Makeda's Magical Blogland

The Tool Bar!

2010-09-20T07:59:00.000-07:00

1. marquees
2. lasso
3. crop tool
4. healing/patch/red eye tool
5. clone/pattern tool
6. erasers
7. blur/sharpen/smudge
8. pen/anchor point
9. path/ direct selection
10. notes/ audio notation
11. hand
12. set background
13. move
14. quick selection/ magic wand
15. slice/ slice select
16. brush/pencil
17. history/ art history brush
18. gradient/paint bucket
19. dodge/burn/sponge
20. horizontal/vertical type
21. rectangle/shapes
22. eye dropper
23. zoom

This is my review for photoshop! I'm not gonna remember all this but I already got an 80% on the quiz so... whoo hoo!

Oh blogs you're so... interesting

2010-09-10T08:04:00.000-07:00

Failblog is the only blog that i know of that i don't get bored with really quickly. That being said i also never go looking for cool blogs. Today i have to write about three.
So the first blog that i picked was a version of failblog called Engrish Funny. This is a record of failed translations from mostly mandarin or japanese to english. It's hillarious because that's probably what people from other countries see when they come here and see the translation from english to their language.
The next blog that i chose was an art blog called 'we make money not art.' I thought it was really cool because i went to the photography part of the blog and the first two entries were a bunch of pictures of aspects of american life. The first one was pictures from the 1950s showing the working class men and women which was apparently horrifying at the time. The second one was showing this power plant behind all the normal small town images of football games or backyards. the title was "What is American Power?"
On this blog called 'Boing Boing' i saw a post for these things called roombots. Apparently they move around your house and reconfigure themselves "based on how you use them." All i can think about is what if they just reconfigured themselves differently every day into strange formations just to mess with your mind. Then again maybe i'm just paranoid about robots...
Anyway that was what i learned about blogs today. They're pretty cool.

Digital Media

2010-09-08T07:57:00.000-07:00

Ok I've had this blog for a while but if you'll notice i have never posted anything on it. So now I'm using it for Digital Media class.

I've been in Digital Media for two weeks now and i have learned so much. I learned about the origins of Computers. I learned to make a power point that doesn't suck (at least I don't think it sucks). I've made a name tag on the computer with my picture on it. Finally, I'm actually blogging. So I'd call this a pretty productive two weeks.