Rim Creates new tablet

On Monday, RIM announced that it will release its competitor to Apples Ipad. This product is called the blackberry Playbook. RIM has announced that the new playbook will be available to the general public in early 2011 for the USA, but did not mention when it will be available in Canada. The Playbook will be able to use flash and adobe systems which the Apple Ipad currently cannot do. This new Playbook from RIM, can be expected to be a major competitor with the Apple Ipad.

http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/rim/article/866982--rim-confirms-release-of-new-tablet-to-rival-ipad

New Apple Products

Early this month, Apple introduced a new line of ipods. This line included a new Ipod touch, nano and shuffle. All of these products will be a little bit more expensive for us Canadians north of the border. The new ipod nano features a touch screen only 37.5mm tall by 40.9mm wide. This ipod is available in 8 and 16gb. The new ipod touch, comes in 8,32 and 64 gigabytes of memory, and much like the iPhone 4 the ipod touch will have a camera equipped on it. Ffinally there is the new Ipod shuffle only is available in 2gb of memory at a very low price of only 59$ Canadian.

http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/apple/article/858016--new-ipods-deliver-the-goods

Candian Blackberry Torch Release Delayed

Rim's(Research In Motion) latest blackberry that was recently released in the USA, called the Blackberry Torch, has been delayed for the release of the Blackberry in Canada. The release date has been pushed back to this Friday, September 30th, 2010 for Rogers customers, and October 1st, 2010 for Bell customers. Finally Telus plans to push back the release with the other service providers, but have not said when their release date will be.

The Blackberry Torch will feature a touch screen, and a Slide out QWERTY keyboard. Below is a Picture of what the new smart phone will look like.

http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/rim/article/865511--blackberry-torch-s-canadian-release-delayed-until-sept-30

Magazine Cover #1

This is the Cover for my first magazine cover for golf digest. For me to make this I made the golfer the background(base). Then I added images such as the Ryder cup, the tour championship and a picture of tiger woods with a circle and a cross, symbolizing that he still hasn't been the same since the incident on American thanksgiving, and that for the incident with the cocktail waitresses he has lost a lot of respect from many golf fans.All these images will have an article about them inside of the magazine. Finally, I put phrases on the right hand side of different articles that will be inside the magazine as well, such as; who will win the fed ex cup, A Ryder Cup preview between the USA and EUROPE, also an article on the captains picks for both teams and weather or not they were good choices.

Memories - David Guetta

This is the music video for the song memories by David Guetta. In this video, they use alot of different camera angles such as face-on, Side angles, they also tend to do 180 degree views of the people in the video. This video is film in the streets of a city, in a barbarshop and in an elevator. They did not do anything fancy to make this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gLkOfzIYcU&ob=av3e

Lesson 14 - Just My Type

These is my different styles of type for lesson 14

Lesson 13 - Give Me a Sign

These are my signs i made for lesson 13 using the shape button

Lesson 12 - Adding Copyright

This is a picture of the #17 hole at TPC Sawgrass which I made in lesson 6. All I did to make this picture the way it is in the final product is, made a text box and typed "2010 Matt Capern", and changed the front style so that it would sort of blend in with the background

Lesson 11 - Putting a Picture in Your Text

This image started out as a picture of the ocean and is for lesson 11.

Lesson 10 - Meld Layers to create motion

This is a picture of neon bulls for lesson 10. The picture originally started out as one set of bulls, and says "running of the bulls" under them. To make the picture look like it does in the final product, I used the magnetic lasso feature to to copy the bull, then pasted it several times.

Lesson 9 - Gaussian Blur filter

This is a picture of the sky with clouds for lesson 9. The picture originally started out as a blue sky and i used the Gaussian Blur filter feature to make it look the way it does.

Lesson 8 - Creating a Sketch

This is a picture of a palm tree on a beach for lesson 8. The picture originally started out in full colour, and I made it into black and white and made it a sketch.

Lesson 7 - Creating Art Photos Through Symmetry

This is a Picture of the leaning tower of pisa for lesson 7. For this picture i magnetic lassoed the tower of pisa, pasted it, and did a horizontal flip.

Lesson 6 - Black and White Meets Colour

This Picture is of the #17 hole at TPC Sawgrass and is for lesson 6. The picture started out as full colour, I used the magnetic lasso to select just the Island Green and made every thing in the back ground black and white.

Lesson 5 - Creating an art poster

This picture is of Amen Corner at Augusta National Golf Club. The picture orginally started out as just the hole and I added a white border and put the title Amen Corner- Augusta National at the bottom of the picture.

Microphones: The Proximity Effect

In this video, the man talks about different microphones, what they are use full for, and how to get the best sound out of them. First he talks about the microphone on a video camera, he mentioned that this microphone sounded OK from a far distance, but the closer you got to the subject with the camera, the better the quality of the sound, sounded. Secondly they spoke about a handheld microphone which would give you the best sound, but was the most expensive and would get the best sound result from a few inches away from your mouth. Third was the lavalier microphone which is a microphone that attaches to someones shirt,  this is a good option for people who are not doing very much movement and did not want to spend too much money. Finally was the shotgun microphone which was mainly for the person who could not have a microphone on the set. The way this microphone works is it attaches onto the top of the video camera you are you using for the filming.

Oscars: Main Stream Genres

In this Article Titled Oscars: Main Stream Genres Get a Little Breathing room, was published on October 29th, 2009. In they talk about the leading Oscar nominees before last years Oscars. Some of the categories they talk about in the article are, Documentaries, Animated Feature, Tech-loaded Blockbuster, forgein language film, action thriller, and adult comedy. In each categories there is 10 different nominees.

The next oscars will be coming up sometime in 2011, if you are interested in watching the awards for movies throughout the year.

Dragging - Lesson 4

This is my Image for lesson 4 - Dragging. My image started out as a Beach and an Airplane. I copyed the plane over onto the beach. And the final image looks like the Plane has crashed into the beach

Black and White - Lesson 3

This is my picture for Lesson 3 - Black & White. The image is of a hockey rink, in the original photo the ice in the rink looks like it is a yellow ish green colour. I changed the Picture to black and white by using the monochrome function in adobe photoshop.

Sky Effects - Lesson 2

This is my Sky effects photo for lesson #2. The Sky was Originally all blue, and I changed the left hand peice of the sky to red, as seen in the First Photo. I did this by playing around with the blue, red and green along with the contrast tool.

Saw Franchise Creates Major "Buzz"

The ever so famous horror film series "saw", once started as a seven minute film that took place in a disgusting washroom. However the series has now become one of the most well known and popular horror film series' thats made over one billion dollars in both the worldwide box office and and DVD sales. Ever since the very first Saw film came out, the audience's have loved it and continued watching and buying each and every Saw series film to be released. I am not much of a horror film fan myself, but based on the reviews and the amount of money its made over the years, if you are a fan of horror films and have not seen any of the saw series, I highly suggest going out and renting the movie!

Photoshop Mobile App for iPhone

Just under a year ago, Apple and Adobe released an Adobe Photoshop application available on the Apple ITunes Store. This Application allows users to edit photos on their IPhone on-the-go. In the Application the user can Crop, Rotate and Flip any photo they choose to edit. Other editing options users have in Adobe Photoshop Application are; the colour of the image, the tint, and users can also change the photo to black and white instantly. Once the user has finished editing their selected photo, they can easily send the photo to any Friends or family members through email.
Since this application is free of charge on the Apple Itunes Store, It makes it very practical and financially smart for a wide variety of users worldwide.