TeoKitahara-BigotY7KSCUnit2Graphics

Graphics  By : Teo Kitahara-Bigot ==



INVESTIGATION  Identify the Problem

How can computers predict how we change?
Expalin the Problem

we do not know how computers can predict how we change!

 * Use a graphic package Gimp
 * Save pictures in different graphics formats (in gimp)
 * Compress (reduce the size of) pictures (in gimp)
 * Use layers in a graphics package (in gimp)
 * Remove backgrounds (in gimp)
 * Use transparency in Graphics packages (in gimp)
 * Use print screen and them crop a picture to show the layers panel obvious (in gimp)

Research and Analysis

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I found out that when you use any software which can edit photo's.E.g. Photoshop,Gimp ect. there are several ways you can change your pictures manually and it can look more accurate! If you are good at using these softwares! but other softares which do all the work for you are easier to use but dont really look that accurate! It is most comenly seen that the pictures are out of order! Here are some of the softwares that i am talking about:====== [], []. these are some of the websites which will do all the work for you. But i also found out that when you try to age your self on the softwares it doesnt really mean you are going to look like that in 20 years time what they are actually doing is taking your picture and fidling with it! Design Brief I have to create of me using the graphics package **Gimp 2.8.2** Product Specification My product must:
 * I must have 5 pictures of me from a baby to 11 using on-line ageing software i must create 8 pictures of myself ranging from 15 to 80 years old.
 * Each picture must be on a separate layer
 * Each layer must be named
 * I must include my
 * Be flattened when finished.
 * be saved as a jpeg file less than 500kb in size name on the collage on a separate layer

Test Plan I will test my product by testing to see if i am able to do all of these things! ==

this shows that i know how to put a picture on a seperate layer and it also shows that i know how to name my layers

this shows that i can add words on to a seperate layer!

DESIGN  Pictures of my designs Analysis of my designs Justification for chosen design I chose the 2nd design because it was the one which could show all of my skills and because it will be something that no one in the class will do! Another reason is that is will look very cool with the illusion spiral in the background! And one other big reason is that because from the beginning up until now it has been my favorite design! It was actually very hard for me to choose which design i was going to pick because all the other designs also all included all of my design specifications! But in the end i chose my favorite design! PLAN

CREATE  Final Product Changes made to the original Design One of the major changes that i have done was changing the softwares that i have originally have chosen to use! Because www.ageme.com and www.in20years.com are not very good sites because for www.ageme.com you are obliged to pay to age yourself and www.in20years hasn't been working! So i came up with a backup plan which is that instead of using a software on a computer i am going to use a software on a i pad which i am going to download! This will probably affect my design because instead of my pictures ranging from 20-80 i will probably need to make it so that it is from 70-133 years old because the one that i looked at doesn't have an option of how many years you want to age your self by! So in a way this will be affecting my design because of the ages and it will be affecting my plan because in my original plan i was suppose to use those two softwares but now i have to change it unfortunately! But it was my fault because i just used a software which the class recommended to me instead of looking for one my self! I also need to use an i pad software because in my family we use dongos and i don't want to kill the dongo by downloading to many things! Changes made to the original Plan  I think that i could have actually managed my time better! I said this because in my plan i said i would work on it a bit every day! But I couldn't because i had no internet at my house and so that lead to me not being able to download gimp! I also countered that because i stayed in late after school to finish my work that is how i got everything done in time! I also said in my plan that i would use a software on the computer but those softwares weren't good so i had to change my whole plan! Then i quickly thought about how a bout if i aged myself on a iPad So i had to download all of my pictures on to my i pad then download all of the aged photos onto my flash drive! So i need to add to my plan that i used an i pad and an aging software on an iPad and last but not least i had to rename all the layers because right at the end i remembered that my ages can only range from 15-80 years old and the pictures i uploaded went up to 133 years old! So that was one of the last second changes that i had to do! So i could have done better with my planning but for me it was just a lack of organization! As usual i am not very organized! EVALUATE  Results of tests

Recommendations for improvement I f i would change anything it would be on my final creation! And it would be how i arranged the pictures! To me the pictures were to big and you couldn't see the background well! That had a huge effect to how my final product looked! And it didn't quiet look like how i imagined it in my head! But there was also a good thing to that i had discovered how to make the pictures look like they were getting sucked into a portal of time! So there was also a bright side to that! But another thing that i really need to work on is my investigation stage! That affected how the pictures of me aging because the websites that i put down weren't very good! But i was lucky to have come up with another idea which was to make my self older by using an i pad software! But other wise i think that i did my creation stage well and it mostly went according to plan except for the ages of the pictures! those pictures were frustrating for me and i could have definatley done better! Self-evaluation of your execution of the design cycle  I actually think i did perfect for this unit 2! I have seen a big improvement in my self and i am happy of that! For example in the  first three stages in my first unit i got a 3 in my investigation a four in my design and a 5 in my planning now in unit 2 i got a 4   in my investigation a 5 in my design and a 5 in my plan! for me i feel that i am getting use to wiki-spaces and i am getting better  at this! Even in unit 1 i hadn't done my design specifications properly and that is why i got a 5 in my evaluation stage instead  of a six! so now i have learned from my careless mistakes and i have done it properly so that i wouldn't have problems in the other stages. I can really feel the improvement! But now i want to aim to get 6s in every stage! that is going to be hard but i will definatley try! But i would  also change the way i did my investigation stage! It is the only stage which i am not doing as well as i expect! That would be the only thing  in the design cycle which i would change otherwise i am feeling good with all the stages!