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 on the eye icon. Click on your image layer.

Step 3: Press Apple+J. Add a Drop Shadow,Inner Shadow, and Inner Glow effect using your layer styles.

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

Painting Away Color Tutorial

The Origional
My Version

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

Step 2 : Click on the Brush Tool. In the options bar , switch the blend mode to color. Change your foreground color to black.

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

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

Shadow In Motion Tutorial

Photoshop Shortcuts:
Apple+U : Hue/Saturation

Apple+T : Free Transform

Options+Delete : Changes color to image in your background

Apple+J :Duplicate Layer

Apple+E : Merge

Apple+F : Run through last filter
Apple+V : Paste

Apple+C : Copy

Apple+Z: Undo

Apple+X : Cut

Apple+N: New Document

Apple+A:Select All

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

Step 2 : Duplicate your type layer by using the Apple+J shortcut. Rasterize your layer.

Step 3 : Go under the Filter menu, under pixelate , choose Fragment. Run this Filter two more times by using the Apple+F shortcut.

Step 4 : Press Apple+T. In the options bar,  change the width and height 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+ U to bring up Hue/ Saturation. Click the colorize check box and make the hue slider to the color you'd like.

Publishing, News and Entertainment

• The media industry has exerted enormous influence on society for many years. Even before the invention of radios, movies, and television printed information from news papers, magazines, and books were a 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 them faster. The Internet has added a new dimension 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 for a wide range of readers. Some Webzines are online versions of traditional print magazines, but others are available only online. Some have a large general readership, but others are read almost exclusively by people who share a profession , a hobby or some other interest. 

• Blogs: Blogs are short for Web-logs, have quickly swept through the Internet as an easy way to publish your journal. Be aware, anyone can read your entries and, at times comment on entries. The author of a blog is called blogger. 
  

Fashion Fundraiser Poster

African Proverb #8

An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend



I think this quote means that it is better to have an enemy that is smart than a friend that is dumb because if you have an smart enemy, you can learn by your mistakes from their actions. As to when you have a stupid friend, if they try to trap you in any way , you are already ahead of the game. This also goes to another quote that says " Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer". Which in this case is very true.

Holiday Card Project

What is the Holiday Card Project ?

The Purpose of the Holiday Card Project is to create holiday cards for people who are hospitalized during the holiday season. The idea behind the project is to simply try to bring a little cheer to those who are undergoing hospital stay.

Exactly who receives the cards ?

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

What should I write in a card ?


Be as creative as you would like. Just remember, the degree of illness of patients will vary. So,it is important to be cheerful. Some, suggested greetings include"Hope your feeling 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 know who the card is from is if you sign your name on the card. If you would like to send your card anonymously you may.

Can I send more than one card ?

Absolutely ! However, remember that quality is better than quantity. Sending one quality card that you put time and effort into is better than sending two cards that were thrown together.

Is there a specific size or medium for the card?

There is no specific size for the cards. Use your best judgement. You can design and decorate cards by drawing, coloring or painting. You can use glitter , construction paper, card board, markers, crayons , colored pencils , ribbon, etc, to make your card special. You can also design your card using photoshop. In Photoshop, please use 4*6 or 5*7 for your dimensions.

Test review 11/3/08

1. Menu Bar : the Menu Bar looks like a rectangular banner, and is located at the very top of the screen of the computer .
2. Options Bar : the Options Bar also looks like a banner , and is located at the top of the screen of the computer , right under the Menu Bar.
3. Tool Bar : the Tool Bar looks like a long rectangle that has many squares that have different types of tools on it, and is located in Photoshop.
4. Layers Palette: the Layers Palette looks like a big square that shows the layers of your stage in Photoshop ,and is located in Photoshop.

Homework 3# 7-1 / 7-2

Bring in one example of outer glow effect . Your pictures are not allowed to be printed from the internet.

homework #2 7-1 , 7-2

bring in two examples of a stroke effect. Your examples are not allowed to be printed from the internet

Homework# 1/7-1,7-2

Bring in two examples of drop shadow effect. Your examples are not allowed to printed from the internet .

Matrix Tutorial

Photoshop Tools

1. Marquee Tool: Rectangular, elliptical , single column and single row are all marquee . They are used to put a selection a selection  or marching ants around an image.
2. Gradient Tool: Used to create gradients . A gradient is a smooth transition from one color to another.
3.  Paint Bucket Tool: This tool enables you to paint  large  areas at once.
4. Horizontal Type Tool: This tool is used to put text into an image. (also called as the Horizontal Type Tool).
5. Vertical Type Tool: This tool is used  to put text into an image. It would type the text vertically.
6. Custom Shape Tool: With this tool you can create a custom shape in your image. You can choose from standard to imported shapes.
7.Hand Tool: This tool allows you to move  your canvas /stage around.
8. Move Tool: This tool is used to move a layer. You can use the mouse or the arrow keys to move layers.
9. Zoom Tool : This tool is used to zoom in and out of your image.
10. Eye Dropper Tool : This tool is used to set your foreground color. In your image, click on the color you want to have.

