{"id":125,"date":"2010-04-01T08:46:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T16:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jwhitehead\/?p=125"},"modified":"2010-04-07T07:59:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T15:59:53","slug":"still-image-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jwhitehead\/2010\/04\/01\/still-image-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Image Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manipulating an image was extremely easy using Picasa. I am a Photoshop user and teach an introduction college level business course on Photoshop. I love the power of Photoshop but with power comes a step learning curve.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot believe how easy it was to rework an image using Picasa. Cropping was easy and not labour intensive at all. I loved the collage and can see how a new user to image manipulation could really get into this. I tend to work with masks and layers when I make an image collage in Photoshop. I could not find that feature in Picasa.<\/p>\n<p>I had no real challenges accept that I couldn&#8217;t download the software at work. Our computers are locked down so I couldn&#8217;t play with it during lunch. I would recommend it to my students as a quick alternative to Photoshop. This is a great free piece of free software for a beginner. You can do a lot of image manipulation without the cost of a software product like Photoshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manipulating an image was extremely easy using Picasa. I am a Photoshop user and teach an introduction college level business course on Photoshop. I love the power of Photoshop but with power comes a step learning curve. I cannot believe how easy it was to rework an image using Picasa. Cropping was easy and not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":899,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7320,716],"tags":[2139],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-learning-tool-kit","category-reflections","tag-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jwhitehead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jwhitehead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jwhitehead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jwhitehead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/899"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jwhitehead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jwhitehead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jwhitehead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jwhitehead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jwhitehead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jwhitehead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}