Browse the Internet and select a picture of a magazine cover of your choice and save it. Create a new blank Photoshop document and save it as your last name_magazine cover.

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Photoshop task

Task 1.

Type and Color Project Instructions:

Imagine that you are featured on a cover of a famous magazine. You can pick any topic of your choice for the headline on the magazine cover but it should allude to why you are featured on that specific magazine’s cover. For instance, if you are featured on Time magazine, the headline for the article might allude to the great humanitarian projects you have provided to the community/world or if you are featured on Home magazine, a headline might have a tagline that references your home decorating ideas. Overall, you will edit text and a photo using the color and type tools in Photoshop as well as other selection and alterations tools to depict that you really are featured on a well-known magazine cover.

1) Browse the Internet and select a picture of a magazine cover of your choice and save it.

2) Create a new blank Photoshop document and save it as your last name_magazine cover. Set the color mode for a print project. (CMYK)

3) Duplicate the magazine cover as close as you can. You may choose to mask the title if you can’t duplicate the font for the Magazine’s name; however, create texts that mimic the other fonts as close to the original as you can for all other headlines featured on the cover.

4) Place your image on the cover. Use the selection tools to edit and fix the image. Apply color correction options, like tone and hue and other image adjustments of your choice to mimic the correct color tone of the magazine.

3) Make sure to include at least 4 layers in your project and pay attention to order of the text and image on the cover; some text might be behind another text layer or image and also how the typography is formatted in terms of size, typeface, and style.

4) Save your Photoshop document and save a copy of the final image as a jpg and upload both the original and final jpg to Canvas.

 Sample of a final magazine cover

 

 

Task 2

Blending and Filters Project Instructions:

Start with a photo or drawing that is your own photo or drawing.  The photo/drawing can be of a person, place, or thing as long as it is your own image.

You will create at least 6 layers. Keep the original image object on the bottom layer and apply the following filter effects to all other layers.

  1. Original Picture without Filters.
  2. Duplicate the original image layer and apply Artistic Filter Effects (colored pencil, cutout, fresco, palette knife, etc.)
  3. Duplicate the original image layer and apply Blur Filter (motion, gaussian, lens, radial, etc.)
  4. Duplicate the original image layer and apply Distort Filter (displaced, pinch, shear, ripple, twirl, etc.)
  5. Duplicate the original image layer and apply Noise Filters (add noise, despeckle, dust & scratch, etc.)
  6. Duplicate the original image layer and apply Stylized Filters (diffuse, emboss, extrude, solarize, etc.)
  7. Duplicate the original image layer and apply other Filters of your choice (render, pixelate, sharpen, etc.)
  8. Apply a Blending mode (like Multiply) of your choice to any layer.
  9. Apply a Blending mode of your choice to another layer.
  10. Rearrange the images on your Canvas (if you need to) so that all your layer images don’t overlap so that parts of the applied filters show through the final composite image.  I should be able to discern at a glance that all 6 applied filters are applied to the document. Save the document as Jamali_blending-filters and then resave it as a jpeg and send it to me both the Photoshop document and jpg.

Sample Filters File

 

 

Task 3

Selection and Masking Project Instructions:

Pretend you have to edit a scene in a movie using Photoshop’s selection and masking options to accomplish this task. You will probably need to also apply some color correction tools, alteration tools like the healing brush, clone stamp or transform tools and brushes to create a cohesive scene.

Choose a scene from any movie and add and delete objects and/or type to that scene using various layers (at least a minimum of 2), selection and masking tools. You may choose any scene from an internet search but try to keep the image resolution low so that the image is only viewed on screen.

  1. Select a movie scene image from the Internet, save it and import it to a new Photoshop document.
  2. Save the Photoshop document filename as your last name_movie scene.
  3. Insert at least two items to the scene using masking tools (make sure to apply a new layer).
  4. Delete at least two items from the scene using selection tools and transform or clone/ tools to fix the space where the deleted items were placed (or you can insert the new items here).
  5. Make any other corrections you would like to any selected area of this movie scene (like color and lighting or more creative adjustments like adding text to a blank mug or a person’s shirt in the scene and have it look like it is really part of the scene).
  6. Save your final Photoshop document and export as a jpg with the same name and upload only the final jpg and the original saved movie scene to this assignment window on Canvas.

Note: Please make sure that the adjustments you’ve made with objects/texts seem like it belongs in the scene. So if you are doing a cartoon movie, you should have similar cartoon graphics placed in the scene, etc.

See a couple of samples below of the original movie scene and the final edited scene from the Harry Potter movies.  Can you spot the deletions in the first example and the additions in the second example?

 

Consider your favorite books, movies, works of art, etc. Compare or Contrast which of these have influenced or your Life in a meaningful way.

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Compare two books or two movies

Consider your favorite books, movies, works of art, etc. Compare or Contrast which of these have influenced or your Life in a meaningful way.

Develop a table describing the applications in details with respect to their use in healthcare organizations; their role in making healthcare management more efficient; list downside of their use for the staff and patients, if any. Explain what can be done to improve the user experience (1-2 points per technology type).

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Week 1: HIT Applications

Course Objective for Assignment:

Evaluate technology solutions in the health care industry to improve the quality of care, safety, and financial management decisions
In this assignment you would conduct the Internet search and list five (5) health information technology applications and their functions. Develop a table describing the applications in details with respect to their use in healthcare organizations; their role in making healthcare management more efficient; list downside of their use for the staff and patients, if any. Explain what can be done to improve the user experience (1-2 points per technology type).

What did you find in the readings this week that piqued your interest, offered you something you did not know, caused you to want to know more or get a better understanding?

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Week 2 Outline

Overview
The two most important skills for reading research are being able to understand what you read and deciding whether what you read is reliable and believable. This week’s readings will start us down the path to learning this.