Scavenger Hunt

• What does DVD stand for?
  

DVD stands for (Digital Versatile Disc).

• How many DVD formats are available?

There are three formats available.

• What is a dingbat?

A dingbat is used in computers to describe fonts that had symbols and shapes in the position designated for  alphabetical  or numerical characters.In a broader sense, a dingbat is any character[#,&,*] including pictographs in the shapes of smiles or decorative swirls that are not part of the standard alphanumeric characters.

• What is a handshake? 

A handshake is a sequence of messages exchanged between two or more network devices to ensure transmission synchronization.

• What is a Home Page ?

The introductory document of an individual's or organization's Web site. It tipically serves as a table of contents to the site's other pages or provides links to other sites.

• What handles can you hold in your hand ?

The type of handle you can't hold in your hand is a bucket handle.

• What was ENIAC?

The ENIAC was the first computer made for the military. It was completed in 1946.

• What contribution did Ada Byron make to computing?

She contributed the the first computer program to the world.

• What kind of wafers are use at Intel to make computer chips?

The kind of wafers that are made to make computer chips are 12 inch wafers with 45 nm  technology.

• What do they call the suit that cleanroom technicians must wear while making computer chips?

The suit is called the Tyvex suit.

• What does modem stand for anyway?

It stands for Modulator-De-Modulator.

• What is a bit?

A bit is a binary digit, the smallest increment of data on a computer.

• How many bits are in a byte?

There are 8 bits in a byte.

• How many nibbles are in a byte ?

There are 2 nibbles in a byte.

• What do we  call the ARPANET's development?

We now call it the NPC.

• In what year was the first World Wide Web software created by Tim Berners- Lee ?

It was created in 1991.

• What was the first document posted?

The first document posted was the Declaration of Independence .

• When were floppy disks introduced?

The floppy disks were introduced in the 1970's.

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Multimedia and Society

                                                              Define the following

E-Commerce: Commerce that is transacted electronically ,as over the Internet

B2B (business to business): Denoting business transactions over the Internet

B2C : ( business to consumer)

Cookies: 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: convert (information or data) into a cipher or code, esp. to prevent unauthorized access

SSL (Secure Sockets Layers) : a computing protocol that ensures the security of data sent via the Internet by using Encryption 

Describe 3 benefits that e-commerce offers businesses

Editors 

Credit cards

Banners

Internet Related Multimedia Careers

System Architect:

• Salary:$1,300
  
• Responsibilities: 3-10 people as a team, in house client, and vendors firms
• Key requirements: Lead team of consultants, and programers to completion of technology
• Professional requirements: High developed and well grasp control over client/server and other software packages
• Personal requirements: Highly articulate communicator with mature personality

Multimedia Services Manager

• Salary: $ 68,317
• Requirements:Setting up and assisting  with IP- based video conferencing also training and supervising student workers   

Multimedia Project Manager

• Salary: $44,491
• Requirements: Is project control which is Communications, keep perceptions of the project congruent amongst members, and Indirect control.

Internet-Related Multimedia Careers

Multimedia development is most often done by teams of people. 

Each team member brings an area of expertise to the project.

Research three multimedia careers and state their job description, skill requirement, and salaries.                     

African Proverb #7

               Knowledge is like a garden, if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested 

                 I think this quote means that a persons mind can easily lose its knowledge of things. So, in order to keep that memory, you have to do things like studying  or testing. I also believe that knowledge is like a garden. It needs a lot of care. You take care of it just like anything else you would take care of.

                  For an example, If I were a complete genius. And I new about everything in the world. The only way to store all of that knowledge  is to keep up on my facts and research. Or else it will be lost somewhere in my head where I can't find it. Then I'd be an incomplete genius.

                 

African Proverb #6

                             A person who knows proverbs can reconcile differences

              I think this proverb means that if  you can understand the meanings of proverbs ,then you can help resolve conflicts. If you can solve a problem, there is a lot more that you could probably solve. It never hurts to help I like to say. I can relate because I like to reconcile also.

             For an example, If your Friend had a animal that died. You did not know what to do, you could always help them out with a proverb. I believe that they would feel a lot better. So would you. Because you just reconciled a persons differences.

