Semi-Transparent Type Tutorial

Step 1: Open the image of your choice. Press ''T'' to get the type tool and enter your text.

Step 2: Put a selection around your text. Hide your type layer by clicking the eye. Click on your image layer.

Step 3; Press Apple+j. Add a drop shadow, inner glow effect using your layer styles.

Step 4: Drag your original type layer in the trash.

Painting Away Color Tutorial

My Version

The Original

Step 1: Open the image you would like to work on.

Step 2: Click the brush tool. In options bar, switch the blend mode to color. Change your foreground color to black.

Step 3: From the brushes palette, choose a median sized, soft-edged (0% hardness) brush.

Step 4: Start painting. As you paint the color will disappear leaving your image in gray scale. 

SHadow in motion Tutorial

Step 1: Tap the letter "D" to change your foreground color black. Hold down the options key and tap delete key. Type your text color (#666666).

Step 2: Duplicate your type layer by using the apple+j shortcut. Rastesize  your layer.

Step 3: Go under the filer menu, under pixelate, choose fragment. Run the filter 2 more times by using Apple+F shortcut.

Step 4: Press Apple+t. Top options bar change the W and H to 130%.

Step 5: Click on your original type layer and rasterize it. Click on the top layer and press Apple=E to merge the two layers.

Step 6:To colorize your type press Apple+J to bring up Hue/Saturation. Click the colorize check box and pick what you want.

Photoshop Shortcuts

Apple + u= Hue and saturations

Apple+t= Free Transform

Option= Delete= changes  color of image to your foreground color. 

Apple+j= duplicate layer

Apple+e=Merge

Apple+f= run last filter

Apple=S =save

Apple+a=select all

Apple+v=paste

Apple+c=copy

Apple+n=New Document

Publishing, News and Entertainment

  The media industry has exerted enormous influence on society for many years even before the inventions of radios, movies and television, printed information from newspapers, magazines ad books were powerful force in shaping how people think and behave. Broadcast media are even more powerful than printed publications because they can reach more people and reach hem faster. The internet has added a new dimensions to media industry.

Webzines 

  Webzines are also called e-magazines, e-zines or just zines. A webzine is a magazine that is published on the web of a wide range of readers. Some webzines are online versions of traditional print magazines, but others are variabe only some have a large, general relationship but others are read almost exclusively by people who share a profession, a hobby or some other interest.

Blogs

Blogs, short for web logs, have quickly sweep through the internet as an easy way to publish your journal. Be aware, anyone can read your entries, and at times, comment on the entries the author of the blog is called blogger.

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Holiday Card Project

What is the holiday card project? The purpose of the holiday project is to create holiday cards for people who is hospitalized during the holiday season. The idea behind the project is to simplify try to bring a little cheer to those who are undergoing hospital stay.

Exactly who receives the cards? The card will be distributed to both U.S. and international hospitals. The cards will be delivered in person by a representative . The patients who receive the cards age in range from children to seniors and have illness or injuries tat vary from mild or terminal.

What should i write in the card? Be as creative as you'd like. Just remember the degree of illness for patients will vary so it is important to be cheerful. Some suggested greetings include, ''hope you feel better'',''thinking of you'',or ''have a nice day''. Try to stay away from get well soon as it might not be appropriate for all patients. Remember to include a message of Happy Holidays.

Will the patients know who sent the cards? The only way a patient will no that you send the card is if you but your name on it. If you want to send your card unknown tat that fine.

Can I send more than one card? Of course, however remember tat quality is better than quantity. Sending one card that you put time and effort is better than sending two cards.

Is there a specific size or medium for the card? There is no specific size for the card. You can also design your card in photoshop, in photoshop please use 4*6 or 5*7

 

Test review 11/3/08

Menu bar is located at the very top of the page. It includes different sections such as file, edit, view, select, filter, windows and help.

Options bar is located under the menu bar.  It includes different shapes that gives you an opportunity to change your layer shapes.

The tool bar is located on the left hand side and it includes different shapes such as gradient, move and etc.. 

