Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Major Project Idea

The topic of my project is my nephew.
I will be taking/using pictures of him from when he was born, all the way til how he is right now.
I'll be making a visual with texts included.
The service I'll be doing is a Infogram.
This is the best service because it's simple & it isn't as complicated as the others.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

7 New Values

Timeliness: Monday March 31, 2014 at 4:46 p.m.
This shows how new it is & when it occurred.
Headline: Pit bulls seized from home after women, 85, found dead
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/02/pit-bulls-removed-woman-found-dead/7194131/

Proximity: Onion Creek Neighborhood.
This shows the nearness I was to this event.
Headline: Demolition begins in flood-racked Onion Creek neighborhood.
Link: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/demolition-begins-in-flood-racked-onion-creek-neig/nfQLn/

Prominence: Dog saving a women in Round Rock due to house fire.
This shows that importance of the situation.
Headline: Round Rock woman says dog saved her life in house fire.
Link: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/round-rock-woman-says-dog-saved-her-life-in-house-/nfQsg/

Impact: Detriot is no longer pledging vital casino taxes, instead they decide to repay with income tax revenue.
This is an effect of a loan they couldn't pay off.
Headline: Judge OKs $120M loan to improve Detriot public services.
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/02/detroit-bankruptcy-loan/7230251/

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Quick Write

If I won a Spring Break vacation I would go to Los Angeles, California & the 3 things I would bring would be my phone/charger, lots of money, & clothes!

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Photoshop Introduction

Crop Tool- A tool to resize your image & make it smaller.
Lasso Tool- A tool to select a specific part of the photo & make a shape into it.
Text Tool- A tool to insert text on your photo.
To undo a mistake you made you just press "Command-Z" or "CTRL-Z".
To undo more than on action just pull up the "History Palette. You can do this by clicking Window--> History Menu.
To rotate an image just go to the image menu & select image resolution.
If you don't like your initial cropping box you drew, you can press --> ESC to cancel the crop.
When you enter dimensions as you crop, you're telling photoshop which dimensions the image should result in after you crop, The crop box will be forced into a certain ratio.
Newspapers & Newsletters are likely to have resolutions in the range 150 to 200 ppi, & magazines are likely to have high resolution of 250 ppi or more.