gel Button Tutorial

Step: 1 add a new layer.

Step: 2 set your foreground color to light.

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 page.

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 foreground to white.

Step: 10 press option delete.

Step: 11 press apple +d.

Step: 12 go under the filter menu, under 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 delete key

Step:18 press shift apple I

Step:19 create a new layer.

Step:20 set you foreground color to a dark 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.)

Step:24 press delete to knock a soft hole out of the blue pill shape.

Step:25 select 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 times until youre almost at the top of the pill.

Step:28 deselect by pressing apple d.

Step:29 apple = click on 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 contrast enter 20 pixels. click Ok.

step:32 press the letter d then 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 on he keyboard move your white gradient layer to where its almost at the top, but leave a gap of dark blue between your white gradient and the top 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 your 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 section of your pill shape to

colorize the shadow.

step:44 lower the opacity to 50%, set angle to 90º, distance to 45, size to 32, turn of the global light.. click Ok to complete effect.

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 option bar, click on the radial gradient icon.( it's the second icon from the left.)

Step 5: drag the white to background gradient from the left center of your selection to about 1/4 past the edge.

Step 6: press "d" start a new layer.

Step 7: in the gradient picker, choose the foreground to transparent gradient (it's the second on the left, top row).

Step 8: in the options bar, choose the linear gradient( it's the first one). drag the gradient from the top of your selection to the middle to fill the top with black.

Step 9: in the layer pallette 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 pixel. 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 photo shop 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 from the layer style pop up menu at the bottom of the layers palette, click Ok.

Step 22: press apple +U( hue+ Saturation). click the colorize button and move the hue slider to choose a color for your button.

sound FX

paragraph B: 

http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Creatures/

http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Mayhem/Rifles/

http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Mayhem/Automatics/

thought Transitions

to be used between thoughts, sentences and paragraphs. a skilled writer will utilize these contents many times. when you 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
• similarly

#To contrast or to concede a point or a countering 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 likely hood
• this entails
• for this reason

5. To emphasize a point

• Indeed its vital
• surprisingly
• indubitably
• certainly
• in realty

6. to simplify

• In other words
• hence
• in a nutshell
• to be concise
• in brief
• to sum up

7. use feelings and emotions

• tragically
• regrettable
• angrily
• with disgust
• Omniously
• unsuccessfully
• cruelly

8. Ending statement

• Finally
• in conclusion
• to sum up
• sooner or later
• eventually
• in the long run
• the result is

thought Transitions

create your own adventure story

Title: The Jerk And The Gentleman.

This story is about "The Jerk & the Gentleman". Some  may think that these are totally different people. Actually they are the same with different personality's. this person acts like a jerk and, a complete gentleman. The jerk name is James, he lives in a run down apartment with his wife and kids, he is employed at  a local  junkyard. Then the gentleman name is George he lives in a two garage five bedroom house, with a pool and three cars out back. George works at a law Firm as a top paid lawyer.

James Is friends with a drug dealer and they do drugs together. While George is across town working on a special case to lock up all drug dealers. George puts away Jame's friend and the rest of the drug dealers found out that it was James that put him in jail. James is confused on why they are after him because he doesn't realize that he has two different personalities and he has schizophrenia. TO BE CONTINUED................

 (B)

George goes to party!

George goes to party because he cleans the streets of one less drug dealer. So he not really worrying about the troubles that comes from putting away a drug dealer. So he's in the V.I.P lounge hanging with some groupies. Out of the blue  someone comes in with a weapon and points it at him. he gets startled and panics in the lounge but one of his body guards come in at the right time, and stops the person by throwing him to the ground.