The Layers palette is located on the right hand side and it includes many categories. This section called the layers palette controls your layer and what you do to it.  

 

homework #3 Due 11/3/08

Bring in 1 example of the outer glow effect. Your example can not be from the internet.

Homework #2 Due 10/29/08

Bring in 2 examples of the stoke effect. Your examples are not allowed to be printed by the internet.

Homework due monday

Bring in 2 examples of drop shadows effect. Your examples are not allowed to be printed from the internet.

Photoshop Tools

1. Marquee Tool: Rectangular, elliptical, single column, and single row are all marquees 

They are used to put a selection or marching ants around an image.

   square tool 

2. Move Tool: used to move a layer you can use the mouse or the arrow keys to move layers

 This tool is a black small mouse

3. Gradient Tool: used to create gradients. A gradient is a smooth transition from one color to another.

   This tool is that looks like a transition from one color to another

4. Paint Bucket Tool: This tool enables you to paint large areas at once 

     This tool looks just like paint bucket 

5. Horizontal Type Tool: This tool is used to put text into an image. 

   this tool is a upper case T

6. Vertical Type Tool: This tool is used to put text into an image. It will write vertical.

This tool looks a upper case T with an arrow going vertical next to it.

7. Custom Shape Tool: With this tool you can create a custom shape in your image. You can choose from standard or imported shapes.

This tool looks like a blob of paint splattered

8. Hand Tool: This tool allows you to move your canvas/stage around

   This tool looks like a hand 

9. Zoom Tool: This tool is used to zoom in and out of your image

 This tool looks like a small magnify glass

10. Eyedropper Tool: with this tool you can set your foreground color. In your image, click on the color you want to have.

  This tool looks like an eyedropper.

Scavenger Hunt?

1. What does DVD mean? Digital versatile disc.

How many DVD formats are available? There are 6 DVD formats available. They are DVD Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, and DVD AUDIO.

2. What is a dingbat? A dingbat is special characters like stars, hands, arrows, and geometric shapes you can use to decorate a document. A collection of dingbats is found in a popular font called Wingdings.

3. What is a handshake? A handshake is two modems perform a handshake each time they meet, just as two people shake hands to greet each other. If the modem speaker is on, you can actually hear the handshake — it’s that annoying series of squeals and signals. The handshake helps the modems determine how they will exchange information.

4. What is a home page? A home page is an introductory screen on the World Wide Web, used to welcome visitors. A home page can include special underlined text or graphics you click on to jump to related information on other pages on the Web. Many individuals, businesses, and organizations now have home pages on the World Wide Web. See also WORLD WIDE WEB.

5. What handles you can't hold in your hand? Little squares at the edges and corners of a selected graphic on your screen. You can move a handle with your mouse pointer to re size or reshape the graphic.

6. What was ENIAC? A bank of blinking lights indicate the mysterious processes going on within: That classic symbol of a computer has lasted long after computers evolved into friendly desktop tools. This was not a dream of science fiction, but a representation of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer), the gigantic machine credited with starting the modern computer age.

7. What contributions did Ada Bryon make to computering? Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was one of the most picturesque characters in computer history. When inspired Ada could be very focused and a mathematical taskmaster. Ada suggested to Babbage writing a plan for how the engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers. This plan, is now regarded as the first "computer program." A software language developed by the U.S. Department of Defense was named "Ada" in her honor in 1979.

8. What kind of wafers are used at Intel to make computer chips?

9. What do they call the suit that clean room technicians must wear while making computer chips?

10. What does modem stand for anyway?The word modem stand for modulator- demodulator.

A modem's purpose is to convert digital information to analog signals(modulation), and to convert analog

signals back into useful information( demodulation).

11. I think the person who coined these computer terms must have been hungry. What is a bit? A bit ( short for binary digit) is the smallest unit in a computer.

How many bits are in a byte? 8 bits are in a byte.

How many nibbles are in a byte? 4 nibbles in a bit.

12. The ARPANET's development began in 1966.It was an experiment to connect univerities so they can share infomation. What do we call this today? The ARANET. It was ARA.

