OK so today I saw something funny on Facebook which reminded me of a brilliant lesson that Dave taught us back near the start of our first semester. I will put a link at the bottom of this post but the basics were that a guy asked the general population of the internet if anybody could Photoshop the setting sun so that it was between his fingertips, and supplied a photo as a sauce image. What followed was 2 pages of people literally interpreting the request. People had taken him out and moved just his finger tips to the sun, changed parts of him about and all sorts of silly variants on what he has asked for. (pictures in the link)
Moral of the story is to be clear and concise when asking someone to do something for you. Leave no room for misinterpretation or variation of what you want done. In the Computer Games Design industry this not only saves time and money by mitigation confusion, it also results in a true reflection of your vision.
http://guff.com/never-ask-the-internet-for-photoshop-help-this-guy-learned/
