At this current moment in time I am adding some finishing touches to my personal statement for University.
A few weeks ago I visited 2 Universities, one being the LCC (London College of Communication) and the University of Reading.
I was very impressed with what I had seen at both universities. The LCC I found that the courses were very flexible (which is good) and that there were large ammounts of people in your class (which i was a bit weary about, as I think how could this possibly work? and I like to have that 1 to 1 contact with a personal tutor) Where at Reading it is more guided (which i do not mind) and each class contained 35 pupils ( very good! However chances of getting in seem slim!) However thats not how im going to think. They both had printing room facilities and Reading had allot of historic artifacts which i thought was facinating. I however prefer the outcomes the LCC had compared to Reading. Also at Reading I would be living on campus where as LCC i would have to live in London around the University as it is just a building and not an entire campus which is also scarey as I fear it will be more expensive to live in London. I will consider these both as choices for now, but the hunt is still on! Peace out.

For web design we have to resize our work, so that it would be suitable for our web portfolio.
For work created in Photoshop we had to follow these instructions 'image>image size, then set the resolution for 72dpi, then to change the pixels. The pixel had to be suited to the created viewing box we have set up for our website. ( I however have not decided how big i would like my retro TV screen to be)
For INDESIGN and ILLUSTRATOR to export an image simply go to 'File>Export, set to JPEG and resolution to 72'
Also when exporting the images they have to be a JPEG and the quality set to MAX (this is when exported in ILLUSTRATOR INDESIGN, and resized in PHOTOSHOP)

My web page size will be 1024x768, as it is standard computer screen size.

For my website i will incorporate this television into my website. This will be how people will visualize my portfolio work i will upload my detailed thumbnail later. I want to go with the retro slash personal look.

My website thumbnails

I have tried to create some website thumbnails that i feel describe and present me and my work to the best of its ability. I found this very hard as i have so many ideas for website design. And as at this moment in time I am not 100% sure what course i would like to do at University I am not sure what to present my website like. I will develop on these and update this blog later on. I appologise for the handwritting.

Inspirational Photography...

From the under rated.
Considering she is not a professional I really like the style and unique qualities her photos capture.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alicesiobhancocks/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/4082045032/
The colours on this hit me like a bus, the path breaks up the colour which looks good. I love how you can see for miles.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fidalgo72/
I love these he experiments with colour settings, which i think is working.

From the professionals.
http://www.jonathanglynnsmith.com/JGS.html
I love the abstract positions and poses. The first one looks convincingly old, and I love old authentic photography.

http://www.brentstirton.com/photojournalism.php
I love the colours of these images, they are all captured in the centre of the image and the lighting is beautiful.

http://www.laloborja.co.uk/
He is a lecturer at our college, only today i discovered him and his work, it is bloody good.

Websites I like.

http://www.marie-moore.com/

http://www.multiways.com/

http://www.jasonbellphoto.com/#/home/

http://www.prada.com/

http://rankin.co.uk/

http://www.timothy-hogan.com/

http://www.katrinagelino.com/

 http://www.mailchimp.com/v5-3/

http://www.dancingbullwine.com/index.html

http://daxandalice.com/home

This is my first post for my unit 10 blog.
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