Pixel vs. Vector

Last week I wasn't at school so there were no posts - and then there was Thanksgiving break. I hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving like I did! I was sad when the break was over, but...Christmas break is in 15 days! WOO-HOO! 

Anyway, today I will be talking about pixel vs. vector, and about Adobe Illustrator. 

Photoshop (which I hate, by the way) uses pixels - Illustrator, however, uses vectors.

The difference? Well, today I found out.

Vector images can be enlarged from a very small size to as large as a billboard without loss of quality. On the other hand, pixels are the small dots that make up a photo or a picture in a image format. When you try to enlarge the photo, the quality decreases because the space between each pixel needs to be interploted and it gets very pixelized.

China's Blog Wars

This are my thoughts about the article "Inside the War Against China's Blogs"


China's Blog Wars


I also gave up on the typography Photoshop work. There's not much I can do with Photoshop - I'd kind of like to know if we will be working with Photoshop into the 2nd semester - because if so, I might take a different class. Photoshop - most of it is art - is something I can't do. 
I want to KILL Photoshop. If I could, I would. However, some of my technology classmates did really good Photoshop typography work. 
2 of my classmates had pictures of Emma Watson to do typography work on - yes, she is really pretty, but obsessive much???
I have a friend in Commercial Photography and she said that they don't do a lot with Photoshop because their teacher wants them to make good pictures by themselves without editing.

???

Apparently, we will need to write down a list of what we eat for a week. We could look at the Food Pyramid for "help". 


I don't understand - what does this have anything to do with technology? More importantly, what if we don't want to? 
I don't....I just find it a little nosy wanting to know what I eat. I mean, the school already dominates my life.   
The school faculty doesn't need to know what I eat, too. That's my business, not theirs.


Also, in my next post I will be discussing an article about China's vindictive blogs.

I found the image I'm going to work with - I'm not going to lie - I didn't want to do the typography work today because I know it's going to take me forever to do it and I only have 20 minutes left. I know I'm not going to accomplish much with it. 
Like I said, I don't want to bother with Photoshop.

Anatomy of a Character

1. Tail
2. Spine
3. Apex
4. Spur
5. Bowl
6. Terminal (or finnial?) I don't know if they're the same thing. 
7. Counter
8.  Descender
9. Stem
10. STUCK ON THIS.
11. Link
12. Loop
13. Ear
14. Ascender
15. 
16. Crossbar

Typography :)

Typography is what language looks like. It is the art and technique of type design. The arrangement of type is the selection of typefaces, point size, leading, kerning, and line length. 
The anatomy of a letterform consists of:
- Stem
-Ascender
- Descender
- Counter
- Serif
- X-height
- Baseline 
- And many more! 


Typography is most commonly used by graphic artists, typographers, and art directors.
A good typographer is someone who communicates a point of view with skill and imagination.

I think typography can affect me and other consumers when we're going to buy something. Say there's two comic books. One has amazing typography on the front while the other has boring regular type. Which would you buy? That's right - the one with amazing typography. It makes the book seem more interesting while the other one is like, whatever. The one with amazing typography MAKES you want to buy it. 
Big companies pay artists for typographic work because they know consumers would want to buy their product if it looks "cool." - this also goes for the comic book example. 
Yes, graffiti is typography, even if it is illegal. Graffiti oftentimes communicates a point of view with skill and imagination. 
I think typography is super cool. I also fell in love with typography, and the way words are designed. I love words in general, whereas pictures...I do not. I mean, I love looking at them, but not drawing them. I want to ask my World Geography teacher if I could stop drawing the images for specific terms because I'd go back and I wouldn't even recognize what I drew.


 Flickr

My altered mountain. I still do not like Photoshop, and I probably never will.
I wanted to take Commercial Photography next year, but forget it. I'm going to fail that class because of Photoshop.
I know that all I do is complain, but it's true! Photoshop will be the end of me this 6 weeks.