Cloud Computing

• The CLOUD is a group of services provided to be able to save documents and files via internet. The cloud symbol is used to represent the internet in flowcharts and diagrams.
• Using Cloud computing, you can have access to any file  you have done online because they are saved on a remote storage and not locally.
•  It can be very advantageous because, by having access to it online, you can open files from any computer and you don't need to download special programs to open it up. On the other hand, in Microsoft Office, you can only open documents locally. 
•  Anyone can easily access it from anywhere around the world and you can edit one document with a group of up to 15 people at the same, unlike Microsoft Office were you have to create several copies of one file to edit between a group of people. 
•  However, using Google Docs also has it disadvantages. For instance, if I don't have an internet connection available, there is no way I can use Google Doc, but if I am using Microsoft Office I don't need an internet connection to edit or access my files. 
•  Also, another reason to why it may not be very advantageous is because to be able to use Google Docs you need a Google account and if someone doesn't have one, they wont be able to access the file.
•  In the next 6 months, I plan to use cloud storage when doing group projects it will very useful in helping me communicate with other members of my group and edit one same document at the same time. I may also use it when i want to transfer files from one computer to another, that way I can avoid loosing my flash and therefore my documents.

USER GUIDE GOOGLE DOCS

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Surrealist Project Word Cloud

Path to Heaven: The Review

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Path to Heaven: The Process

Path

Path to Heaven: Reality

Photoshop Functions

In the class, we were asked to follow a tutorial to be able to create the image that is shown beneath. The tutorial thought about new skills and functions that most of us had never used before. What I found useful in this tutorial was the fact that the method was very easy to follow. Whilst I was going through the tutorial I thought that it wasn't as hard to achieve the desired settings. However, when I had to do adjustments to the curves and the way I placed the images, it was very hard to achieve the exact same result as in the video, so it was very frustrating at times. I believe that I was able to do pretty much everything without any problem.

Some areas that I could bring into my personal project may be the use of the blending effect to merge two photos together with ease, as well as using the curves function to apply different tones into the image and so therefore making it seem calm and peaceful. Other functions that I learnt to use in this tutorial that I found very useful were the ones of altering the Brightness and Contrast as well as Hue and Saturation which I had already seen before. All of the functions mentioned will help me in my project to make it surrealist but not really insane or out of my mind.