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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

navigation Tab Tutorial



Step 1: 

Change your foreground color to black.
Step 2: 
Add a new layer.
Step 3: 
Select the rounded rectangular tool.
Step 4: 
In the options bar click on the fill pixels icon. ( Its the 3rd icon)
Step 5:
In the options bar increse 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 and to bring up the gradient thumbnail.
Step 13:
Double click on the left color stop under the editors bar.
Step 14:
Choose 40% black, Click Ok
Step 15:
Double click on the right color swap, but this time choose white, Click Ok
Step 16:
In the layers palette turn on " lock transparent pixels"( its the first icon from the left)
Step 17:
Using the gradient you created, draw a gradient from the top of your shape to the bottom. ( Use the shift)
Step 18:
From your styles choose bevel and emboss.
Step 19:
For style choose inner bevel, set angle to 126, depth 2. and pixel to 4. Raise the highlight opacity to 100% and lower the shadow opacity to 50%. Don't click Ok yet.
Step 20:
In the list of style on the left hand side, click 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 down the apple key, in the layers palette, click the layer that contains the tab.
Step 23: 
Select modify then contract then enter 5 pixels
Step 24:
Select the marquee tool. Hold down the option key and draw a rectangle starting from the bottom of you current selection and just a little below the top.
Step 25:
Add a new layer.
Step 26:
Press x then option+ delete.
Step 27:
deselect.
Step 28:
Click on the filter menu then choose blur, then choose gaussian blur, then enter 1.5 pixels, then choose enter.
Step 29:
Lower the opacity to 70%.












 












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 rectangle tool. In your options bar set your 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, under modify, and choose contract. Enter 20 pixels, click Ok.
Step 9: Press the letter "d" then the letter "x" to set your foreground 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 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 the your original blue. 
Step 21: fill your selection by pressing option +delete.
Step 22: deselect by pressing apple + deselect. 
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 layer. 
Step 25:  select the rectangular marquee tool.
Step 26: Place your mouse n the selected area and drag you selection upwards a little bit. Tap the delete key.
Step 27: repeat step 26 , one or two more times until the top of the pill. (make you stop short at the top).
Step 28: deselect by pressing apple +d
Step 29: apple +0 click on your pill layer to put a selection around it. 
Step 30: create a new layer.
Step 31: go under select menu, under modify choose contract, enter 20 pixels, choose Ok.
Step 32:  Press the letter d then x to set your foreground color to white.
Step 33: select the gradient tool. in the options bar, click on the facing down arrow next to the gradient thumbnail. Choose the second  gradient. ( foreground to transparent.) 
Step 34: Drag this gradient from the top to the bottom of your selection.
Step 35: deselect
Step 36: select the moving tool, using the arrows on the keyboard, move your white gradient upwards to where its almost at the top, but leave a gap of dark blue between your white gradient and the top of the pill. ( This create 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 et photoshop know your finished. 
Step 41: hide your background layer. merge visible.
Step 42: choose drop shadow 
Step 43:
Step 44:












Friday, October 16, 2009

Metal Button Tutorial


Step 1= Create new layer. Draw a circular using

the elliptical marquee tool.
Step 2= Press "d" then "x". Select the gradient 
tool.
Step 3= One the option bar click on the down 
facing arrow next to the gradient thumbnail.
Choose the foreground to background gradient. 
Step 4= Choose the picker in the option bar, 
Click on the radial gradient icon.( Its 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 new layer. 
Step 7= In the gradient picker choose foreground to
transparent gradient( Its the second one from the
left top row.
Step 8= In the option bar choose the linear gradient 
Its the first one). Drag your gradient from the top 
of your selection to the middle to fill the top with black. 
Step 9= In the layers palette, lower the opacity to 75%
Step 10= Create a new layer. 
Step 11= Go under he select menu, under modify and 
choose contact. 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 
gausian blur. Enter 3 pixels. Click Ok. 
Step 14=  Duplicate your top layer by dragging it to 
your new layer.
Step 15= Press apple + T. Ctrl+ Click inside the bounding 
box, then choose rotate 180 from the pop-up menu. press 
enter to let photoshop know your 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 39 the layer below your
current ayer). Press apple+T.
Step 19=  Hold the shift key, grab the 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 your 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.





