Thursday, December 11, 2008

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

PaintingAwayColorQz



Painting Away Color Tutorial





Step1:Open the image you would like to work on.

Step2:Click on the brusk tool. In the options bar, switch the Blend Mode to color. Change your Foreground color to black.

Step3:From the brushes palette, choose a medium size, soft-edged(0% hardness) brush.

Step4:Start painting. As you paint, the color will disappear leavimg your image in grayscale.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

My name is Loni Medley and my ansester is Effie May Smith. Effie May Smith was born in Jackson vill/Flordia 1913, she would be 95 years of age. She was the mother of three kids, Jean, Conread, and Grildean. I was told that Effie was a kind and loveing person.

Furthermore my Great Grandmother was head strong and always willing to help another. My grandmother also said that "she know when to put her foot down". Whatever she said goes. Grandmom Jean stated "I wouldn't even think about doing something dumb". Aunt Grildean stated that she was a loveing mother also". It was said that she loved to bake

My grandmother Jean said "she would cook until she droped". My grandmother also said that Effie always made sure that her kids were clean and didn't have to want for anything. Uncle Conread said she loved church. He stated "If she broke her neck she would always make sure that she was at bible study the next day.

In result Effie was a loveing mom and person.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Gold Chrome Tutorial



Step 1:Type your text. Put a selection around your text.

Step 2:Go under the selection menu and choose save selection. Click ok. Deselect your text. Delete your type layer.

Step 3:Go to the channels palette, Click on alpha 1. Go under filter menu, under blur, choose Gaussian blur. Enter 1 pixel.

Step 4:Return to the layers palette and click once on the background layer. Go under the filter menu, under Render, and choose lighting Effects. Under the texture channel option, choose alpha 1. Click ok.

Step 5:Go under the image menu, under Adjustments Curves. Create a curve.(Input 186. Output:64) Click ok.

Step 6:Go under the select menu and choose Load Selection. Choose Alpha 1 from the channel pop up menu. Click ok. Go under select men, under modify and choose Expand, Enter 3 pixels. Cick ok.

Step 7:Press shift +apple + J. Click on the background layer. Press apple + A, then press delete. Deselect. Click on your text layer, chose drop shadow from the layer styles. Click ok.

Step 8:Choose color overlay from the styles. Change the blend mode to overlay then click the color swatch and choose the following:
R=208
G=165
B=16 Click ok.

Shadow in Motion Tutorial


Step 1:Tap the letter "d" to change your foreground color to black. Hold down options key and tap the delete key. Type your text using the a medium gray color(#666666)

Step 2:Duplicate your type layer by using the Apple + J shortcut. Rasterize your layer.

Step 3:Go under filter menu , under Pixelate, choose fragment. run this filter two more times by using the Apple + f shortcut.

Step 4:Press apple + t. In the options bar change the width & height to 130%.

Step 5:Click on your original type layer and Rasterize it. Click on the y=top layer and press apple + e to merge the 2 layers.

Step 6:To colorize your type, press Apple + u to bring up Hue/saturation. Click the colorize checkbox and make the hue slider to the color you'd l ike.

Photoshop Shortcuts

*(Apple + u)-Hue and Saturation
*(Apple + t)-Free Transform
*(Option + Delete)-Change color of image to your foreground color
*(Apple + J)-Duplicate layer
*(Apple + e)-Merge
*(Apple + f)-Run the last filter
*(Apple + z)-Undo
*(Apple + x)-Cut
*(Apple + c)-Copy
*(Apple + v)-Paste
*(Apple + n)-New Document
*(Apple + a)-Select All
*(Apple + s)-Save
*(Apple + d)-Deselect