Thing 37: Photo Tales

I tried FlickrSlidr because I have sets already created in Flickr but I could never get the pictures to show up. I don’t think I was putting in the right URL. The same happened to Slidoo; I really don’t know what I am doing wrong but it just doesn’t seem to work for me. Oh, well on to something else. I tried Mosaickr which was really interesting but I had to wait for the finished product. What I really like about Mosaickr is that it allowed me to choose what pictures went within the Mosaic however; the original picture that I use was one that I took from Kyoto, Japan. So I used only my pictures from there and other Flickr pictures that were tagged Kyoto. Finally, I signed up on a sight called Animoto. What I liked about this site is that it could retrieve photo from other sites like facebook because I don’t have any photos on my desktop where I am doing More Things On a Stick. I made a short video using my pictures from Kyoto and the featuring the music The Entertainer. The finished video is no on my blog and it is really kick ass. In all I found this Thing to be a lot of fun but I don't know if I would ever use this in the library. Finally, I will put my finished Mosaic on my blog once it is done. Hopefully sometime this year.

Thing 6: Image Generators

I found the Image Generators that we had to use for thing 6 to be really interesting and I did try a variety of items. The first thing that I did was to create a Trading Card with Big Hugh Labs which actually had a lot of image generators that you could choose from. The hardest part about the Trading Card was finding an actually picture that I had of my self and the only ones that I had on my PC were the pictures that I took while I was in Kyoto, Japan. In the picture I am standing in front of the entrance of the Kiyomizu Temple which is considered on the new Seven Wonders of the World which is had to see from this picture but I used another picture of me when I am next to the temple to use one the frames that Big Hugh Labs offers. In that picture I used a postcard frame and at first I was going to show the postmark but unfortunately it covered my head so it looked a little strange. Finally I went to Image Chief and created a Flower Text which will always be shown at the bottom of my blog and with flash animation it slowly reviles You R a Star. In all these Image Generators is a lot of fun once you have some pictures and know what you are doing. However, you can also spend a lot of time creating these images so it is also easy to go overboard with the image generators.