 


























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 horizontally, Flip Vertically).

Step 2-
Go to the edit menu, choose transform. 
Select the option you need to transform
your image.


Resize Tutorial

Step 1-
Hold down the apple key and tap the letter 'T'.
This will create a box around 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 on the 
key board to let photoshop know you are finish
resizing you image.

Photoshop Shortcuts

Apple+C=Copy
Apple+v=Paste
Apple+j= Duplicate
Apple+option+z+ Undo multiple times
Apple s= save
Apple+n=New document
Apple+o= Open document
Apple+z= Undo
Apple+f= Run Filters
Apple+e= Merge
Apple+x= Cut
Apple+u=Hue & saturation
Apple+ d= Deselect
x= Color swap
v= Move tool
b= Brush
Apple+Click layer= rasterize
u= Custom shape tool
m= Marquee
y= Type tool

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Sounds Fx

2 Paragraphs:

Evil Sound:

Whispering:

Woods sounds:

Laughter Sounds:

Falling sounds:

Magic Sounds:

Walking Sounds

Engine Sounds:

Splashing sounds:

Roaring Sounds:

Demanding Sounds:

Splatter Sounds:

Screaming Sounds:

Crashing Sounds:

Dropping sounds

Choice A (Caron) :

Walking sounds:

Forest Sounds:

Animal Sounds:

Running Sounds:

Surprising Sounds:

Screaming Sounds:

2nd Choice A (Caron's)

Flying Sounds:

Landing Sounds:

Hopping Sounds:

Wishing Sounds:

Commanding Sounds:

3rd Choice A ( Carons's)

Magic Sounds:

Surprising Sounds:

Running Sounds:

Ending Sounds:

Choice B ( Tanayah's)

Running Sounds:

Screaming Sounds:

Magic Sounds:

Boom Sounds:

Air Sounds:











Friday, October 2, 2009

Choice B

The witch went to grab the little kids, but junior got on the floor on his hands and knees and tripped the witch. The witch twist and turned and mistakenly picked up her magic wand) The witch then said, hey you little frog why did you.......POOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( The witch tuned into a purple frog) ( If you are thinking why she turned into a PURPLE frog, then it is because usually when you watch movies with witches in them their favorite color always seems to be purple). Hey she's a frog like me and she is pretty....................PRETTY, said Junior. I feel bad because she's all along in this forest as a frog by herself. Lets take her with us, she is a frog, she will not be harmful without her magical items she's nothing. I CAN STILL HEAR you childs, I MAY BE A FROG, BUT I SILL HAVE EARS AND A MOUTH, screamed sally (WITCH). they traveled to a kingdon and lived happily every after with different other animals. Sally became a nice witch, but what people did not know is that sally still had spells, because she is a witch and witches are very magical people even without their wands.
THE END

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Choice A

They wished for a magical kingdom, once they created and built their kingdom, they wished for their friends back. They gave rules to everyone that lived in their kingdom, They were reliable and a safe and a nice respectful and intelligent and fair leaders. They invited everybody to live in their kingdom, yes people got punished and usually they punished them on behalf of their behavior. They wished for schools for humans and talking animals. Flying lessons for young birds, swimming lessons for young alligators, hippos, fish and other underwater creatures, they even had roaring classes for tigers, cheetah, lions and other animal that roar. They had different types of schools for a lot of different things, they had talking school that teach baby animals how to talk, they activity schools, academic schools, elementary schools, middle schools and high school. they had everything a real world would have except for real talking animals. The parents and grownups had money and jobs the world was great. One night everyone was thinking, thinking about the witch. They felt bad, even though the witch gave out a high amount of unacceptable orders, she still was a regular normal person like everyone else just except for her magical items. they set their all night and talked amongst each other in their big castle and they came out with a great idea. The next morning all 4 friends got up and went into their magical room in their 40 floor castle. Who will do the honor, said Elizabeth. how about all of us will do it together, Alex said. That A GREAT IDEA ALEX, said junior.( they all put their hands on the magic rock and said we, the four friends wish for sally the witch to come back to life). (the witch dropped on the floor. Thank you so much you little child's. Wait just a minutes, said Fred as the witch was running out. Yes my little dear child, said the witch. You can live in in our kingdom, but by our worlds. No that is fine i will go back to my forest. Yes you can accomplish that but NO MORE MEAN CRUEL STUFF. YES IF YOU SAY SO

