Friday Post

                                                        What I Did...

-I have been working in FLASH all week
-We have been making a city with a car moving on the road
-First I set the size and made turned the background into a grid
-That way i could draw the images easier
- I drew the tree and was able to copy it and have it show 3 times in different sizes
-After that I drew the car and added the guy into the car
-I mad a gradient of the sky to make it look like its fading
-After I drew the 3 buildings with windows
-After I made the ground and used different colours to show the road and the grass

-After that I re-sized the car and created a motion tween so it would move
-After I set up the entire city                              
-After that i made the blue "Start Movie" button go from green when you hover over it to gold when you click it
-I made it so the button starts the animation
- And finally to add my own  flare I added a planet-Gif and motion tweened it in the sky

                                                          Tips and Tricks

- I learnt lots of new shortcuts
- such as "F8" which creates a symbol
-"CTRL-B" breaks apart the image
-"CTRL-G" puts the image back together
-"F5" adds a frame
-"F6" is to add a keyframe
-"F7" is to add a blank keyframe
-"Ctrl-Enter" is to play the movie
"ctrl-X and Ctrl-V" are used to cut and copy image
"shift-ctrl-v" is used to paste in place

1:57:00 PM

Flash- The City

Search Engine

Planet Collision

Friday Post

                                                     What I Did...

-This week I have been working on textures, which has been the main focus this week

-To start out we put my original names from last week into photoshop.

- I got a picture of a parking lot for my first name and a picture from earth for my last name. I also got an upside down map for my last name.

- We replaced the background of our original name from last week and changed them to the new backgrounds of the images I just said.

-After that I started to "OVERLAY" showing two images mixed together, but having both visible.

- After I did that  three different times for my name I began the advanced part

-I had to do 3 more posts one of a car, an animal and a tree

-All having different overlays and backgrounds

                                                       What I Learnt...

-I learnt lots of new commands such as "ctrl+shift+I" which inverts what you already have highlighted, which I learnt last week

-I also learnt 'ctrl+J" it copies the image you have highlighted and turns it to the background color.

- I learnt how to use some different tools and different ways to use those tools such as "the magic wand tool" and holding shift while using it keeps the highlighted bits you have done and adds more.

- I have learnt how to use the stamp tool and using the background to your advantage.

- you hit "ctrl+ alt" to clone a part you want and click on the image you wish to clone

-I learnt that there are SO many blending options such as "hue" and "divide" which can potentially change everything about your image ( colour wise)

Advanced Tree

Original Tree

Feather background

Rope background

Extra fish

Advanced Animal

Advanced Car

original  car

Rainbow texture

Sun 

Overlay- Nature (Whole Name)

Overlay- Animals (Last Name)

Overlay- Materials (First Name)

Upside Down Map (Whole Name)

Earth from Space (Last Name)

Mall parking lot (First Name)

My Friday Post

WHAT I DID.....

- I created a new blog on an existing blogger account

-Downloaded Dropbox to my specific computer and can now be used as storage very easily

-On my blog, I customized it by adding an avatar, a bus header and added the link list

-I found animated gifs of numbers and used those to predict my grade for the semester

- I used photoshop to create my name out of scenic images

- Changed the background color on my posts

WHAT I LEARNT...
- I learnt how to find and use the correct printer using "\\acs-dc01"

-I learnt a little bit about codes because you need a code at the beginning of the HTML and an ending code so the background color for example knows when to stop
-I learnt how to apply a table and successfully use it by putting in images in the middle of the code and have the table work accordingly
-I have learnt a couple of photoshop shortcuts such as "CTRL + ALT +Z" undoes multiple steps while "CTRL+Z" only removes the last step
- I learnt how to highlight the image to find any other little pieces left in the picture using "CTRL+Thumbnail"

Letters of my Name

My Predicted Grade