animation

I wanted to accomplish a successful animation, that evoked emotion and made people smile.

At first I had no idea how to add slides, nonetheless how to make all the words come up in an animation form. That is when I realized I had to click on the layer box and when the eye ball showed up, they would appear in all the boxes. I also had a lot of trouble figuring out how to save the animation. I saved it for web and devices and it wouldn't play back when I opened up the file from my private space. I realized when I opened it from safari it played just fine. I was relieved.

I am really proud that I figured out how to make an animation. It felt really good to create something that played on its own.

If I had more time I would have made smoother transitions between the lines of the poem appearing.

postcard

I was trying to achieve the aspect of an open road, blending a lot of different activities together. I put 8 different pictures together, all having a big road in front of them in common. I also put a picture from inside a car to symbolize the different perceptions and positions one could take while looking at this picture. Nothing is as it seems in this picture, if each picture was separated, it would be a totally different image and a distinctive difference in scenery. I wanted to blend each picture together to give a common purpose.

I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to blend each picture so that the images were clearly defined. I didn't want to put too much in the picture and create a clutter of different things going on. I had to play around with the different layers and make sure I could synchronize the pictures to make it look realistic and clear.

I am proud of my image because I think it blends well, and I did a good job switching up the hue/saturation and giving off a euphoric sense of nature. I am proud of the way it looks, the motor cycler's coming towards the man in the open road is an interesting optical illusion.

If I had more time I would have continued to play around with the placing of the different pictures. I would have added some more effects and tried to match up the car scene with what is going on around it.

Font Poem

For me, picking out the quote to put in the font poem was a tough decision. I chose two other quotes before settling on a line from a song called ‘We Belong Together’ by Irving Caesar. The line, “ we belong together, like birds on a feather, together we fly” was stuck in my head after watching the Movie Grey Gardens where the song was sang several times. I was trying to illustrate, through different fonts and different effects I discovered in photoshop, the emotional aspect of the words in the quote. The words that jumped out at me, I tried to make them jump out on the page by using bolder fonts and effects. The words that really stuck out to me were "together," "Birds," "feather," and "fly".

The major thing I struggled with during this project was figuring out how to lay out the page in an artistic way to create a fitting design for the lyrics that would stand out. I played around with the fonts and changed the word, "together," to make the letters actually closer together with a bold and sharp edge to it. I had trouble picking out which kinds of fonts to pick for the specific words because at first I made every single word a different style and it took away from the quote and looked to chaotic. I decided to stick with a balance of similar styles that would compliment each other.

Since I am not familiar with photoshop, every part of this assignment was new for me. I learned a lot about photoshop during this project, such as how to warp text, change background colors, and merge layers. I had a lot of fun being creative, I even accidently discovered how to paint butterflies on the background of my poem. This added a lot to the poem because the song is about flying away. This was by far the most enjoyable part of the project for me.

If I had more time I would have definitely tried to add more effects to my font poem. I would have inverted the colors to make it black on white to give the poem more depth and possibly even made it more colorful. Although I came into this project with no clue of the possibilities of photoshop, I am most proud that I was able to figure it out for myself and create a creative piece of art.

Contact sheet

Contact Sheet

Since I have never had the opportunity to work with Mac computers, I found the this first project to be extremely challenging. Changing the number of pixels in the first row was easy for me to figure out, although I had a lot of trouble when it came down to the duotone. When I saved the picture to the computer, and was trying to paste it in my contact sheet, the computer didn’t recognize the image and it wouldn’t let me put the picture in. I tried to resave the image and change the colors of the duotone, and no matter what I did it wouldn’t recognize the image and let me paste it. I struggled with this for a while, and then tried saving it as a JEG file and it finally worked.

Everything about this project was new for me. I had never worked in photoshop before so figuring out how to use the tools and changing the pixels of a picture was something new for me. I found it very interesting that you can get a close up of a picture from another regular picture by pressing the apple button and the plus or minus sign. I played around with the dark stroke, artistic-ink outlines, and journalistic. These were all new for me and the whole experience was very helpful and it was a great introduction to photoshop

I enjoyed the purpose section where we could play around with different effects and be creative with photoshop. I spent a half hour messing around with the different techniques such as accented Edges and made a simple picture of a butterfly and a flower look really edgy and different. I liked being able to have creative freedom and designing my own pictures.

I am most proud of the abstract section of the contact sheet. I found a picture of a lady wearing a beautiful gold dress and a magnificent golden crown with a flower on it, I really like the way that it turned out when I zoomed into the crown and slowly came out to the whole picture.

If I had more time I would have changed the close up picture that I used of the roller blader. I am not particularly proud of this section because it is a picture taken from behind and it doesn't give a good example of a close up shot of something. If I had more time I would have tried to find a better picture, I believe it could have come out better if I had done that.

Foundations project

Project 1

Social Networking

What is social networking?

The web defines social networking as:

“A broad class of web sites and services that allow you to connect with friends, family, and colleagues online, as well as meet people with similar interests.”

Types of Social Networking

Online Communities:

-Ryze

-Friendster

Myspace

Facebook

Downelink

Instant Messaging:

AOL

MSN

MSN

Benefits

Meet new people from all over the world

Promote business and business opportunities

Allows people to buy and sell online

Spreads information worldwide

Dangers

Data theft

Viruses

Online predators

Less time socializing in the real world

84% of members of online communities are between ages 14 and 26

Demographics