Friday, December 18, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Navigation Tab Tutorial
Step 1: Change your foreground color to black.
Step 2: Add a new layer.
Step 3: Select the rounded rectangle tool.
Step 4: In the options bar click on the fill pixels icon. ( It's the third icon.)
Step 5: In the options bar increase the radius to 20%.
Step 6: Draw your rounded corner box.
Step 7: Select the rectangular marquee tool.
Step 8: Draw a rectangular selection around the bottom 1/4 of your rounded rectangle.
Step 9: Press the delete key.
Step 10: Deselect.
Step 11: Switch to the gradient tool
Step 12: Click on the arrow to bring up the gradient thumbnail.
Step 13: Double click on the left color stop under the editor bar.
Step 14: Choose 40% black. Click OK.
Step 15: Double click on the right color stop but this time choose white. Click OK
Step 16: In the layers palette, turn on "Lock transparent Pixels" ( It's the first icon form the left)
Step 17: Using the gradient you created, draw a gradient from the top of your shape to the bottom.
Step 18: From your layer styles choose bevel and emboss.
Step 19: For your style choose inner bevel, set the angle to 126, depth to 2 and size to 4. Raise the highlight opacity to 100% and lower the shadow opacity to 50%.
Step 20: In the list of styles on the left hand side, click on the name outer glow.
Step 21: Set the blend mode to normal, then click on the color swatch, choose 30% black as your glow color. Increase the spread to 25%. Click OK
step 22: Hold the apple key and in the layer palette, Click the layer that contains the tab.
Step 23: Select----Modify-----Contract. Enter 5. OK
Step 24: Select the marquee tool. Hold the options key then draw a rectangle starting form the bottom of your current selection to just a little below the top.
Step 25: Add a new layer
Step 26: Press x. Then Options+ Delete
Step 27: Deselect
Step 28: Filter menu, blur, choose Gaussian blur. Enter 1.5 pixels. Click OK
Step 29: Lower the opacity to 70%
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Gel Button Tutorial
Step 1: Add a new layer
Step 2: Set your foreground color to light blue
Step 3: Select the rounded rectangle tool. In your options bar set the radius to 40 pixels.
Step 4: In the options bar, click on the third icon from the left (fill pixels),
Step 5: Draw your shape on your stage.
Step 6: Apple+ Click on your shape layer.
Step 7: Add a new layer
Step 8: Go under the select menu, under modify, and choose contract. Enter 20 pixels. Click OK
Step 9: Press the letter "d" then the letter "x" to set your foreground color to white.
Step 10: Press Option+Delete
Step 11: Press Apple+D
Step 12: Go under the filter menu, under blur, choose gaussian blur. When dialog box appears, enter 10. Click OK
Step 13: Select the move tool
Step 14: Using the arrows on the keyboard, move your blurry white layer down to the bottom of the pill shape.
Step 15: Hold down the apple key and click on the pill layer in your layers palette.
Step 16: Press shift+Apple+I to inverse your selection
Step 17: Press the delete key
Step 18: Press Shift+Apple+I.
Step 19: Create a new layer.
Step 20: Set your foreground color to a darker blue than your original blue.
Step 21: Fill your selection by pressing Option+ Delete
Step 22: Deselect by pressing Apple+D
Step 23: Hold down the apple key and click once on the blurry layer in your layers palette.(Be sure not to change layers. You should still be on the dark blue pill layer.)
Step 24: Press Delete to knock a soft hole out of the blue pill shape.
Step 25: elect the rectangular marquee tool
Step 26: Place your mouse inside the selected area and drag the selection upward a little bit. Tap the delete key.
Step 27: Repeat step 26 one or two more times until your almost to the top of the pill. (make sure you stop short of the top.
Step 28: Deselect by pressing Apple+D.
Step 29: Apple+Click your pill layer to put a selection around it.
Step 30: Create a new layer
Step 31: Go under the select menu, under modify, choose contract. Enter 20 pixels. Click OK
Step 32: Press the letter "d" then the letter "x" to set your foreground to white.
Step 33: Select the gradient tool. In the options bar, click on the down facing arrow next to the gradient thumbnail. Choose the second gradient (Foreground to transparent.)
Step 34: Drag this gradient from the top of your selection to the bottom
Step 35: Deselect
Step 36: Select the move tool. USing the arrows in the keyboard, move your white gradient layer upward to where it's almost at the top, but leave a gap of dark blue between your white gradient and the top of the pill. (this creates the highlight area of the pill.)
