week five - photo shop... and happy easter!

This week we had a moderately difficult task as we were told we would be entering into the world of photo shop. Something i was, and still are, extremely unfamiliar with, although my knowledge about the program is growing increasingly the more i use it. To begin with i found a few interesting pictures on the wonderful and ever so useful sight of Google, copy and pasted them on to the photo shop page and began what i thought was an easy tute. However this is where i discovered, to my admiration, that there were not merely a few simple buttons used to create and edit these photo's but more like tens of buttons that i would be using in the future, hopefully to their best ability. after playing around with these buttons i created what i thought was a good but somewhat amusing photoshoped picture of an old Indian man with a green and blue feathered hat and lipstick. I now class myself as the new Picasso. obviously i am joking, as you can see ( by the picture on the left) i still have a significant way to go!

The rest of my week and new communication technology study time was mainly spent on two main goals. Firstly trying to figure out what exactly is going on in the lectures as sometimes i get a little disorientated and perplexed and really do not understand a single thing Steven is talking about until he mentions anything that may be possibly familiar, until i pay attention a little further, only to find out that he was not in fact talking about what i thought he was and is instead going of on some tangent about 1900’s with a man named Ferdinand De Saussure who studied semiotics. a complete different subject to what i thought was a familiar topic. the second goal is further research on my assessment which i have chosen the enigma machine and its relevance to the German war. this is coming along quiet well although i am having a little difficulties with a few items which I'm sure i will figure out soon! so not to worry!

Have a great Easter and see u in a week or two!