Semi-transparent Type Tutorial

Step 1: Type your text

Step 2: Put a selection around your text. hide your text layer. Click on the background layer. 

Step 3: Press apple+J. Click on your layer styles and choose drop shadow. click on the words inner shadow and inner glow. click OK. 

Step 4: Drag your type layer into the trash. 

Step 5: Click on your background layer. hold down the apple key+L to brighten your background image.

The Matrix Shadow Effect Tutorial

Step 1: Press D on your keyboard to set the background color swatch with black. Press the letter X to swap swatches. hold down the apple key and press delete. 

Step 2: Type your text. Hold down the control key and click on your text layer. choose rasterize. 

Step 3: Make a duplicate of your rasterized 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 39 pixels. Click OK 

Step 4: Make a duplicate of your original rasterized 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 to 80 pixels. 

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 picker appears, click on the custom button, then choose PANTONE 72, and click OK. Double click on the right color stop, this time choose PANTONE 732. Click OK.

Step 2: In the options bar, click on the radial gradient icon. using this tool, click and drag from 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 OK. 

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

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. Click OK. 

Step 5: Click the Magic wand tool. Click once in the first letter of your word. Then go under the select and menu and choose similar to select the rest of the letters. Under select menu choose inverse. Now choose 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 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 + A, then press delete. press apple + D to deselect.

Step 7: Click on your text layer. choose bevel and emboss from the layers style menu at the bottom of the layers pallet. When the dialog box appears, increase the depth to 400% and decrease 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 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. Hold down the shift key while doing this. press apple + c to copy. Add a new layer, press apple+v to past change the layer mode 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 then down arrow key once.       

African proverb 6

"It is better to be loved than feared."

This is an important proverb. I think it means that it is better to have people like you than to have people be afraid of you. I think this is true. Many people should accept this proverb into their lives. It could help them become better people and have more people want to be around them.

This could be applied into everyday life.An example would be that everyone in your class feared you than you would get what every you wanted but no one would want to be around you. This would prevent you from having many friends.

Extra Money

If you had an extra $100,000 to give away, what would you do with the money?

If i had $100,000 to give away i would give it to places that really need it. I would give to charity. One thing i would give it to is the search for a cure cancer research center. I would give them $20,000. I would also give it to the diabetes research center. I would give them about $30,000. Last of all i would give $50,000 to New Media Technology Charter School. 

I have reasons for giving the money to the places i would give them to. I would give $20,000 to the cancer research center because i think cancer is a serious disease and it kills many people. The reason I would give $30,000 to the diabetes research center is because my grandfather has cancer and I want to help them find a cure to help m grandfather. Last i would give $50,000 to the school because i think the school could really use it after they made the new High School building.         

African Proverb 5

"The fool speaks, the wise person listens."

I think this proverb means that any thing some one says could be useful later. This could be applied in life in different ways.  One way is that every thing your teacher says is important and could show up on a test or quiz. So it would be good to copy and study just about everything your teacher says. 

Light Burst Tutorial

Step 1: Set your foreground color to black (click D). type your text. Rasterize your type layer Put a selection around your text (apple + click on T in layers pallet). Go under the select menu and choose save selection. 

Step 2: Deselect your type. Switch your foreground color to white (click X). 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 the image menu, under rotate canvas, choose 90º CW. Invert your image (apple + I). Filter menu, choose stylize, choose wind. 

Step 6:  In wind dialog box choose wind for method and from right for direction. Run this filter 2 more times by pressing apple + f twice. 

Step 7: Invert your image. run auto levels. run the wind filter 3 more times. Rotate canvas 90º CCW. Filter menu, distort, choose polar coordinates.

Step 8: in polar coordinates choose rectangular to polar. Change 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 chose zoom. Increase amount to 66. Click your original text layer.. Select menu, load selection. Choose Alpha 1. change your foreground color to black. Deselect your text.          

African proverb 4

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

To me this means that you should not make fun of something some one else has that is the same as yours except They look different with it. I could apply this in everyday life because it is not good to make fun of the way some one looks in the same thing you have.  

  

Perspective Type Tutorial

Step 1: Choose your font color and size 

Step 2: Type your word

Step 3: Go under the layer menu, under type and choose convert to shape

Step 4: Hold down the apple key on the keyboard and tap and tap the letter 'T' to transform

Step 5: Hold down the control key and click the mouse, choose perspective. Grab one of the corner boxes and drag to create perspective effect 

Step 6: Under the layer menu, under rasterize choose shape 

Step 7: Duplicate your text layer. Change your foreground color.Tap the ? mark on your keyboard. Click option + delete to change the color

Step 8: Choose the middle layer and move it down to create a drop shadow effect using the down arrow.