Thursday, October 30, 2008


What i did this week
In this week we bascally just continued our teacher in a box project, i did the last two faces of the box. In my box i even put a fair trade mark to let people remember the importance of fair trade how we are trying to make the world as fair as possible by ensuring the famers etc get a fair pay, in my box i also included the recycle sign. On my third face i posted my company name along with its logo and also slogan and fianllly i placed a barcode to make my box look realistic.
Problems i had
The problems i had when doing this was that i coudnt enter my own personal account as my password had expired but i just decided that the next lesson i would just get my orignal teacher in a box and copy and paste onto my newly edited one

Thursday, October 9, 2008



what i did this week?
This week we started our 'teacher in a box' project, we had to design the front of our box which was a picture of the teacher we chose, firstly we got the picture of our chosen teacher from a file then we dragged it on the xara and then we used xara to edit our teacher with diffrent tools. In my teacher in a box i chose Ms adams as my teacher, my theme was to adivse people how to use be cool using Ms adams as my head guide.

what problems did i have when doing this?
i did not have much problems when doing this but when i tried to paste the black hat i had got from the internet, i faled because i tried to cut the white things besidein photoshop using the magic stick but it did not work so in the end i only cropped it.

Thursday, October 2, 2008


What i did this week:
In this week, we experimented using the functions and tools of an editing program called xara. We pasted our picture of our cutted Mr Cottam on to xara. We had to create an interesting background which was somehow related to aliens for Mr Cottam. We used many tools to create our background. In my background theme i created a space theme which as you could has the planets and the sun stretching diagonally across my background. I also put meteors and diffreent sized stars and the milky way onto my background.
What difficult part of this lesson?
The difficult part of this lesson was doing the backgound color(black), it was hard because i did not know how to fill the background so i just created a big black square and placed it at the back of my shapes. But except for that i had not many problems so all i needed to learn now is how to fill a background color.