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Using Pixlr

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I have never tried to do any photo editing beyond cropping a picture for this class 😁.  I am going to try this with a picture of my grandson at Farmland Adventures in Springdale.  I was so excited about the picture until I realized that I had caught his mom at the top of the tunnel.  I am going to try and make the adjustments on this picture. I first used the lasso select tool with the magnetic type to outline my daughter in the background.  I then used the brush to "erase" her using white.  I had to do this a few times while zooming in until I was able to completely remove her from the picture.  I had a difficult time using the tool.  I thought you could select and deselect by hitting escape.  No such luck.  I still don't know exactly how to do this.  I just kept trying until I got what I wanted. I then cropped the image by cutting out part of the bottom and left to center him. I thought the soles of his shoes were a little bright, so ...
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In last week's assignment we were introduced to Cascading Style Sheets.  This week we were to create a webpage resume in html, and we were expected to use css for all the formatting.  This assignment really made the power of css clear.  Even though the requirements were not very complicated, it would have been difficult, if not impossible, to do with html alone.  Some of the formatting requirements included: a personal picture at the top of the page, at least three headings: 1) name; 2) education; and 3) experience, link to an external website, link to an email address, changes in font and font size, and changes in text colors. I encountered three main difficulties in completing this assignment; correctly linking the html and css files, indenting an entire paragraph, and removing the blank space below a header.  I initially tried to give the path when linking the html and css files.  Fortunately, after a couple of attempts, I realized that since they are in...
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Cascading Style Sheets and Box Models

This week's webpage building assignment was to design an invitation using Cascading Style Sheets and Box Models.  HTML was not designed to create complicated websites.  Cascading Style Sheets is used to format the layout of a webpage.  With it you can control multiple aspects of the design of a webpage.  The invitation was to include properly nested <html> tags, a heading describing the event, a CSS3 Box Model that contains information about the event, either bold or italic text, text that is different from the default color, and text that is hyper linked to my email address. I did not know this last week, but CSS was what I was looking for when I was trying to specify multiple design elements for last week's assignment.  After learning about CSS, it made sense why I had difficulties.  The biggest obstacle I had was trying to keep the syntax correct.  There are slight differences in the syntax when defining things in the Box Model and defining th...
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