THE END

Monday, September 28, 2009

Choice B

OK Alex wish for us to get out of this scary place and challenge that nasty mean old witch to a duel. Yeah Elizabeth that's the spirit, we can use our magic rock and she can use her crusty old magic wand. OK wish us out of here, Elizabeth said excitingly. I wish for me and Elizabeth to go back to the witches living room and challenge her to an duel ( hub-bu-duh-bu boom bah boom pop they were there). Omg you guys are back. Yes we are you retard and we challenge you to a duel. Oh wow such harmful set of language, and what do you have to go against me and my most powerful magic WAND. we have something more powerful than that dumb Barbie doll wand. What, what do you 2 little child's have. we have OUR magic rock. My magic rock. Nope wrong mam, OUR magic rock. OK little child's lets dance. I wish for a hundred bears to attack the little child's, screamed the witch. hummmm i wish for all bears to become gummy bears, hollered Alex. OK you 2 are pretty good, you won 1 out of 3. I wish for 5 belts to continuously hit the 2 little child's. Hummmm I got this Alex ( Alex gives Elizabeth the rock)I wish for 5 old grumpy men with saggy pants anxiously looking for belts. ( The 5 grumpy men snatched all 5 belts and disappeared). Wow you little child's are very good.............................. SIKE, that's 2 out of 3 for you.I wish for 2 big pizza slices to attack the 2 little ugly child's. We wish for pepperoni slices to calm down the pizza slices and reverse them back into the witches mouth. AWWWWWWWWWW, the witch screamed. ( The witch fell to the floor and died from choking off the 2 pizza slices with a pepperoni topping). The 2 friends wished for their own secret forest and wished for their 2 best friends to come back. They cherished and used the magic rock for only them and other good and not mean things, they did not and never will let no one take hold of the magic rock, their secret forest includes other human families and other talking animals of all kinds of species. It was a secret and magical forest, the 4 friends were always honored for their bravery and became the most famous and bests leaders ever. THE END.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Choice B

How are we going to get in, said elizabeth. I don't know but this is one way. What is t...........( Alex kicked the door down and the witched stopped and looked) This is nypd you old mean ugly witch now punch you hands up where my eyes can see them. Ok alex that was the dumbest choice you every made in this whole entire day, elizabeth whispered. ( The witch picked up her magic wind and zapped them in this secret dungeon. What happened, said alex. Umm maybe you was stupid and dumb and busted in the witches house like you were a freaking cop and like you had something that was going to go against the meanest witch ever, now you got us thrown in this scary dungeon and you are acting like you don't know what happened, THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED. OK i guess i was a little less smart, and should of used the rock. OMG THE ROCK ALEX, THE ROCK. we can get out of here, wish for a way to get out of here.


Choice A= They wished for a secret escape button and wished for everything to go back to normal.
Choice B= They wished to get out of the dungeon and go to the witch and challenge her to a duel.



