Today's Work 11-29-10

Today was pretty simple. I had to finish the Food Portrait i had already started from last class. i just had to change the background to green, and I added a carrot for the mouth and beans for the nose. After that i posted it on my blog, and I started researching the differences between Pixel Images and Vector images. i posed the differences in another blog post. Then i messed around with adobe illustrator, which im going to be working on for these next few weeks.

Pixel v.s. Vector: The Differences

The majority of what photoshop makes is pixel-based images, while Adobe Illustrator was designed to create vector based images. Here are the differences between the two:

Pixel- Pixel based images are those constructed of pixels and are resolution dependent.  


Vector-Vector based images are defined by mathematical equations and are resolution independent.



Resolution independence is the concept that elements from the computer screen can be drawn independent from the pixel grid.
Resolution dependent is the concept that elements from the computer are depended from the pixel grid.

Me as Food

This is me, but made with food. 6 different foods were used to make it.

Today's Work 11-22-10

Today I worked on doing the spreadsheet of my food graph, which i uploaded onto my blog. I also started working on making a portatrait of me but with food, which I should finish next class.

Spreadsheet of What I Eat Everyday

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B7R_VcXXb1AcNDcyZTA3NGItMDE5My00NzgzLTlmMTMtZGRiMmU1OWRmMDMz&hl=en&authkey=CJvf4q0P

Typography Drawing

It took me forever, but i finally got it done. the picture is of Ray Lewis, #52 of the Baltimore Ravens.

Today's Work 11-16-10

Today I read an article about companies in China that were censoring what people could post on their blogs, and they were removing posts that said negative things toward their company. I disagreed with what they were doing, and i posted my opinion in my blog about what i thought about the article. i also had to work on a photoshop assignment, which involved Typography drawing. I was going to trace Ray Lewis with letters. ill finish up next class

Inside the war against chinese blogs

As a business man myself, I have concluded that the behavior of these companies is very unprofessional, for lack of a better word. I find the behavior of Daqi to be dishonest and absent of integrity, while affecting other blogging world as well as the internet. I find it unacceptable for such companies to smear the names of others in search of greater profit and wealth. Such acts are the signs of dictatorship, an unacceptable and vile form of government. These acts will further fuel the Communism already present in this developing country.

I dont think it is fair for a company to take down a blog  post thread criticizes them. If a company is bad at something, what is the problem with somebody complaining? If somebody is criticizing them for a problem that isn't there, then i can see why they might get angry. For example, if a chinese football player buys some nike cleats, but they are defective, then he should have right to complain about it on the internet. It doesn't make sense to take the post down. If the company messes up one of there products, then they should be criticized for it. I think that it is ok for companies to hire bloggers to post things about their products though. It creates new jobs for people, and it helps them get more business by making their products look better. But i think they are paying their workers to little. 1.5 cents per post seems like nothing.

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Typography Anatomy of a Font

1.Tail
2.stroke
3.ascender
4.decsender
5.bowl
6.tail
7.counters
8.descender
9.stem
10.serif
11.stroke
12.tail
13.ear
14.ascender
15.stem
16.eye

Typography First Impressions

Typography is what language looks like. I think big companies pay artists to do typography because it looks nice. Typography is just words, written in different styles. Typography could affect a potential consumer by making them more inclined to buy a product being offered. Graffiti is typography even though its illegal. I think typography is off the chain.

Cartoon Photoshop Today's Work 11-10-10

Today I took a picture of myself and messed with it in photoshop, adding paint and tracing around me.

Today's Work 11-8-10

Today I had only one assignment to do: Edit an image. It took a very long time and I kept having trouble putting a border on it an I had a lot of trouble saving it. I eventually figured it out. I had to save it as a PNG file, which I didn't know about before. I also had to do a reflection on this 6 weeks.

Editing A Picture

Before

After

Source:"Stock Photo." SXC. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. <http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1142221>.

Second Six Weeks Reflection

I feel like I've been pretty productive this past 6 weeks. I've pretty much been able to get all of my work done and turned in on time. Every day that I had to do something, I posted in my blog at the end of class about how it went. I think most of the work is good quality, since I've been following instructions. This past 6 weeks I've learned a lot about how to use pages, and also about how to use photoshop, something I have never used before. I also learned about colors and RGB. The thing that took up the most time this 6 weeks was the Brazil Brochure. I think I did good on it, but I did finish earlier then most people.

Goat Photohop, Today's Work, 11-4-10

Today I used photoshop, and took a color quiz. On the color quiz I got 100%. The photoshop took a while but eventually I got it done. The original picture was a goat sitting down, and this is how it turned out.

Image sourceImageBase. Web. 4 Nov. 2010. <http://imagebase.davidniblack.com/main.php?g2_itemId=4447>.

Today's Work 11-2-10

Today I had to make up the work that I had missed last class. I was absent, so I had to do the color worksheet and then a color online activity. It was confusing  at first, but the teacher helped me out and I got it done. Then I answered the 7 Online questions, which were fairly simple because they were based on the worksheet I had done earlier. NExt class I'm going to have to make up the assignment i was supposed to do today, since I was absent last class and had to make up that work today.

Spectormeter CMYK and RGB

1. How do you think the Spectrometer works? It works by using different lights hitting the specific color in order to get the amount of light being reflected by it.

2. Were there any unexpected results? What were they?Ther e were't any unexpected results.

3. Were there any differences between the different printers?Yes

4. Compare the printed color sheet to the one linked in the blog. What differences due you notice in the RGB display versus 

the CMYK printout. The RGB colors are more brighter than the CMYK colors on the printout.

5. Did you notice the Hex Codes for each color. Would you say Hex codes have more in common with RGB or CMYK? Explain. The CYMK values because the hex codes are more similar and are closely related to them in the table.

6. Do you think the use of spectrometry is important for publishers? Why or why not?Yes because they need it in order to experiment with the different colors that they need and see which one is better, the one that would be better to use. 

7. What sort of consequences may arise if spectrometers were not used in publishing.The right color wouldn't be used and the final product would be messed up.