Semi-Transparent Type Tutorial

STEP 1: Type you text.

STEP 2: Put a selection around your text. Hide your your type layer. Click on the background layer.

Step 3: Press Apple+J. Click on your layer styles and choose drop shadow. Click directly on the words Inner Shadow. Next click on the words 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 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 the text layer. Choose Rasterize.

STP 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 34 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 of Blur to 80 pixels. Click Ok.

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 722, 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 the center to the top of the back round 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 filter menu, under blur, and choose Motor Blur. Enter 33º for angle and 10 for distance, Click Ok. Now go under sharper, 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 layers menu, under rasterize, and choose Type to convert image layer. Now under Brush Stokes, Type 12 for stroke length, 7 for radius, and right diagonal for direction. Click Ok.

STEP 5: Click the image wind 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 little Chunks of white space AROUND THE letters created by the brushed strokes filter.

STEP 6: Go under select menu and choose Inverse. Drag your text layer into the trash to delete it. Press Apple+J to put the selected back round area up on its layer. In the layers palette, click once in the back round 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 the word, drop shadow to bring up its options Increase 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 new layer, press Apple+V to paste, change the layer mode from normal to Color Burn.

STEP 9: Duplicate your New Layer. Now duplicate your duplicated layer. Change the mode from color burn to screen . Click Ok.

African Proverb 6

It is better to be loved than feared.

I think that means it's better for people to like you than to hate you. In other words, most people would like to be loved than hated because people don't want to be around you if your making bad choices all the time. Safe for instance, my parents love me very much and if they feared me, I wouldn't like that because I wouldn't want to be feared by my own parents, I want to be loved by them because If they I feared them, I wouldn't be able to live with them because I don't know what they could do. I love my family too much to be feared by them so that's why it is better to be loved than feared.

Also, I know there's a lot of people that their parents are feared by their own children because their child is making the wrong choices. Your parents wouldn't want to raise you if you can't respect them. Your parents wouldn't want to do for you if your disrespecting them and doing other bad things. There's plenty of people in this world that would like to be loved, and there's plenty of people that doesn't like to be loved so what I'm saying is it's better to be loved than feared because people don't want to be around a feared person.

Extra Money

If I had an extra hundred thousand dollars to give away, you can not spend it on your self. What would you do with the money.

If I had a hundred thousand dollars, I would give all that money to both of my parents so we can move out of Philadelphia and move to Florida. I know how bad my parents and family wants to move to Florida so ill give half to my parents and the other half to my grandparents. If it's not enough, they can put the other money towards it but at least I gave them both half so it won't be hard for us and my grandparents to get a house down there because the houses are way cheaper down there then up here.

Also, the reason I will spilt it because I love my grandparents and my parents and I want the best for the both of them, Their both always there for me so I want to be there for them so we can both live better down there then up here. Their aren't much nice houses up here, but I go to Florida every summer and I'm a witness to say that their houses and nice up there. Florida is called the "Sun Shine State" and Summer is my families best season so it will be better down there because it's always hot up there and it never snows up there.

African Proverb 4

"The fool speaks, the wise man listens."

I think that African Proverb means that when someone is telling you to do the right thing, always listen because bad things happen to people when they are not in the right place. Safe for instance, a shooting is going on and you are with a friend and he tells you not to go down there for the shooting and you don't listen and go down there anyway. You might can get shot, or something else bad could of happened because you didn't listen and and didn't follow your first mind. Always follow your first mind because anytime you follow your second mind, 9 times out of 10, your second mind could be wrong, and not positive. This African Proverb can help me in my everyday life because anytime I want to think about doing the wrong thing, always listen to someone thats telling you the right thing, and follow my first mind.

