Happy Halloween!

Class was fun. You're right, this is a much better way of making a strat-column than doing it on Excel. No difficulties today. I need more practice to get good with Illustrator, but I followed the work today without difficulty.

For Halloween I'm going to a very non-Halloween play, and possibly a party or two afterwards.

Hey... class was good. I'm going to try really hard to not sleep in on Friday and make the 9 O'clock class. I'm following along well in class but I need more practice with Illustrator. I'm still not that good with it. The most exciting thing was discovering the lithologic swatches.

The best costume I ever had was a suit that made my shoulders look a lot higher then they really are... just above my head in fact. That way it looked like I didn't have a head!

Future

Class was cool today.... even though we didn't do photo shop. I've never used Illustrator before, so this is all new to me, but I'm enjoying it so far and I think I'll be able to make very good use of it. No problems yet.

As for the future, one of the things that weighs on my mind is what kind of career I'll have after I'm finally finished with school. Feeling a little anxiety over that.

Mini-Assignment 4 and Superstitions

Here is my photo. I merged them, replaced the sky and cropped it... I also made it smaller because it was huge and blogger didn't like it. Class was great, I like the clone tool, it was fun. No problems.

I'm not very superstitious... however, I did pick up the habit of kissing my finger and hitting the ceiling of the car when going through a yellow light.

Mini-Assignment 3

Okay..... so I'll be the first to admit that this one didn't come out too well. The coloring was really weak on the original photo and I wanted to see if I could make it more vibrant. I used color levels, contrast, smudging, dodge and burn tools, and all kinds of things. It still doesn't look that good.

Sports fan

Okay, class was good. The color levels are very different between the 2nd and 3rd photos from class and I never did get it to look right. I tried using the dodge tool to make them match, but it didn't seem to make any difference. Otherwise, I didn't have a problem merging the photos. It's just really neat to be learning this program and find out all the things you can do with it.

As for the sports.... um.... not really a fan. I'm always happy when the Cougars to well and I certainly have an opinion about the game with Utah, but I really don't follow it closely. I'm something of a disgrace to my grandfather who asks me about the games knowing very well that I'll be totally clueless.

Fall Activity

Class was good. I'm sorry I missed out on the artsy-fartsy stuff on Friday, but Death Valley was just so cool! Sometimes I have a little difficulty with Photoshop, but that's only because I'm completely new to it. Overall I'm doing well and can follow class. I must say I didn't like the Gaussian blur effect, but it does make a HUGE difference if you're trying to use the paint bucket to fill out the color.

I haven't been excited about Halloween for a lot of years... sad, I know... but I still enjoy corn mazes. They're just so expensive! How can it be so costly to wonder around a corn field?