I worked on creating a basic HTMl color code page for the wiki today. Red is FF0000, Green is 00FF00, Blue is 0000FF, White is FFFFFF, Black is 000000, Gray can be A9A9A9, Yellow is FFFF00, Cyan is 00FFFF, and Magenta is FF00FF.

Today we talked a lot about HTML. People confuse the Internet with the World Wide Web. However the Internet is actually the physical computer chain, whereas the Worl Wide Web is an enormous web which connects different pages and websites together. If you wanted to get yellow using hexadecimal, you woul write FFFF00. A protocol is a set of rules that guides you as to what you can do. VOIP stands fro Voice Over Interactive Protocol and HTML stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. The following is a link to some HTML cheatcodes: http://www.webmonkey.com/reference/HTML_Cheatsheet.

On Friday I uploaded our tenth (!!) episode of The Moh Joh Show. In this episode we reviewed one of the books in the graphic novel series Bones. In the next episode, we will be reviewing Dark Mirror: A Novel, which focuses on the X-men being put into human bodies and their reaction to their change.

Today in BTT01 we covered a lot of new things. First of all we have a Photoshop Unit test on Elements 1 and 5 on the Wednesday after the one coming up. We looked at using electronic organization devices such as the calendar on the Woodbine Wiki or Google Calendars. Mr.Case will actually be giving us a mark on these for Term 3. The internet was first developed by the military for communication purposes. The Americans were afraid of the Russians dropping an atom bomb, and one of the side-effects of that bomb is an electromagnetic-pulse. An electromagnetic pulse kills all electronic devices that are active by overloading them. Anyways, back then you had to go through multiple phone lines just to get through to the one person that you wanted to talk to. This provided a lot of inflexibility, so the internet was developed. The internet is much like a web in that it can find it's way through multiple paths to the person that you want to talk to. An FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (a set of rules for transferring hypertext pages). Every time you use WWW. or HTTP://, you are using the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTML also stands for Hyper Text Mark-up Language, which is a coded language that allows us to link to other pages simply by clicking on a series of words or letters. A server or browser acts like a translator and translates/turns this code into something that we can see and understand. If you go to View, and then Surce you can see the HTML coding. If you edit the HTML coding, you can actually edit what you see on your webpage. However you cannot change the website on the internet (it is stored somewhere else safely and we're unable to access the original file), but only on your own computer if you save it. All Webpage/Website creating programs using the HTMl coding language to create new pages; you can either view the HTML code or the changes that come from it. Sometimes it is better to see the code itself, simply because you can see where there is a glitch since you can not see what is wrong in the browser or "finished" version. HTML codes can only do things with text, therefore pictures, logos, and videos/animations are not inlcuded in the HTML coding. Instead, there is a link which tells the coding where to get that pciture, logo, video, or animation from: usually a secure website or server. Finally a tag is a small code that you input and HTML code is basically just a series of tags.

Today in BTT class, we messed around with more of our teacher's pictures using the Photoshop Editor. It was fun, and I made two great pictures. Remember when editing the pictures of the teachers that it should all stay inside the school computers and know when not to cross the line.

Today in BTT01 Mr.Case wasn't here and many students were away at the art trip. We got a work period to play around with and edit/change some pictures of teachers using Photoshop. The three rules about changing someones' pictures are: I.Get Permission from the person who created the picture or is in it. II.Be respectful and know when not to cross the line. III.The images that are changed are for personal use only; do not post them up anywhere.

