photoshop and Creative Suite software, making the lives of designers across the globe about 200x easier.
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