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.
Step:3Make a duplicate of your Rasterized layer. Go under Filter and choose 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.

Semi- Transparent Tutorial

Step:1Type your text.
Step:2Put a selection around your text under your type layer. Click on the background layer.
Step:3Press Apple+J. Click on your layer styles and choose drop shadow. Click directly on the word Inner Shadow. Next click on the words Inner Glow. Click OK.
Step:4Drag your type layer into the trash.
Step:5Click on your background layer. Hold down the Apple key+L to brighten your background image.

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 step. When the color picker appears, click on the custom button, then choose Pantone 722, and click OK. Double click on the 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 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 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 on 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 Bush Strokes filter.
Step 6: Go under the elect menu and choose Inverse. Drag your text layer into the trash to delete it. Press Apple+J to pit the selected background area up on its own layer. In the layers palette, click once on the background layer. Press Apple+A, then press 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 word drop shadow to bring up its options. Increase the 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. Remember to hold down the shift key. Press Apple+C to copy. Add a 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 layer mode from color burn to screen. Click on the move tool. Press the right arrow key twice the down arrow key once.

African Proverb#6

"It is better to be Loved than Feared"

This Proverb to me means that you'd rather have someone love you than someone to be afraid of you. You would rather your family love you than be frightened by you because you'll need them sooner than you think. You really don't want your family members on your bad side because you'll eventually need something from them. You'd never want to walk in a house and ask for something and right off the bat they say "NO" because they're scared of you. You don't want to go to bed at night knowing that everyone is against you. You'll rather want to lay down at night knowing that everything is okay.

This Proverb will help me in everyday life because I'll show love to them and when I do..... I know that I'll always get love back. I'll respect them and make sure that I do everything right the first time and make not one MAJOR mistake. If I make a MAJOR mistake..... I know that they'll never be able to trust me the way they did before. My trust will be gone and they will be scared of me. When people are scared of you they really don't want to be near you. They'll stay away from you and you'll be lonely.

Extra Money

"If you had an extra $100,000 dollars to give away, you can not spend it on yourself. What would you do with the money?"

If I had an extra $100,000 dollars to give away honestly...... I would give $200 to my Mom and $200 to my Dad so they can at least pay some of their bills and if they have extra they can spend it on their self. They can have some pleasure time to their selves too. I would give $200 to charity(which includes the homeless too). I would give my Grandma(Sugar Momma) $200 so that she can pay her bills(even though she's retired)then make her go out somewhere exciting like a cruise. After that, I would put the rest away for college.

The reason why I gave $400 away to my Mom and Dad is because they helped me out a lot. Took took care of my sisters and I. They strained their selves sometimes they need some alone time. They need to relax. The reason that I gave $200 to charity is because there are some people out there who don't have what I have. They have worse than I do. The reason why I would give $200 to my Grandma is because she worked her whole life and she really needs some alone time. The last reason why I would put some away for college is because IU took care of everything else. Now if I get a scholarship to college I will still put some away.

African Proverb#5

"The fool speaks, the wise person listens".
I think that this Proverb means that the people who act foolish are the ones who are always talking and running their mouth. The people who are wise are the ones who just listen to what they say. They don't really follow what they do... they just listen and observe how they act. I feel that a wise person knows when someone else is the fool. A wise person knows when to clown around but they also know when not to. A fool just thinks just because they laugh at you once.... that don't mean they will always laugh.

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 Distort, choose polar coordinates. Choose polar to rectangular.
Step 5:Go under the image menu, under Rotate canvas, choose 90ºcw. Invert your image (Apple+ I). Filter menu, Choose stylize, choose wind.
Step 6:In wind dialog box, choose wind for method and from the right for the 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 90ºccw. Filter menu, Distort, choose Polar coordinates.
Step 8:In Polar Coordinates choose Rectangular to Polor. Change the layer Blend Mode from Normal to Screen.
Step 9:Create a new layer. Chose a gradient. Drag this gradient through the layer. Change the blend mode to color. Optional Invert your layer.
Step 10:Click on your text layer copy. Filter menu, under Blur, choose radial Blur. In dialog box choose zoom. Increase the amount to 66. Click your optional 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"

I feel that this Proverb means that a person should not laugh at another person's mistake. In fact, it's pretty rude to ridicule another person. In addition, you don't know how your making that person feel. In addition you don't know what they go through at home and your treating them like they are less than you. They might need a friend to count on and your treating them wrong. To sum it all up.... just treat people the way you would want them to treat you.

Perspective Type Tutorial

Step 1:Choose your font, color and size
Type your word(s)
Step 2:Go under the layer menu, under Type and choose convert to shape.
Hold down the Apple key on the keyboard and tap the letter 'T' to transform the text.
Step 3:Hold down the control key and click the mouse:Choose perspective. Grab one of the corner boxes and drag to create the perspective effect.
Step 4:Under the layer menu, under rasterize choose shape.
Duplicate your text layer. Change your foreground color. Tap the question mar on your keyboard. Click option=delete to change the color.
Step 5: Choose the middle layer and move it down to create a drop shadow effect using the down arrow.

Gel Type Tutorial

Step 1:Choose your font, size and color.
Step 2:Type your word.
Step 3:In your layers palette, Apple+Click your type layer to put the marching ant's around the text. Create a new layer.
Step 4:Go under the select menu, under Modify, and choose Contract. When the Contract dialog appears, enter 2 pixels, and click OK, then press Option+ Delete to fill your contract selection.
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. Click OK.
Step 6:Choose Bevel and Emboss From the layers styles pop up menu at the bottom of the layers palette.
---->style=Emboss
---->Depth=300
---->size=12
---->Highlight Opacity=100%
---->Shadow Mode Opacity=40%
---->Shadow mode=Color Dodge
---->Black Color Swateh=white
Click OK
Step 7: In the layers palette click on the eye icon beside the background layer to hide it. Then choose Merge visible From the palettes drop down menu. Choose Drop Shadow from the styles menu and click OK. Click on background layer to reveal it.

African Proverb #2

"Cross the river with a crowd and the crocodile won't eat us". What does the Proverb mean to you? How can you use it in your everyday life? Give an example.

I feel that the Proverb "Cross the river with a crowd and the crocodile won't eat us" means that when you work together using teamwork you'll get the job done. For instance, when you work alone (independently) you won't get everything done. You won't get it done in time. In fact when you work together in a group, you'll everything done in no time. I can use this Proverb in everyday life by learning how to work with others. Clearly, I'll learn how to no only depend on just myself but others too. The problem is that I'm so use to working alone that when someone offers to help me I refuse it. Although I know that if they help everything will be okay. Maybe I'll learn that if someone offers to help me and I need help I would accept it.

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.

I feel that the African Proverb "Knowledge is better than riches" means that your education is way more important than money. For example, you can have all the money in the world but not know anything. Just because you have more money than someone that doesn't mean your better than them. In fact the person with the money won't be the one getting the good job. The boss won't want to hire the dumb one. Maybe the rich person thinks just because they have more money than the person with knowledge they will get the job. As a result they will be the one without the job because even though they can go everywhere and buy everything they still don't have any knowledge. Furthermore, money doesn't mean anything if you don't have a brain to go with it. Clearly knowledge is MORE important than money.