New music report

Few years ago we can only buy music on vinyl, compact disc or tape cassettes which could be bought in record shops. In this time, we could only dream about buying music without leaving home. Now it is possible because we can buy lots of music in shops but also on the Internet. Also music fans don’t have to buy the whole album but singles which you like or which you want to buy. Singles on iTunes are 79p which is cheaper than a £1.99 CD single. If you buy music through the internet you can download it straight onto your computer in few seconds or minutes, it takes less time than go out to the music shop, except if you live above the music shop, but if you want to buy one single, the internet is only way to do it.

Today buying music is very simple. However there are millions of people who don’t want spend their money buying music so they decide to download it from illegal web sites or p2p programs (peer to peer) e.g. ‘Emule’, ‘uTorrents’, ‘limewire’ or ‘Bearshare’. These programs allow you to download music from every part of the Earth from every internet server which shares those files for every one who don’t want to spend money on music. To download the files from servers for free you have to sign in or register, but the information which you give there can be used through police and then they can find you and charge you with a criminal offence of copyright infringement. Jammie Thomas from America was caught sharing and downloading illegal music via peer to peer site Kazaa. She had to pay $9250 per song because she had an account on ‘Kazaa’. So if you want to download music for free you have to beware of police which can find you!

Media studies project 2 CD cover

This CD cover is made from picture of me and some stuff which I found on web sites. This cover is made in hip-hop or rap style.
I add some hip-hop stuff like a little boy who wear wide and long trouisers and hold a paintspray. Also I add some graffiti which connect with hip-hop style.

I used the same tools as in the Jimmy Hendrix CD cover. I used 'magnetic lasso tool' to cut out my person from the picture and then I paste it onto CD cover with a picture of brick wall. Then I paste some grafitti style onto CD cover and smuge them using 'Smuge tool'. Also I paste two guys and smuge them too.

Playing with Photoshop CS3

I've been played with Photoshop at GCSE Media studies lesson because only this lesson I've got access to photoshop. I decide to play with photoshop because and do some amazing work. It tooks me about an hour but you can see what I did here!!!

This is the picture before I start play with it.


And that is the picture after my transformation:


Now I can tell you how to do this:

1. You have to take MAGNETIC LASSO TOOL and select car around its body lines
2. Then you choose IMAGE at the top menu, select the ADJUSTMENT and then HUE/SATURATION...
3. You can use your own colour but first you have to tick a COLORIZE box which shows you at the botom of the hue/saturation window
4.DESATURATE the things which you don't want to colorize e.g. windows.
5. Now I tell you how to do a lightning circle around car.
6. You have to choose FILTER from top menu and then RENDER and finally LIGHTNING EFFECTS
7. Then in lightning efect window select the place you what to lightning and do it by pressing OK
8.How to add a lights? It is simple choose FILTER again, RENDER and LENS FLARE, select the place of the light which you want and press OK but also you can choose different types of light.
9.Now I tell you how to add a different texture to the image. choose FILTER from top menu, then BRUSH STROKES and there you can choose a different types of texture.

Have a nice day with photoshop!