Lawsuit Summary Post

Lawsuit Summary Post

Copyright protects everything and lasts the length of the author's life plus 70 years after that. According to the Copyright website, "Copyright is a form of intellectual property law designed to protect authors of creative work from unauthorized reproduction, copying, and selling. It gives authors the ability to license and transfer their works to other parties so that they may legally reproduce, copy, and sell the product under contractual settings." Infringement of copyright is when someone steals copyrighted work and calls it their own.

If not everyone knows, a couple years ago Limewire went to court for copyright infringement of music. Everyone thought or still thinks that this case was settled among 30 and more music publishers. According to this Technology blog website, "Limewire is still facing a lawsuit brought by 13 record companies, including Atlantic, Elektra, Interscope, Motown, Sony BMG, Virgin, and Warner Brothers, which is set for trial in May." Limewire if you don't know is a place you go to download music for free and it allowed free file sharing among its members that anyone could upload a song from somewhere else then it could be downloaded by anyone, which is why this is copyright infringement. Because of this, the record labels have had $1 million in damage. Limewire is still seeking to prove that the damage claims are wrong and exaggerated. I will post below from Google of what the logo from Limewire looks like in case you didn't know. All the information I retrieved this from was from the Copyright website and the IP and Technology blog.

Limewire Logo image from Google

Adobe Tutorial # 5

Making Eyes Brighter or Stand out in Adobe Photoshop CS5


The last Adobe Tutorial I am going to explain how to do is how to make eyes brighter in a picture. There are other various ways how to do it but this is one of the ways I like to do it the best and will number off the steps for this one since it can be a little complex. I got this tutorial and learned it from this YouTube video.

Steps

1. Open a portrait picture, where you can edit the eyes of a person.

2. The next step is to duplicate the background layer.

3. You then click the Dodge Tool, which is on the left side of the screen.

4. After clicking the Dodge Tool, you then go up at the top of the screen and go to range and scroll down to highlights.

5.Then in the percentage you will type 50% to make sure the eyes look brighter when you start highlighting them.

6. You zoom into the eyes on the photo.

7. You then use the dodge tool to go around the middle of each of the eyes.

8. After this you can either leave it or bring the opacity down to make the eyes look a tad more normal.

9. After you have it the way you like then you can go to Layer > Flatten Image

10. The very last step is to Save As JPG then you are officially done and just learned how to brighten the eyes on a portrait picture.

I know this isn't one of the best photos I have taken of my niece but It showed her eyes the best and you can see my original picture and then the one where her eyes are brighter and can tell the difference. I forgot to mention as well, that you can actually use the Dodge Tool to brighten teeth as well.

Original Image

Final Image, with a little vibrance that I added to it so she didn't look so white.

Final Project for the Class!

I decided to do a design a graduation card for my final project. My purpose is get my family and friends to come to my graduation on May 12, 2012 at 11 a.m and tell them they are invited to the graduation. There will be three colors used because of the Pittsburg State University colors,which are crimson and gold, and the card will be black with white lettering or font. The target audience is my family and friends from all over to come and celebrate me graduating. The call to action is giving them the location of where the graduation is being held and to inform them that I am graduating this May. The bleed is .125 inches. The margins are .25 inches. The whole sheet or trim size is 10 inches wide by 7 inches high. It will be printed on card stock paper. The live area on each page will be 5 x 7 inches. I did do a folding dummy. I just scanned the front and back of each rough from both outside and inside of the card then uploaded it on here. I had it printed on 80# paper at Quick Print. From the Master Image Checklist, I used a reverse and a clipping path. If I were to print 500 invitations, it would cost me $240.37 according to Quick Print. It cost me $7.67 to print four copies of my invitation. The image of me is actually copyrighted by me because I took it. The texture I used is copyrighted from the Lost and Taken website on the PSU Graphics Blog. Final Images posted toward bottom of the blog.

5 Thumbs for Graduation Card

Front of First Rough Draft

Inside of First Rough Draft

 Front of Rough Draft # 2

Inside of Rough Draft # 2

Back Side and Front Side of Card

Inside of the Graduation Card

Adobe Tutorial #4

Adding to convert an image to Neon Glow in Adobe Photoshop CS5

The first step to do this is open the picture you want to do this too, which I suggest you pick a scenery picture because if you do it with a portrait of a person, it will look kind of odd. I chose my night picture when I converted it to Neon Glow. The next step after opening your picture is to go to Filter (at the top of the screen) > Artistic > then click Neon Glow. After this you can change the color from blue to any color you want. You can also adjust the glow size and the glow brightness so you can let it shine more if you would like too. The last couple of steps after doing this is to press OK then you just go to File > Save As then you save it as a JPG then that's it you are done and just converted an image to Neon Glow. I didn't get this from any website. I just learned it on my own by messing around with Adobe Photoshop CS5. There are also many more artistic aspects you can do as well when you look through them. All these images are copyrighted under me as well.

