

However, there are instances wherein the wheel on the mouse scrolls unsteadily. In most cases, the device should function smoothly. Compared to the touch pad on your laptop, your mouse offers a more efficient way to navigate and scroll through documents and web pages. If you’re fond of multitasking on your PC, you may find your mouse quite useful. Another likely reason would be incorrectly configured scrolling settings. It took me more than 3 hours just to draw this simple side view of the blender cup and my preliminary final project idea.If you're experiencing mouse scroll wheel jumping, you may have outdated, corrupt, or missing drivers.

Sketching with GIMP using a mouse is not as easy as I thought to be. Thus for the 2D raster software I decided to learn GIMP primarily for sketching and drawing. It is also not able to do draw and sketching. While Irfanview is free and extremely easy to use, as an image viewer, there is little functionality to do photo-retouching apart from adjusting contrast, brightness, gamma and etc. I have been using Irfanview image viewer by Irfan Skijian for several years to do simple image manipulation such as cropping and resizing. Due to the short time frame, I decided to explore one software in each category. However after the lesson and explanation from my coach, Steven, I begin understand the different types of software (such as 2D raster, 2D vector, 3D CAD, simulation, animation, audio and video editing) and their areas of applications.

I believe being an expert in one is better than “a jack of all trades but master in none”. In the beginning, I was puzzled why there is a need to even try out different software. The assignment for this week is explore different types of design software and use them to model my final project.
