Elements and Principles

One of my students, Michelle Benish, created this last spring for graphic design class.
Enjoy!
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Weird and Wonderful Summer Camp Edition

As we move into summer mode I hope some of our multimedia class has been busy snapping and posting. Let me know if you post on your blog, flicker or whatever, I get alerts if you still want to post to the ning. For now I will still post Weird and Wonderful content on our ning and will put additional stuff at Darlingphotoblog, and since we are in Summer Camp mode it won't necessarily be on a Wednesday!

A primo resource for students is the Library of Congress. Did you know the Library houses 14 million images in their prints and photograph division? The Library is making it easier for you to view important parts of the collection by posting sets of them on flickr. THESE ARE PHOTOS YOU SHOULD BE LEARNING ABOUT!!! Here is the information page from the Library itself http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=515 and the address for the flickr page that is displaying the current selections from the libraryhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157618541455384/show/ These images are iconic masterpieces of black and white photos, you owe it to yourself to study them!


Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California (LOC)
Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress

Also here is the address for the flickr blog which I find helpful http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157618541455384/show/

Since we just finished our photoshop projects on blending layers. You might enjoy http://www.photos8.com/ it is full of public domain photos, wallpapers, stuff you can use without copyright concerns.

Weird and Wonderful Wednesday

Photoshop.com has an online photo editor with lots of neat gadgets that are similar to the photoshop image editors, let me know what you think!

http://ping.fm/dXe6H
online photo editing and sharing w interesting features, uses adobe air.

12 Step Program for the Disorganized
Before I send you all off into the world I feel duty bound to at least mention that organizing will be a very important skill in your post secondary life(duh) here is a website and an article that may save some of you major heartache not to mention sleep.
On Organization.com is the blog and here is the article about organizing really, you should you know , READ THIS, no I'm not gonna mention names. http://www.onorganization.com/2009/04/01/getting-things-done-12-step-program-for-the-disorganized/

Nice Tutorial For Making a Portfolio Web Page in Photoshop

Here is a very detailed portfolio tutorial that you can make entirely in Photoshop very professional looking!
http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/3063/2/Designer-portfolio-layout

Add Cool Textures

From Photodoto a tip on how to add textures to your photo:

An Easy way to add imported textures, (old film grain, rust, etc) to your photo from Photodoto http://photodoto.com/a-very-basic-guide-to-textures/

and a flickr page with free textures http://www.flickr.com/photos/30886604@N04/

Mapping Photos with Google Earth, Flickr & Tripper map

I found a neat program that geotags my flickr photos with google earth, even though I do this with picasa 3 I do have some picts in flickr groups so heres what this looks like.

Get your own Trippermap!

Cool Animation & Graphics Programs

For those of you who want to do more animations you could try Scratch Animations which is not as tricky to do as flash and not as expensive, we're talking free here.
http://scratch.mit.edu/

Did You Know? Google has a 3D drawing program called Sketch Up? It is a free download for you to use at home,(we don't have enough space here though)

Also Try Blender see what you think!

Multimedia II Student Slideshow

Over on the Multi2 ning we have got a great collection of photos from the winter photowalk and the Senior Portraits assignment.  Here is a slideshow  of our pictures.

Find more photos like this on MultimediaII

Photowalk in Winter, look for structure.

Wintertime allows us to look at the structure of things in a landscape.  Here we have the dark shapes of the evergreens on the right balanced by the thinner but more numerous aspen trees on the right.  The shadows set up an alternating rhythm in the foreground.  The whole shot is a contrast, light against dark, strong shapes against many thin ones.  The complex structures would not be as apparent if we were working in color.

In this photowalk, look for leading lines, lines that create direction or structure. Look for patterns in shadows, in wintertime the light angle produces many interesting ones across the day.  Part of your investigations might include texture and pattern, repeated branches, smooth areas vs complex ones, use your eyes and then snap!

Flickr for MM2?

Is it time to use flickr?
Many of you already know that flickr is a massive photo sharing site and I was wondering if you thought it was time to create a flickr group of our own. Here are 2 articles that can help us decide. After you read them please post to the ning if you want to start one up.
http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/2009/01/04/quick-start-tips-for-new-flickr-users-part-http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/2009/01/11/quick-start-tips-for-new-flickr-users-part-ii/

More about your tutorials

By now you should have put some thought into what web 2.0 app you are going to create a tutorial for. You should also be thinking HARD about what format you will use. There are several mentioned in past posts to this blog so you might want to dig through the archives.

Remember we have Photostory and microphones if you want to do an audio presentation rather than a written one. Here is a list of some audio programs besides photostory that you could use. Voice Thread, Movie Maker, PowerPoint,Google Presentation, Screen Toast, Jing and Flowgram.

Here is a link to a good article for screencasting tips:
http://www.screencast.be/tips_tricks+screen_capture.html