Moms Original Design Before Using The Filters
I started mom off with a blank canvas. Nothing but a white background. She picked the shapes and colors and told me where she though things needed to go. As you can tell, she likes stars. After we had the canvas almost full, it was time to send the stars shooting through some of the filters that I have on my computer. Since she doesn't have a computer and no internet, we were limited with the programs that we could use but we were able to create many lovely designs from her pattern above. I would choose a function and show her what it would do and she would tell me if she liked it or not....and that is how her design came about that I posted for her yesterday.
There is sooooo much you can created from a single design. It takes a lot of experimenting to learn about all the filters that you can use. From the design above, she was amazed at what could be done. One question she asked was could you just use blue and red to make a design and I told her certainly. But it really blew her mind when I manulipated the above and came up with a red, white, and blue design just from her original. You simply have to keep working with various programs and selecting the parts that you want to use until you get down to the colors you are after. I suppose you could also change the colors with a program, but I am not sure how you do that. But it was fun using her design to achieve the red and blue colors. Trust me, she was amazed at what a computer can do LOL
One question she asked me was "Where are you getting your ink from?" I told her that the colors came from the programs and that there were no products being used. The only thing needed was the electricity to run the laptop and a creative mind. This amazed her that all the things that she was observing could be done without it costing any money to produce and that by simply mashing buttons everything could be sent into the land of delete.
I had great pleasure bringing Mom into the world of computers. It is going to take some doing, but I keep encouraging her to get a computer. I have an extra one around here that she could have, but it is a tower PC and I think that she would enjoy one of the new tablets that are now on the market. She is 86 years old and has always enjoyed crafts. A tablet would be light weight and have no cords. I hate having all the electrical cords that you have with the towers and moniters. Even at her age, she could find hour upon hour of fun playing around with a computer. I have a long long way to go before she is convinced that she would enjoy a computer, but maybe one day :-) ..............................
There is sooooo much you can created from a single design. It takes a lot of experimenting to learn about all the filters that you can use. From the design above, she was amazed at what could be done. One question she asked was could you just use blue and red to make a design and I told her certainly. But it really blew her mind when I manulipated the above and came up with a red, white, and blue design just from her original. You simply have to keep working with various programs and selecting the parts that you want to use until you get down to the colors you are after. I suppose you could also change the colors with a program, but I am not sure how you do that. But it was fun using her design to achieve the red and blue colors. Trust me, she was amazed at what a computer can do LOL
One question she asked me was "Where are you getting your ink from?" I told her that the colors came from the programs and that there were no products being used. The only thing needed was the electricity to run the laptop and a creative mind. This amazed her that all the things that she was observing could be done without it costing any money to produce and that by simply mashing buttons everything could be sent into the land of delete.
I had great pleasure bringing Mom into the world of computers. It is going to take some doing, but I keep encouraging her to get a computer. I have an extra one around here that she could have, but it is a tower PC and I think that she would enjoy one of the new tablets that are now on the market. She is 86 years old and has always enjoyed crafts. A tablet would be light weight and have no cords. I hate having all the electrical cords that you have with the towers and moniters. Even at her age, she could find hour upon hour of fun playing around with a computer. I have a long long way to go before she is convinced that she would enjoy a computer, but maybe one day :-) ..............................
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