Smester final

wix site

http://brandanhoffman1995.wix.com/digitaldesign

Avatar/Blog

Very good practice in Photoshop, More work could be done, but then again I'm a perfectionist.

Lightsaber Blog

The lightsaber project was pretty fun. I would like to work on it more to perfect it, though.

ThingLink/Blog

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/513795169129070592

Actually fairly useful program. It's user-friendly and unique.

Movie Poster

Audacity Blog

I did not like using Audacity the way we used it. Audacity is not meant to be a Digital Audio Workshop (DAW), but more for simple audio manipulation. It works better in tandem with programs like FL Studio and Albeton. Therefore, "writing music" in Audacity was a clunky and annoying experience.

Photoshop Black/White thingy

Lucidpress/Blog

I was not too impressed with Lucidpress. Anything that can be done on there can be done easily on Photoshop or even Word. When Word can do better picture editing than you...you've made a mistake.

Gigapixel Photo

Seeing this photo, it's not far-fetched to believe that government entities have use of a satellite more capable than that camera. Whether it can be used as evidence in a crime scene is up to law, which may be difficult due to privacy concerns.

City Scene/Sweden Blog

The Sweden incident was a bit silly. I believe they could have donated the giraffe to another zoo, or released it. Feeding it to the lions was a bit harsh.

The City scene was fun, I learned how to manipulate the total image so the pasted in image looks more natural...even though it was Godzilla

Teacher Apple Photoshop/Blog

The tools used in this were fun, and very useful. I especially like the color over tool, I'm going to use this at home a lot.

Bomomo vs Weavesilk

I really liked the creativity of Weavesilk. I was not too happy with Bomomo because it was less controllable and more random. Weavesilk also has amazing sounds and a relaxing soundtrack in the background. To sum it up; Bomomo suck, Weavesilk good.

Bomomo

fruit

Meaning of name blog

My name means Sword in Celtic, which is pretty freaking awesome. Other languages don't quite give a good rep, but let's just ignore that...

http://www.sheknows.com/baby-names/name/brandan

Voki/Richard Shermans issue blog

Voki was pretty cool to use, the vocals are good quality and fun. As for the Richard Shermans issue, I believe it was a publicity stunt. There is no such thing as bad publicity, he's almost acting like Miley Cyrus. It's not a bad technique, regardless of if he is liked or not.

Photofunia/Big Huge Labs

I was surprised by the quality in Photofunia. Of course all of its features are easy to do in Photoshop, but for an automated program it's pretty nice. Same deal with Big Huge Labs. Provides a nice alternative to people without the software or skills for the manipulation.

Taxedo/Wordle Blog

I really enjoyed using Taxedo, it is pretty cool to be able to buy your own creation on shirts and mugs. Wordle was okay, I just did not really see the value in it. Maybe to inspire a logo, not to create anything though.

Blog about Prezi

Prezi is a very nice alternative to Power Point. The ability to create group projects is also invaluable. I will probably use this in the future.

Name Prezi

http://prezi.com/nszooqvvwvlx/brandan-hoffman/

Storybird Link

http://storybird.com/poetry/poem/78srunh9ks/

Storybird was very silly. Clearly not meant for anything but entertaining small children for a couple minutes.

CoolText Pic and Blog

Cooltext is alright for those who do not have/use Photoshop, but the things that can be done in this program are very easy to do in Photoshop. It's almost just a very limited part of Photoshop itself, I wonder if the person who created this used some of its code.

Photoshop (Nemo, City Scene)

WeaveSilk

QR Codes

Voki

http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=9250868&height=400&width=300

Dubstep Photoshop Creation

Big Huge Labs

Photofunia

Tagxedo, Wordle, Wordle (Photoshopped)

Winter Break

Over winter break I worked at Chili's (way more than I would've liked to). I also found time (somehow) to finish writing a song and take time off to relax.