Spring weather and photo shop love. Assignment #5

Since the weather has started to change I have found myself surprisingly more alert, wanting to learn more about photoshop, and getting excited about sleeping outside again.
I had a bunch of really cool pictures that I wanted to use for assignment 5 but my SD card from my good camera doesn't work on any of the computers at the university, and I have yet to buy a converter for it. So, I chose to use some pictures I took recently at a bakery, and while cooking in my house.
For the first photo I turned it black and white and then using the eraser I erased all the parts I wanted color. I tried to keep the color towards the front to make it pop. Reds and yellows are some of my favorite colors so that is why I chose to make the bowl, the eggs, and the baking soda standout. I didn't mess with the saturation of the colors.
The second photo I messed with the color saturation a little, color burned the pink cookies, and adjusted the opacity so you can still see the shape of the cookies but still gave them a psychedelic feel that I wanted them to have.
The third is of my sister and I. I turned the photo black and white, then added a dark stroke filter to it. I gave us pink lips because I took the photo in a make up stores in NY and I wanted to keep that girly make up feel with the photo.

I included the before and after of both photos.
Here are the final product.

Photo shop pictures!

So for my latest assignment in Online JCOM we had to use photo shop. After spending a summer with the wicked witch of New York screaming key commands about photo shop in my ear I found this assignment fairly easy to get done. Some of my high school knowledge of photo shop has also come back to me. It is amazing what the brain can do when it's not under pressure.
These photos are not amazing by any means but they work for what I have to do. :) I have to thank my teacher Shane for helping me out and bringing my brain back into the world of photo shop. Love this shiz....

In response to reading Internet Etiquette

The reading for Online Journalism required us to read about internet and e-mail etiquette, something I think is long over do. I am sorry that technology has progressed faster than social etiquette but people need to get with the times.
Reading the articles on "netiquette" refreshed a few things in my mind and made me realize that many things that I had thought to already be common sense are in fact not that at all.
The reading on e-mail etiquette I thought to be the most important of the two. Several points stuck out to me, mainly the ones that I see frequently in e-mails such as flagging something as high priority when it isn't. I had a boss who would do this all the time and it made me loath reading her e-mails because chances were she probably just wanted to tell me to pick up her dry cleaning.
The rule about writing libelous, defamatory statements, or racist remarks really had me thinking "Are people dumb enough to write such things in a digital format that can be used against them?" the copy and paste option on any computer works wonders in hurting feelings and ruining lives with just a few clicks. Surprised?
I think it is really important that people use proper etiquette in e-mailing, blogging, and online in general. The general rule of thumb I like to use is, If I wouldn't write something like that or say something to some ones face, I shouldn't do it online. End of story.

P.S. I bought the cookbook "Barefoot in Paris" today. I am in sweet, sweet love with it.

The first of many

Really, I am mostly doing this blog because I have to for my online journalism class. Although I enjoy blogging on occasion as well as reading them, I find it to be selfish. With the turning of generations into what I like to call the "igeneration", we do everything to please ourselves.

So there you go. My first enter and all I have to say is how I would rather be cooking or people watching.