Thursday, September 24, 2009

Choice B

OMG It ate fred, cried alex. Runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Alex Runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn its coming, screamed Elizabeth
( Alex and Elizabeth hid behind this big tree) Hurry wish for something Alex ( alex grabs rock out his pocket) I WISH FOR A ROCKET SHIP MADE OUT OF CANDY !!!!BOOOOM!!!!!! ( A rocket ship dropped from out of the sky, they both jumped in it and Flew away) Put it on auto drive, you need some sleep, said alex. We both need sleep, said Elizabeth ( puts on auto and they both went to sleep). THE NEXT MORNING. Alex wake up. What elizabeth. The rocket ship want start it needs gas. well wish for gas than. Can you come help me, you know we cant be alone wishing with this rock. (alex gets out of bed) Ok go ahead wish it I WISH FOR GAS TO START THE ROCKET SHIP ( THE GAS DROPPED IN HER HAND) Ok there's the sign that says "PUT GAS HERE" ( elizabeth pours the gas in this little opening in the wall, where the gas is suppose to go. now go start the rocket and lets get going. The rocket still wont start, worried elizabeth. Oh i forgot it is a candy rocket ship( alex pulled out a bag of jelly beans and poured them all in the opening, in the wall. ( the rocket ship powered up and they flew to the secret village). The witches house was at the beginning of the village. Her house had green smoke all around it, the grass was dark and muddy, the sky was dull blue but just around her house, the windows were broke and it had no door and the sign said "come in if you hate your life" And it stunk so bad that they wished for nose plugs.

Choice A = They wished to turn invisible just for 5 minutes to sneak in.
Choice B = They just bused in like nypd and got captured.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Thought Transition

To be used between thoughts, sentences and paragraphs. A skilled writer will utilize these contents many times
when you are stuck for a word or phrase look over the list and choose an appropriate transition.

1. To show a time or sequence.
˙Continuously
˙Presently
´Following
´Ultimately
´Previously
´Recently
´Eventually
´Sequentially

2. To compare (same)
´In comparison
´Equally
´This Resembles
´Coincidentally
´Akin to
´In unison
´Similar

3. To contrast or concede a point or a countering Point.
´In opposition
´Unlike
´Nonetheless
´In my view However
´In navigation
´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 a point
´Indeed
´It's vital
´Indubitably
´Certainly
´In reality
´Surprisingly

6. To simplify
´ In other words
´Hence
´In a nutshell
´To be concise
´In brief
´To sum up

7. Use feeling and emotions
´Tragically
´Regrettably
´Angrily
´With disgust
´ominously
´unsuccessfully
´Cruelly

8. Ending statements
´Finally
´In conclusion
´To sum it up
´Sooner or later
´Eventually
´In the long run
´The result is

Monday, September 14, 2009

My story information

Characters
Alligator- Fred
Witch Name- Sally
Frog- Junior
Wolf Name- Alex
Girl- Elizabeth

Title
The Adventures Of The Rock

Once Upon a time there was a witch named Sally, she was a mean an demanding cruel witch.
One day she was walking down the secret forest with her magic diamond, her diamond was
the reason she was even in charge. When she was giving people orders that day, she lost her
diamond. Early that afternoon a girl named Elizabeth was playing with her 3 friends the
alligator named Fred, the frog named Junior and last but not least the friendly wolf named
Alex. Alex want to play tag, I'm tired of playing Hide-and-go seek, said Elizabeth. I want to
play tag too, but Im not it, commands Fred. I'll be it, said Junior. Your a frog
Junior, you hop to slow, complained Alex. I can hop fast for your information. Just let him
alex, COUNT TO 15, hollered elizabeth. ( Everybody ran and played all day until something
happened). BOOM- BOOM- BUH-BOOM. WHAT HAPPENED, screamed Screamed Alex, Junior,
and Elizabeth. I tripped over this weird
looking rock, omg my knee hurts, said fred (. I wish I could give you a ice- cream right about
now, said Elizabeth. ( The rock lit up in a rainbow color and flew in the air and circled around elizabeth
and landed back in Fred's hand). Everyone looked at Elizabeth and she had a vanilla ice- cream
in her hand. WOW, did you guys just see what happened, said Elizabeth. The ROCK IS A MAGIC
ROCK, surprisingly said Elizabeth. (Elizabeth gives ice-cream to Fred).