Step 37: Press Apple+ T
Step 38: GO under the edit menu, under transform, choose perspective.
Step 39: Grab the left bottom corner, and click and drag outward just a bit to add a perspective effect.
Step 40: Press enter to let Photoshop know you are done.
Step 41: Hide your background layer. Merge Visible.
Step 42: Choose drop shadow. In the dialog box, click the color swatch.
Step 43: Click on a blue selection of your pill shape to colorize the shadow.
Step 44: Lower the opacity to 50%, set the angle to 90º, distance to 45, size to 32, turn off use global light. click ok to complete the effect
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Metal Button Tutorial
Step 1: Create a new layer. Draw a circular selection using the Elliptical Marquee tool.
Step 2: Press "d" then "x". Select the gradient tool.
Step 3: In the Options bar, click on the down-facing arrow next to the Gradient thumbnail. Choose the foreground to background gradient.
Step 4: Close the picker and in the options bar, click on the Radial Gradient icon. ( It's the second icon from the left.)
Step 5: Drag the white to black gradient from the left center of your selection to about 1/4 past the edge.
Step 6: Press "d". Create a new layer.
Step 7: In the gradient picker, choose the foreground to transparent gradient (it's the second one from the left, top row.)
Step 8: In the options bar, choose the linear gradient (it's the first one.) Drag the gradient form the top of your selection to the middle to fill the top with black.
Step 9: In the layer palette lower the opacity to 75%.
Step 10: Create a new layer.
Step 11: Go under the select menu, under modify and choose Contract. Enter 6 pixels. Click OK.
Step 12: Press "x". Drag from the top of your selection through about 1/3 of your selected area. Press apple+d
Step 13: Go under the filter menu, under blur, choose Gaussian blur. Enter 3 Pixels. Click OK.
Step 14: Duplicate your top layer by dragging it to your new layer icon.
Step 15: Press apple+t. Ctrl+ click inside the bounding box, then choose rotate 180º from the pop-up menu. Press enter to let Photoshop know you're done.
Step 16: Select the move tool. Drag this layer straight down almost to the edge.
Step 17: Lower the opacity of this layer to 60%
Step 18: Go back to layer 3 ( the layer below your current layer). Press apple+t.
Step 19: Hold the shift key, grab the bottom right handle. shrink the white gradient by around 15%. Press enter.
Step 20: Hide the background layer and choose merge visible from the layers palette's pop-up menu.
Step 21: Choose drop shadow from the layer style pop-up menu at the bottom of the layers palette. Click OK
Step 22: Press apple+u ( Hue and Saturation). Click the colorize button and move the hue slider to choose a color for your button.
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Transform Tutorial
Step 1: Select the layer you would like to transform (Scale, Rotate, Skew, Perspective, Rotate CCW, Rotate CW, Flip horizontal or Flip Vertical).
Step 2: Go to the edit menu, choose transform. Select the option you need to transform your image.
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Resize Tutorial
Step 1: Hold Down the Apple key and tap the letter 'T'. This will Create a box that surrounds your image.
Step 2: Hold down the shift key and drag one of the corner edges in to make your image smaller. Drag it out to make your image bigger.
Step 3: Click the enter key on the far right hand side of the keyboard to let photoshop know you are finished resizing your image.
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Photoshop Shortcuts
• Apple+ C- Copy
• Apple+ V- Paste
• Apple+ J- Duplicate
• Apple+ Options+ Z- Undo Multiple time
• Apple+ S- Save
• Apple+ N- New Document
• Apple+ O- Open Document
• Apple+ Z- Undo
• Apple+ F- Run Filter
• Apple+ E- Merge Layers
• Apple+ X- Cut
• Apple+ U- Hue Saturation
• Apple+ D- Deselect
• Apple+ Click Layer- Rasterize
• X- Color Swap
• V- Move Tool
• B- Brush Tool
• U- Custom Shape Tool
• M- Marquee Tool
• T- Type Tool
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Friday, October 2, 2009
Sound FX
2 paragraphs:
wind: http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Nature/Wind/
House
Ceiling Falling: http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Mayhem/Other/more6.php
Alisha's Story:
Shower: http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Domestic/Bathroom/Running_-Tomako-8671/index.php
Typing: http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Domestic/Applicances/typing-Robert_S-8030/index.php
A Woman Talking: http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Communication/Talking_female/index.php
Screaming: http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/People/Screams/Female_S-LadyIT-2322/index.php
Brea's Story:
Phone Ringing: http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Domestic/Other/phone-mau-8637/index.php
Newspaper stand:
Crying:
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Thought Transitions
To be used between thoughts, sentences, and paragraphs. A skilled writer will utilized these contents many times. When you are stuck for a word pharse--look over the list and choose an appropriate transition.
