[Sw-l] Question about wrist side-flex

[Ms. AnnaGrace]

Hi Valerie,

The sign for "two of us" that you attached has the proper spelling, I
believe.
This particular sign moves the wrist back and forth, that is, to front and
back.

As for technology, I see online courses on Photoshop being offered at
Udemy.com at lowered prices. They look good to me.
Photoshop uses pixelization which can be problematic when an image is
enlarged. It becomes "rasterized."
However, Adobe Illustrator uses a vector system which does not pixelate
when enlarged and solves the rasterization problem. Udemy.com also offers
courses in Adobe Illustrator. I have recently started to learn how to use
Adobe Illustrator.
Files saved in Adobe Illustrator end with ".ai" file extension. (Photoshop
has .psd file extension.)

Also, I've been using Mac's Keynote (it comes free with the MacBook) as a
tool for SignWriting symbols. It's another way of writing SW besides the
SignMaker.
Keynote acts like a vector program. I have had a few problems with
pixelation and rasterization in Keynote.
For the most part, I have been able to enlarge and reduce the image sizes
without them becoming pixelated.
When I'm done creating SignWriting spelling,
I use the shift+command+4 to make screenshots of the images in Keynote to
create png files.
With these png files, I am able to drag-and-drop them on emails, documents,
etc.

Hope this helps! (For anyone else reading this email, hope this helps you,
too!)

Cheers,

AnnaGrace



On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 1:44 PM Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>
wrote:

> SignWriting List,
> November 2, 2022
>
> Hello SignWriting List,
> and thank you Anna Grace and Adam and Hector for the questions and
> writings of wrist side-flex.
>
> It is true that our current Lessons in SignWriting Textbook, which was
> published in 2014, only mentions Wrist Flexing, on numbered page 150, for
> forward and back and up and down. The side-flex was not shown in diagrams
> in 2014. This is one of the many reasons why I am bringing out a new
> version of the Lessons in SignWriting Textbook in 2023, to include these
> new trends in the writing system.
>
> You will find, for example, in the old SignWriting Lessons books from
> Spain by Steve and Dianne Parkhurst, that in 2010 and earlier, we were
> placing a line for the arm, connected to the handshape, and that, along
> with arrows, would mean wrist movement. But that changed over time. Now the
> line for the arm has been moved to the Wrist-Flex symbol itself, and it is
> your palm facing, in the written sign, that indicates what direction the
> wrist flex goes - in the sign for CHEESE in ASL for example, the two hands
> remain contacting, while the Wrist Flex symbol shows the direction of the
> flex - the arrows show the movement of the hand in that direction without
> any other movement of the arm - it is solely the wrist. These are read well
> and it is more accurate than adding an arm line like the old days… but we
> need more instruction and examples in a more advanced book.
>
> So here are some diagrams and I hope this helps - thank you for the
> videos, Anna Grace and Hector -
>
> Please excuse my poor diagrams - I am not skilled at the new Photoshop and
> I obviously need to take some instruction on the new technology -
>
>
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