13. In What year was the first World-Wide Web software created by Tim Berner-Lee? The year of 1991.

14.

Multimedia and society

Define these terms:

E-commerce-  commercial transactions conducted electronically on the Internet.

B2B-(an abbreviation) business-to-business, denoting trade conducted via the Internet between businesses.

B2C-( an abbreviation) business-to-consumer, denoting trade conducted via the Internet between businesses and consumers.

Cookies-is a Computing a packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server.

encryption-(a noun)it an Origin 1950s originally U.S.A passed on to Greek.  

SSL-(an abbreviation)Secure Sockets Layer, a computing protocol that ensures the security of data sent via the Internet by using encryption.

Describe 3 benefits that e-commerce offers. 

1. Three benefits that e-commerce offers are companies gathering data about the people who use the web and the other websites they visit, they discover or reveal something in their information and they display advertisements of the products the web users would most likely buy.

Internet related multimedia careers

Multimedia is most often done by teams of people. Each team member brings an area of expertise for the project. Research 3 multimedia careers, state their job description, skill assignment and solitaires. 

1:

Job description; Traditionally, Graphic Designer works in a art studio, advising agency or an art gallery. They made logos, brochures, etc. Today they design the actual look of music videos, television shows,etc. 

 

Skill assignments;To train for the career of a graphic designer you have to have a degree from a school or art of design.

Salary; Many graphic designers are self-employed. The employment in 2006 was 261,000 dollars.

2: 

Job Descriptions:Art directors oversee the artistic design of advertisements and print materials, as well as the filming of television commercials. They are the decision makers who are responsible for the quality of the finished product. The art director chooses a photographer, an illustrator, models, and any props necessary for an ad. If a print ad comes back from the printer with an imperfection, the art director is responsible for retouching it.

Skill assignments:Employers decide whom to hire on the basis of the talent and skills shown in an applicant's portfolio. So there are varies, you have to see profile. Usually the persons art school helps their students look for jobs.

Salary:Median—$63,750 per year

3:

Job description: Animator is a person who animates something, esp. a person who prepares animated movies. These are a few things animators do on a everyday bases Drawing storyboards and creating models,Designing an animated environment that includes backgrounds, sets and objects,Designing characters, Creating each frame, Working out the timing of movements and making sure things meet the script and soundtrack requirements,Using computer software, including Flash, Maya, Light wave and other,Working as part of a team and Working with clients (developing concepts, pitching ideas, etc.).

Skill Assignment: These skills, be they traditional or high-tech, can be utilized in a variety of ways. An animated feature film employs the talents of a wide variety of artists.

Salary: Animators in Philadelphia, PA makes $82,000 at the average, $98,000 at its high and $63,000 at its low.

  

African proverb #7

The proverb knowledge is like a garden, if it is not cultivated, it can't be harvested means that if you don't prepare it to be successful than it won't grow or strive for it to succeed. This proverb is true because if you don't prepare or increase your knowledge than it won't be harvest. This proverb can coexist differences. This can help in everyday life because life is mostly based on education and its knowledge.

   An example  of this proverb is a foolish person who is not really interested in education. This foolish person doesn't increase their knowledge so that foolish person's brain doesn't function to the best of its ability. The opposite of  this proverb is a wise person who is interested in being the best and increasing their knowledge. With this attitude this wise person will be well educated in the brain and will go far in life. If I had to choose out of these to characteristics I would choose the wise person.

African proverb#6

I think the proverb "A person who knows proverbs can reconcile differences" means if you can comprehend and understand proverbs you can solve or fix problems in life. In school, with peers, and at home. Proverbs are foreshadows to life. It gives you hints on what right and wrong. 

   It is very easy to comprehend. You just have to think and it will come to you eventually. Proverbs are very helpful in life. The explain problems and situations that you never even thought of. You can solve many problems if you understand proverbs.

African Proverb #5

 I think the proverb "the fool speaks, the wise person listens" means that people who talk alot or talk so much that they don't hear talks foolishness. A person who doesn't talk much is very wise. You learn more when you quiet and listening. If you talk alot and don't listen your foolish. 