1. To show a time or sequence
• Continuosly
• Presently
• Following
• Ultimately
• Previously
• Recently
• Eventually
• Sequentially
2. To Compare (same)
• In comparison
• Equally
• This resembles
• Coincidentally
• Akin to
• In unison
• Similarly
3. To Contrast or to concede a point or A coutering Point
• In opposition
• Unlike
• Nonetheless
• In my view, however
• In Negation
• To counteract
• At odds with
4. To show Cause and Effect.
• As a result
• Because of
• Subsequently
• Due to
• In all likelihood
• This entails
• For this reason
5. To Emphasize Point
• Indeed
• It's vital
• Suprisingly
• Indubitably
• Certainly
• In reality
6. To Simplify
• In other words
• Hence
• In a nutshell
• To be concise
• In belief
• To sum up
7. Use Feelings and Emotions
• Tragically
• Regrettably
• Angirly
• With disgust
• Omniously
• Unsuccessfully
• Cruelly
8. Ending statements
• Finally
• In conclusion
• To sum up
• Sooner or later
• Eventually
• In the long run
• The results is
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Choose Your Own Adverture Story
Title: Alea and The Seance
Main Character: Alea Jackmen
Idea: Alea is a psychic that holds seances for families to connected with their deceased loved ones.
Alea holds a seance one day that gets control.
Beginning of Story: One day around midnight, Alea Jackmen, one of the popular psychics in Brooklyn, was having a seance in the dark dining room of the Thompson family's house. They were there to connect with their mother who that died a year ago. As she lit the candles, a mysterious wind blew them out. Alea knew that the spirit did not want to connect with the family, but she tried again anyway. Once she was able to light all of the candles, she turned the lights off and they sat down around the table. As she spoke the ritual, the house began to shake and a spirit possessed Alea's body. Surprisingly, the spirit of the Thompson's mother began to speak. She said she was happy to see them, but she couldn't stay for long.
A half hour passed, but the spirit did not leave. As a result, others spirit began to get furious and the candle lights started to flicker and the house shook cruelly. The Thompson's and Alea looked up and saw plaster coming from the ceiling. Alea and the Thompson family knew that the ceiling was going to fall. In a panic, they jumped up and ran for the door, but it was to late. The ceiling had already fell. That night was a beginning of an ending.
The next morning.......
Choice A: Alea woke up in her bed knowing what happened, but not knowing how she got there.
Choice B: Alea woke up in the hospital with a major headache.
Alisha's Story:
Pt 1 Choice A: She got out of the bed and went into the bathroom. Alea looked in the mirror and noticed that her skin was slightly paler then usual. She didn't pay it to much attention because she always looks like that in the morning. After she took a shower and got dress,she saw a book on the night stand. She had never seen it before, she opened it and started reading, it was a book about rules and how to live with the unmoral. As she walked out the house she noticed that the mailman that usually says "Hello Ms.Jackmen!" didn't even notice her. "Maybe he's in a bad mood,"she said and kept walking. On her way going to the store,there was a house that looked familiar.It almost looked like the Thompson's Family home. She thought about then....
Choice A: It hit her, "The Seance"
Choice B: still didn't know
Pt2 Choice A: Since it was getting late, she started on her way back home. When she got there, she went up the stairs to the backroom, where her office is. As she logged on to the computer, she tried to put all the clues together. The mail man, waking up in her bed and not knowing how she got there. "The only conclusion i have is that I'm..." Boom! A loud noise comes from downstairs. Alea goes downstairs to what it is,but it wasn't from downstairs.It was from the basement. Alea goes down to the basement and as she looks for the noise she saw a bright white light. Because she was curious,she walked toward the light. All of a sudden she ends up in a room with people staring at her. One resembled the mail man, and the others were kind of blurry. "I most be dreaming" Alea said. "Who are you?, and why am I here?" "Aren't you Alea Jackmen?" said Tina. Tina was the psychic that the mail man hired. "Who wants to know?," said Alea. "The people who you were close to," said the psychic "Were?,"Alea said curiously. "Yes,were." the psychic responded. "OK. You're saying it like I'm dead." Alea said laughing. The psychic had a serious look on her face. She looked at the mail man, then at Alea and said,"You are dead."
