Week 4 Reflections

Having an assignment to take pictures, edit them, then create a slideshow out of them was like asking me to sleep when I'm tired and eat when I'm hungry.  It's what I LOVE to do.  I loved every minute of the assignment, other than the hunching over the computer for hours.  But I did try to stretch myself and do edits to photos I haven't tried before. I even found the "neutral color picker" feature quite interesting. It immediately gave skin color a warmness instead of a gray tone.  Don't know why I haven't played with that before.

Two times now Picasa seems to have become corrupted and certain features don't work anymore.  For me the "sharpness" effect seems to loose it's potency, as well as "film grain".  They just don't seem to work well at all.  The older version of Picasa I used to have had the same problem. Certain features just stopped working.

I am not a procrastinator and I hate having tasks hanging over my head, so I completed the whole assignment (the next 2 weeks' worth). I should be done now and I will have a carefree weekend. :)  Although I do hope to get a start on the final project. I've chosen my standard and objective and have watched 75% of the Powerpoint Tutorials--which really helped with this week's assignment.  The girl in class that said she had no clue about powerpoint could really benefit from watching the links on Pam's my.uen page. They helped me immensely.

The most I ever used powerpoint before was to draw text boxes so I could place writing exactly where I wanted it and not have to worry about spacing. However, I have never added photos, animation, formating, background designs, etc.  I LOVED this assignment, honestly. I look forward to the final assignment, although there is a lot more I need to learn still.