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This is the autoscopy that I created. I started with a selfie of mine and combined half of the evil mask. The background is space with all its plants and I also combined a UFO in there. I created this piece because I never knew how much I was into space. I started becoming more interesed about space because it is so big and we still do not know if there is more to life than just us. Space is so interesting because you learn so much about it and still do not know anything. There could be other living beings living in another plantet and they could look so different from us. This piece was created to inspire other people to imagine and believe. 

                               Above, in black and white is a logo that I created in Illustrator. The logo will represent me when people see it. I wanted to create a logo no one has seen before. As I was thinking of what I should create, a crown popped up in my head. As a child, a crown has represented power and strength to me. As I was messing around with different shapes, I  realized that if I make it into a smiley face it will look very good. Obviously it's a smiley face but I wanted to create the mouth to look more like a moon. This is because recently I have realized the beauty of the moon.  For this assignment, our mission was to create a brush with our logo and the provided images. The first thing that I needed to do was create a boundary around the logo then around the whole page. After I added the images that we were provided with like spray effect, scratch effect, and a negative light eff...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAmSB5MQxOo Photoshop is a program that I've always wanted to learn. From this video about beginners, I learned that once you hit control u, the hue/saturation settings come up. This is a very important tool that I know I will be using. The tool is very easy to control. All you need to do is go to one of the three options which are hue, saturation and lightness and drag the bar to however much you want it.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bStwbUQ4Uks In this video I learned a lot of simple tools that are easy to use but my favorite had to be the dodge and burn tool. These tools allow you to increase and decrease the brightness level of the photo highlight, midtones, and lowlights. With these two tools comes a third which is the sponge tool. This tool allows you to adjust the color intensity. I like these tools a lot because it allows you to make the image look so much better with a simple brush. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQQqnn2uZv4 In ph...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqjZR_v37K8 One of the tools that I really liked was the artboard tool. This tool allows you to reshape how you want your image to look like. In comparison, this would be like the page setup you would have if you were writing a paper. This tool looks very easy to use because you just drag the corners to how you would like it to be. My favorite thing about this is that you can easily create a duplicate artboard.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-p3MojvdBA  The next tool that I found very interesting was the direct selection tool. This tool easily allows you to reshape an error that you made in your design. Even though I believe this tool is easy, I still think I will need practice with it to perfect it. I know this tool will help me out a lot because a lot of shapes that we create will have little imperfections. Instead of restarting, this tool will make my life easier just by editing the part that I got wrong.  https://www.youtube.co...

In the late 1960s, Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf started the design of the internet. The internet is distributed packet-switched network which connects computers around the world. The internet was a result of a project called ARPANET which was supposed to be a defence project for the government. Today the internet is used to connect people no matter their location.  The World Wide Web is a service on the internet to search and share data. Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web in 1989. This service was created to meet the demand for sharing information between institutions, professors and scientists. Now the www is used for searching for any information you need. We use the internet by building on top of the services such as www and emailing.  The web and the internet are two different things that are usually said interchangeably but in reality, they are different. The internet is a network of machinery that grants you access to the web. The internet contains the web while the we...

     Starting classes again is a little scary because you don't really know who your teacher is nor if the students are nice and cool. The first Tuesday, I could not find where the class was which made me miss it. However, in my first class of Digital Media, I actually learned a lot. In the first class, there were topics that I really never talked about or was ever taught. The videos and the explanations that were presented in class made it so much easier to understand which for me at least makes it more enjoyable to learn.      My name is Bexhet Shehu but I go by Jon. I am originally from a little country in eastern Europe called Albania. I was born there and basically grew up there. At age 10, I moved with my dad to America, specifically Clearwater. Clearwater and the Tampa Bay area have been my home ever since. I do visit Albania almost every summer which brings unbelievable joy to my heart. The memories that I made and make will be with me forever. It w...