Second Stamp

The first stamp I made, I was nervous to do too much to. I was still uncomfortable with photoshop so I didn't do so much with it. After given the chance to fix it or make another, I went with a new one. I stayed with the same breast cancer awareness theme, it is something very important to me, I am a huge supporter.

I got the background ribbon online. I duplicated it to add the texture to it and I slightly blurred it because I wanted the rest of the stamp to stand out more. The bracelets I also found online and they were originally a pink going to melon color. I messed with the hue, saturation and brightness to get it more pink and less melon. I also enhanced the words in each of the bracelets. As far as the text goes, I had a really hard time trying to pick the color. I thought there was already too much pink and to me black just didn't look right. To lessen the pink variety, I copied the same pink from the inside of the bracelet. 

The border was originally from a stamp of Honer Simpson I found online, I cut his face out of the inside and then lassoed the outside, I saved it as a new and separate file. I then opened the stamp and the border and I added the stamp into it and made it fit.

I enjoyed actually doing all these things, I was really nervous and afraid to mess up the first time, so I am really glad I was given the chance to try it again because I ended up learning a lot. 

Video Project

After long hours of editing, our museum project finally came to a finish. While Caroline went to the museum to get me some last minute footage, I tried to fix all the glitches. Some parts I really don't know what went wrong, it might have been an export problem. It definately is a lot less glitchy then it was last night. For my first video ever, I actually had a lot of fun creating it, I can say I learned a lot.

Hole in the Wall

We went to an low key Pizzeria

We also did an elevator for a more literal interpretation

Med 150... MY feelings....

The class as a whole was really interesting. There were many aspects of the class I really enjoyed, such as the museum of moving image or the photoshop exercises. I learned so much but I wish we didn't have to pack a lot of stuff in one lab class. I think that we need less lecture and more lab time, because lab time is the most helpful. Another thing is the lab hours, it seemed that only on Wednesdays we could use the lab hours for the longest time. So many of these programs a lot of people don't have at home so I would've liked for there to be more available lab hours.
The professors were good especially with the use of video footage or photographs so they can help us understand what they are teaching us.
I must say that the hardest thing i had to do  (other then take the tests) was editing. I had to learn it with the help of a friend and once i got the hang of it I found it extremely useful.
I liked that we all watched each other's work, but wished the critique wasn't so time consuming because in that time I would have rather learned more about final cut or photoshop.
I am excited to tale the next class, 160 but expect it to be even more difficult and more frustrating then this one was. I hope I can learn more techniques.