Photoshop Tools

This is a picture of the Photoshop tool bar.

What each tool does:
1 -  Marquees - creates a marquee around a selected part of the picture. There are four types of marquee shapes.
2 -  Lassos - outlines an irregular shape of  part of the picture
3 -  Crop -  crops part or all of the photo
4 -  Healing/Patch/Red Eye - adjusts areas of the image
5 -  Clone/Pattern Stamp - doubles part of the picture or adds a pattern
6 -  Erasers - erases chosen parts of the image
7 - Blur/Sharpen/Smudge - blurs, sharpens, or smudges the picture
8 - Pen/Anchor Points - adds black areas to your image
9 - Path/Direct Selection - selects areas of the image
10 - Notes/Audio Annotations - lets you put solid text boxes on the image and allows you to write text. Also allows you to add audio.
11 - Hand - Zoom in on the image, and the Hand button allows you to move the picture around
12 - Set Background - choose different colors for background
13 - Move - adds a layer to the picture
14 - Quick Selection/Magic Wand - automatically selects sections of the image
15 - Slice/Slice Select -
16 - Brush/Pencil - allows you to draw on the picture
17 - History/Art History Brushes - blurs the image

18 - Gradient/Paint Bucket - adds a gradient/solid color over the picture
19 - Dodge/Burn/Sponge - adjusts image with lightening, "burning", "sponging"
20 - Horizonta;/Vertical Type - allows you to add/move text on the image

Blogs

Three blogs that I read today were http://icanhascheezburger.com, http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/, and http://www.ecogeek.org/.
On http://icanhascheezburger.com, I read the FAILblog. People posted pictures showing things that are considered 'fails', and sometimes 'wins'. One that I read was a picture of a Walgreens refridgerator, and inside were boxes of beers, but it was labeled 'Breakfast-Juice'. A 'win' picture that I looked at was a sign that said 'PLEASE Do not drop your cigarette butts on the ground. The fish crawl out at night to smoke them and we are trying to get them to quit'. I thought that FAILblog was amusing. ^_^''
On http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/ I saw a cool post and picture of a vertical garden, grown around a big building. Another post I read was a brain game, trying to convert the word LONG into HAIR in six steps, by changing the word, but keeping one letter in the same place each time.
On http://www.ecogeek.org/, the posts are all related to science and eco-ish stuff. One post that I found interesting was about the Kindle, the electronic device that you can download tons of books on. It said that Kindles are more eco-friendly than regular books, and I can understand that, since books are loads of paper and the Kindle is electronic (but I still prefer to read paper books). The Kindles use a small amount of electricity, but they are still more eco-friendly than books.
I am going to go read blogs more often now, because I find most of them enjoyable.

What I have learned in Digital Media

I have learned some things in Digital Media class so far, like the parts of a computer. I learned what the CPU was, that the hard drive stored long-term information, and other insides of the computer. I also learned that the box with all the parts and gadgets in it is the actual computer, and the screen is only the monitor. I've learned about the history of computers, dating way back, as well as how to create a professional powerpoint.