This is what I'll be posting on the wiki:

Now that we're all familiar with Photoshop, we should be able to list some clear advantages of using Photoshop (why not just use paper and other utensils?). In the situation that someone asks you what's so good about Photoshop, or why even bother using it, these advantages would come in handy. I know that many of us had to do an essay on "Uses of Photoshop in School", and those uses could be posted up here aswell.
*Not having to deal with copyright issues: You are rightfully the owner and author of any work that you create on Photoshop. This means that you control whether other people can distribute your work, change it, make money off of it, etc, etc.
*Being able to mass-produce your work: Files created on Photoshop are digitally stored. This means that you can print as many copies of them that you want, or have as many copies of the file. Artists who paint only end up making one copy of their work.
*Work is harder to lose and easier to access: Since Photoshop work is stored digitally, it is harder to lose that worksimply because you can store/place the work in a large number of places and copy it over and over again.
*Time is saved: It is much more time efficient to press the Paint Bucket and have something painted. It would take a lot more time to get a bucket of paint, paint, and then clean up the big mess that you just made.
*You don't have to be an artist to be good at Photoshop: If you're not good at art, Photoshop could be a different story. Look at the work like math: it is just a series of numbers and by changing those numbers you change the work (not as much skill or expereince required).
*If you go into marketing, Photoshop is an excellent skill to have: With Photoshop, you multiply what you can make and how you can make it exponentially. If you master Photoshop and start making original art, people will notice you a lot more and you have a greater chance of your marketting campaign being a success.
*You can undo any mistake that you make: Simply by pressing a button, you can go back and edit/undo any things that you don't want affecting your work. Imagine how hard it would be to remove red paint from your canvas, when on Photoshop all you have to do is press Undo.

The computers in our school had a ram boost: they apparently run twice as fast now. However these upgrades come at the price of some accounts not being able to find their hard-drives and the printer. There are seems to be some type of network problem; my account says that it is "restricted", and I'm unable to import pictures into the Photoshop Organizer. I hope all of these problems get fixed soon.

Wow, I really haven't posted in a LONG, LONG time. The March Break made things fly by and I haven't been able to update this blog. However once school starts again, I will update much more frequently.

I was sick yesterday so I missed BTT and the last day of school before March Break. Anyways, we apparently talked about cyber bullying and how you could change someone's picture on Photoshop and post it on the internet. You could insult and offend that person and that is one of the things under cyber bullying- changing someone's pictures in a way that they do not want you to.

Today in BTT, we talked about organizing our pictures. You could add "tags" to a picture (such as taing it from 1-5 stars, putting it into the Freinds folder, etc). This just organizes your pictures, and you don't actually end up making copies of all your picture (you're just changing the way you see them). This way you can actually end up saving massive amounts of space if you have 1000+ pictures. You could also create slideshows with these pictures, and I personally would prefer using this to PowerPoint to create a pciture slideshow. Lastly, there is a secret way of sending secret messages to your friends via the pictures you send- editing or adding notes to the picturess.

Whew! Making Photoshop pictures is not that easy if you're a beginner. Anyways, I came up with some other picture ideas other than Lunar Cry (a lone wolf under a moon). Some of these include Aquatic Message: this picture would include underwater rocks/pebbles spelling out P-E-A-C-E. Another one, the Human Blur: a human-figure moving at super-speed. My last idea is Inferno: this would be a liquid river of lava.

Hey! Next week will mark the beginning of March Break: that means that this month will pass by in a flash. Anyways, I got Photoshop Elements 3 on my computer thanks to a trial CD that Mr.Case gave me. Photoshop Elements 3 rocks my world!!! I think that it is the best one I've used yet, even better than Photoshop 7. Anyways, I finished my LunarCry picture and have begun my Aquatic Message picture.

Today at BTT class, we worked some more on our Photoshop pictures. I am going to try to find the original Photoshop and download it's trial; Photoshop 7 isn't that good. Mr.Case reviewed with us some of the filters in Photoshop, and now I am happy to say that I have a firm grasp on how Layers work.

Resampling a picture means that your are actually changing the information inside the picture. If there is a chain connected to your length and width, then each will automatically compensate to make up for the other. I also downloaded photoshop for a 30-day trial so taht I could familiarize myself with the tools and make something that didn't look like it was made solely on Paint.

Mr.Case was not here today at BTT. The wiki instructed us to watch some videos about Bert Monroy, world-renowned photoshop artist. The idea for my own photoshop art was centered around a comet hitting earth, but because everybody is doing something space-related, I may have to change my idea.