This is my valentine’s day visual assignment!
All I did here was take the photo from the bank, and uploaded it into Gimp. Then I just used the text tool to add it into the bottom, resized the text, moved it around so it fit, and that was it.
The timing is just perfect for this Valentine’s Day caption challenge assignment. First of all, it’s only Tuesday and I already love visual week. Second of all, I love Valentine’s Day! I started this assignment from downloading my valentine card from this Flickr set. It was hard to only pick one, but somehow I came to this one and knew exactly what I was going to do. I added the caption and uploaded it straight to WordPress because I linked my Flickr and WordPress together.
Happy Valentine’s Day my fellow DS 106ers! {I hope you don’t have a Valentine like this guy in your life!}
This week, we’re really getting down and dirty with Visual Assignments. We have to complete 10 stars worth of assignments before the end of the week from the ds106 Assignment Bank. We get to choose which assignments to do, however the first one, Valentine’s Day Caption Challenge (worth 2 stars), is mandatory by everyone in order to compare ideas. The assignment was created by Sara last year. My cheezy caption on this card is more for mature audiences, but I couldn’t turn down the obvious opportunity.
To make the photo, I first downloaded a blank card from Sara’s Flickr set. I used Picasa to add the text I wanted, then I saved the photo, and uploaded it to Flickr. Finally, I publicized my blog post via Twitter.
#ds106 #ds106valentines #visualassignments My edited Valentine’s card and blog! ds106.larahampson.com/significant-ot… twitter.com/l_hampson23/st…
— Lara Hampson (@l_hampson23) February 12, 2013
It’s another new week of DS106! This week is about visuals and photography.
This week we start choosing our own assignments from the assignment bank. However, before delving into that, the whole class is starting off doing captions for Postcards a former ds106 student (Sara K) found in Urban Outfitters. They are a pack of pictures called “Unbridled Passion” by Franco Accornero.
I thought these pictures were too funny and ridiculous! But I ultimately decided upon the Superman and Wonder Woman Photo. I do not have photoshop of my computer, so I’ll share how I edited my photos– I guess you could call this a tutorial.
For my tutorial all you need is:
Paint program – MAC users– I downloaded this program and it works great
Picmonkey.com (It’s free)
Step 1: Get the photo off flickr. For me, I found it easiest to email myself the picture and then save the photo onto my desktop.
Click on “Save Image As.” Select the best place for you, I just find the desktop to be the most convenient.
Step 2: Open up the “paint” program and open up your picture in the program
Note your little “toolbox” to the left of the screen.
Step 3. Select the “eye dropper” tool to select the background color of the photo
Step 4: Select the “paint brush” tool to color over the words.
The words have disappeared!
Step 5: Save the file onto your desktop and open Picmonkey.com
Click on “Edit a Photo” and select your file.
Step 6: Click that little “P” on the left hand sidebar and that opens texts and fonts. Click the “Add Text” button.
Decide what you want to say, the font, color, position, size, etc. There are tons of fonts to choose from. The ones with the “crown” symbol are a part of the upgrade package, which costs money.
For this photo I used the “Bangers” font.
Step 7: Add more text if you chose. Click Save and upload to flickr!
Enjoy your newly created masterpiece!
Now I am sure there might be another quicker method that doesn’t use as many programs to get the desired effects complete. But without photoshop and knowledge of other programs, this is what I use. I hope it was easy to understand!
Additionally, I’m not sure kryptonic is a real word. But for this we will make it work 
This is a 2 stars assignment!
I’ve never been a fan of pickup lines…but some of them can be just plain hilarious. For this assignment I had to caption a picture from Franco Accornero’s postcard pack called “Unbridled Passion.” I got this horrible pickup line from one of my friend’s Facebook statuses last Summer when she explained how this guy came up to her and her friends and the beach and said this. Apparently it didn’t work on her…oh well.
I was in Urban Outfitters the other day and stumbled across a postcard pack labeled “Unbridled Passion” by Franco Accornero. It’s a collection of 30 different postcards from an artist who has painted more than 5,000 romance novel covers (as well as westerns, thrillers and sci-fi books). The postcards are really ridiculous on their own, but I thought for this Valentine’s day I would make them even funnier but adding my own captions.
That’s where the 2012 Valentine’s Day Caption Challenge for #ds106 comes into play: I challenge you to make your own captions for these postcards! You can use any photo editor or the Aviary one built right into flickr to add the caption.
Download one blank card from my flick set and add a caption that raises the love spirit to a new level. In addition to writing it up on your blog, when you post yours to flickr include the tag ds106valentine so we can assemble them all into giant virtual card set.
