Monday, 26 October 2009

Image Skills

Here are my examples of how to crop and resize images for a story.


I used Adobe Photoshop to edit, crop and resize my image

Below is the original image






I resized the image to 100x 100 pixel thumbnail









Then created a 400 wide by 300 pixel high image:








And finally cropped to 200 wide by 500 pixels high:


Sunday, 18 October 2009

Big Brother

Channel 4 has force fed its viewers some tools in the past, but round ten may just take the gold. It shouldn't be possible, but it somehow is.
Yes that’s right, Big Brother has been and gone for another year, leaving a massive void in the TV schedule in its wake. Or maybe not. The viewing figures decline year upon year, yet people still watch it. Ponder this, where does big brother sit . TV heaven or TV hell? It’s produced some brilliant moments in the early days, but the last few years of dirge, have ebbed away at our collective love for it.



This years winner Sophie “ Dogface” Reade (see definition for ‘busty blonde) tells casual viewers everything they need to know about where the show is in its life; its on its last legs, shuffling around like a scabby cat. Sure, Sophie is cute, but as interesting as watching paint dry. A typical ditzy blonde, that only won because Nuts readers voted in their millions. Not winner material. Runner up Siavash should have won for his eviction outfit alone.


Past years in the house has produced some truly watchable characters, Nasty Nick, Vain-bum flasher Jason. Idiot-boy Marco. Right said Fred, camp-tastic Dan and Transsexual Nadia. Clearly BB has been void of quality since the old days of yore. No wonder it’s been forced to take an early pension.
Reade plans to spend her winnings on hair extensions and isn't ruling out another boob job.


TV hell then…