Chen-Smith ETEC 5213

     This week we have switched to the topic of photo editing. While I have played around with some other photo editing softwares, I was completely new to Adobe Lightroom. It took some exploring and learning from online tutorials to understand what I was doing, but in the end, I'm very happy with the turnout of my edited photo.      For my photo,  I chose the photo of a bowl of ramen I took in a restaurant last year. While the ramen was absolutely delicious, I feel that the photo did not do it justice. My goal was to make this bowl of ramen look as appetizing as it tasted. The first photo is the original, unedited photo, and the next one is the edited version.     Most of the changes made to the photo was made by adjusting the lighting and color. For lighting, I slightly increased the exposure and made bigger increases in contrast, highlights, and whites to make the photo appear brighter. I decreased the shadow to make the darker colors ...

 This week's project is the most complex thus far. We were tasked with building a web resume that includes our picture and describing our education and work experiences. For this project, we are using HTML with an external CSS, that is, we are constructing two documents, one containing the texts for the web page (the HTML) and one containing instructions on how the web page should look (the CSS). Because styling a website can often involve a ton of code (as I have discovered this week), having the CSS in a separate file can reduce a lot of clutter in the main HTML code. Building the HTML file is the easy part. By this point, I am confident enough with using HTML tags that I can plug in my information from my resume fairly quickly. The challenging part, though, is the external CSS file. I had to try a lot of different things to get the web page to look the way I want. For example, I wanted the paragraphs beneath each entry in the Education and Experience section to be indented. Howe...

The next HTML project involved creating an invitation for an event utilizing Cascading Style Sheet, or CSS, and the Box Model. The Box Model is type of design that wraps HTML elements within a box, and it includes a margin, a border, a padding, and the HTML element. This model is ideal for invitations, because many of the existing invitation designs on paper already have the elements of margin, border, and padding. Part of the requirements for the project also included the use of bold or italic texts, utilizing different colored texts, and a hyperlink to an email (similar to the one used in the previous HTML project). When it comes to choosing an event, I immediately thought of weddings, as I was just planning a wedding for this past summer. Even though the spread of COVID-19 obstructed those plans, my husband and I were still able to get married in a small, private ceremony. I thought it might be fun to create an invitation as if our wedding were the large gathering of family and frie...