Gel Type Tutorial

Step 1: Choose your font, size, and color.

Step 2: Type your word

Step 3: Hold apple and click on your type layer. Create a new layer.

Step 4: Go under the select menu, under modify and choose contract. When the dialog box appears, enter 2 pixels, and click OK, then press option+delete to fill your contracted selection. 

Step 5: Deselect  by pressing apple +D, duplicate this layer by dragging it to the new layer icon. Go under blur and choose Gaussian blur enter 3 Pixels, click OK.

Step 6:Choose bevel and emboss from the layers styles at the bottom of our layers palette. 

Style=emboss  Depth=300   Size=12    highlight opacity= 100   shadow mode= color dodge   shadow opacity=40 change black color swatch to white click, OK.

Step 7: In layers palette click n 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 the background layer to reveal it. 

African proverb

"Knowledge is better than riches"

"Knowledge is better than riches" means that being wise and knowing many things is better than having a lot of of money or jewelry. This can be applied to everyday life. For example it is better to go to school and learn rather than stand on the corner selling drugs to get money. However not many people would believe this. But i am not one of those people.   

Homework #1

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

DUE TUESDAY, OCT. 14, 2008 

08-09 School Year

I have many goals for the new school year. one of these goals is to pass the 8th grade with at least a B+ in all my classes. I also want to get better with my behavior and control my self. I believe I did not do this last year because early in the school year I didn't do to well and my parents and I had not done anything before it was too late. This was clearly the wrong thing to do. I believe I should have done something about this earlier. 

The benefits of me coming to New Media is that it will help me further my understanding in computers and technology. I feel that will help me me in the future to pursue a career in computers. In fact this school will be important to me achieving that dream.

Last school year i was in the school Laboratory Charter School of Communications and Languages. My weakest subject was science. A lot of of people in my class did very good in that class. Although i did not do good. I had one of the lowest grades in the class. My strongest subject was spanish. I am very good with spanish. It was also one of my favorite classes.