African Proverb #5

                                        The fool speaks ,the wise person listens

            I believe this proverb is saying that a person that isn't wise has the ability to say what they have to say ,but does not want to hear what another has to say. A wise person also speaks ,but they also listen to another that speaks. Listening is always important to do. Just speaking can get a person in a mess, because they did not listen. So, trouble comes along their way.

            For an example, if there was a science fair coming up. You were assigned with a group. If you just gave out ideas and never let the other people get a chance to give ideas, you are the fool that speaks. If you let other people get a chance you are the person that listens. That is why listening is important

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 to stop. When the color picker appears, click on the custom button, then choose Pantone 722, and click  o.k. Double click on the right color stop. This time pick Pantone 732. Click o.k .

Step 2: 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 Gaussian, check monochromatic , and click o.k.

Step 3: Then go under the filter menu , under blur, and choose motion blur. Enter 33 degrees for angle and 10 for distance. Click o.k. Now go under the filter menu, under sharpen, choose Unsharp mask. Enter 500% for amount, 9.0 pixels for radius, and 1 for threshold.

Step 4: Type your text. Go under the layer menu , under rasterize , 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.

Step 5 : Click the magic wand tool. Click once in your first letter of your word. Then go under the select menu to select the rest of the letters. Under the select menu choose Inverse. Now press delete to remove the little  chunks of white space.

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 upon its 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 text layer. Choose Bevel and Emboss from 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 press o.k.

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 mode from normal to color burn.

Step 9 : Duplicate your new 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

                                          "It is better to be loved than feared"

          I believe that this quote means that if someone is scared of you, you don't get a good use out of that. That also means that one day, if you walk outside one person or every body may start running away. Which means that you probably can't last at least two seconds out there without somebody being afraid of you. Being feared means you can't really talk to that person or people, because they don't want to talk to you.

          Being loved is best because you have people who love to communicate with you. Also you are probably admired. This is a great sign of friendship and happiness. It is so better being loved than scared. It's the best.

Extra Cash

If you had an extra $100,000 to give away and you cannot spend it on yourself. What would you do with the money?

If I had an extra 100,000 dollars to give away and I couldn't spend it on myself, I would split the money so I could give it to more than one person. I would give part of the money to my friends. Then 2/4  goes to a charity or program that is focused on the economy. Then I would give the rest to a homeless personor a couple homeless people.

I have a couple great reasons to give this money away. I would give some of the money to my fiends because they are nice to me and I feel that I owe them. I would also give the money to a facility that concentrates on the economy and going green because the barely have a lot of supporters and I am trying to be like them also. Even, homeless people need a lot of help. If it were me I too would like a little help. So I would treat them the way I would want to be treated the same.

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 the 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, and choose 90 CW. Invert 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 two more times by pressing apple+F twice.

Step 7: Invert your image. Run auto levels. Run the wind filter three more times. Rotate canvas 90CCW. Filter menu, Distort, choose polar coordinates.

Step 8: In polar coordinates choose rectangular to polar. Change the layer Blend Mode from normal to screen.

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

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 men, load selection. Choose Alpha 1. Change your foreground color to black. Deselect your text.

Warp-Text Tutorial

Step1: Use the type tool to set your type. Double click on the "T" thumbnail in your layers palette to highlight your text.

Step2: Click the second to last icon in the Options tool bar (it has the letter"T" on it with a bent line beneath it). This brings up the Warp Text dialog box . From  the dialog's Style pop- up menu, change the style.

African Proverb 3

                                                    " A brother/Sister is like a shoulder"

    I think this quote means that your brother or sister is part of your support. For an example, if a person had a break-up from a relationship. That person would most likely go to their brother or sister for advice. I would. If I had an older brother or sister.

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 of the features and commands in Photoshop. It is located at the very top of Photoshop.

Options Bar

Displays your tool 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 modify and monitor 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 being made up 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 and hold the shift key.
4. you can press Ctrl+D to deselect and remove the selection at any time

african proverb 2

" Wood may remain 10 years in water but it will never become a crocodile"

I think this proverb means that you can't change who you are. For example, if you got plastic surgery you would still be the same person. Although you may look different you still are the same. There is nothing that can really change you.

I believe that nobody should be disappointed with themselves. A person should be happy with what or who they are. Otherwise there is no point in existing. It is the way God made you.

African Proverb

"Knowledge is better than Riches"

Clearly this proverb states that your education is worth much more than money or expense. Of course, this is true. Surprisingly it can be used at your emotional times in life. For an example, if your succeeding goal is crushed.

08-09 School Year

I believe my goal for this year is to get good grades. I think I did accomplish getting a couple good grades so far. It seems that I accomplished it by doing what the teachers say.


I think that the benefits of attending New Media is getting rewards or just learning a lot more than what you did before. Although it does still include hard work. Clearly, it isn't the easiest. Therefore you earn it.