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Accessibility

Posted on March 29, 2011 by erinbush

This week’s readings on concerns of accessibility, were eye opening. I’ve worked in web companies for 12 years and I can tell you from personal experience that only one of my teams ever discussed issues of accessibility during the course of a brainstorm, build or launch of a major site. And that’s terrible. Now I…

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Comments This Week, March 29

Posted on March 29, 2011 by erinbush

I commented on Roger’s and Laura’s Accessibility posts. I’m also playing with my new online, scholarly identity, so forgive me if I try on new blog titles and such.

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Image Assignment and Comments

Posted on March 20, 2011 by erinbush

My image assignment is up. As I mentioned before, since the images for my final project are not old enough to need restoration and since I will not be working with engravings, I have a bit of a mishmash of family photos for my assignment this week. I do have historic photos of Mrs. Lee…

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Colored Photographs: Not Just For Photoshop

Posted on March 16, 2011 by erinbush

I dug out an old box of family photos that I figured would hold a treasure of options for this project. I was right! (I have a ton of photos to deal with for my project, but none that need to be restored or colored, and certainly no engravings.. so I’ll have a bit of…

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Comments: March 2 – 8

Posted on March 8, 2011 by erinbush

I commented on Carrie’s post and gave Sasha my two cents on her final project. Also gave Alex a huzzah for her glimmer of hope.

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Confessions of a Photoshop Hack

Posted on March 7, 2011 by erinbush

I admit it. I’m a hack. I know enough about Photoshop to be dangerous, but not really enough to know if what I’m doing is correct. And after reading Katrin Eismann’s Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, I am flat-out breaking some cardinal rules. I never use layers. Gasp. I just move the sliders around until I…

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