Original Image

Neon Glow Image

Job Search Analysis: Position 3

I know this is not due til May 1, but I just wanted to get it out the way and over with. The third job posting I found and also applied for, even though it has nothing to do with my major is being a supervisor for Best Buy in Lincoln, Nebraska. I actually would not be mad if I got a job selling cameras or other electronics and doing my photography business on the side. The supervisor sales jobs' basic requirements are having one year retail sales experience, which I have from working at Wal-Mart back near home for about two years. The other requirements are having to lift 50 lbs, being at least 18 years of age, and having a High School Diploma. I meet all those requirements and you also get a 10% off all electronic items for working there, which is my favorite thing about this position. The key responsibilities for this job are to partner with store management to deliver day to day coaching and training to employees to ensure quality execution of store processes and strategies, ensure sales zones are merchandised according to company SOP, and to create an innovative environment where employees are inspired to provide customer solutions across the store and share ideas regarding new ways to do business, gain new customers, improve processes, and create a more efficient enterprise. I looked up the salary on another site and it said this position makes a salary of $31,000 to $45,000. I feel like I could do this job and would be good at it. I am a very easy person to get along with and with being a communication major I have learned so much that would help me in a job like this. I also don't need to know any basic software according to the posting. I got this job posting from Glassdoor.com. You can also get the basic requirements of this job at Best Buy website. If you click on either web link, it should take you to the job site.

Job Search Analysis: Position 2

The second job I looked into or found that deals with my major was being an employee or photographer full-time for Portrait Innovations in Lincoln, Nebraska. I had to submit a cover letter and a resume' to be considered for this job. The basic requirements of the job is to have an Associates Degree. It doesn't say you need it in anything specific, but you also need to have a strong interest in photography, enthusiastic about sales, high energy/outgoing personality, strong computer skills, ability to multi-task and excel in a fast paced work environment, excellent team player, professional attitude and appearance, and the availability to work weekends, holidays, and extended hours. The responsibilities of the job include overseeing all studio functions, shooting a variety of photographs, selling portrait packages, portrait manufacturing, driving sales and meeting sales goals, cash management, maintaining studio upkeep, and customer relations. The benefits of the job is a paid training program, first year compensation potential of $30,000, annual bonus opportunity, dollar allowance for medical benefits, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, and lastly fast track career advancement. The salary range is obviously around $30,000 for the first year. The job would like you to have at least two years of photography experience, which I do have. I got this job from the Monster Jobs website. Clicking the link will take you to the specific job post.

Adobe Tutorial Blog 20

How to create a Duotone Image


Step number one on creating a duotone image is pick out a picture you would like to have two different colors mixed. It works best if the colors are gray/black then a different brighter color. The first step when you have your image opened in Adobe Photoshop is to change it to a Grayscale image and to do this you go to Image > Mode > Grayscale. The next step after this is do the same thing, except this time choose Duotone, so Image > Mode > Duotone. You can then choose a color of your choosing you would like to be mixed with black. In my opinion a brighter color works best just make sure its a Pantone Color. You also could choose another color beside black to but it makes it a little harder to see because it blows out the picture a tad bit. After you choose the colors you want then just click OK and your image is now a Duotone. I will have my examples shown below and I learned this from Digital File Prep Class, not just from the Print Production Book, but also in class. These images are pictures that I have taken also.

Original Image

Duotone Image (Final Image)

National Logo Redesign Post

The logo I decided to discuss is the Coca-Cola logos. The Pepsi logo is on this too I realize this but this is the graphic or picture that takes you through the whole years of both products. I got this from the Flowing Data website. Between both soda brands, Coca-Cola to me has the most creative name logo brand because they have so many new improvements to their logo compared to Pepsi, I mean their logo looked cool at first but now it just a plain font that's kind of dull in my opinion. Did you know that each of these soda companies have been going against each other since the late 1800s? They have been throwing mud against each one another for the longest time according to the article I read. Coca-Cola began in 1886. According to Pepsi v. Coke article, "The Coca-Cola script (which is simply a form of Spencerian Script) began life quite thin and irregular, then became much thicker and didn't thin again out to the refined version we're now familiar with until around the 1940s." Coca-Cola has made quite a few adjustments to their logo because of readability. As you can tell, it was harder to read it back then it is now. The plan after 1987 was to add a little hint of shading to the Coca-Cola swoosh. Then by the mid 1990's they starting adding a gradient to the logo to make it more appealing. Coca-Cola tries to get viewers attentions by convincing not just the kids to buy it like Pepsi does, but it convinces the whole family like using the Simpsons TV Show for a commercial and also using the polar bears every year to make people happy during the holidays and helps convince them to purchase Coca-Cola. During the time when the logo for Coca-Cola was being made, supposedly the taste had changed for a few years so when they came up with a better logo that added the word natural in it then the original taste came back with the title. It then became a product with major stability and a huge major icon of the world and industry that everyone recognizes. In my opinion, I love the way Coca-Cola taste better than Pepsi, but with logos I still like the logo for Coca-Cola because it stands out more than any other pop and is easy to find with its bright red color in stores. I got most the information from the Pepsi v. Coke website and I learned quite a bit about Pepsi and Coke logos and the redesigns of each.

Another neat picture online, that I found and thought it would work for this article as well.