File formats

JPEG......
 
The file format JPEG is used best on photographs and paintings of realistic scenes with tone and colour. JPEG is used for internet files and is most commonly used for the image format on digital cameras. 







GIF......

GIFs are suitable for sharp-edged line art like logos with with not many colours on. GIFs can be used for small animations and film clips with a low-resolution 

PNG......

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a bitmapped image format that
employs lossless data compression.

Now it's our turn to print...

My design ideas for my sunprint.

Sunprint... We used a blue piece of sun printing paper and placed on top some objects and left in the sun for about 30 minutes.. this was the result.. 

To create a dry point print you need to use a scribe to scratch an image into a piece of perspex, then you need to file the edges of the perspex at a 45 degree angle. Then, using a leather dabber covered in ink, you rock it back and forth in a curved motion to make sure the perspex is completely covered in ink. To make sure the ink is in every grove and scratch use a rubber finger-like dabber to massage the ink into the image. Then using newspaper you need to wipe off the excess ink. After that, using the press, we printed our dry point images onto slightly damp paper and ended up with something like this...

Print Making

Intaglio...

Intaglio printing is created by engraving, etching, drypoint or aquatint an image into the matrix. The matrix is then covered in black ink and rubbed with a cloth to wipe off the excess ink. The ink stays in the engraved image then printed onto a damp piece of paper through a printing press, the ink is then transferred from the matrix to the paper.

Phillip Sage is an Artist and Printmaker whose work has caught the attention of fine art collectors all over the country.

Relief Printing...


Relief printing is an image created by printmaking such as woodcut where the areas of the matrix that are to show printed usually black are on the original surface, the parts of the matrix that have no ink after being carved away. Printing the image is a simple process, rolling ink onto the surface of the matrix and laying in firmly onto the paper, then the image is pressed by hand with a simple hand tool such as a brayer or roller.

Relief Print details: Sally Hands   Robert Macdonald  Alan Figg

Curwen Planographic Print

Planographic


Planographic printing is where the image is printed from a flat surface. This is chemically prepared to hold on to printing ink from which they will be transferred onto the paper, while rejecting it in these areas, which will keep blank on the paper. The process utilizes the property that water will not mix with oil.








Stencil


Stencil graffiti is a way of using paper, card or other forms of media to create an image or text that can easily be reproduced. Cutting away sections from templates to create text or an image to form a stencil. In most cases the image or text is spray-painted onto a surface but another method is roll on paint.

Banksy Print

Katie "likes" Facebook.

Social networking, I can safely say, has taken over my life, any possible time I can; I check Facebook. Not that anything interesting happens on there, but I might find out who’s eating what or who’s “in a relationship” or who had a good/bad weekend - but why do I care? Well, I don’t actually care, I just, for some reason, have the need to know. I started writing this blog about half an hour ago, and because of Facebook, this is how far I’ve got.

I think a positive social benefit of social networking is being able to reunite with old friends who you’ve not been in contact with in years. It’s hard to loose contact, if getting a new phone, you loose all your contacts then just type them in on Facebook and you’ll find them. 1 in 3 people in Britain are Facebookers, so it’s not difficult to find them. Also, in a class of 20 people at college 90% of students have Facebook.

:) .. that means I’m happy? :( .. and that means I’m sad? Or do they both just mean I’m lazy? A negative social benefit is not being able to show emotion, people mislead text a lot and without emotion from facial expressions or body language things can be taken the wrong way completely!

Organizing an event on a social network site can be much easier than sending out invitations in the post, phoning your whole contact list on your phone or texting.

Social networks are ruining relationships, they create fake friendships and cause friends falling out. Soon the number of facebookers will double and then will nobody be seen anymore because everyone is at home on Facebook?


Social networks tell us more than we need to know about some people, we don't need to know what people do 24/7. 


Without facebook, right now, I would of finished this blog hours ago and would be socialising with my friends OUTSIDE. You can't miss what you never had and if we never had social network sites then I suppose a lot of people wouldn't have as many "friends" and a lot of people would be fitter and healthier.. I guess..

My first blog

This could be interesting, I've never done this "blog" thing before...




A blog is an online diary arranged in chronological order.

They are used by anyone.

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