Lab 实验 7 Jacob and Mesh 张飞和渔网

(Live Mesh)

(Jacob)

My Canadian friend Jacob is on his last week in China. For two days (22th and 23rd) he hang around the skateboard shop in Taiyuan. I couldn't resist talking about his intent of coming back to China again. Jacob came to make sure that he and snoopy (girl of course) spends the rest of their life time together. Congratulations!
Although my ankle hurts seriously recently we had a great time hanging around and doing a little skateboarding.
I took some photos with my crappy iPhone cam and messed around with some of them in Photoshop.
I adjusted the lights and shadows and added a lens blur to the background

我加拿大的朋友张飞在中国的旅行只剩下一周。这两天他在太原的滑板店附近闲逛。我忍不住想说说他他来中国的目的。张飞来中国确保他与snoopy（当然是女的）共度余生。太棒了吧！
尽管我这几日脚腕十分疼，我们还是很愉快地度过了两下午。
我用简陋的iPhone照了几张相。把相片在Photoshop里改了改。
我调整了下明暗并给背景加了个‘镜头模糊’滤镜

Later the evening I discovered that Microsoft Mesh can be used on the Mac now!
I already tried it out when it's only available for PCs and it's quite impressive.
I get 5GB for free in the air, and I can sync files between the air (a visual desktop on the web) and several devices (currently PC and Mac, later mobile phones).

今晚我发现微软的‘渔网’（翻译成‘啮合’也能说得过去）可以在Mac上用了！
我在它只能用于PC时已经试验过了，挺不错的。
可以有免费的5GB空间在网上。网上的虚拟桌面，其他设备（PC机，Mac，以后会有手机）直接可以实现文件同步

Lab 实验 6 Motion Blur 动作模糊

Fan Skateboard Club Winter Tour Poster

Fan Skateboard Club Winter Tour (Better Version)

Lab 实验 5 Adding lights and shadows

(Weird. This picture got washed out after I uploaded it, her face should be more saturated)
P.S. problem solved - I had to export the image from Aperture first to get the best quality, or else it's just a thumbnail preview in aperture.
But still, the image is a little washed out.

Before - eyes barely visible, some red and blue on the sweater.
After - As shown - lightened her up, lens blurred the background

All subtle changes, but better than the original

English-1 英语-1

Today I'm starting a new series. This series is all about my English learning progress.
今天我创建了一个新系列。这个系列纯粹是关于我的英语学习进度。
Now I'm learning and writing this post simultaneously.
现在我在同时学习和写帖子
Vocabularies, (may not contain all definitions)

*Propose - to ask some one to merry you
Propose marriage to SB [propound fml]
*Politic - (of actions) based on good judgment (or judgement)
[prudent]
*Jumpy - Nervous and axious,especially because of fear or guilt
*Amiss - Wrong; not suitable or as expected
Something was amiss.
*Prejudge - To form an opinion about a situation or a person before you have all the necessary information.
*Justify - to give or to be a good reason for
*Spaced - to arrange things or people so that there is some distance or time between them.
evenly spaced
*Catchy - (infml) (especially of a tune or sound) pleasing and easy to remember.

Waste-2 混-2

Other than loitering around the morning, iPhone upgrading at noon and skating for the afternoon, I watched several 'Understanding adobe photoshop tutorials' and had some ideas.

#1 A new Project in mind! 

First, the Zoomify feature in PS

(In a sentence, Zoomify enables loading and seeing only a portion of a bigger image) The Zoomify export feature in PS makes a high resolution/dimensions image easy to see on web. The image will be cut into pieces. the viewer views a portion at a time with only that portion of the whole image loaded on screen. 

I think it a great idea to shoot high resolution photos of my class mates and make a giant zoomify image.

I'll start off by shooting one portrait for each. If successful, I'll include more natural photos, like a basketball slam dunk.

#2 Finally realized what happened the other day!

Once I tried to get rid of a white background of a logo in my Mom's PPT file. I left the image with checkerboard background and saved the file as '.tiff'. But Powerpoint kept interpreting the checkerboard white.

Today I watched a tutorial about Alpha channel. Alpha channel can be used to store a selection in PS. It can also store transparency for softwares that don't support PS layers. To make Powerpoint read transparency, I have to save an extra Alpha channel.