Matrix Shadow Effect

STEP1:Press "D" on your keyboard to set the background swatch with black. Press the letter "X" to swap swatches. Hold down the apple key and press delete.

STEP2:Type your text. Hold down the control key and click on the text layer. Choose Rasterize.

STEP3:Make a duplicate of your raterized layer. Go under the Filter Menu, under Blur, choose Motion Blur. When the dialog box appears set the angle to 0O and increase the distance of the blur to 34 pixels. Click Ok.

Step4:Make a duplicate of your original raterized layer. Go under the Filter Menu, under Blur, and choose Motion Blur. When the dialog box appears, set the angle to 90o, and the distance of blur 80 pixels. Click ok.

Semi-Transparent Type Tutorial

Step1:Type your text.

Step2:Put a selsection around your text. Hide your type layer. Click on the background layer.

Step3:Press apple+J. Click on your layer styles and choose drop shadow. Click directly on the words inner shadow. Next click on the words inner glow. Click ok.

Step4:Drag your type layer into the trash.

Step5: Click on your background layer. Hold down the apple key+L to brighten your background image.

Homework#1

Find an example of a form of advertisement (brochure, flyer, magazine ad), that was most likely made using Photoshop. Pay close attention to details such as Photoshop filters, warped text and layer styles.

Due: Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008.   

Carved Wood Type Tutorial

Step1:Click on the gradient tool. In the Options Bar, click on the Gradient editor. When it appears, double-click on the left color stop. When the color picker appears, click on the custom button, then choose PANTONE 722 and click ok. Double-click on the right color stop, this time choose PANTONE 732. Click ok.

Step2:In the options bar, click on the radial gradient icon. Using this tool, click-and-drag from the center to the top of the background layer. Go under the filter menu, under noise, and choose add noise. Enter 12% for amount, choose gaussion, check monochromatic, and click ok.

Step3:Then, go under the filter menu, under blur. Enter 33º for angle and 10º for distance. Click ok. Now, go under the filter menu, under shapen, and choose unsharp mask. Enter 500% for amount, 9.0 or 9 pixels for Radius, and 1 for Threshold, then click ok.

Step4:Type your text. Go under the layerr menu, under raterize, and choose type, to convert your type layer into a regular image layer. Now, under brush strokes, choose sprayed strokes. Type 12 for stroke length, 7 for radius, and right diagonal for direction. Click ok.

 

Step5:Click the magic wand tool. Click once in the first letter of your word. Then go under the select menu and choose delete to remove the little chunks of white space.

 

Step6:Go under the select menu and choose inverse. Drag your text layer into trash can to delete it. Press apple + J to put the selected background area up on its own layer. In the layers pallet click once on the background layer. Press apple + D to deselect.

Step7:Click on your text layer. Choose bevel and emboss from the layer styles menu at the bottom of the layers pallet. When the dialog box appears, increase the depth to 400% and decrease the size to 4. Increase highlight opacity to 90%. From the left side of the layer style dialog box click on drop shadow to bring up its options. Increase the size to 8, lower the opacity to 50% and click ok.

Step8:Choose the lasso tool. Make a thin selection in the center of each letter. Remember to hold down the shift key. Press apple+C to copy. Add a new layer press apple+V to paste. Change the layer made from normal to color burn.

Step9:Duplicate your new layer. Now duplicate  your duplicated layer. Change the layer made from color burn to screen. Click on the move tool. Press the right arrow key twice then the down arrow key.

African Proverb #6

"It is better to be loved than feared."

I feel this proverb is important, I think it means if people love you, you'll get more respect. If they don't they'll try to over thorw you. It could help people because people respect you.
Respect is a very good thing to have. Loving is better than fearing, so love and do not fear.

Extra Money

If you had an extra $1OO,OOO to give away,who would you give it to.

If I had an extra $100,000 I would give $20,000 to my grandpa because he has giving me that much over my life time anyway. I would give $10,000 to some charity because I can't spend it on myself.