  I believe that the wise can learn alot from the foolish but the foolish can't learn from the wise because it constantly talk. I learn more when I don't speak and I look the teacher in the eyes so that I can see where she's coming from and whats the purpose of the lesson. For example in science class I listen to everything Muthora says and if anyone ask me to explain the development of ancient Egyptians civilization I could answer that with no hesitation. This proverb is true and it teaches you to listen. People who talk much talks necessity.  

Carved Wood Type Tutorial

Step 1: Click on the gradient tool in the options bar, click on the gradient thumbnail to bring up the gradient editor. When it appears double click on the left color stop. When the color box appears, click pantone 722 and click OK. Double click on the right color stop, this time choose pantone 732 and click OK. 

Step 2: In the bar click the redial 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 Gaussian, click Monochromatic, and click OK. 

Step 3: Then, go under the filter menu, under blur, and choose motion blur. Enter 33 degrees for angle and 10 for distance. Click OK. Now<>

Step 4: Type you text. Go under the layer menu, under rasterize, and choose type to convert your type layer to a regular  image layer. Now under brush strokes, choose sprayed strokes. Type 12 for stroke length, 7 for radius , and right diagonal for directions. Then click OK.

Step 5: Click the magic wand tool. Click once in your first letter of your word. Then go under the select menu and choose similar to select the rest of the letters. Under the select menu, choose inverse now, press delete to remove the chunks of white space around the letters created by the brush stroke filter.

Step 6: Go under the select menu and choose inverse . Drag your text layer into the trash to delete it. Press apple+j to put the selected background area up on it own layer. In the layers palette, click once on the background layer. Press apple+A. Then press delete. Press apple+d to deselect.

Step 7: Click on your layer text layer. Choose bevel and emboss from the the layer styles menu at the bottom of the layers palette. When the dialog box appears, increase the depth to 400% and decrease the size to 4. Increase the highlight opacity to 90%. From the left side of the layer style dialog box, click on the word drop shadow to bring up its options. Increase the size to 8, lower the opacity to 50% and click OK.
Step 8: 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.
Step 9: Duplicate your new layer. Now duplicate your duplicated layer.Change the layer mode from color burn to screen. Click on the move tool. Press the right arrow key twice and the down arrow key once.

African Proverb #4

   I think the proverb "It is better to be loved than feared" means its better to love someone than to put them in fear. This proverb is telling you to love or be nice because its better than to put them in fear. They will have confidence and happiness if you love. On the other hand they would have low self-esteem and hatred towards others because you  put fear in them. Their anger can build up so much that they cause harm to their self all because you put that fear in them.

    This can be used in everyday life because you can think about this proverb as your in school and with peers. People only put fear in others because their not happy with their self. You can also use this with siblings. As an older sister I always bullied my sister. As I got older I realize she really looks up to me and I can't teach her into a wrong path. I think this proverb is current and is very helpful.

 

Extra Cash

You have  an extra $100,000 to give away, you can't spend it on yourself. What would you do with the money and who would you give it to?

  If I Anitra Jones had an extra $100,000 and couldn't spend it on myself  I would be very upset. There would be nothing else to do with it but give it away. That's the only thing I can do. I would have to think very hard on who I should give it to because its a good amount of money and you can spend it on anything. As a fair person I would give the money to someone who really is in need of it or who is having financial problems.

   After I've been thinking long in hard on the decision who I should give the money to I would give it to two important people which is my mother because she's done so much for  me and she gave me more than 100,000 dollars already and I'm only 12. I'll be 13 in October. I would also give it to the Chinese children who are fighting for there lives everyday. As fair as I am I would split it $50,000 a piece. I'll be satisfied with my decision and be happy because I made wonderful people happy.

Light Burst Tutorial

Step 1: Set your foreground color to black. Type your text. Rasterize your type layer. Put a selection around your text. Go under the select menu and choose save selection.

Step 2: Deselect your type switch your foreground color to white. Under the Edit menu choose fill. Change the mode to multiply. Go under Filter menu, under Blur, choose Gaussian Blur. Enter 2.5 pixels.

Step 3: Go under the filter menu, under stylize and choose solarize. Press shift+apple+L to run the auto levels. Duplicate layer.

Step 4: Filter menu,under distort,choose polar coordinates. Choose polar to rectangular.

Step 5: Go under image menu,under rotate canvas, choose 90 degree cw. Invert your image your image (apple + I). Filter menu, choose stylize choose wind.

Step 6: In wind dialog box choose wind for method and from the right for direction. Run this filter to more times by pressing Apple+f  twice.

Step 7: Invert image, run auto levels. Run wind filter 3 more times. Rotate canvas 90 degree ccw. Filter menu, distort choose polar coordinates.

Step 8: In polar coordinates choose rectangular to polar. Change the layer and blend mode from normal to screen.

Step 9: Create a new layer. Choose a gradient. Drag your gradient threw this layer. Change the blend mode to color. Optional invert your layer. 

Step 10: Click on your text layer copy. Filter menu, under Blur, choose radial Blur. In dialog box choose zoom, Increase the amount to 66. Click your original text layer. Select menu, lead selection, Choose Alpha 1. Change your foreground to black. Deselect your text.  

Warp Text Tutorial

Step 1: Use the type tool to set your type. Double click on the thumbnail in your layers palette to highlight your text.

Step 2: Click the second to last icon in the Option Bar( it has the letter T on it). This brings up the Warp Text dialog box. From the dialog's Style pop-up menu, changing the Style.

African Proverb #3

 I think " A brother/sister is like a shoulder means your brother and sister are there for you no matter what. It doesn't necessary mean there your blood sisters or brothers. They can be a real good friend who's like a sister/brother. They're there for you to lean on. So when you describe someone as a shoulder your saying that they're always there for you. 

Introduction to photoshop

• What is Photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop is a professional image editing software.

• About the work area.

 menu bar: This is where you can access most features and commands in Photoshop. It is located at the very top of Photoshop.

Option Bar: displays your too options. It changes as different tools are selected.

Tool Bar: contains all of your tools. They are used for creating and editing images.

Palettes: to monitor and modify images. There are 5 palettes by default.

Stage/Canvas: where the image being worked on will appear.

• Layers

The layers window shows the various layers that your image is made of.

• Selection

There are several ways to select images or portions of images in Photoshop. Here is one basic method to do so: • Adding to a selection and making a square.

1. Use the rectangular selection tool to select the area to be worked on.

2. To add to a selection, hold shift before dragging.

3. To make the selection exactly square, start dragging, then hold shift.

4.You can press ctrl and D to deselect and remove the selection at anytime.

African Proverb #2

 I think "Wood may remain 10 years in water but it will never become a crocodile"means you can try to become something much different than who or what you really are but you'll never change because you are you and your not what you're trying to be or want to be. Which means remember who you are. Don't change your colors for no one.

African Proverb

 I think "knowledge is better than riches" means or can be explained as intelligence and education is useful or you can go further in life with it other than money, gold, silver(riches). This can be used in everyday life. For instance, if you go to school and get your education and pursue your dream you would probably come out on top. Now if you are rich and you buy a business and make all this money. Without and education you can get cheated out of customers, managers, employees, tax and bill collectors. But if you get your education and open a business you won't get cheated and you'll make more money than the riches because you have knowledge. Riches is just a pretty and valuable cover and knowledge is power inside and out.

08-09 school year

 I believe my goals for this school year is to achieve everything I can achieve and get all A's. For example, I want to accomplish getting  all A's because I plan on attending Central High. I know you have to have all A's, B's with an exception of 1 C but I want to achieve more. Unfortunately I didn't. As a result of my lack of achieving excellence in my report card I got A's B's and one C.

 Clearly the benefits of attending New Media Technology Charter School is to achieve my goal and going to a higher level in education using technology. Technology is used in every day life and I think its useful. In addition my weakest subject was science and my strongest was math last year. Science was my weakest because I wasn't interested. I didn't learn much in science. My strongest was math because math is a challenge and I0 love challenges. However, I plan to achieve my goal to getting all A's.