This week’s photoshop tutorial comes to you from here, The idea behind the tutorial is great, but my attention span lost focus as always and I ended up faking my way through the rest, ignoring the directions and everything like that to do what ever gave me a result I was happy with, well here it is… Also, make sure to check out iRelle for her take on the same tutorial!
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P.s Im going to try and blog more 
Tonight I attempted THIS photoshop tutorial after not having done any photoshop work in a long time, the tutorial was simple and easy to follow, a good one to get me back into the swing of things with it. Now I just need to get back into the swing of things with blogging. Anyhow, as usual, my attempts never turn out like the tutorials. I have a short attention span and start doing what ever I like near the end, skipping bits and pieces etc. So with out further ado… here is my finished work. Tada!
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So, the other day Anna was playing around with my iPad while we were on our way to Mt Barrow and later that night she linked me to a YouTube video about an iPad app called Art Studio. Which is almost a touch screen painting/drawing program, its options are rather varied with brush sizes, layers and a lot of other features that I haven’t even played around with yet. This isn’t really a review or anything, but just showing you what I managed to do in just a couple of minutes with the app. It’s a picture of Anna from the same set as the last picture of Anna was drawn from.
Yeah it’s not great…. but then again its only a quick test of what is possible in Art Studio… maybe I’ll do more later.
Monday, the Queens Birthday Public Holiday, Myself, Anna Relle & Kyle jumped in the car, had some subway. Cameras and Warm Clothing in hand and we headed for Mt Barrow. After a drive up a rather freaky gravel incline. We found ourselves at the top of MT Barrow, with a small amount of snow/ice on the rocks. If you haven’t already seen Anna’s photos. Check out http://irelle.ii-blog.com
If you follow my Twitter, you would already know that I purchased myself an iPad. It was an impulse purchase I will agree. I was sitting at home, bored and wanting to spend some money… Don’t ask why but I get like that when I’m bored and if I haven’t purchased anything in a while. I remembered that the iPad had been made available for pre-order for the 28th of May Australian release date and thought. What the hell why not, and I ordered one. I was actually tempted to cancel the order wondering the hell I ordered an iPad, after all I already have an iMac and 2 Macbooks, as well as my iPhone I don’t really need an iPad.
When the iPad was first announced, my reaction towards it jumped up and down a lot. First impression, CRAP, it was just a big iPod Touch/iPhone with out the phone. Second, I started to see where Apple was going with it, pointing out where other tablets had gone wrong with Full Operating Systems that were designed for keyboard/mouse input and power. Then I came around to the Crap side again. Obviously I went back to the positive after a while, and I’m glad I did.
Yes the iPad will never be a computer/laptop killer, although I do believe it will cut in on netbook sales, several reports also claim that the iPad has eaten into Netbook sales since its release date. But what people need to see, is that the iPad is not a touch screen computer, it’s a touch screen media device. The iPad is all about content consumption, sure with apples $10 iWorks app’s you can edit and create pages/numbers/keynote files. But the iTunes store, App store, Internet browsers everything is designed to consume media. Download movies or tv shows from the itunes store and watch it on the go, the screen in the iPad is great, better than I’ve seen in several other touch screen devices and some of the netbooks on display at Harvey Norman.
The iPad is easy to use and that is probably because of closed up nature of the product, you don’t have to worry about viruses, because everything that’s installed on the iPad needs to make its way through Apples App Store. The keyboard is only slightly smaller than a normal Apple Laptop/Wireless keyboard and doesn’t take any getting used to. NO USB PORT? OMG… You can live with out it. The iPad has a 30-pin dock connector that can be ordered with a keyboard for those that want a keyboard, you can even use the Apple Bluetooth keyboard if you want to type for long periods of time off the touch screen. Apple also sell a Camera Conection kit which comes with Two 30-Pin Dock Connectors that allow the iPad to accept SD Memory cards and USB input from digital cameras to import into the iPad, It’s also been said that the 30-Pin/USB connector allows the use of USB Headphones and Keyboards to be used with the iPad. External Storage devices? No the iPad can’t use them how ever.
I’ve found that since having the iPad, I’ve used my iPhone less if anything. Laying down in bed, I check everything on the iPad, easier to see and use. I can read the Australian Newspaper every day before getting out of bed through their application, catch up on emails and twitter. With IM+ Messaging application I can chat to people online, and I can even have that run in the background with Push turned on. Multi-tasking may not currently be on the iPad, but it is in the works. iPhone OS4.0 is in development and due to be out in the next month or two.
So in the end, the iPad isn’t a computer replacement. I still use my iMac and Macbook, but it’s a good media device, I’ve found myself around my family more while being on MSN at the same time talking to friends, I’m actually Multi-tasking myself more. Is that weird? Yes.