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 and 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 Disort, choose polar coordinates. Choose polar to rectangular.
Step 5: Go under the image menu, under Rotate Canvas, choose 90cw. Invert your image (Apple+I). Filter menu, choose stylize, choose wind.
Step 6: In word dialog box, choose wind for method and from the 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 90ccw. Filter menu, Distort, choose Polar Coordinates.
Step 8: In the Blur Coordinates, choose Rectangular to Blur. 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, inner blur, choose racial blur,

African Proverb #3

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

I think that means that when somebody does something wrong, that doesn't mean you have to make fun of them or talk about them in a harmful way just because of what they did such as a slight mistake. For example, say there's a class with 25 people in the class, and the teacher calls on a certain person to answer a question, and that person gets a answer wrong and then the whole class laughs at that person, thats what the proverb is explaining, just because somebody made a mistake doesn't mean that everyone has to laugh or tease that person. I know most people in this world don't liked to be teased, well if you don't make fun of that person then don't make fun of anybody else. That African Proverb can be used in my everyday life because anything I want to make fun of someone or tease them, I will think of the Proverb and that will help me not to tease that person because I wouldn't want somebody to tease me all the time.

Gel Type Tutorial

Step 1: Choose your font, size and color.
Step 2: Type your word
Step 3: In your layers palette, apple and your type layer to put the marching ants around the text. Create a new layer.
Step 4: Go under the Select menu, under modify, and choose Contract. When the Contract dialing appears, enter 2 pixels, and click Ok, then press Option and Delete to fill your contracted selected.
Step 5: Deselect by pressing Apple D, Duplicate this layer by dragging it to the new layer icon. Go under the filter menu, under Blur and choose Gaussian Blur. When the dialog box appears, enter 3 pixels, and and click Ok.
Step 6: Choose Bevel and Emboss from the layers styles pop-up menu of the bottom of the layers palette.
->Style-Emboss
->Depth-300
->Size-12
->Highlight Opacity-100%
->Shadow Mute- Color Dodge
->Black Color swath-white click Ok
Step 7: In the layers palette click on the eye icon beside the back round layer to hide it. Then choose Merge Visible from the palettes drop menu. Choose Drop Shadow from the styles menu and click Ok. Click on background to reveal it.

African Proverb 2

"Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat us."

I think that proverb means to never follow after someone. I reason I say that is because following someone else can get you into a lot of bad things. For example, if your following someone at the wrong time and do something bad, but one didn't do anything, and one did, and if the police finds both then the both of yall will be going to jail. Therefore, basically what I'm saying is to take responsibility for your own actions. Bad things happen to people when they follow someone and it';s at the bad time. That proverb can be used in my everyday life because I don't follow after people I'm my own self, and if i ever want to follow somebody, i'll think twice and realize it's the wrong thing to do.

African Proverb

"Knowledge is better than riches"
What does that African Proverb mean to you? How can it be used in your everyday life? Give an example

That African Proverb means if you have a good knowledge and know a lot about what your good at, you wont have no problem trying to get the job you want. However there are a lot of people in this world that wish they can have a lot of money, but if you have the brains and do what's right, by going to college and graduating, you will have so much more jobs to apply for, other than a person that didn't go to college and graduate. Therefore,, I believethat knowledge is better than riches because in this time period, you can't always have what you want, but if your smart and go for what you've worked for, you will have the money you deserved. Also, that Proverb can be used in my everyday life because it will help me, and make me think. For instance, if I'm feeling down one day, all I can do is think about the quote, and that will help me strive for what I want to work for I will be able to get the money I need. I feel that if you don't work hard enough in school or college, than you won't be able to get a good job or the money.

08-09 School Year

I believe that my school year will go great this year. In fact, my goals for this year is to pass all my classes, stay focused, and pay attention in class. Although this is my last year in middle school, and i will be going to high school next year really doesn't mean anything because this is where it starts, and I need to learn all i can now so I can be ready for high school. In addition, I did accomplish a few goals last year. Actually, I brought up all my grades up from the 2nd report period going to the 3rd one. For example, I wasn't very good in math last year, but when I got the extra help I needed, I turned out to be very successful in class, and on my report card.

I feel that my benefits of attending New Media Charter School are to learn all I can now, so i can be successful in high school, and mainly to get better on the computer, and learning a lot more my 8th grade year. My strongest subjects last last were social studies, reading language/arts, and digital multimedia. Surprisingly My weakest subjects last year were science and math. As a result, I hope my year will go perfect at New Media because I want to go into high school knowing must of the things they teach because I will already know it from middle school.