Today we learned about making legends and other useful things pertaining to our ARC GIS maps. I look forward to finishing my map ASAP, and utilizing this wonderful program for years to come.
I learned all about ARC GIS. Arc GIS Geographic Information Systemis awesome, I can find information about maps at "maps.utah.gov" or "seamless.usgs.gov". I should use arc catalog for easy access and in my tools menu, I learned I can find Coordinatin points ( Lat long +xy ). Also i learned about Pyramids, to improve Performance. Mylar sheets are nice to draw on, (on the blunt side).
Today I thought the coolest thing was learning about mirroring an image. Holding alt and clicking a second time makes a copy of whatever image you are seeking to mirror. I made an ant, shrunk it mirrored, it, copied, it and after replicating it 8 or so times, It looked like I had an entire colony marching down my screen with like 275 ants.
Today, I call to your attention that Nicole personally updated me on what we covered in Illistrator. I learned all about how to "crystallize" and "bloat" lines. Some of the Tools in Illistrator are amazing! I know how to create stratigraphic columns. Its cool that I can draw a box, draw lines through the box and have illustrator automatically partition the box into it's seperate layers so I can fill them with sedimentary patterns. Cool Cool Stuff! I have no Question's
I liked learning about the Group tool in Illistrator. It is convenient and useful for quick illustration of graphics. Also I liked the relationship between how clips that are not in the folder can be embedded into the same folder so nothing goes offline. I learned much about the following: Layers Pallet, Place and imbedd an image, Make an image transparent Locate an object, Dublicate using select and alt, aligh and distribute pallet, and exporting.
Tool’s Used - Clone Tool (missing backpack, missing person – see photo comparisons), MANUAL photo merge process took the following: Transform tool, crop tool, warp tool, eraser tool, burn tool, dodge tool. Opacity adjustments ect. I adjusted levels, by using the adjustment>layers pallet. I got rid of the hazy look.
I Have allways wanted to Merge Photos Together! This was by far the coolest thing I learned today. How I can use the Eraser tool with a low opacity to erase an overlying layer to blend sharp lines out of the picture. I learned warp, transform, level tools ect, help in aligning my images side by side - to match. I love learning about photoshop, It's so so awesome
Today the coolest thing I learned was the burn and dodge tools. Just by the stroke of one of these tools, I can make suble and realistic changes in any photograph or scanned image with the click of a mouse. I also found interesting the paint bucket tool can actually get rid of unwanted noise in a scanned picture, by increasing tolerance.
Today I learned how to make awesome changes to text. I learned how to make shapes and apply a variety of tools for use in creating stunning text visuals. The above picture is modified from photoshop. The day was cloudy and modifying that color scheme looks unnatural, but I did lower the brightness and modified saturation values. I also fixed the horizon by rotating the canvas, and Cropping it. All tools for this assignment were used in the modification of the above picture.
AAAAAHH ITS THE OVERGROWN PUMPKIN MONSTER!!!! Photoshop is the coolest program ever! This is simply a pic I edited to show contrasting colors. The tools I used were the quick select tool, transform tool, and manipulating holding shift. (I think this is a pretty cool pumpkin! But hey, the coolest thing I learned today is rotating canvas, selecting closely related colors with the magic wand tool and quick select tool.
I love Photoshop! The best thing I learned today is just how similar the key commands are to final cut pro. If you hold Shift it keeps the aspect ratio the same just like in FCP, and Control T ect was also informative. My favorite tools of all time in photoshop are the magnetic lasso tool and the clone stamper!
