Downloading Free Fonts.

Downloading Free Fonts is easy peasy. You can go to google.com and type in "Free Fonts" and tons of websites with free fonts will pop up. These sites have categories that you can pick from and view all kinds of different fonts. Once you have found one that you like you click on it and can view what every letter/number will look like.

For example, I clicked on the groovy category and found Billo font. Then I clicked on Billo font and it showed me this:

If I like the font I can then select to download it onto my computer.

-When the download box pops up you should select "open" and then allow the program to make changes to your computer.

- a window appears select "extract all files"

-go to start and control panels, and click on appearance and personalization.

-click on fonts. A fonts page will appear, and you should drag your new font over to the page.

-and you should have a new free font!!

On campus you cannot download fonts, but on my home computer I was able to download multiple fonts and they would be in my font tool bar when I opened Word or another program. Downloading Free Fonts is really cool and easy to use, and I suggest everyone take advantage of them!

Some sites that are great for downloading free fonts are:

http://www.dafont.com/

http://www.1001freefonts.com/

http://www.urbanfonts.com/

Also, if you still don't get it here's a youtube video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjD7kBshX7M&feature=related

Adobe Illustrator

This is a magazine ad I made for a Wildlife Charity Event. I made it through Adobe Illustrator by using the paint brush to make the hearts and adding the animal print pattern to them. I also created a gradient for the background with the nature color swatches. So far I am enjoying Illustrator more than Photoshop.

Adobe Illustrator.

We have began to use Adobe Illustrator this week. So far I love it! We brought in different shapes and filled them in with all different colors. Then I brought in these twitter birds and placed them with the shapes to make a cute layout. I then grouped them all together so they will move as a group!

I think I'm going to have a lot of fun using Adobe Iluustrator, and I can't wait to learn more!

pen tool and patterns.

This is the dress I made by using the pen tool in Adobe Photoshop. I connected all the anchors while drawing the dress and then I filled it with a pattern of daffodils. I think this is a really cool tool to be able to use and I can't wait to use it more!

Text Effect.

I made this text effect using: flamingtext.com

It's free and really easy to use, I recommend it to everyone!

Here's a cool tutorial on text effects also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vux1Oe8oWo

Selecting.

So this week in class, we made post cards to places we would like to go. I made one for Paris, France. I selected objects out of the pictures that represented fun, food, a landmark, and clothing. The fun is moped riding, the food is macaroons, the clothing is a Chanel purse, and of course the landmark is the Eiffel Tower!

I used the quick selection tool for most of the images, but I did have to use the lasso tool on the moped, it helped me get the smaller parts of the moped like the mirrors. I think it's really cool to be able to select things from photographs and make your own creation (like a postcard) with them. I will definitely use this if I ever want to make some cool and unique invitations! 

how to change colors in photos.

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This week in class, I learned a lot to do with photoshop. But my favorite thing had to be how to change the color of something in your photograph. As you see above, Ariel's hair is originally red. I thought it would be cool to make her hair purple/pink. And so that's what I did!

I used the Quick Selection tool to select her hair then I went to Image->Adjustments->Replace Color

When you get to replace color, you select what color you want to change, in the selcted area. Then you go and choose the color you want to change it to! And there you go, that is how you can change the color of something in your photograph!