Blog Post Number Three

       In working with editing our images, it is very important that we sophisticatedly resize our images so that the picture itself is not distorted. Through both enlarging and shrinking an image may become very pixelated as the components of the image stretch or shrink individually. To bypass this flaw I used the Adobe Photoshop image sizing feature.
       The image that we were originally given was 1.8 inches wide and we were tasked with bringing that width to both 5 inches and 1 inch as well. The picture below is the original image we were given.

       Then, in order to resize the image, I uploaded it to Adobe Photoshop. From there I clicked on the image icon at the top of my screen, in my laptop's toolbox, and was able to open image resizing options. This prompted a screen to come up which allowed for me to change the height, width, and resolution of the image amongst other things. After changing the width to 5 inches the image became very pixelated and I was then tasked with reworking the image. From there I was able to use the drop down menu under the image resampling link and select a function to aid in reducing the noise of the stretched out image. After doing so I ended up with the image below.

       In the image above I saw the noise reduction function work very well to remove some of the  flaws that were there, however the function did not work as well on the smaller image. In resizing the original photo to have a width of 1 inch the image became distorted as we had assumed, however the focus was still a bit clearer than that of the first image after resizing alone. As the image was more clear when it was shrunken I was able to use the noise reduction function just a bit to help blend some evident pixelation out of the image. The results are as shown below.

       Based on my experience only using simple resizing tools I do feel as if the usage of photoshop tools add to the complexity and professionalism of an image. The clarity that gives the image those qualities is crucial to find in resizing images to present an accurate depiction of the original image.

Blog Post Number One

12 January 2017

       My name is Morgan Joseph and I am an Event Management major and French minor. I come from Cape Cod, Massachusetts where I live with my mother, father, sister, and our dog. My sister is only a year and twenty days older than me and we have been close our entire lives. Our relationship to our parents is the same and we spend most of our time at home together. Aside from my immediate family my mother's side of the family has always been very close. We spent most of our childhood at our grandmother's house and we still visit at least twice a week to see her where she lives with one of my mother's sisters. Below my mother, her two sisters, my grandmother, and I are pictured.  

       When I am not spending time with my family I am typically at school these days, or spending time with friends and my sister. My sister and I will typically spend our time doing yoga, rock climbing, hiking, and going to the beach with our friends. As we live on Cape Cod we have access to beautiful beaches and hiking trails that we love to take advantage of during the summer. Our area also offers various things to do like heading to Provincetown for various festivals or attending a show at the drive in at the cinema shown below. 

      

        Aside from traveling in my own state, I have also had the opportunity to travel to various countries such as Italy, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Panama. Whether I was traveling to take a tour of historical museums and sites or spending weeks on the beach learning to surf in Panama I was able to derive a sense of personal responsibility through engaging in the experiences held in the places depicted in the images below.