MAZEL TOV ROCHEL

We heard the wedding was beautiful! Sorry, we couldn't make it but we wish we were there and wanted to wish you a HUGE Mazal Tov!!
Enjoy your Sheva Brachos and we can't wait to see you back in the hallowed halls of Touro

Love,
Simie and Shainie

heading towards the finish line...

sooo now that we're almost nearing the end, the light is shining at the end of that tunnel!!... its time for important stuff - like how we're going to celebrate our freedom :) heres a list for starters of Manhattan restaurants (i do my reserach well on the important stuff...) - taking votes / suggestions...

1) Le Marais
2) Abigael's
3) My Most Favorite Food
4) Mendy's
5) Cafe K
6) Prime Grill
7) Solo
8) Va Bene
9) Tevere 84
10) Levana
11) Mike's Bistro
12) Nargila Grill
13) La Creperie

Happy Chanukah

Wishing everyone a fantastic chanukah in (and out of) Touro!!!

WAKE UP CALL!!

omg i was working on my hw as usual on motzei shabbos, and suddenly...

**insert scary sound effects here***

my whole computer screen went BLANK!
and nothing happened!
and then i get this blue screen with a bunch of mumbo jumbo errors!

so i shut off my computer....

took a deep breath.....
turned it back on ...and all was ok! B"H!
but right then i backed up all my college projects on cd's cuz i hadnt done it till now ....

but i suggest to everyone to back up their stuff jsut in case! thats couldve been really really scary

good night all ! :-)
good luk on your websites.....mine is not happening anytime soon lol

Still checking the blog

Okay everyone, this blogs getting a little boring. So i'm gonna post just to wish everyone a fantastic Shabbos. OH and an early Thanksgiving Greeting - no touro hurray!!!

check this out

this goes with the comic
make my logo bigger cream

JUST FYI

I'm BORED. I'm sure there's plenty I should be doing. just don't seem to be in the mood. I'm sure no one is planning to check this so I guess I'm basically talking to myself.

btw the price of Pepsi is going up.

c ya all later

HELLLLLPPPPP

OK SO WE HAVE 2 SERVERS HERE AT WORK AND ONE OF THEM JUST CRASHED . ONE OF THEM IS ALWAYS BACKED UP THE OTHER NOT ... MURPHEYS LAW WHICH ONE CRASHES, YOU GOT IT THE ONE NOT BACKED UP AND OF COURSE WHOS JOB IS IT TO BACK UP??? YOU GOT THAT ONE TOO... HELLLLLLPPPPPP

Reviving our Blog

Hi guys, in case you check this site more than onlysimchas (which is highly unlikely) i wanted to post here and invite all of you to my vort tomorrow (tuesday) night. I know it's a touro night and the vort's in lakewood but you can't say i didn't invite y'all.
see you thursday!

Class notes AGAIN - rollovers the right way

Okay I know everyone doesn't really care but this is the best way for us to know how to make rollovers on the final

slice everything in photoshop, make sure to right click on each slice and name them, also make sure there are no extra slices between each slice
go to image ready
use web content pallete, click the right slice and layer and then click create rollover style on the bottom of the web content pallete
click twice to create an over and a down button
then you can mutate the style of that slice or text or whatever

And there you have it - slicing lesson in 30 seconds! what were we doing til now?!

Have A Ksiva V'chasima Tova Everyone

and a year of only simchos and brachos!!!

see you all next year

Registration

ahhh so whats everyones schedule??
So i spoke to fink today by registration and he added the small business course as an elective on thursday night at 6:00
The course info is: MCD 451 FE special topics for desktop publishing . It is gonna be taught by professor gardner (who i hear is supposed to be good)

So they didnt let me actually register for it today cuz it wasnt added to the system in time so u have to go back next week and do it .

so whos planning on graduating in jan? they gave me a form there is a 200 dollar graduation fee for them to "process e/t" crazy! anyways they say u have to set up an appointment with someone so they can do a "graduation check" on u or something.

Graphic Designer must haves

sick of touro - heres some important stuff:)

ok so wuts it gonna be?

wuts everyones final choice on the elective?

Cute no?

Mazal Tov :)

We got another one! Mazal Tov Rochel on ur engagement to Shneur Belsky!!

IMPT Q!!!!

does anyone know of a professor who taught bio or something. his name is Schister. someone wanted to know about him. if anyone knows anything about him or knows someone that does. PLS let me know. todah rabba!!!

on a diff note:
soo changing the sched def sounds lk a good idea. also maybe we can switch the Tues 10:30 class to thurs at 6.

this is getting WAY too complicated

new question

k i have a diffrenet question ? what elective are we supposed to take if this childrens book illustration thing doesnt happen? what kind of course is it anyways? i think its really unfair that we have to go looking for electives and have to settle to take courses that dont really have to do with anything just because they cant accomodate us with a normal schedule. am i the only one that feels this way? i mean we are such a small class and so are the other desktop publsihing classes that you would think they would make the program be good so that we can reccomend it to future students. i think i want to take that small business course but when is he gonna let us know if he is making that small business course for graphic design? cuz then we are gonig to register for the same thing twice ? also i see on thursday at 820 there is a course called aesthetics in modern art - i tihnk that is counted as an elective for us if anyones interested but it sounds really boring ..... i may take it tho if theres no other choice.
what is everyone else planning on donig ?
thanks adina for going back and forth with fink your so nice!!

Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace...

DID NOT send this - need to hear from everyone b4 sending it...
whacha think is it worth it ? is this what everyone wants??

Hi Professor,
I'm really sorry to make you crazy, and I really appreciate the work you are going through to put together the Small Business course we requested. Some girls just received their fall schedules now and realized if we would take this class on Thursday at 8:15 we'd be in Touro Tues and Thurs until 10:30 which is very long and rigorous. I know its probably not plausible to schedule the class at 6 otherwise you would of mentioned that as an option. We did notice that there was a Children's book illustration course on Sunday - would that count as an elective? If so, then those who choose to, can take the regular small business course offered at 6 (which wont count as an elective, but can still be gained from) on Thurs and the child book illustration on sun for the elective.

fall schedule!!!!!!!!!

Helllo I am very not impressed with this new schedule that I just got in the mail....
If this bussiness class is only offered on Thurs at 8.... there is NO WAY in the world I'm staying till 10:30 both nights. anyone echo my sentiments??
also u think children's book illustration would count as an elective?

Buy your degree at Touro!

OMG did anyone see that article in the NY post it was on the front page! That Touro in manhatten , some of the administrators were selling degrees to people for 1,000's of dollars! Some of the ppl never even stepped foot into touro , while others just bought like the remaining 20 credits or so that they needed to graduate.

we could have got a degree without sitting through all these boring classes can you imagine?!? lololol

but seriously its such an embarrasement for touro. it said one of the directors from the touro on kings highway computer location was involved also.

HELLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOO

anyone there????

just checking

Happy Independence Day!

Hope you enjoyed and didnt get too wet!
(was actually at the actual macys fireworks but my camera died so no pics to prove it... but was realllllly cool!)

Reunion

Hi ! What do you guys think of going out to eat or something one of these days? I miss everyone!! Whats everybodys summer plans anything exciting?

IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey everyone can u all send me your complete address and telephone numbers asap!! Email them to me at tder3@aol.com thanx a bunch!!

breaking news!!

Hey everyone guess what???? It doesnt look like ill be living in la so i guess ill be finishing up with you guys after all!!

FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Hi everyone.

U enjoying your vacation???
a.o have any exciting plans. none here. internship :)

After reading everyones posts i had to burst out laughing! Seeing that everyone is freaking out, allow me to help you feel better. I DID NOT START!!! You heard me its 11 p.m. the night before and i have no begun either project! Ok im off to work just thought id share that with you guys lol

Finnels Ads

ok quick question, it has to be three DIFFERENT ads, but for the same product? or are any of you doing the exact same thing for each one just in a different size? pleeeeease let me know thanks a mil

Buttons

OK guys i agree about buttons. None of mine work normally. How do i do this??????
Someone help. Give us a tutorial or something. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZ!

Finnel Final

I take NO responsibility for any errors!

• cap height is 65-75% off the point size
• sans serif
• formal script face, ie wedding invitation
• informal- ie handwriting
• slab serif face-ie Rockwell
• Three categories of serif 1. Modern-most dif between thick and thin ie Bodoni 2. Old Style-lease dif between thick and thin ie Berkely 3. Transitional-in between-ie Baskerville
• Display Faces- Specialty faces ie Crackhouse
• ITC Garamond: larger proportional x-height to cap height
• Cap height-height of capital letter
• X-height-heigh of lower case letter
• Ascender/Descender-above and below
• M-Space-size of the font
• Pi-Font- dingbats
• Preflight-check for fonts, resolution etc
• Distortion on soup can-distort-arc with a negative value
• Package- gather together all elements of file in one folder
• Plug in-adds features that the program doesnt have
• If you not packaging images, send a high res PDF
• Basic rule for determing the effection resolution of a psd image 1.5-2xLPI, .5LPI
• Paper is the most expensive part of a printing job
• Dot Gain- tendency of ink to spread
• Newsprint paper is the cheapest paper
• Weight of a ream of paper of a standard size sheet is known as basis weight
• Grain- the direction of paper fiber alignment. Best to fold paper in the direction of the grain for a smooth fold
• Smallest to largest order- Safety, Trim, Bleed
• Smallest to largest order- point, pica, inchprinting job that requires 150LPI- psd image needs to have a resolution of 600
• Contract proof- Prepress proof used to ensure correct colorGood campaign does not need to have the same size ad
• Saddle stitching

aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Okay HELOOOOOOOO it is 2:18 AM !
How crazy is that and I am working on HW!!

kay does this thing really have to have 6 pages?

