Yo yo yo, I'm back for some more blogging, that's right. Well there are many topics I would like to discuss in this post, these are; finishing my Moving images arts coursework, giving up facebook, changing up my mac dock and doing my first project in Adobe Illustrator.
So I have finished my Moving Images arts coursework, which I am really happy about. Now I just got to do my ICT coursework which should be a breeze... I hope.
Yes... I did it... I gave up Facebook for a couple of weeks as its just plain bad. It feeds on our time, imagination and builds up our anxiety so I am taking it out of my life for a while. It's only been two days and I'm struggling but I have not been on yet. I have taken some measures, I have deleted the Facebook App on my phone (main source) and deleted it from my Internet browser. If I feel that I can't stay off it, I am going to get a friend to set the parental controls and block it with their own custom password. I am going to do this! As I have done this I have been tweeting more on Twitter and actually doing useful things with my time which takes me to my next two points.
I have updated my Mac dock and I must say, it's looking pretty slick... yes I did just use the word slick... hey, at least its better than groovy.... So I used two programs to do this, the first was to help with the dock panel and it's called 'Dock Library' which is a free download at http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26972/dock-library and then added themes by downloading at http://leoparddocks.com/Browse_Leopard_Docks_Designs.php. This is all free and I would recommend this program and website if you want to change your dock panel. The next thing I did was change the icons and I used a quite popular program to do this. It's called Candybar, which I must say is a great tool for changing icons and has basic tools for the dock panel aswell. With this program I was able to change the icon for Safari, Mail, iTunes and Final Cut Express. I was sooooo happy to change the iTunes icon because I flippin' hate it! And I changed the Final Cut express icon to the final cut pro icon because it looks so much cooler. Candybar can be downloaded for a 14-day free trial which I am currently on but you can buy it for $29 (about £18) which I am considering to do.
So because I can't go on Facebook I started to play about with Adobe's Illustrator CS4 which I downloaded but never really used. I used it to do some 'vector art' as they call it and created the front page for my Moving images arts coursework. I must say after working with it, Illustrator is a pretty sweet program, especially when creating from scratch, although I did add a texture overlay in Photoshop but everything else was quickly created in Illustrator. The final product is the picture by the way.
Well thats all I have to say now.
Bye,
Wilson Lynn
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