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[I knew I promised to leave the blog without a reserved post, but I sorta ran out of time for this. It's alright, the post isn't due until Wednesday, so stick with me.]
[Break out the cookies and milk once again whilst you wait.]

Photo Editors - FotoFlexer

Okay guys, I have 20 minutes to finish this, so I won't leave you with another reserved post.

During the last two class periods, we were given a list of free photo editors to explore, and four of those were assigned to us to write a blog post around. The four websites listed were PiZap, Bloggif, PhotoFunia, and FotoFlexer. The only picture of a face that I currently have on this computer is Spock, so you can tell how interesting this will be. The final website I will showcase today is FotoFlexer.

FotoFlexer is more of a photo editor than the rest. All of the others let you add things, but FotoFlexer allows you to change things. You have to upload a picture for this to work, just as you would all of the others. FotoFlexer gives you the power to correct red eyes, remove wrinkles, fix blemishes, sharpen and smoothen the picture, expand, compress, and twist images, add animations and animated text, use filters, and much more. Though I don't recommend trying the Smart Scissors. Before I go to my... pictures... yeah, that's what they are, I have to mention the classic flip tools, copy and paste region tools, auto fix, resize tools, and the handy-dandy crop tool. Again, I really can't explain everything, because there is just too much to explain, so I will let you explore the features (I did list most of them, save stickers and such). Now I'll show you my... creations.

This is my picture of Spock on the moon. I cropped it, and used the "Wrinkle Remover" tool to make the background fuzzy. Sure makes the flag stand out, but that was the point. This isn't the picture I'm worried about.

This is the picture that makes me worry for my mental health. I expanded his eyes vertically, and his mouth horizontally. I then tried to use the Smart Scissors tool to cut Spock out of the White House background, but failed. Horribly. Then I flipped the image upside-down to make it that much more interesting. And thus this picture was born.

-Visit FotoFlexer here-

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Photo Editors - PhotoFunia

During the last two class periods, we were given a list of free photo editors to explore, and four of those were assigned to us to write a blog post around. The four websites listed were PiZap, Bloggif, PhotoFunia, and FotoFlexer. The only picture of a face that I currently have on this computer is Spock, so you can tell how interesting this will be. The website that I will be showcasing this time is PhotoFunia, which I had way too much fun with.

PhotoFunia isn't too complex. You choose from a wide variety of backgrounds or faceless bodies and smack your picture on top of the background, or a face onto the body. I didn't even see all of the effects. There are a lot. You can even add text to specified backgrounds, such as a wanted poster, or a directional sign post. This is practically all I've been able to get out of PhotoFunia at this time, but I'm sure that you'll enjoy it, and probably find things that I missed. I'll showcase some of my aforementioned Spock photos here.

Because who doesn't want a gangster Spock picture alternating around their desktop?

Okay, so I really have no idea what to say about this. But it's Spock on Captain Jack Sparrow's body, so it's cool.

This one allows you to change the team name and number, so I suppose I could have made him 1337.

Jedi Spock. This combines two of the best things in the known- and unknown -universe.

Because we all know that Spock was really the first man on the moon. Actually, I think this was a picture of Buzz Aldrin, so Neil still beat Spock. The flag changes to the country that you are in, which I find extremely annoying. I guess that's just my need to be historically correct pushing its way through.

This picture speaks for itself.

-Visit PhotoFunia here-

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Photo Editors - Bloggif

During the last two class periods, we were given a list of free photo editors to explore, and four of those were assigned to us to write a blog post around. The four websites listed were PiZap, Bloggif, PhotoFunia, and FotoFlexer. The only picture of a face that I currently have on this computer is Spock, so you can tell how interesting this will be. The next website I will showcase is Bloggif, as the title implies.

Bloggif is a relatively simple website which allows you to add pictures to animated slides, such as a 3D cube, a GIF maker/decompiler, a picture resizer, special effects, or water rippling to give the picture a reflection in the water look, to name a few. I don't really have time to explain everything there is (Which isn't too much, but I still have 2 more of these posts to write before class ends), so I will leave the exploring to you. I will post two pictures once I recreate them. I did not save them to my desktop last time, but rather copied and pasted the HTML code into a blog post that I accidentally deleted, as it did not yet have a title. Sorry. The website is not completely English, but any good translator plugin will do the job, unless you just want to figure out what each option does by yourself. It's not too hard.

This is a spinning Minecraft grass block made with the 3D cube effect. If you wish to create something similar, remember that N*3 is the top of the cube.

This is a picture I found online featuring the TARDIS on the classic Microsoft hill wallpaper. I added the "Lake" feature to the image, which works well with outdoors scenes.

-Visit Bloggif here-

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Photo Editors - PiZap

Sorry about all of my reserved posts. Sometimes I just can't finish in time, so I leave myself a reminder to finish it next class period. I suppose I could do it at home, but I'm sidetracking myself.

