Photoshop Tutorial

Video Conferencing

Video conferencing is a good way of communicating as it allows you to reach people immediately. Many businesses have started using video conferencing to allow people to talk without having to travel long distances for meetings. Video conferencing can allow large groups of people to interact with one another at different locations all over the world. Most video conferring software will allow you to share power point presentations and other documents with each other.

Some video conferencing software can be pricey but if you are looking for some software with only a few features it will bring the price down a lot. However, this option will be a lot cheaper than continually flying clients around the world if you are part of a business. If you are a business situated in a remote area with a slow internet connection their may be issues with the quality of the audio/video. However, the majority of business’ looking to communicate through this protocol won’t have problems very few suffer from slow internet connections.

Broadband ADSL

Broadband ADSL –

ADSL broadband (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) is the most popular type of broadband. ADSL broadband is supplied by BT and uses a standard phone line to connect people to the internet. Broadband works by converting your normal analogue phone line to a digital phone line which allows to you to transmit data at a faster speed that you would if you were using a dial-up connection.

If you are using an analogue modem you will get an approximate speed of 56kbps. ADSL broadband will allow you to get a speed of about 512kbps or even faster. ADSL can provide internet to 99% of homes and businesses in the UK.

Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard used for getting data from one person to another. Bluetooth technology only allows you to exchange data with people that are a short distance away from you. Short wavelength radio transmissions are sent from fixed and mobile devices. Bluetooth was created in 1994 and was used as an alternative to rs-232 data cables. Bluetooth has its advantages and disadvantages. It can be a good way of transferring images and audio to contacts without having to connect your device to a computer. It is also a good way of over-coming synchronization problems which is stopping you from putting files onto your device. Once you have your device with Bluetooth enabled it allows you to send data for free unlike if you were sending it via MMS. Personally, I use Bluetooth a fair bit when I want to receive music or photos from somebody.  I have received some problems using Bluetooth if I am not close enough to person I am sending/receiving files from. Bluetooth Special Interest Group is managing Bluetooth at the moment.

Evaluating Work

Today my brain seems on a different planet so thank god I have Sophie to help me out a bit! I asked everyone in the group to write some bullet point answers on what they think went well in our assignment and what they think could have been improved if we did the assignment again. I thought this would be easier than getting everyone to crowd around a computer to do an evaluation. I think everyone found it tough to give any negative feedback because the assignment went really well and we all worked as hard as we could to get the best grade possible. When we first got put into our groups to do the project I had my doubts that we would get much done because we hardly knew each other and we didn't know what each persons strengths and weaknesses were.  However, now that we are at the end of the project I think that it really paid off getting our groups decided for us because it meant that we got to know some other people in the group. I found it really easy to get on with everyone and I felt that I could ask the others for help if I was struggling with anything which was really reassuring. If we had to do a group assignment again I would love to work with the same people although I think it would be good to get to know some other people in the group a little bit better.

Printing off, tidying up.. In hope to get a production file of some sort.

As a group we have all looked at what needs to be done and what needs printing off. I have asked everyone in the group to print off all of their work or either email it to Sophie or me. The website has come together well and we got some clear feedback from some other people in the group on what they think of our work. I made a questionnaire today in Jackey's lesson to find out what some other people thought of the website. From our feed back we learnt that there was not enough information on our website. This was good to find out because we now have a little bit of time to put some extra stuff on there before the deadline. One thing we will definitely be adding is some information on where the college is situated for the people who are new to Weymouth.

Right now I'm going to finish typing and leave the LG as there is a VERY annoying person making their chair squeak beside me!

Weymouth College

A little something that I did on Photoshop following another tutorial of course. Let me know what you think :)
This tutorial was really short but I think it is a great way of editing text.

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photoshop-text/text-effects/image-in-text/