Photoshop Tennis

Opponent: Christina Sterling

Rules: 8 minutes, 8 images total, had to keep image criteria the same, no drastic changes that would completely change the idea from the beginning, screen shot image when time was up.

Christina started with the project. The theme of the game was brands. For my first couple of times I wanted to add more brands and make the page a little more interesting. I went on the internet and found a cool page that had a lot of cow brands so I picked one and made it big to fit as the background of the page. I then Googled the logos for American Eagle, Aeropostale, Coca Cola, Hollister, Abercrombie, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Coach, Calvin Klein, Element, Puma, Ralph Lauren, and Prada. Once the images that I wanted were on the page, I began to editing by making them match with the background. The picture that Christina had on the corner needed to get fixed to look better so I did that too. I ended with the last Photoshop tennis page.

This assignment has been my favorite one by far. I really did not know a thing about Photoshop but after working with it for a couple of hours and then playing Photoshop tennis I became more familiar with the tools. I also used a lot of little shortcuts that I learned in class which helped make my 8 minutes worth a while. I really liked the end result.

here are my 4 images:

Digital Image Resolution

There are two different forms of digital images which include physical images
and informational records or files. Digital images are made by a digital camera or scanner, and
are resides on hard drives or flash cards. A grid of pixels are a bunch of little square looking
boxes that map out specific tones at specific locations (bitmap).

It is common to refer to computer records as files, and thus digital images in this state, and generally, are commonly referred to as "digital image files," "image files," or even just "files." Even if the image files are stored in certain file formats, the image can be fixed and made to whatever size or shape you want. The same image shown on one screen can look a lot different according to the spacial dimensions- width and height.

The most interesting thing that I think I read over was the fact that a picture can look so clean and perfect but if I was to zoom in a lot, the picture would look completely destroyed. A picture is made up of thousands of little squares that look like plain blurrs when looked up closely, but when looked out far no one can tell. This reminds me of a commercial I saw the other night. It talks about hand moisturizer and it shows a black screen with a bunch of fists that later zoom out and out becoming billions of small fists that end up turing into a womans shoulder in an image. I think digital image resolution is really interesting and it's definitely mind boggling.

Learn CSS

For this assignment I learned that you can change more than just the background on a web page. I worked a lot with the CSS and became more familiar with it.

The first step that I did to change the website for homework was finding a background that I liked and would work well with font colors. I then changed the font, font size and font color. I picked the colors lime green and white to make sure that the information was readable. Then I proceeded to add borders to divide information into different sections. Links were underlined and a different color so that it was easier to understand. My favorite part was adding the bullets. Instead of adding the regular, boring circles, I Googled a bumblebee and made that the bullets to go with the flower background theme.

I have definitely learned a lot from this assignment. I know that it takes entirely way too much time to make a website unique and appealing. I did end up deleting my entire work at one point during the night and had to restart all over again.. I don't think I could ever do something like this for a job or just for fun. My head hurts too much already...

blogger.com

I picked blogger.com because it was the easiest. A lot of people in the class and everywhere had picked it (it's the most popular). It was free and according to the description that the link on our website that Dave gave us, I could probably actually learn how to use it. It's easy to learn and looks fun.. hooray! By the way this is just like Xanga... which I use to have.

first blogggg

RSS
The first thing I found out about RSS is that it stands for a couple of things:
Really Simple Syndication
Rich Site Summary
RDF Site Summary

"RSS-aware programs are available for various operating systems. Client-side readers and aggregators are typically constructed as standalone programs or extensions to existing programs such as web browsers and Email readers. Many browsers have integrated support for RSS feeds. There also are other applications that can convert an RSS feed into several usenet articles, viewable through the major newsreader software."

"Web-based feed readers and news aggregators such as NewsGator Online require no software installation and make the user's "feeds" available on any computer with Web access. Some aggregators combine existing web feeds into new feeds, e.g., taking all football related items from several sports feeds and providing a new football feed. There are also search engines for content published via web feeds like Bloglines."

"On Web pages, web feeds (RSS or Atom) are typically linked with the word "Subscribe", an orange rectangle, , or with the letters or . Many news aggregators such as My Yahoo![1] publish subscription buttons for use on Web pages to simplify the process of adding news feeds."

This info was found in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)

I researched over this whole RSS concept for a while because I had NO idea what it was. Apperently this is something normal and not mind blowing. I like what I saw. I'm not into computer programs that much unless it's Facebook. I use to have a Xanga but then I randomly stopped using it and forgot all about it. RSS is one of the best programs to use because it's easy and quick to learn. I really think it's another way of getting your points across and I like using programs like Facebook and MySpace so I might just start to use it!