George goes home after a long day partying in the club. He decides to call the pizza house cause he decides  that he's  going to celebrate by himself because he doesn't really want any company  at his house.  then the pizza comes he eats like two slices and go to sleep. a huge smile appears  on his face because he had got some girls number he's thinking to his self "should i call her" because he was kind of second guesting it because he had just met the girl.

choice (B)Bryant 

When James gets to the club to his surprise he finds the some Crips are there , but when he try's to get out the door they were there waiting. he  walks into the booth. When he gets in there it get real silent, so then he starts to think that he had been in the wrong place at the wrong time . with out thinking he turns around and goes up stairs and he says to his self  "I know this is a trap". He starts to hear footsteps coming up the stairs after him. He turns around and  goes down there with his AK47 fully automatic and he cuts the lights on in the booth once again and pointed his weapon. Just as he thought there was someone there. Then the hit man says "you traded on you're own crew". Then he starts to realize that he has two personalities and he drops to his knee's and gets scared, because he was the one who puts his friend away  25 to life. Suddenly without warning a shot is fired and blood is splattered and james is laying in a puddle of his own blood.

Paragraph (B)

On his way home George was feeling on top of the world, happy as every that he had put one of the drug dealers that was corrupting the streets. When George wasn't paying attention when he arrived at a stop light. he goes to look at a file that had helped him put a major drug dealer away named Petey Crack. Unexpectedly a car comes ramming into him and injuring him. As soon as he looks up his vision is blurred but he  seen a shadow of him and that was all he remembered. After george gets out the hospital his friends takes him out. While in the club he gets Shot his wife screams for help, and goes of some were in the club. The club had been cleared after the gun shots but came back in to see what happened. George goes out when they come back in, and what he didn't know that there was a car waiting at the end of the block with the lights of. he goes to his car and before he could open the door, the car comes speeding down the block roles down the window and starts to empty the whole clip on him, and he is laid out in the middle of the street trying to catch his last breath.

homework; google search question

write one question for each quick find topic:

1• weather: what is the weather in new york- 76 f,24.4 c

2• time: what time is it in Puerto Rico- 4:28 pm Wednesday(ast)

3• local info:pizza in San Diego ca,?www.pizzanova.com - (619)226-0268

4• patent:who is the creator of Pepsi cola-Creator,Caleb Braham

5• area code:310, santamonica ,California.

6• spellcheck:feul 

Quick Finds

Essential question: 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

• Key words

• Local information

• Search for numbers

• Define web terms

• research info

• essential info

• Trip planning

• web search results

• identify search engine parts

weather:

what it does: gives you current temp.

what to type: weather 11233.

what you'll get: tell you the weather for today and the next 4 days.

time:

what it does: tell you current time

what it does:tells you the current time.

what you'll get: time and day of the week.

Earthquakes:

what it does:give you info about the last three earthquakes.

what to type:earthquake;place

what you'll get:the magnitude,time,and the location of the last three earthquakes.

Spell check:

what it does:tells you if you spell the word wrong

what to type:the word

what you'll get: the correct spelling

Local information:

what it does:tells you local information

what to type:american airlines 18, place zip code

what you'll get:info about the search.

Patent:

what it does:gives you the product for that patent number.

what to type:patent 19199023

what you'll get:product the inventor and the year it was invented

Area code:

what it does:gives the city and state,or island.

what o type:area code.

what you'll get:the city the state or the island.

how will you use the tools   you've learned about google search for your other classes? 

google search

numerical ranges: ....

what it does: searches for a range of numbers.

what to type:cars 1940...1952

what you'll get: results about fashion design during this time period.

find meanings:define:

 what it does : defines a word or phrase. 

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 type: global warming site: edu

what you'll get: reference to global warming found. edu site

Math answers: 1+1

What it does: basic calculate or 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 measure.

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 to a particular website.

what to type: link: www. nick. com

what you'll get: websites that link to nickelodeons website.

Google Search

Better searches. better results

Here are some nifty modifiers to ype in your google search box to refine your searches and get best results.

Exact Phrase: " " searches for an bexact phrase.

what to type: " pne small step for man". 

What you'll get: Results that include the exact phrase " One small step for man".

Excluded words:

what it does: excluded search results with a particular word or phrase.

what to type: bass - Fishing

what you'll get: results about bass that are not related to fish.

Similar words: ~

What it does: searches 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 it searches for web pages that include either word.

What to type: vacation florida OR georgia.

 What you'll get: results with the word vaction and either florida OR georgia