TheLen

Below is a paper I wrote in the Fall 2003 for Bob Beisner about the usefulness of the internet for historical research. Like the internet, the format is not exactly traditional, but he found it entertaining.

“… but Dr. Brown, there’s so much information on the internet!” (more…)

On June 1, 2006, I attended a Photoshop workshop sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence. Since I was the only student, it was a particularly useful tutorial. I never realized how much you can do with the Photoshop software. I learned to change colors, shading, effects (making a photograph look like a mosaic or a painting), and even how to move parts of a picture to another part of the picture — now I know how to remove both red-eye and people from pictures. I also learned to both crop and resize pictures as well as how to save an edited picture in the various web-friendly formats (j.peg, pdf, etc.). I’m actually anxious to go down to the computer lab and play with more of my own pictures. Once I’ve cleaned up some pictures of glass and the hot shop in Glen Echo Park, I’d like to go to the Dreamweaver workshop and learn how to that incredibly basic website more interesting and aesthetically pleasing.