Pt 2 Choice B: Alea continued on down the street. She saw Mrs. Applebom, A older lady who has been kind to Alea, watering her garden. Alea walked over to greet her. " Hello Ms. Applebom, how are you today?" There was no response from the elder. Alea thought she must have done something to the people that were ignoring her. Alea was very confused in what was happening. When Alea arrived to the city, she noticed that it was crowded. She was trying to push past all the people when something strange happened. A little girl had walked right through her. Alea turned around in disbelief. Then a man walked right through her. Alea was getting scared. "This is a dream!," Alea yelped. More and more people continued walked through like she was invisible. Alea ran home shivering from her experience. Alea cried herself to sleep. Then, there was a tunnel of light coming from Alea's bathroom. Alea woke up to hear people talking. She noticed the light from the bathroom and walk into it. Alea then approahed a white room with an overcast of people sitting at a table. " What's going on?," Alea questioned. A lady responded, "Hello Alea, I am Tina the psychic and I am here with your family. They were trying to connect with you since your death three days ago." " I'm dead?," Alea shrieked. " Yes you are," Tina responded "and your family wants to talk to you."
Brea's story:
Pt 1 Choice B: Alea woke up in the hospital with a major headache not knowing what happened the day before. She called the nurse for some Aspirin but didn't get a answer. She yelled louder but still no answer. So Alea got out of bed and walked into the hallway to see where all the nurses were. To her surprise all the nurses and doctors were all gone. " Somethings strange," Alea said to her self. She walked back to her room to get her stuff together and left. When Alea walked outside she saw that everything was normal. What Alea didn't notice was that she still had her hospital gown on. She tried talking to people she talked to before but it almost seemed like they were ignoring her. That's when Alea got a strange feeling. As Alea walked down the street she saw a newspaper stand with an article on the front entitled " The Thompson Tragedy." Alea wondered what the article was talking about. She continued on down the street, hearing people talk about how the Thompson family had died from a house collapsing. Alea then realized that she was with the Thompson family on the same night having a seance.
All of a sudden.......
Choice A: She ran back to the newspaper stand.
Choice B: She ran to the Thompson house.
Pt 2 Choice A: She ran back to the newspaper stand to get the article. She quickly ran home and read the article,as she read it she started to wonder how she got out of that incident alive. She starts to have a flashback of what happened that night. They were sitting in a dark room,she said the ritual,the spirit came but couldn't stay long. Ring! Ring! Her thought was interrupted by a ring the phone. Alea let it go to the answering machine. "Hello, hello its me Clark!" Clark was Alea's co-worker. "I was calling because you didn't come in to work today,and I was wondering if you were OK." Alea called him back because she thought if she was dead, no one would be able to hear her. "Hello",said Clark. "Hey Clark it's Alea." "Oh hey",Clark replied. "Sorry I didn't come to work,I was feeling under the weather," Alea said. "It's OK! hey!,at least you didn't die like that family on the news." "Yea well it felt like it!"
Pt 2 Choice B: She ran back to the Thompson house to see if all that she heard was true. When she arrived she couldn't believe her eyes, the Thompson house was no more. All Alea saw was debris from the house all over. That's when Alea started thinking if she was in the hospital with no nurses, the people she usually talk to were ignoring her and she was with the Thompson family the night they died she must have been dead too. She didn't want to believe that she was dead but that seemed to be the only reason why things were going the way they were. Alea ran home home and turned on the T.V. to see if the news was still talking about the story-- it was. Alea listened as the newscaster reported, " Today is a sad day as the town mourns over the death of the Thompson family. It was just last night when the roof of their house unexpectedly fell down. Witnesses say there was another person in the house, but when police showed up it was only the family." Alea thought," I'm dead and no one knows!" Out of anger, Alea starts to cry. She couldn't believe that she was not being noticed for her death either. Then, the phone rings, Alea picks up and says "hello", " Hi Alea, its me Tracy. I'm calling to see if you are alright." Tracy was Alea's sister. She said she heard about the Family's death and remembered that Alea told her about the seance they had that night. " I have been trying to reach you all day but you never picked up," Tracy said. Alea stopped crying and said curiously," You can hear me?" Tracy replied, " ...of course I can hear you, Why wouldn't I hear you?" " A lot of things happened today and I thought I was dead like the Thompson's," Alea exclaimed. Alea was so happy she wasn't dead. She changed her clothes and ran outside. Everyone she saw, she said hi to. That day was the best day of Alea's life.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Homework: Google Search Questions
Create one question for each Quick Find.
