Photo Story

So I made a rather interesting Photo Story based mostly around The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, a game released in 1998 and is considered one of the best games ever made. All the music I chose is from the game. I found it difficult to chose which music to include because I love all the music in the game but I feel like I got the best parts. All of the pictures I chose somewhat fit with the areas that the music is encountered in the game. For example there are pictures of trees for Lost Woods and rain for Song of Storms. I feel like it came out OK although I only have eleven or twelve pictures because I found it difficult to find good, relevant, public domain photographs.

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Social Media

I believe that the affect of social media on presidential elections is most profound on sites such as Reddit and YouTube  This is because lots of people go on these sites and lots of information is being dropped on the masses. People frequently talk politics on these sites which I feel makes them influence the elections far more than Facebook or Twitter. Twitter is greatly deceiving because most of the political candidates followers aren't  real people (http://gawker.com/58269600). I personally don't think Facebook is as politically focused as Reddit and YouTube because Facebook has an entirely different purpose.

Color Replacement in Photoshop

Using the color replacement tool in Photoshop was fun and interesting.
The first picture I did was of a barn. First I made a copy. Then desaturated it. Then I did a mask of the sky which I realized would not work do to the sky's color. So I recolored all of the clouds then did the entire sky. I think it came out ok. I did do a little bit of cropping.

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Then I decided to change the uniforms of the union in a civil war picture. This was much easier.
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Overall I found the color replacement tool to be very useful and fun but a bit challenging. I unfortunately spent so much time on the barn that I didn't have enough time to finish a third picture.

ZooBurst

Link to My ZooBurst:
http://www.zooburst.com/book/zb04_506b09afe4470

I very much disliked ZooBurst. The main issue with ZooBurst in the user interface. It's not clear what all the buttons do. For instance the pop time and pop delay buttons are confusing. I set them the same on two different pictures and they came up at separate times. I also found it very difficult to select the pictures themselves. Whenever I clicked on them it seemed like pure chance weather or not It will register the click. This can sometimes cause you to mess stuff up when trying to select something which do to the complete lack of an undo button can be very frustrating.  It feels weird changing things and in order to see your ZooBurst for checking purposes you need to exit and then go back in to view it. To get back you need to back out again and then go back to the editing. Very time consuming and annoying for no good reason. They couldn't just put a button to view it? To top it all of the end product isn't very impressive. To be fair my book was pretty bad but it's very confusing and difficult to pull anything off without a lot of practice. I will never use this website again unless forced to in the future. I believe storybird was vastly superior because you could focus on making the story rather than fighting the website.