Photoshop and flu :(

Hey everyone,

I’m sorry I won’t be in the tutorial today, I have been so sick with the flu this past few days and I think I just need to rest. I’ve started on some antibiotics so hopefully ill be as good as new next lesson.

This week in our tutorial we used the program PhotoShop. I’ve always wanted to learn about PhotoShop because I’ve seen some people do some pretty cool things with it. We had to start off by getting some personal photos of things such as uni life, friends, summer ect… But unfortunately I don’t own a digital camera so I guess google photos will just have to do. I started off by doing the basic tutorials in PhotoShop, getting rid of red eyes and learning to cut backgrounds away from focused images. Then I pretty much experimented with different tools and seeing what different things were there. I would have to say my favourite was the filtering tool, you could give the photo a whole different look by the filter eg. You could make it look like honeycomb. Ill post some pictures of my experiments with PhotoShop next time I’m using a university computer.

We were asked to write an introduction of our essay (I’m warning you, this is only a very rough draft).
I usually do my introduction at the end so I can cover everything I’ve spoken about, I normally start off with the body. (My references aren’t in correct format yet I have just written the sites for now).

File sharing is the practice of making files available for other users to download over the Internet and smaller networks. Usually file sharing follows the peer-to-peer (P2P) model, where the files are stored on and served by personal computers of the users. Most people who engage in file sharing are also downloading files that other users share (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing). The problem with file sharing is that it’s stealing. It’s a group of people "sharing" files such as movies, music and books amongst a large array of people whom they do not know. Its programs such as morpheus, limewire, kazaa, bearshare and napster that make this possible. File sharing has been a hot topic of the news in recent years with some saying its equivalent to stealing a car. (http://media.www.beaconnewspaper.com/media/storage/paper540/news/2003/11/18/Opinion/FileSharing.Is.The.Moral.Equivalent.Of.Stealing.A.Car-560417.shtml)

**As I said it’s a very rough draft, its just I’ve got some books on order at the Gold Coast Library on order and I want to start this assignment with as much information as possible, they should be in late this week, early next week. **