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New computers
LNHS opened in 2009 with brand new computers. As you know, technology gets outdated very quickly. We waited 5 long years, but we finally have new computers in the lab! For those of you interested in specs: HP Elite 8300CMT Intel Core i5-3470 Processor 3.2GHz 4GB RAM 500GB hard drive AMD Radeon HD 6350 graphics…
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Product Boxes-Digital Media 2
Students in Digital Media 2 brought in a food product box and had to recreate it using Photoshop. Students were allowed one “freebie” item in the design–the food/product picture, but all other components had to be created in Photoshop by using their ability to break down and analyze each box feature. Here are a few…
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Displacement Maps-Digital Media 2
Students learned how to create displacement maps from textured images and how to blend graphics with the maps in Photoshop. What is a displacement map you ask? Here’s the definition from Wikipedia. “Displacement mapping is an alternative computer graphics technique in contrast to bump mapping, normal mapping, and parallax mapping, using a (procedural-) texture- or…
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Happy Halloween!
Digital Media 3 students have been learning Adobe Flash. Their latest project was to create a Halloween themed animation depicting a trick-or-treater getting more “trick” than treat. Digital Media Academy Senior, Peter Nguyen, won the class competition for best animation. You may need to download QuickTime player in order to view the animation. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ There is no audio…
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