(They went to their club house and examined the rock). Lets take turns wishing for little things, said alex.
Ok you go first, said Junior. Ok I WISH FOR A BIG MONSTER TRUCK THAT IS REAL AND HAS WATER GUNS
THAT SHOOT OUT FREEZING COLD WATER. (just sits there) Where is it, alex. Maybe its not working no more.
IM OUT HERE YOU BIG DUMMIES ( swish boom swishy swish swish boom boom bamm) OMG ITS SHOOTING
COLD WATER AT US RUN YOU GUYS RUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( everybody ran into this hut
and hid. Why would you wish for that killing machine. I thought it would be a little talking toy, but i guess i was
wrong. YOU THINK, everybody hollered. HEY YOU LITTLE UGLY FREAKS, WHERE ARE YOU. Ok ok ok ok my turn
said junior, I WISH FOR ONE OF THE TRANSFORMER ROBOT HIS NAME IS EXCTON. ROOOAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR,
SAID EXCTON. I command you to destroy that monster truck. Yes mam. Im a boy, screamed junior. whatever
mam ( excton ran off) Well you do look like a girl, said fred. SHUTUP, IM OUT TO GO FOLLOW MY TRANSFORMER
(leaves out hut
stands and looks out his friends). splatter mcsplatty splat splat . OMG, EVERYBODY SCREAMED. ( junior
got ran over by the mean monster truck). Oh well lets try to give this back to the witch and let her wish
everything was back to normal. How did you know this was the witches rock. Cause it says it on the back
of the rock. oh I did not see that give me the rock, said fred. Its
my turn to wish and i wish for a nice and friendly big fat cookie monster. (the rock magically turn yellow and POP
the monster was standing outside of the hut). Wow its so like the one on the sesame place show. ( fred walks
`outside) hello my name is freddy fergolicious. OHOHHHH COOKIE MUST !!!EAT COOKIE ( THE MONSTER EATS FRED)
OMG, said alex and elizabeth. WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT...,.......


Option A= After the horrible accident Elizabeth and Alex traveled to find the the witches
cottage to return the rock.

Option B= Alex and Elizabeth Wished for a candy rocket ship to travel to
find the Witch.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Homework: Google Search Questions

Weather: What Is the weather in Miami?
The weather in Miami is cloudy.

Time: What Is the time in Japan?
The time in japan is 11:54pm.


Earthquakes: What was the name of the earth quakes that attacked New Orleans?
The earth quakes that attacked New orleans are called:


Spell Check: What Is the correct spelling for obleiterate?
The correct spelling for obleiterate is obliterate.


Local Information: Where is the closes book store in 19136?
three bookstores that in 19136 is: Fantasy Island Book Store, Flight of Fantasy Books & Gifts‎,Drexel University/ Book Store‎.

Patent: What is the patent for 4799701?
The patent for this tracking number is a scooter.


Area Code: What is the area code for 876?
The Area code for 876 is Jamaica.

Holiday card project

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Quick Find

Essential Questions:
How can I improve my search experience by
locating information more efficiently?

Students will be able to use search features and
operators to locate information in the following categories:

´Data
´Keywords
´Local Info
´Search For Numbers
´Define Web Terms
´Reference Info
´essential Info
´Trip Planning
´Web Search Results
´Identify Search Engine Parts


Weather:
What it does: Gives you the weather for the New York
What to type: weather 11233
What you'll get: Party Cloudy

Google Search

Find Meanings: define: what it does:
defines a word or phase.
What To Type: define: table
What you'll get: links to definitions
of the word "Table"

Site Specific: Site: What it does:
Searches only particular websites.
What to types: 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 inches
What it does : Convert 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 a web pages that
link to a particular website
What to type: www.nick.com
What you'll get: Websites that link to nickelodeon's
website.

Time:
What it does:
What to type: time; place
What you'll get:

Earthquakes:
What it does:
What to type: earthquakes; place
What you'll get:

Spell Check
What it does: Tells you if you if you spelled something wrong
What to type: The word
what you'll get: The correct spelling

Local information:
What it does: It searches for local information
What to type: the place and the zip code
What you'll get: the name of the place, the website and the phone number

Patent:
What it does: it gives you the product for that patent
What to type: patent then the patent number
What you'll get: It gives you the name of the product and name of the inventor

Area Code:
What it does:
What to type: The area code
What you'll get: