Technology Tools

I was not familiar with Blogger until this week, so it's been a slight learning experience. I have used Wordpress in the past, but this works a little differently. I had an awful time getting the text in one of my posts to format correctly. After a couple of hours of not being able to fix it, I got it close enough, and published it. I'm still kind of mad about it, because it looks so different from the rest of my posts.
I'm a current Tumblr user, so I am probably going to use it for my project. I think it would make a neat little site for it.

I avoided Pinterest for years, but finally had to make one to find art therapy ideas for my projects last year. So many things you search on google come up as Pinterest results and you can't browse that stuff without an account. I find that irritating, but I finally made one, so I might use it for this. Not really sure. Most often I would just make a bookmarks folder for the class/project/topic, and keep everything together in there.

I have a piece of image editing software called Affinity Photo. It's been difficult to learn to use it because it works pretty differently from other programs like Photoshop. I spent some time this summer working with some images and got fairly comfortable with that basics, like cropping and resizing, so I feel a little better about that.I haven't used any of those web-based programs to create graphics, but I have done similar things in Photoshop and Affinity.

I have never had a class that published all of its assignments on a blog before. I think it will be fun, but it is way different from any other class I have taken.

My art brain immediately thought of art supplies when you said "tools", so here are some of what I think of as tools.

(Photo from Wikimedia)