Things I have learnt today; 

1. NO ONE uses paper portfolios anymore. (Not even the ironic retro hipster kids.)
2. Work in A3 when scanning work to use in photoshop for better print quality.
3. Mucking about with levels in photoshop can remove colours individually. 
4. RGB is web format.
5. Political illustrators aren't 'people' persons. (I'll fit right in.)
6. If you are editing an image in photoshop, sometimes it's worth zooming in and taking a lot more time than you would have intended to, in order to avoid making the image look too 'processed'.