1. Weather: What is the humidity in Barcelona? 53%
2. Time: What time is it in Nigeria? 3:51 P.M.
3. Earthquake: When was Seattle, Wahington's last earthquake? 17 hours ago
4. Spellcheck: What is the correct spelling of Parylitic? Paralytic
5. Local Informaiton: What is the website of a hotel starting with "W" in 30301? Wyndham Garden Hotel - www.wyndham.com
6. Patent: What product's patent number is 6756067? Thick Maple Syrup
7. Area Code: What country does the area code 246 belong to? Barbados
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Quick Finds
Essential Question: How can I improve my search experience by locating information more efficiently?
Student will be able to use search features and operators to locate information in the following categories:
• Data
• Reference Information
• Keywords
• Essential Information
• Local Information
• Trip Planning
• Search for Numbers
• Web search Results
• Define Web Terms
• Identify Search Engine Parts
Weather:
What it does: Gives you the weather of the area your looking for.
What to type: Weather 11233
What you'll get: The current weather in fahreinheit, the humidity, the wind and the weather for the next four days.
Time:
What it does: It gives you the time and the day of the week.
What to type: Time; Place;
What you'll get: It gives you the current time and the day of the week
Earthquakes:
What it does: it gives you the most recent information about earthquakes in the location that you chose.
What to type: Earthquake; Place;
What you'll get: The magnitude, the location, and the time it happened
Spellcheck:
What it does: It tells you when you spell sonething wrong
What to type: THE WORD
What you'll get: The correct spelling.
Local Information:
What it does: It gives you local information.
What to type: Place; Zip code;
What you'll get: The name of place, Website and Phone number
Patent:
What it does: It gives you the product for that patent
What to type: Patent; Patent number;
What you'll get: The name of the product, and the person that invente the product.
Area Code
What it does: It searches for the city an state of the area code you put in.
What to type: The area code.
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Lesson Reflection: Google Search
• How will you use the tools you've learned about Google Search for your other classes?
• Which tool (Similar words, Number Ranges, Conversions etc.) do you believe you will use the most? Why?
• Which tool do you think you will use the least? Why?
I will use the tools I've learned about Google Search for my other classes by using the Conversions and Math. I will also used them when I am doing an essay. I think these tools can be helpful because then can get exactly what I am looking for. The tools that i might use the most is either the Math Answers, the Conversions, Find Meanings and Site Specific. I might use these tools the most because, when I am doing math or converting one thing from another, I can just use the Math Answer tool or Conversions tool to get my answer. I might use the Find Meanings when i need to look up a word or when i don't feel like looking in a dictionary. The tool that i might use the least is the linked pages because it doesn't seem like it would help me the most. I will try out the LInk tool just in case.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Google Search
Better Searches. Better results:
Here are some mifty modifiers to type in your Google search box to refine your searches and get the best results.
Exact Pharse: " "
What it does : searches for an exact phrase.
What to type : "one small step for man."
What you'll get: results that include the exact phrase "one small step for man."
Excluded Words: -
What it does: excludes search results with a particular word or pharse.
What to type: bass -fishing
What you'll get: results about bass that are not related to fish.
Similar Words: ~
What it does: seaches for a word and all its synonyms.
What to type: ~mobile phone
What you'll get: results with the word "phone", as well as "cell","wireless",etc.
Multiple Words: OR
What it does: searches for web pages that include either word.
What to type: vacation Florida or Georgia.
What you'll get: results with the word "vacation" and either "Florida" or "Georgia."
Numerical Ranges: ...
What it does: searches for a range of numbers
What to type: fashion design 1920...1935
What you'll get: results about fashion design during the time period.
Find Meanings: define:
What it does: defines a word or pharse.
What to type: define:table
What you'll get: linlks to defintion of the words "table"
Site Specific: site
What it does: searches only particular websites.
What to type: global warming site:edu
What you'll get: references to global warming found on .edu websites
Math Answers: 1+1
What it does: basic calculator functions.
What to type: 4+7, 30% of 55, sqrt(4),20^2, etc.
What you'll get: the answers
Conversions: cm in foot
What it does: converts units of measures
What to type: 28C in F, $ in pounds, mph in speed of light.
What you'll get: the converted answer.
LInked Pages: link:
What it does: searches for web pages that link to a particular website.
What to type: link:www.nick.com
What you'll get: websites that link to nickelodeon's website.
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