Rajandeep’s Weblog

1. My logo represents my name: Raji=)

2. I had drew my logo on a paper first and then scanned it in, giving it a crayon affect.

One Eyed cat: For this assignment I copy and pasted the eye of the cat.  After copying and pasting, I flipped and free transformed it till it was in the same position to the cat’s other half face.

Ripped newpaper: For the part on the newspaper where I had to just copy paste the background. But it was hard getting Patty’s  face identical to the other half. I copy and pasted that part of her face and then rotated it around to set it in the right position. I also used the blur and burn tool to smoothen things out so it doesn’t look fake.

a) What happens when you paint part of the layer mask
…black? …white? …grey?

When I used black for the layer mask the whole picture underneath showed, and when i used white nothing was able to show off (basically it blocked it). When i used the gray it showed  sum what of the orginal picture.

1) How did you enjoy the film? What stood out for you?

I enjoyed the the film by paying attention and knowing what exactly was going on. Well, the most thing that stood out for me is that we don’t even what’s going on around the world and here we take such advantage of everything. Also that there are so many crimes going on that we don’t even know about. 

2) Did you learn anything new about photography, life, people? What?

Yes, i did learn something new about photography, life, and people. Well photography: the camera doesn’t have to be set at one place to take the pictures it can be anywhere. About life, it’s just so hard to know that people around the world at this state, when we’re enjoying and taking an advantage of everything. About life it’ surprising what people around the world have to go through. Like Zana, she is a very helpful person to these people who had a future what so ever.

3) How do you think the world needs to change? How important is this?

I think the world needs to change in many different ways. Well, some issues are poverty; poverty is all over the world and someone like Zana needs to help these people or at least the innocent kids. This is really important because some kids want learn new things. These kids will do anything or get interested anything that other people who try to teach them.

4) What are you willing to do TODAY to be a part of that change?

I’m willing to take part in something that will help the people that are in need today. For example talking to teachers to organize things, like fund raising.

5) Do you know a good song/rap/poem with good lyrics about change in the world?
Post a link or lyrics to share it with us.

 http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poverty-14/

6) Pick a non-profit organization that is important to you. Why is this important to you?
Do they have a website?

An non-profit organization important to me is about sponsoring children around the world. It’s important to me because this helps families and the kids around the world that go through difficulty states.

 http://plancanada.ca/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=714&srcid=714&gclid=CP6spOSquJECFQJRlgodrVxDw

  7) What ideas do you have for media arts projects that we could do individually or as a class to help contribute to these organizations that are important to us?

Well, I think we can have fundraising in school selling different art things: paint, colours and other things. And the money we get we can donate or adopt a child from the countries that are going through poverty.  

1.  If  a 300 dpi and 72 dpi image is printed in the same size, the 300 dpi will come out to be more clearer because it is more detailed and contains more pixels/resolution.  The 72 dpi image won’t come out as clear as it should be.

Corrected Answer: When printed out at the same size, a 300 dpi image would be more clearer than a 72 dpi image becuase the dots per inch would be more condensed, therefore created the image with more detail. With a 72 dpi image the dots per inch is 72. But with a 300 dpi image there are 300 dots per inch once again creating a more precise image.

2. A picture created at 1 dpi will be very unclear and blurry. 

I used the lasso tool- magnetic. 

 I used the magic wand for this friut bowl.

  I used the marquee tools. 

1. For the combination tools I choose to use the magnetic lasso tool and the magic wand. In the beginning I used the magnetic lasso tool to clear most of the background, and later used the magic wand to clear the smaller left over pieces that I didn’t want in the picture.

2. I found the magnetic lasso tool the most efficient and helpful to use to clear backgrounds because it helped me get rid of most of the background pieces without any trouble.

3. The feather and modify tool enables me to expand and contract the background.