How To Make a Photography Slideshow

Hey guys! As my last digital literacy lab, I would like to explain how I made a slideshow for my photography final this semester, because it's super easy using Adobe Lightroom, an inexpensive, very simple replacement for photoshop.

1. Firstly, download the Adobe Lightroom 3 Trial. Or buy it. Whatevs.

2. Okay, now this program is pretty user friendly. It's got a nice interface as you can see. So check it out, then when your ready to make a slideshow, hit the button in the left column that says "Import..." then pick your files. If you click on the "Develop" button from the drop down menu at the top, you can do some basic color, hue, and saturation editing--nothing too fancy, there aren't any layers in this program (which is why I could never use this for illustration), but there is definitely enough to improve a photo.

 3. Now click on the "Slideshow" tab on the drop-down menu and you can make customized backgrounds, slide times, transitions, and title and end pages. It's pretty straightforward. If you want to add a song, find the box that looks like the one below, and select music from your music folders or what have you. When you're all done, hit play and you can see how it looks. When you're satisfied, press the Export Video button on the left hand corner. It will export as a handy dandy .mp4 . A really nice program.

Final Reflective Post

Well, well, well. Digital Civilization has come to a close. So sad.

Like Dwight here, I'm gonna miss it. My favorite thing about Digiciv is that I believe it asked me to change my mentality. After the first evaluation, Dr. Zappala invited me to put my personal voice into my entries and into the class projects. Before then, I had been writing blog posts in a robotic fashion, failing to synchronize my semester goals with the class assignments. After the evaluation, I changed my pace and focus a bit.  I challenged myself to learn first, and then let the grades result as they should from application and work.

Making a Widget

Hello all! This blog post is all about making your own online widget. Widgets are very useful for connecting your blogs and other internet adventures together. For instance, I have this blog, but I also post regularly on two other blogs, so you can see the little widgets I have made on the right column for ididnotdrawthis.blogspot.com, my art blog and treesclaptheirhands.tumblr.com, my photography blog.

Since posting these widgets, I have had an increase in views for both blogs, so its a great way to get more traffic to your internet projects. Here's the resource I use: http://www.widgetbox.com. And here's how you do it:

Life 3.0 Illustration

First life is the best life. I hope this is the message that comes across when you come to the Digital Revolution Presentation on Thursday, December 9 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm. in 3108 of the JKB, and watch Morgan, Eric, Clint, Trevor, and I present our music video!

Nominated Blogs!

Throughout this Digital Civilization class that I have been blogging for, there has been many entries among my classmates. Some of them have stood out to me, and I have nominated a few entries for their awesome content and connection. And the Nominee's are.....

My Internet Art Projects.

I added these links as afterthoughts on other blog entries, but I have realized how important they are to my internet identity. This post is dedicated to my art blogs.

 So I'm going to take advantage of Web 2.0, and explain some of my other internet projects. I tend to post a little slower on this blog compared to other bloggers, but I am an active internet user in other ways. So, Here are some of my other projects. I will also be adding widgets on this blog shortly, for quick links:

Creating Art on Photoshop: A Basic Tutorial

So, for this post I am going to show the basics of how to create and post digital art on an art blog, using my Gulliver's Travels illustration. First of all, you'll probably want to use a fancy thing called a tablet. It's a kind of plasticky pad you draw on with a stylus like a pad of paper. The points on the pad correlate to pixels, so its like you are drawing straight onto the screen. A must have for any digital artist. It can connect via USB ports to the computer. Here's mine a Wacom Intuos 3:

These can get pricey, so if you don't have one, go take your ID card to the media lab in the basement of the HFAC (provided you are a BYU student, of of course), and you can try one out for a few hours. For this tutorial I am using Adobe Photoshop CS4, but any of the recent photoshop versions will be great, this is a pretty simple tutorial.