{"id":116,"date":"2012-02-09T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2255@johnjohnston.info\/blog\/"},"modified":"2012-05-20T20:42:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T19:42:55","slug":"past-ds106-oclock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/past-ds106-oclock\/","title":{"rendered":"Past DS106 O&#8217;Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/images\/2012-02\/2012-02-09_past_ds106_0clock.jpg\" alt=\"Past ds106 0clock\" height=\"371\" width=\"480\"><\/p>\n<p>Ad DS106 get underway I&#8217;ve found my Daily Create rate has dropped right off. I was doing ok before the course got underway and then it went a bit pear-shaped. I managed 10 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troutcolor\/sets\/72157628910269331\/with\/6831491623\/\">DS106 photos<\/a> and a few <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/johnjohnston\/sets\/thedailycreate\/\">dailycreate sounds<\/a>. I managed to do the odd full assignment but was quite pleased that I already had a blog. This week I&#8217;ve really dropped out of the game. I don&#8217;t feel bad about not doing any creates but I feel a bit guilty for not paying much attention to other folks work\/play. Only managed one comment his week.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway according to <a href=\"http:\/\/ds106.us\/2012\/02\/06\/week-4-photography-and-visual-assignments\/\">Week 4: Photography and Visual Assignments<\/a> the next bit is to try and do some <a href=\"http:\/\/assignments.ds106.us\/types\/VisualAssignments\/\">Visual Assignments<\/a> so this is my first the <a href=\"http:\/\/assignments.ds106.us\/assignments\/comic-book-effect\/\">Comic Book Effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Method: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>iSight Photo at lunchtime in the office.<\/li>\n<li>Added clock and watchstrap in Fireworks, saved as jpg.<\/li>\n<li>Cut trace round in photoshop with magnetic lasso and delete office.<\/li>\n<li>Add background from <a href=\"http:\/\/bevevans22.posterous.com\/mr-blue-sky\">Mr. Blue Sky &#8211; bevevans22&#8217;s posterous<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Save jpg to dropbox<\/li>\n<li>on iPad move to photo library via dropbox app<\/li>\n<li>Use <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/halftone\/id419957803?mt=8\">Halftone<\/a> to make halftone effect.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I was hoping something of the rabbit from Alice would come through.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to be make a much better watch, (need a bit of time<img src='https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/pivotx\/includes\/emoticons\/trillian\/e_121.gif' alt=';-)' \/>) and be able to do the halftone in photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>I did manage a couple of photoshop tutorials this week, nice short ones from <a href=\"http:\/\/mattgemmell.com\/\">Matt Gemmell<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mattgemmell.com\/2012\/02\/06\/etched-effects-in-photoshop\/\">Etched effects<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mattgemmell.com\/2012\/01\/29\/subtle-ui-texture-in-photoshop\/\">Subtle UI texture<\/a> which I found useful. I found another tip here: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sscanvasgraphics.com\/2012\/02\/08\/splash-the-color-apple\/#comment-22\">Splash The Color<\/a> from a DS106r.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ad DS106 get underway I&#8217;ve found my Daily Create rate has dropped right off. I was doing ok before the course got underway and then it went a bit pear-shaped. I managed 10 DS106 photos and a few dailycreate sounds. I managed to do the odd full assignment but was quite pleased that I already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/past-ds106-oclock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Past DS106 O&#8217;Clock&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,32],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default","tag-visualassignments","tag-visualassignments341"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RLlC-1S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}