The vastly most important criterion of a research report is its credibility. There are a host of ways that a writer ensures a report on research is believable because being able to trust the findings or results of a research study is why we read them. We, depending on our jobs and interests, need information we can trust. We may be searching to understand a medical diagnosis, or how our car insurance rates are determined, or whether our employees believe they are valued, or how to change a process at work so that employees and vendors will buy into it, etc. We turn to books and articles that share the results of research expecting that what we read is true. This week we will learn what peer-reviewed sources are and how to find credible sources of information.

Objectives
Upon completion of this week, you will be able to:
Know how scholarly papers are written in terms of format
Know what is typically in a research report
Understand how researchers gain readers’ trust
Identify ways that research reports lose readers’ trust
Know how to write better
Start understanding how to read research report

Readings
APA Manual, Ch. 2 Paper Elements and Format (pp. 29 – 67); Ch. 4 (pp. 110-127)
Locke et al., Ch 2 – 4, pp. 23 – 78.
Articles/Videos in Resources below

Assignments

What did you find in the readings this week that piqued your interest, offered you something you did not know, caused you to want to know more or get a better understanding? You need to discuss at least 2 ideas or facts.
Write about one thing you found in the APA Manual reading this week.
Write about one thing about the credibility of research readings.
Cite your source(s) appropriately.

Analyze that position using the personal characteristics described in chapters 4 and 5 to identify characteristics that are essential to success in this position.

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Week 2 Discussion

Select a position (your own position is an option) in your organization or at an organization that you have worked for or volunteered for. In your initial posting (250-400 words) for this week:
Analyze that position using the personal characteristics described in chapters 4 and 5 to identify characteristics that are essential to success in this position. Characteristics might include personality traits, values, or aspects of emotional intelligence. Name the position and then describe the personal characteristics

How did present-day African boundaries evolve? What problems did the boundaries cause? What are some of the ways the existing boundary disputes can be resolved? What are the challenges?

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Read and answer the questions

Read Griffith’s (2015) chapter on “The Scramble for Africa: Inherited Political Boundaries.” and answer the following questions.

How did present-day African boundaries evolve? What problems did the boundaries cause? What are some of the ways the existing boundary disputes can be resolved? What are the challenges? Use examples to illustrate your answer. Include at least three in-text quotes and cite each using the following format (author name, year, page number).

How might the study of Geography be like a “Voyage of Discovery”?

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Discussion on “A Voyage of Discovery”

Watch three parts of the video and post your answers in your group discussion board. There are four questions you need to answer.

The movie’s length is only 12 minutes. There are four discussion questions.

Summary:

The Voyage of Discovery, is produced by the National Geographic Society. It describes the travels of a geographer, “Franklin Shaw” from the 1800s who, through his diary, shares some of the observations and insights he has made of both the physical and human realms of the earth. He describes the diversity of the cultures and human political systems in terms which, he perceives as being both positive and negative; the positive side being human culture’s ability to live productively and surviving all manner of hardship, and the “darker” side being the potential it has to segregate itself sometimes into a state of conflict.

The video weaves images of modern warfare and the plague of current conflicts within Shaw’s writings; making his diary out to be an almost unbelievable insight into the future. After a slide of an atomic cloud fades from the screen, the viewer is directed to the image of the earth rising over the moon. This Apollo picture sets the scene for Shaw to project his thoughts into the future and suggest maybe when we as humans finally see our earth separate, as one connected whole, and surrounded by space, as one planet, maybe then we as humans will finally gain a sense of the dependencies we have to it and each other.

Discussion Questions:

1. “I have learned that people’s faces, like the face of the land, reflect the forces that have shaped them”

2. “There must be a bit of the poet in the geographer. Like the artist, the geographer uncovers patterns and themes.”

3. “Maps and charts are the language of geography.”

4. How might the study of Geography be like a “Voyage of Discovery”?

In order to get a full credit for this assignment, the minimum requirement is to include 4 items which are listed above and to respond to any one post here.

Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment.

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Software Development Question

At UC, it is a priority that students are provided with strong educational programs and courses that allow them to be servant-leaders in their disciplines and communities, linking research with practice and knowledge with ethical decision-making. This assignment is a written assignment where students will demonstrate how this course research has connected and put into practice within their own career.

Assignment:

Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study.

Requirements:

· Provide a 500 word (or 2 pages double spaced) minimum reflection.

· Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.

· Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.

· Demonstrate a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed, demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment.

· You should not provide an overview of the assignments assigned in the course. The assignment asks that you reflect how the knowledge and skills obtained through meeting course objectives were applied or could be applied in the workplace.

Write a letter of recommendation for a student with autism, the letter needs to address the following:the student is Autistic Students of Color pursuing a bachelor degree in health and safety the student has worked a constructions sites and has worked at community centers.

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Letter of recommendation

You will write a letter of recommendation for a student with autism, the letter needs to address the following:the student is Autistic Students of Color pursuing a bachelor degree in health and safety the student has worked a constructions sites and has worked at community centers.

The most effective letters of recommendation will:

  • Be specific to the Autistic Students of Color
  • Speak to the student’s autism and how the student has handled any challenges associated with their diagnosis
  • Discuss the student’s character and/or commitment to their future plans
  • Share any relevant examples or stories illustrating the student’s strengths
  • Be no longer than 1 pages
  • Contain a signature, contact information of recommender, and letterhead (REQUIRED)

Write a 1-2 page response to Module 3, Objective 3: Distinguish good research from persuasive techniques and spurious research, online and on paper.

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Distinguish good research from persuasive techniques and spurious research

Write a 1-2 page response to Module 3, Objective 3: Distinguish good research from persuasive techniques and spurious research, online and on paper.