Gooding-Stumble-Photoshop

http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#2zU8VE/www.designshard.com/video-tutorials/11-great-photoshop-photo-effects-tutorials//

When I stumbled upon this I was blow away. Everyone knows what photoshop is and what it can do to pictures. I never knew it could do changes as drastic as this though! It amazed me how real it looked and how editorial it looked. I've always wished I was able to create photos like this myself. But I've never had the time to learn. I think that if a classmate was into photoshop and photography in general then I would recommend this stumble to them. It could be a good learning stumble for them to see what effects they may be able to use on some of their pictures. I also think this stumble would be good for any classmate just wanting to try photoshop for themselves. The stumble is cited a little. It is mostly just the one author of the stumble and he is the only citation really. My question would be :How long did it take you to master photoshop effects?. The only research I would do would be to get photoshop for myself and try it out and find some tutorials online an try to learn how to do it for myself.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#2eYYcV/www.miragebookmark.ch/most-interesting-bookstores.htm/

I love to read. I know most people hate it but I love it. It's what I do in my spare time or on a rainy day. This stumble was really interesting to me because the only bookstores I've ever been to have been Barnes & Nobles or Books a Million. I have never seen any bookstores like this. Nor have I ever been in one. I actually didn't know these book stores existed. This website would be good for a classmate who also enjoys to read and wants to see how different bookstores in different countries and states are built and designed. This also would be good just for any classmate who wants to see how different buildings are created and established. This stumble is cited very well. Under every picture there is the name of the bookstore and where it is established. My question would be : How did you come up with this particular design for your bookstore? I think further research would have to be to look up more about these stores online or to go and visit some of these bookstores. Geez going to Paris for research is a bummer. :)

http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#29HAVE/oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/mummy.html/

This was the most intersting stumble of them all. I only knew the basics of mummification. Such as its wrapped in cloth and put into a sarcophagus and that the brain is pulled out by the nose (YUCK) . But I didn't know a lot of the other steps. Such as putting the organs in different jars for the Egyptian gods to watch over them. I also didn't know that they covered the body in resin and stuffed it full of linen to make the body look fuller. It was all very enlightening and I learned a lot of things that I didn't know before about the Egyptian process of mummification. I think any classmate would enjoy this stumble. Not only is it education and informative it is also a game. You get to actually do the mummification process yourself. It was a lot of fun actually, as weird as that sounds. This stumble would also be good for anyone doing a report of the process of mummification. I think that it would help them a lot in their report. I couldn't find any citations on the stumble but I do believe whoever created this stumble was very well informed and knew what they were talking about. My question would be: How long did the process of mummification take? I think further research would be that I would have to do my own investigation on the mummification process .