I would give $30,000 to my brother for no reason or just because he is my brother. I would give the most amount and the rest to my mother because I love her and she raised me and loved me even when she didn't have to.

African Proverb#5

"The fool speaks, the wise person listens."

I feel that this proverb means don't be to quick to talk. It will effect you if your mouth moves before your ears. Ex: Your about to take a test but you didn't hear the directions and you don't know what to do.

Light Burst Tutorial

Step1:Set your foreground color to black. Type your text. Raterize your type layer. Put a selection around your text. Go under the select menu and choose save selection.
Step2:Deselect your type. Switch your forground color to white. Under the Mode to multiply. Go under the filter menu, under blur, choose gaussian blur. Enter 2.5 pixels.
Step3:Go under the filter menu, under stylize and choose solarize. Press shift + apple + L to run the auto levels. Duplicaple layer.
Step4:Go under the filter menu,under distort, choose polar coordinates. Choose polar to rectagular.
Step5:Go under the image menu, under rotate canvas, choose 9o ccw. Invert your image (apple + I). Filter menu, choose stylize, choose wind.
Step6:In wind dialog box choose wind for method and from the right for direction. Run this filter 2 more times by pressing apple + F twice.
Step7:Invert your image. Run auto levels. Run the wind filter 3 more times, rotate canvas 90 cw.

African Proverb#4

"One camel does not laugh at another camel's hump."

I think this proverb means if your just like someone, don't make fun of them because people can do the same thing to you.

Perspective Type Tutorial

Step1:Choose your font, color, and size.
Step2:Tpye word word.
Step3:Go under the layer menu, under type, choose convert to shape.
Step4:Hold down the apple key on the keyboard and tap the letter "T" to transform.
Step5:Hold down the control key and click the mouse. Choose perpective. Grab one of the corner boxes and drag to create effect.
Step6:Under the layer menu, under raterize choose shape.
Step7:Duplicate your text layer. Choose your foreground color. Tap the question mark your keyboard. Click option + delete to change the color.
Step8:Choose the middle layer and move it down to create a drop shadow effect using the down arrow.

08-09 School Year

My goals for this school year are to get all A's in every class this year. I did not acomplish those goals last year, that is why I want to acomplish those goals this year. I believe that I can acomplish the goals that I was lazy last year however, I feel I had done good, although I want to do better.

The benefits of going to New Media I feel are great because I have been here before. My strongest subject was social studies and weakest wasn reading but, I will do well this year.

African Proverb#2

"Cross the river in a crowd and the crocdile won't eat us."

What does the Proverb mean to you? How can you use it in your everyday life? Give an example.

I feel the proverb says that there is strength in numders, but don't hang with the wrong crowd.

African Proverb

"Knowledge is better than riches."

What does that African Proverb mean to you? How can it be used in your everyday life? Give an example.

I believe this proverb says that if you have knowledge you can acomplise anything included riches, futhermore having knowledge makes you educated and being educated is an advantage in life. I can use this in life by going to school a getting educated.

Gel type tutorial

Step1:Choose your font, size and color.

Step2: Type your word.

Step3: In your layers palette apple + click your type layer to put the marching ants around the text. Create a new layer.

Step4: Go under the Select menu, under Modify, and choose Contract. When the contract dialog apears, enter 2 pixels, and click ok, then press Option + Delete to fill your contracted, setection.

Step5: Deselect by pressing Apple+ D. Duplicate this layer by dragging it to the new layer icon. Go under the filter menu, under Blur and choose Gaussian Blur when the dialog box appers, enter 3 pixels, and click ok.

Step6: Choose Bevel and Bmboss from the layer styles pop up menu at the bottom of the layers palette, enter:

Style= Emboss

Depth= 300

Size= 12

Highlight Opacity= 100%

Shadow Opacity= Color Dodge

Black Color swatch= White

Shadow Mode Opacity= 40%

Step7: In the layers palette click on the eye icon beside the background layer to hide it. Then choose Merge visible from the palettes drop down menu. Choose Drop Shadow from the styles menu and click ok. Click on background layer to reveal it.