Also does there have to be animations on every single pages or not really ?

somebody helppp is anyone else onlnie this is scary my whole house is sleeping

REALLY cool flash site

http://fubon.co.uk/

umm help!

anything actually due today? or is it justt the last class and you must have everything by next week. in other words wut is going on in class tonight

hey who changed our background?? think i wouldnt notice...

heres a good flash tutorial i found (i think im going to be teaching a lot if this to myself...)
http://www.entheosweb.com/tutorials.asp

-will post more as i find them cuz i dont know bout u but i need them....

Question

Hey everyone , I think this has been asked before, but, How do you preserve transparacies / gradients when importing photoshop and illustrator files into flash?

(Now, don't be fooled by this question by thinking I am up to that point when in fact I have JUST started. I was just wondering before I start if I should bother with anything complicated)

Thanks!!
Have a great yom tov!

MY VORT!!!

Ok guys here it is, the address is 4609 bay parkway. Now to find it its where bay pkwy intersects with ocean pkwy, (btwn avenue I and J, coming from I) You cant miss it! And if you do well keep looking cuz i expect to see each one of you there on May 28, aka Memorial Day--no excuses (except you Adina) Cant wait to see you guys there and give each of you two kisses (one for each cheek) and one HUGE hug!! Oh rite and a personal introduction to my hubby to be. (and any cute guys you wanna know bout, although i should warn you most of them are underage lol)

Love you guys!!
P.S. If you have any questions call me at 917-583-8619

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

My website is NOT WORKING. this is bad news! for some reason everything I try just wont do what it's supposed to.
now is she serious about 6 pages???? she'll be lucky if I'm done by the fall
anyone else seem to be having issues or is this just me???
have a good shabbos all

Web II

So.... anyone have any idea what the hw for web is?? would be immensely helpful to know.

Apparantly I am slow.

Ok so since I didnt even know Tova was engaged until like two days ago, I am posting my own special mazel tov.
MAZEL TOV!!!!!!
so exciting!!!!!!!!
You guys look really really cute together , may you always be as happy as you are now and share in many more years together of brocha , hatzlacha , parnassah and everything good!!!!! (say amen!)

To everyone else:
Hope this gets the ball rolling and be the start of many more simchos!

:):):):):):):)

i myself still dont believe it hehehe!!

Hey guys AHHHHHH thank you so much for all those well wishes and i hope that my breaking the curse speeds stuff up a bit lol anywho see u tuesday with all the juicy details

MAZEL TOV

OMG. I went to surf onlysimchas and guess who i see there!
I won't spoil the surprise!
So aanyways i freak out and wonder why this isn't posted.
First one in out class! A humongo mazel tov again!!!!

someone broke the curse....

Ahhh the curse has been broken....
go to onlysimchas to find out.... and sign away :)
we're so excited for u!!! may this be the start of many more to come amen...

Whats for lunch?

K so since this blog is dead, I am going to attempt to start a topic.
Whats everyone eating for lunch?
lol k im really bored.

I am eating mini pizzas and salad!
YUM!

Happy Pesach

Happy Pesach enjoy ur vacation see ya all in 2 weeks

FLASH!!

omg is anyone else going insance from this? Guess what I had to change my whole entire idea and start from scratch because the whole thing just wasnt working. so now i only did about 7 seconds worth and it is almost 12 am and i just cant do it anymore i have been sitting in front of my computer a whole night! im just telling her i cant give it tomorrow im not maknig myself nuts.

anyone else having issues??
lets all share in the suffering!

GRADUATION PLEASE?

Ok, hi everyone. Here is the topic I'd like to bring up. What do you think of asking for our last three classes in the summer? We'd still be officially graduating in January but wouldn't have to take them during the fall. Honestly, I don't think they will let us...but if we all agree and really really want it...ya never know!
Thoughts?

Funny Billboards

http://bored.com/billboards/index.php

check out this site for really good billboards.

