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Learning Outcomes: Automated Batch Process
Photoshop’s automation feature is designed to make your life easier. Staring at a folder of a hundred pictures that all need to be resized? No problem. Need to convert 50 images to black and white? Set it up, let it run, come come back in ten minutes. It works like this; you open the first image of the series, and record the actions. You save the process, then apply it to all your other images. Easy enough concept, now I’ll walk through it and show you what it looks like.
Step Enlarge Images for Better Results
Step enlarging is a process I use for enlarging digital photographs to enormous sizes with fairly good results. The advantage of step enlarging is that you are enlarging the image in very small steps, which gives the computer smaller bits to work with and forms cleaner lines as opposed to enlarging an entire image all at once.
Coding Open – The Benefits of Free and Open-Source Software in Academia
The term “open-source software” means many things to many people. To some, it’s a method of collaboration; an easy way for your work to benefit your peers. Others see it as a confusing business paradigm. After all, how can you make money by giving away your work? Still others see it as an affordable way to launch a business; or teach yourself a new skill. Clearly open-source software has many uses. But like anything, it’s important to understand both the benefits and the drawbacks to going open-source. Specifically in an academic setting.
INTERACTIVE DESIGN: EMU Marketing Exhibit
Artists’ Reception | Fri, Oct 16th | 4-7pm | Adell McMillan Gallery
UPDATE – Show Website: id.uoregon.edu
Darrel Kau, Director of the UO Cultural Forum, offered us an opportunity to exhibit our work in the Adell McMillan Art Gallery. Needless to say, we jumped on it.
This was an ambitious project for us. While the designers had experience creating small exhibits through their classes, none of us had executed an art installation that included a 34′x9′ wall, six 8′x8′ display cases, and a 17′x11′ display case. The challenge was to create an exhibit that reflected our collaborative work style, gave props to the designers and programmers, showcased how we advance student learning, and gave those viewing the installation an engaging, interactive experience.
We like this kind of challenge, and we made it work. Big time. Read more…
Generating Useful Error Pages With Pound
We use Pound as a reverse-proxy and load-balancing frontend to our web cluster here in the office. Today we had some NAT problems with our proxy server and ended up with some server downtime. Pound defaults to outputting a cryptic error message when it can’t reach a valid host:
Learning Outcomes : Posters This Year
We have completed a huge amount of posters so far this school year and we keep cranking them out. To the left you can see a few of our recent projects. This past year I have learned a lot very quickly in the creative atmosphere of EMU Marketing. I thought I might share a few of the things I’ve discovered about working with print on tight deadlines.
Learning Outcomes: From Print to Web
I was hired by EMU Marketing last summer as a graphic designer for posters and advertisements. Before I even made it back to campus for fall term, I was given 3 large-scale projects to work on. It was an exhilarating experience designing for the entire student body.
Learning Outcomes: Interacting with the Flickr API using PHP
Many of the sites we build feature a small photo gallery as part of their design. Rather than roll our own photo management solution, we opted to integrate Flickr into our custom site framework.
Learning Outcomes: Compiling Shibboleth-2.1 on FreeBSD 7.0 From Source
Shibboleth is a Internet2 single sign-on initiative. We were looking into using it to provide authentication services for some of our campus users. Unfortunately they don’t officially support the FreeBSD platform (only Cent-OS and RedHat). They do however provide instructions for compiling the software from source. The first thing you need to do is start compiling the multiple dependencies that Shibboleth will require.
Learning Outcomes: jQuery and AJAX
So this term I took CIT 381 Database Systems (part of the CIT minor). For our final project we had to design and implement a database that would store information for a fake K-12 tech conference. So that means information on speakers, topics and volunteers. We were then required to develop a web form that could be used to get information out of that database.
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