Thursday, April 2, 2009

JCOM 2160 Assignment 5: Photo 2
























Changes Made
• Image adjustments: Black and white; pulled up the yellow and pulled the green down
• Pulled the lightness down on hue/saturation
• Erased plate
• Merged layers
• Erased black and white over strawberry
• Pulled the lightness up on hue/saturation
• Pulled yellow up on color balance
• Merged layers
• Used clone stamp to make the top of strawberry more red

JCOM 2160 Assignment 5: Photo 1


























Changes made
• Shifted contrasts of the pictures
• Take a gradient and make a blend mode to make sky bluer
• Erased “A” with a soft brush on layer of bluer sky to make sky bluer
• Worked with color balance: brought the cyan down and the yellow up just a little bit
• Image adjustments: moved curve
• Erased front side of “A”

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

JCOM 2160 Reading Three

Nobody Knows You're a Dog
What more is there to say. On the internet you can be whatever you want or whomever you want to be. Basically this cartoon is saying it's easy to make up your own identity or maybe it is saying that who even cares who you are. You could be someone but there's so many "someones" it really doesn't matter. Ok, now I've just gone and confused myself on this comment.
Facebook:
"Facebook is changing the nature of relationships." I agree but only if we let it. Honestly the people I want to have real relationships with I stay in contact in other ways and spend time with them in other more "natural" ways. I do like facebook to catch up quickly with old friends that may have only been in my life for a short time but I still appreciated that time but if we don't get to see eachother that often I am ok.
Again, facebook can be intrusive if you let it be. If I post pictures I put them up because I want to share them; it would be stupid to put intimate and personal things up on something so public. People can be stupid in how they use the system but how it is used is entirely up to that person.
I honestly think it is silly when people see how many friends they can get on facebook. I laugh when people request to be my friend just because we went to highshool together but we never once spoke two words to each other. I never accept them. Like I said before; I use facebook to keep in contact with people who were actually part of my life.
"Talking is so last year" WHAT?! That is the problem with technology; we're forgetting the important basics of genuine relationships.

Friday, January 23, 2009

JCOM 2160 Reading Two

When Google is Not Your Friend
Honestly, I didn't even know this was a problem or I guess you could say I never realized the problem. Whenever I go to "google" myself it is never me who actually comes up on the search results... UNLESS I am VERY specific with my search. But I can see from this article, this could continue to grow into a problem.
Tug of War Over the Internet
All I have to say on this is, I like my options and if one day I have to choose between one web browser than another then I am going to very annoyed. These resources have always been accessible to us and to take it away and only give it back with a price is just... bleh! I may go to different websites for different reasons. For example; when grocery shopping here in Logan I go to Lee's Marketplace for my basic food items but when I may need other grocery shopping items such as paper towels, cleaning supplies, etc. then I may go to Walmart.