The first thing that I did was darken the inside of the boy. After that I made the background more cleaner and whiter. Then I zoomed in and did the nose and mouth

How to protect your Instagram photos 12/19/12

 The new rules of Instagram would allow the company to sell your images to outside parties to use however they please. Though instagram said that that's not what they meant and that it will "modify specific parts" of the new terms to make its intentions clearer. Though your private settings will remain the same too.
If you're bothered by the idea of someone making money off your creative work on Instagram, thats a different issue. You're using a free service, and as Instagram said Tuesday in its blog post: "From the start, Instagram was created to become a business."  If you have an issue with that than might as well stop using Instagram.

Massive bank cyberattack planned      12/17/12

Security firm McAfee on Thursday released a report warning that a massive cyberattack on 30 U.S. banks had been planned, with the purpose of stealing millions of dollars from bank accounts. A gang of cybercriminals had developed a Trojan aimed at funneling money out of bank accounts from Chase. The attack had successfully being tested on at least 300 "guinea pig bank accounts" in the United States, and they had plans to launch its attack in full force in the spring of 2013. But thankfully they were able to stop this criminals and send them to jail.

This is a picture of repetition of Marylin Monroe, because as you can tell the're are 9 pictures of her just in a different color.

This is a picture of unity because they can be recognized as being a group. It is also a repetition because the colors and the shapes figures repeat.

This is a symmetrical balance picture because in both sides the pictures are identical. But the colors are different, they are opposite.

Bellringer 12/5

Google's iPhone Gmail is finally pretty good

Google's iPhone Gmail has improved unlike other updates this one has been really exciting. This app provides an expanded account support, features of infinite scrolling in messege lists, and the ability to respond to Google Calendar invites from the app. But one effect is that the new app needs to be re-downloaded and not just updated. Another effect with this app is that the app still doesn't support offline viewing. Although some users say that the app feels faster and smoother.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/04/technology/innovation/gmail-iphone/index.html