For example:

Guy Cleaning Teeth on Orbit Billboard

Finnel's Midterm

HERE ARE THE TOPICS FOR THE MIDTERM
I didn't have any other notes

Spot color > new spot channel in photoshop
Legibility vs readability
Typographic dos and don’ts
Tracking, leading…
Color
Environment (paste into)
Fonts:

Serif – old style – least dif. In thick and thing, crossbar on e not straight, transitional - e is straight and some difference between thick and thin
Modern – very big dif. Between thick and thing
Slab serif – ex. Rockwell
Pi font – webding, picture fonts….
ITC faces- have a bigger x height in ratio to the cap height
Scrip faces – handwriting,
Display faces –

HELP

I need help with finnel's project...
anyone?

attention all coffee-aholics

It's ADAR

These kids look like we do in class. So much for Purim spirit!

for all those that wanted to see the famous freezer...

autographs available for privaledged characters

Me again :)

k whats for homework for tomorrow?
what idd we learn last class? the main points...cuz i have this huge book and wanna look over what we did.
any help would be appreciated thanks !!!

galagar hw

anyone know whats for hw in glalger? i have no patience i am not fully back into the school mode yet....blahhh

I'm a little confused about the textbook for Gallagher b/c the author for doesn't seem to match the author she listed. well oh well b/c I ordered it already.

did a/o else find that, or am I missing s/t?

btw the cheapest site seems to be http://powells.com/ got it for lk $25 w/ shipping.

internship anybody?

In case anyone's still checking this even though it's vacation, Prof. DeCastro told me she has an internship available in a design place in Brooklyn. It's from one of the girls from last year, so you can probably check it out with them. If anyone's interested, get in touch with DeCastro.

umm???

dreamweaver...is there a written test or just bring the website?

PLEASE HELP

Can someone please explain the resolution equation? I really do not understand it.

Photography Final

1) diff b/w advertising photography and editorial & documentary – advertising is selling something, not looking to show the truth, and make more $ as an advertising photographer.

2) Advertising photography categories:
- Still life – either product OR food
- Fashion – either fashion (about clothes) OR beauty (about makeup)

3) Rule of thirds – Section scene into thirds and subject should be in criss-crosses of middle (where black circles are, NOT smack in middle)

4) to keep ppl interested in photo – keep viewers eye moving in a circle by composition – don’t give viewer way to escape photo ex: one object in photo going out of photo / one side bright etc…
-Ansel Adams darkened outside of photos to keep eye inside of photo.

5) “Alternative” Processes – Non silver processes (made photo without other elements rather than silver)
One Process – Gum Bichromate, making exposure with sunlight. Process it in water.
-Edward Steichen made a shot of a pond at moonlight, and it was the most expensive photo sold at an auction, sold for $2.929 Million.

6) Food Stylist stuff that you remember

7) Archival - term used to describe matting and framing photograph to make it last forever.
-all materials must be acid free
- matt must be cut and put over photo so it doesn’t touch the glass.

Contracts
8) All photographers have a contract that must be signed b4 shooting.
- for copyright protection and so you get paid.
- It specifies who owns the photo (usually the photographer does)
- agencies wont pay without contracts, and they take 90 days to pay you.
- Photographer has a rep who takes 15-25% and they handle this stuff.
- client pays for your meals, an assistant, studio, equipment, and your fee.

- contract specifies:
Usage – how they’ll use the photo. Ex: billboard, subway ad, bus stop ads, magazine spread… each pay different amounts.
How long – specifies how long they can use photo. Client can decide to do a buyout – they can use it forever, for whatever they want (starts at about $30,000)

-model has to sign a model release – you own that image.

Photography Final

if anyone would like to post the notes online, I would be 4ever greatful.

thanks a bunch

Finnel's Final

There are 25 short questions on test
Get ready because here they come:

1. Size of standard em space is size of type
2. Leaders = dots leading to price
3. Leading = space between lines, measured baseline to baseline
4. Set solid– same size and leading ex. 14/14
5. Cap height is 65-70 percent of point size
6. 12 points per pica, 6 picas per inch, 72 points per inch
7. 10/12 = leading is 12, size is 10
8. Sans serif – without the lines
a. Ex. Arial, Helvetica…
9. Serif – with the lines
a. Ex. Times new roman…
10. Tracking = the space between a range of letters
11. Kerning = subtracting or adding space between two letters
12. CMYK = 4 process colors
a. K = black b/c key color
13. Don’t add return (enter) between lines, use space before and space after
14. 2 page layout programs = indesign, quark
15. Never use autoleading (on test it will be: What is wrong with this picture?)
16. Never put two word spaces after a period only one
17. Never condense type = it distorts type
18. In order not to provide a font every time it’s printed, make sure it’s outlined
a. Select type, ctrl + shift + I and import it
19. Best to import EPS and TIFF in printing
20. Trapping in prepress = amount overprinting colors overlapped in order to eliminate white space
21. Preflight – checks e/t to make sure it’s ready to print
22. Converting art with tonal gradation (photograph) to a series of dots to create allusion of continuous tone is called Halftoning
23. Separation: Producing a series of plates that produces sep. ink colors
24. Resolution = fineness or coarseness of printing

Plus don't forget to bring in a your duotone brochure and c alendar and a cd of it in an envelope.

FINAL SCHEDULE

Does anyone know our final schedule? If so, can you post it?
I would really appreciate it!
Tizku Lmitzvos!