For this assignment I had to create a banner of my favorite superhero….(When I was younger of course..lol!)  So I chose the Power Puff Girls because they were my favorite super-heroes when I was a child and my mother even threw me a Power Puff Girl birthday party when I turned 12…..that is one party I will never forget!! I had so much fun with my friends and family! This design assignment was the easiest of all design assignments, all I had to do was upload my picture of the Power Puff girls to Picnik.com and then I created the banner with borders from Picnik, and then I also used the mirror-border effect on Picnik which created triple border and then I added colors inside each border and I had the ability to adjust the inner thickness, and the outer lines thickness. Then I used the text tool to create “The Power Puff Girls” text and  the “Always At Your Rescue” text at the bottom which I used the creative fonts tools from Picnik as well. Next I went to the stickers tab where I got to choose from plenty stickers and themes to paste on my banner so i choose to paste 3 hearts in the color of each Power Puff Girl and then I added the starts on the corner of the bottom text to make it look more girly, just like the Power Puff Girls. I had  so much fun playing around with the tools and getting much more creative with them! Hope you Like:)

The “Cartoon You”  assignment was the most fun for me then the others in my perspective !! I had a very great experience trying to figure out how to turn myself into a cartoon character or animated version. So I basically just surfed the web and found websites that could turn my real life photo into a animation. So I used Picnik.com and from there I uploaded my photo, went to effects and used the effect called “sketch tool” which is located all the way on the bottom of the effects tab once you scroll down. Their are plenty of other effects you could use as well on your images which is so much fun! The sketching effect was my favorite of course!! Here is my original picture, and the animated version ^_^ !!!

For this assignment I had to choose any picture from Flickr Creative Commons (http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/) or one from the DS 106 Flickr group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/ds-106/) and caption it. So, I chose this adorable picture from (http://www.flickr.com/groups/-106/)  and I thought of a catchy title that went with the theme of the picture. It was very easy for me to come up with a caption just by looking at the birthday boy’s facial expression on his face while getting ready to blow out his candles from his dessert, and the facial expressions on his friends faces who look like their urging and can’t wait to get their lips on it! I thought it would be funny to make a caption relative to that and plus it would catch my audiences attention whenever they see the picture. The process was very easy, I just used Picnik.com to upload the picture then I used the text tool and the fonts to create my captions. I chose to use the splash the color effect on this picture just because I thought it would be more funny and go with the flow of my caption which is the reason why I chose to only have the birthday boy in bright colors to show that he is the center of attention, and that he is the only one important on that day…. sort of like a king. I put everyone else in black&white to show that they were beneath him and weren’t getting any of his birthday dessert LOL! I wanted to be a little more creative with this one! Hope you guys like!!