At the end of last semester, Dr. Leon asked us to comment on a general prompt: What difference does new media make to doing history? After a course that had some hands-on elements combined with a lot of exploration of what others
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This afternoon, as I finished up Visual Explanations, and furthermore tonight, when I returned home from giving a talk and saw Megan’s insightful comment about ability to compare maps, I realized I had made a mistake of parallelism in my previous blog
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As we’ve discussed throughout the semester, design is not just about making things pretty, but also functional–to go back to my former classmate’s telling, the crossroads of art and engineering. This week’s web visits focused more on the functionality part, specifically making
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This week’s assignment, working with images, is up. As others have commented, it is amazing how addictive working with images in Photoshop can be. Thankfully I got a plenty early start on it! I chose to give my page a name: “Retouching
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I’d like to change my blog title, but am having a hard time deciding what I want to call it. So I’m asking you, all two of you (if that) who read this blog, your thoughts. Some criteria and titles that I’m
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This week’s reading and video assignments cover more about the magical world of Photoshop, particularly how it can be used to restore historic photos to their former glory. As Dr. Petrik noted in our class discussion last week following the class’s lively
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This blog was initially the result of a class requirement. I had thought about blogging, even taking a stab in 2004 (since deleted) and again briefly in 2009 (as in, all of one post). But it took Dr. Leon’s requirement in my
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For this week, we are moving from setting up pages on the Web to the nitty-gritty of Photoshop. As I read through the book, the articles and watched the video, I started playing with my own images. All of the books for
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This week I commented on the following blogs: Megan Amber Beth Richard
This week’s homework was our typography assignment, in which we experiment with type styles to prepare a page–one that may influence our final project website. Since my final project will be about the journey of Antonio López de Santa Anna to Washington
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