Info Tech 11 2018-2019 ACSS Brendyn: 2018

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Friday Post October 12

I placed the mirror image and using the free select tool removed the glass from the mirror, I then layered it via cut and moved the mirror to be the top most layer. Then using the free select tool again I removed the background from the image "eye hand. I placed it between the layer of the mirror glass and the mirror frame, and made it fit the frame. I then added the "solar flare" image and added it behind the "eye hand" image and cropped it to fit the inside of the mirror. I then added a background so it wouldn't look bland and out of place.

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Creating The Perfect Slideshow

Adobe Premiere is a fantastic tool to use for editing which allows a plethora of options when it comes to editing videos or creating slideshows. I came into Adobe Premiere without any previous experience in it, but the tutorials were great and the layout of it wasn't too complicated. I started the slideshow by adding in a track of my choice after coming up with a general idea of what I wanted the slideshow to be about. After that I placed my images in an order that I thought would fit the song. Once that was completed I synced them generally to the song to be fine tuned at a later point. Once I felt that it they were synced I added transitions that matched the images and the song. Then I added the finishing touches on the transitions, fine tuning them and matching them with the song I went to part two. I added all the images in order again but shortened the duration of the clips, and then I edited them with key framing to increase the scale of the image as it went from the 1 to 10 second mark of the image. After I rinsed and repeated the key framing effect for the intro images I began on adding a blur effect to match the scaling of the photo. Now was time to add a title car, while I'll admit I could have done better on it I was having some trouble trying to put it on the other images. Then I inserted the intro in front of the slideshow and edited it so that after the intro ended the music would start and build up to the slideshow. I decided to get a little fancier at the end and used the razor tool at the end of the song to separate it from the original track. I then added a fade audio transition to the clip so the song would fade out at the end of the slideshow.

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Friday, September 28, 2018

Thunkable Review

Thunkable is an absolute Nightmare and here is why. Let me just warn you before you continue reading, Thunkable has potential but stay as far away from it as possible, I wish I never even heard of Thunkable. I have wasted a lot of time working with Thunkable so that's a part of my life I'll never get back so if you wish to stop reading about this horrible website then I wouldn't blame you. Another thing, if you have used Thunkable before let me just say, I feel sorry for you. Anyways, this website uses a series of pre-built codes called "blocks" you fit them together like a puzzle and badda bing badda boom you have an app. Now this may sound easy and it can be, but the problem with Thunkable is the tutorials are for an older version and they removed a lot of key components for their blocks. Thunkable; however, continues to use these tutorials even though they are now useless without access to the older version of Thunkable. Thunkable removing a lot of the key features from their website is what really ruins Thunkable for me, it showed a lot of potential but now it's useless because they can't properly show you how to use the site itself. Unless you really want to waste a lot of time and study every block in the site and see what it does, I suggest you stay away from it. I give Thunkable a 2/5 for poor direction and for being a waste of time.