It’s almost three a.m. as I begin this blog. Early this evening I returned to campus, to begin Project 2 all over, a task I completed, minus the captions and intro, by ten after ten o’clock.
Like everyone else I’ve had a very long and busy day and I am tired, but mentally I am scheduling the next day’s/actually today’s events… return to campus… try and put the finishing touches on this project, add those captions and the intro, classes, blah, blah, blah! Look color anything I say with the fact that I am tired…I need my sleep!!!
So I will get to the point, this is a project I
could have spent loads of time on if only I owned a Mac. I enjoyed developing the concept and laying out the images. The software does a lot and as usual I want even more! I want to be able to scale my images to a greater degree and more easily, though I was able make token adjustments to them. I want all the background colors available in every style of book. I want to paste in text, change my font, both of which are more than likely easily done but, I have not figured it out yet. I want to layer text over an image, if it can be done, PLEASE show me how. And most of all were it concerns this project, I want an exemption from the “clear and sharp image” requirement as I was dealing with many photographs taken in the 1930’s. But my biggest complaint is not being able to use my own computer.
I warned you I am cranky when I am tired! Mental Note: Add to tomorrow’s schedule write a better blog.
I am happy to read that I am not the only one who got a little cranky over being trapped in the lab. Even if working on a Mac at home were an option, transferring the work done in class to another computer seems complicated or impossible based on the instructions we were given in class. There has to be a workaround of some kind, maybe printing to a certain file type and then reloading the printed file, I don't know.
ReplyDeleteTake away my flash drive and my heart and mind (and productivity level) will follow.