Redskins Football

Michael and Darrin played their first football game today. Here are the shots that we managed to get. Did you know football games last TWO hours each?

Scott's New Bike

Scott won a bike yesterday at the Goldpanner's game! He is still very excited. It was Kid's Day and my brother gave us tickets to go to the ballgame. At first I said, "No!" but then I thought it would be nice for the kids to experience a game. And why did I say no so quickly? I used to watch the Cincinnati Reds play and those games lasted a long time and that sun was hot!

Goldpanner games are much cheaper too--$2 for adults and $1 a kid =) We are definitely going to keep going to the ballpark!

Blog: Bitmap vs Vector Tools

1) Have you worked with other graphics tools? If so, what were they? Were you working with bitmap or vector tools (or both?).

I have only played around with PSE 4.0 and that was only to modify my pictures for scrapbooking.

2) Point us to three images on the web that have caught your attention or that you feel are noteworthy. Since they are being displayed on the web, you are seeing a bitmap version, but what kind of tools do you think were used to create each image (bitmap or vector or both?) and why?

I did a google on vector images, since I wanted to see what could be done. Here is one that does look very cool and is by "Cris Vector". http://www.vectorvault.com/2008/07/20/incredible-vector-art-portfolio-cristiano-siqueira/

If I was guessing if it was vector or not...the amounts of different textures that he is using and colors.

Here is a cool picture from flickr. I know it is a bitmap, otherwise known as raster image, since it is most likely a digital picture. http://www.flickr.com/photos/97968921@N00/2677899048/

Just because I think these would make cool rubber stamps. I wonder...are rubber stamps made from vector images? Hmmm....http://www.vecteezy.com/vf/453-Ornaments-Vector-pack

She Rides!

Jill finally started riding her bike. She knew how to balance, but just didn't have the courage to take off. Yay Jill!

Blog: Fireworks Thoughts

Make a post to your blog answering the following questions: what do you think of Fireworks so far? What are the most interesting uses you can think of for it? How do you plan to put it to use for your "real" site(s)?

Fireworks is frustrating! I worked on my other class this week, since I thought this assignment in Fireworks looked similar to what I have been doing in Adobe Photoshop. Moosetake! I had issues getting Fireworks to work properly and couldn't save my selection. I still can't do it and receive an error when I try. I spent a lot of time messing around with that.

Fireworks seems like a very useful tool for altering free Dreamweaver templates, resizing images and altering digital pictures. I plan on using Fireworks to alter and resize my images for my "real" site. It seems like there is a lot more to Fireworks than what we have done so far, so I'm sure I'll have a better answer for this question soon.

Blog: Table-Based Design

Take a look back at each of the sites you chose as examples of good design. Is their design based on tables? Styles? Both? How about your blog itself?

Why do you think so many sites still use tables for layout even today?

I can't wait to learn more about CSS for page layout! I guess so many sites still use tables for layout because the work is done and they don't want to redo everything that already works. Maybe they already have determined how they are going to layout pages and it would be hard to make/convince everyone switch to a new format. Perhaps there will be more motivation to get rid of tables as more people invest in iphones and such. And that time seems to be coming rather quickly.

I changed my blog layout after a previous lesson and it looks like it doesn't use tables! Very cool. I noticed that the Web Design Library site that I liked uses tables and CSS. QVC uses only CSS and no tables (at least their index page doesn't). I don't know why I liked the Web Design Library. Today it looks too blue.

color management

Someone recommended this tool for color management. I'm going to look into it later, but am using this blog to remember the link. Huey