During the last two class periods, we were given a list of free photo editors to explore, and four of those were assigned to us to write a blog post around. The four websites listed were PiZap, Bloggif, PhotoFunia, and FotoFlexer. The only picture of a face that I currently have on this computer is Spock, so you can tell how interesting this will be. I will begin my review with PiZap Photo Editor.

PiZap is a website that I just now discovered to be independent from Facebook. I used to use it inside Facebook for small edits, so I knew my way around already. When you go to the website, a graphic interface will tell you to press the start button, and offer a few different selections. You can edit a photograph, create a collage, add backgrounds to transparent photos, use special effects with your webcam (I have not tested it, but I suppose it must be similar to the Nintendo DSi photo editors), as well as creating covers for your Facebook or Twitter account pages. When you choose to edit a picture, it will ask you to upload a photograph, take one from your Facebook account, or snap a webcam picture. You may then add stickers, text, frames, memes, and choose to paint on the image. Those other two bars at the top allow you to add a picture, or move a portion of an image to another image, commonly known as "photoshopping". I'll take a picture of the President, because why not.

Next, I'll take that aforementioned picture of Spock out of my pictures folder. I'll select the "Cut Out Tool" from the hot bar, and select the Spock picture. It asks me to color in the area I wish to carry over in green. That's not too hard. Now I click done, and reposition the "shopped" head.

And this is the result:

I also created two more, but I'll just show you the second one. The third is the mirror reality Spock, beard and all.

In the main paragraph body, you will notice that the words "the website" are actually a link that will take you to PiZap. I hope you enjoyed the cookies and milk whilst waiting for the post.

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PowToon! Safety Tips

Two class periods ago we were assigned a new project - To use PowToon (Which you may remember from a few posts ago) to create a web safety presentation to post on our blogs. I have completed mine, and I now share it in the body below. Stay safe, live long, and prosper!

-Visit PowToon here-

Tagul

     Tagul is a free word cloud website, like Wordle. Unlike Wordle, however, you are required to create a free account on the website. It will ask you for your email address, but it will not be disclosed to any outside sources. When you create your cloud, it will generate a random shape with the default word settings. All you need to do is highlight the default words and replace them with your own. Adding a space between words will not separate them into two words, like it did in Wordle. To separate two words (Meaning words you want to be separate, unlike my La Forge example in my last post), you must simply type the word in a new paragraph space.
     You can set specific words to take you to specific websites, as well as change the font, filter out common words, and change word colors. You can save your cloud to your computer, or copy the HTML code to add it to your blog or website. Tagul also supports Zazzle product integration, so you can upload your cloud directly to Zazzle and create anything with your design. For changes to show, you need to click on the "Visualize" button above your image. There is a slight update delay between changing your cloud and your cloud changing on other websites, but it will do so shortly.

Please excuse the large size, but it is extremely difficult to see any words at a lower proportion.



-Visit Tagul here-

Wordle

     Wordle is a free website that allows the user to create a randomized word cloud out of their choice of text. The user may type whatever they wish, or copy and paste anything into the box. It doesn't matter how long or short the message is, as I copied my friend and I's story into it to find the most commonly used word, and another friend of mine just wrote his name. Elaborating on my comment about finding the most commonly used word, Wordle will find the most commonly used words in your message and will add a size modifier for each time the word is used, making it bigger. Wordle ignores "be" verbs and articles, so do not worry about the largest word being "The", as it will not appear at all. If you want words or names with spaces to be stuck together rather than separated, instead of leaving the space out you can insert a tilde, or '~', and Wordle will automatically insert a space in the place of the tilde without separating your word. Handy for sentences you do not want separated or spaced names, such as Geordi La Forge.

     When you finish, press the button in the bottom right-hand corner of the webpage to continue. Wordle will automatically generate your words in a random fashion (In the shape of a cloud), with random colors and a random font. The arrangement of the words, color scheme of the words and background, and font of the words are editable using the tabs above the image. The image can then be saved (A bit more easily by Microsoft users, but Apple fans know how to do it in their own way), where you can do practically anything with it. Be warned: Once you close out of the picture, you will never see the words arranged exactly that way ever again unless you spend your entire life on Wordle trying to find it.

     Another option Wordle provides for its users is the option to type in the URL to their blog (Or any website with an RSS or Atom archive), where it will take the text from and turn into a word cloud. This feature could prove useful for finding what words you favor over long periods of time.

All the names of characters from Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Stargate that I could remember off the top of my head. I went for first names when listing the Doctor's companions. I chose the colors to match the Fourth Doctor's iconic scarf. Click on the words above, or the picture, to go to Wordle.

PowToon

Today we were tasked with exploring PowToon and uploading our creation to our blog. Mine isn't much, but I can learn how to utilize the program correctly.

LooGix

This morning we were asked to visit LooGix and create a short post with examples. LooGix is simply a photo-animation website, with a few nice animations such as Movie, which makes the picture scroll around as if on a rolling screen from the old days, Painting, which turns the picture into a sort of oil painting-like splotch mosaic, and Explode, all of which I showcase below. These are not all, but are certainly interesting.












-You can visit LooGix here.-

Special thanks to Mr. Spock.
Live long and prosper.