Attribution

Today in class we learned about attribution.

"3 Waterfalls Forest Scene," c 2009. Forest Scenes by ForestWander Nature Photography. All Images Protected by Creative Commons Share Alike License. Images May Be Personally or Commercially Published with Attribution to ForestScene.org or ForestWander.com

According to http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking/Users folling the example "My Awesome Photo," © 2009 Greg Grossmeier, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. That is how you attribute credit to a picture. Just one of the things we learned today.

I also found out you can buy rights to a picture.  I purchased my first photo for $13 from bigstockphoto.com.
Next I'll create my own and attribute it to Kimberly Holy. 

Technology

Created my first wordle: Make one yourself at wordle.com




I also googled my full name to see my technological footprint and i found this
http://carolinecooney.tripod.com/index.html

A website I made in 8th grade.

Learning Computer Functions and InDesign

Today I learned a lot of helpful websites:

http://www.wordle.net/gallery
http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_intro
http://www.quackit.com/html/html_color_codes.cfm

A good place to buy stock photos is: bigstockphoto.com or wallbase.net
When in In Design:

My First InDesign Advertisement

• Use .25 margins
• Use file place not copy paste
• Use command D or place.
• Use command Z to undo, you can undo multiple times
• Use the Transform tool while holding shift to resize your image evenly
• Use the Direct Selection Tool to move cropped images
• If you lose your title bar use the Tab key to relocate it
• all panels can be found under the window menu
• Use the rectangle tool to insert a background object arrange, send to back) 
• Use tint to make color lighter
• Use window > color to get your color box out
• Use fill, not stroke
• Editing photos from your links tool in Photoshop will adjust your image in InDesign as long as your save the image
• Don't forget to go to file>package to group all the pictures, fonts, and colors into the document so you can open it on other computers that don't have the same fonts or colors
• Hit the W key to view your ad without lines in preview mode
• Hit T to get your type tool, make text box the size of your margin
• Export in PDF smallest file size to email 

 

How to use InDesign CS6

Link to Video

I recently started using InDesign CS6 in my Advertising Design class. We are making magazine advertisements and I have never used this program before. After viewing this video it gives you step by step instructions on how to add the different effects in InDesign. Can't wait to so you my first drafts! Coming soon.

Kimberly Holy's first Blog

Thanks for joining and following along. I hope you enjoy my commentary on classes and emerging media. I will post my thoughts and concerns as well as opinions and feedback on what I've learned and what I've found interesting. 
Thanks,
Kimberly Holy