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A diagram of how I would like to set up the Structure of ADP Learning Objects (Stuff)

Find out more about Photoshop Adjustment and Fill Layers with this share of video tutorials.

Find out more about Photoshop layers with this share of links and video tutorials.

Video on how to print to a Ricoh laser printer at WSA from a Mac, applies University wide just don't print WSA Colour or WSA Black & White if you are not WSA based.

This Share contains videos and links to help you get up to speed with blogging using Blackboard, Blackboard blogs are nice safe places to start blogging and although they don't look cool, there alright ! Then check out tumblr, wordpress or blogger to start blogging on your own in public !

Getting images from your mobile phone is best done using bluetooth, remember the image quality on these phones will not be high and you may find you can only print very small images, however camera phones are great for ease of use and look fine on screen.

Short videos and Guides on how to print to various devices at WSA. Why 300dpi is important for printing, why PDF's are the defacto standard for printing and the how and where to get your files printed.

Its easy to collect images from the internet for research.

Getting images from a Digital Camera is pretty straight forward. However this is the easy part, its getting the right image and making sure your digital file is good enough for your output. Set you camera or mobile phone to the highest settings, this will give you more options when you come to manipulate or edit the file Remember to make copies of files for editing so you can always return to your original image if you need too

Video on how to setup a Basic Photoshop document with the view to outputting a Printable PDF.

Video on how to create a basic PDF for standard paper based Printing using Photoshop. Ideal format for all printers worldwide.

Find out more about Photoshop with this share of links.

A Collection of Material for Research and Communication Skills

Sometimes you may need to scan in photographs, books or magazines. Scanning is the easy part but making sure your settings are right is the important part. Scan at 300dpi to the size you need to print A4 scanner but you need A3 print - no problem scan at 600dpi Always scan as a TIFF file format as this will give you a non compressed source to work from.

Materials on creating files and folders on the Mac Operating System (10.5 / Leopard). Creating folders to organise your files is very important, this will help you to keep track of your work, create simple backups (making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.) and much much more. Whatever computer you like using, they all work on the basic principle of using folders to organise files. Files and folder should have meaningful names do not use special Characters like £$%&! and never use a ‘.’ except before a file extension. It is best to start creating your folders in the documents (or my documents) folder and not on your desktop, it gets untidy.

Lecture on web 2.0 and its impact and use for creative thinkers/artists.