Melissa Sand
  • Classes
    • Photoshop help >
      • Project Videos
      • Polygonal Lasso Tool
      • Beginning a Photoshop CS2 document and the Navigation Box
      • Using www.dafont.com
      • Rectangular Marquee Tool/Selection Tool and Move tool
      • Creating a background_Paintbucket, Shape tool, Gradient
      • Shape tool, Color Swatch, Zoom tool
      • Copy and Paste Images
      • Eraser and ZoomTool
      • Text Tool_size, style, color, warp
      • Text tool, Character Window, Move tool
    • High School Classes >
      • Digital Imaging 1 >
        • Project Information
        • PowerPoint Help
        • Digital Imaging_Artworks
      • Advanced Digital Imaging >
        • Advanced Digital Imaging Gallery
        • Digital Design Syllabus
        • Digital Design Project Information
      • Sculpture and Ceramics >
        • Sculpture and Ceramics Project Information
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Photoshop Tutorials

Tutorial #1 Opening a new document, Navigation box

Tutorial #2 Text/type tool, character window, move tool

Tutorial #3 Shape tool, resize shape, add color to shape, add swatch to shape, 
                  and zoom tool

Tutorial #4 Copy and Paste images from the internet, rearrange layers

Tutorial #5 How to Create 3D effects using the Layer Styles Palette

Tutorial #6 How to Use the Rectangluar Marquee Tool (Selection Tool)

Tutorial #7 Magic Wand Tool (and Tolerance)

Tutorial #8 Lasso Tools (especially the Magnetic Lasso Tool)

Graphic Design Careers
-25 tips -Preparing for a career in graphic design


Online Printing Resources
www.vistaprint.com -I suggest this company for printing on paper products. 
                      Vistaprint is not too expensive and will ship products quickly.


Online Resources for design

Non-Representational Art (like a painting)
1. http://bomomo.com/
2. http://jacksonpollock.org/
3. http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/
4. http://windowseat.ca/viscosity/create.php

Street Art Simulation:
5. http://kids.tate.org.uk/games/street-art/

Online Tesselation Software:
6. http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/Tessellate/?version=1.6.0_14&browser=MSIE&vendor=Sun_Microsystems_Inc.http://graffiticreator.net/

Online Text Editor:
7. http://www.wordle.net/
8. www.dafont.com

Online Sketch of a face:
9. http://flashface.ctapt.de/

Online Lite-Brite
10. http://www.happydaric.com/lite-brite/index.html


Software that is like Photoshop
11. http://www.tuxpi.com/
12. http://splashup.com/
13. http://www.sumopaint.com/home/#/home/
14. www.gimp.org

'Every child is an artist. The problem is remaining an artist once he grows up.' ~Pablo Picasso