Tuesday, April 8, 2014

The 7 News Values Of News



- TIMELINESS
- A man escaped from the Del Valle correctional complex early in the morning after attacking a maintenance man in the kitchen, stealing the man's truck, and fleeing to freedom around 7am he was captured at 7:30am, this was today on March 27, 2014 making it very recent, hence why I chose timeliness.
Travis County sheriff’s office: Inmate escaped, re-arrested this morning
://www.statesman.com/news/news/crime-law/travis-county-sheriffs-office-inmate-escaped-re-ar/nfMPz/


- PROXIMITY 
- Austin is growing at the fastest rate for a big city, this is proximity because this is the city I live in, with the rapid growth of Austin who knows what change we'll see in the upcoming years.
Austin, by the numbers, is continuing to boom, census data shows
http://www.statesman.com/news/news/austin-by-the-numbers-is-continuing-to-boom-census/nfL95/


- PROMINENCE
It has now been two days since the horrendous shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, the largest military base in the world. Many people feel the effect of these types of situations.
Perry: ‘There aren’t any easy answers to what occurred’
This is also the link. ^^^


- Conflict
- About 500 customers remain without power as Austin Energy repair crews continue to work on outages at 80 locations across the utility’s coverage area. This is a big problem affecting the community.
About 500 without power as Austin Energy continues repairs
- http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/storms-leaves-hundreds-without-power-overnight-sun/nfTsP/

- Human Interest 
- Long-time Latino comedian, George Lopez, will be making a return in the comedy sitcom dubbed, "Saint George" which will be on Thursday nights at 9pm.
Comedian George Lopez makes no apologies
- http://www.statesman.com/news/ap/entertainment/comedian-george-lopez-makes-no-apologies/nfNJp/


- Impact
- A pedestrian in his 70's was hit and killed by a car, more, and more of these incidents are occurring in Austin.
Pedestrian killed in Southeast Austin crash
-http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/pedestrian-dead-in-se-austin-crash/nfTss/

- Novelty
- Gas prices will drop one whole penny from $3.57 a gallon, between April and September. What a break right?
Scant relief: Summer gas price to dip a penny
-http://www.statesman.com/news/ap/business/scant-relief-summer-gas-price-to-dip-1-cent/nfT2t/

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

News Values

Timeliness - Just happened.
Proximity - How close did it happen.
Conflict - People fighting, human nature.
Prominence - Important or famous.
Human Interest - Drama
Impact - How it affects you.
Novelty - Weird news.


Wednesday, February 5, 2014

First Photoshop Practice



Year book


Newspaper 


Web

Photoshop notes

SAVE - You do not have to rename the image at this point. Save often and regularly.

NESTLE - Tools are stacked on each other - access those tools you have to left click and hold

USE COMMAND KEYS!!!!!

Command + = zoom in
Command - = zoom out
Command o = open
Command c = copy
Command v = paste
Command z = undo
Command, shift, z = step backward
Command s = save
Command p = print
Command l = levels

To turn an image go to
>Image>Image Rotation
CW and CCW
CW = Clock wise
CCW = Counter Clock Wise
180 = 1/2

Adjusting levels
>Image>Adjustments>Levels

Use RGB to adjust the pictures, move the brown one to the left a little to add light.

CROP- Select the cropping tool and then click and drag the area you want to crop. Before you crop, you must enter the resolution you want your image to be saved to.

Resolution Guidelines:
Yearbook = 300
Newspaper = 150
Web = 72

To make an image black and white
USE Grayscale
Image > Mode > Grayscale