Main Steps on How to Make Custome Brushes in Photoshop

How to Make Custom Brushes in Photoshop

1. Get an image of anything that you’d like, make sure it will be easy to cut the subject away from the background.

2. Save it to your desktop.

3. Open up Photoshop.

4. Open the image in Photoshop.

5. Choose the wand from and select your subject.

6. Cut subject from background.

7. Desaturate layer.

8. Fix picture using brightness and contrast.

9. Go to channels and ctrl click the white square for RGB.

10. Shift+Ctrl+I to select inverse.

11. Save selection

12. Make a new layer and fill with black

13. Go to edit>Define Brush Preset>ok.

14. Next choose the brush from the list and try it out on a new layer.

15. Then save the Brushes.

Audience Analysis

Describe your intended audience---who are these readers?

My intended audiences are new teachers who want to know how to do text effects and anyone who want to know what a wiki is and how to use it.

Describe your intended audience in terms of the organization they work for and their position or title.

The teachers are working for a school district. The other audience are people who work at different jobs and for different companies.

Describe your intended audience in terms of their occupation, profession, or field.
My intended audience occupations are that they are either working as a middle school or high school teacher and common people who work anywhere, they can be doctors, sales people, or stay at home moms.

Describe your intended audience in terms of their needs for or interest in the information you plan to include in this writing project.

My audience’s needs and interest for the information I plan to give them is that they want to know how to use text effects for their power points or word documents. The other audience wants to know how to use a wiki so that they can share stuff with other people and other people can edit it.

Describe how your intended audience will use the information you include in this writing project.

My teacher will use the text effects for their students because they will use them for power points or documents to get the students attention and also they will need it to teach their students. And my other audience will use the wikis for planning things whether it’s going camping, planning a fundraiser, making a book club list, or they could use it to put information and they’ll let other people get in there and correct it.

Describe the technical background of your intended audience--what do they know and not know about your topic? what are their technical limitations in relation to this writing project?

The technical background of my intended audience is that they know a little bit about text effects and wiki but they have never used it because they don’t know how.

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White Paper Format

The white paper example that I will choose to use for my white paper is Technology White Paper–essay like. I have chosen this one because I find it quite simple and exactly what I would need to use for my white paper on Myschoolog. This example will allow me to convey my message thoroughly and correctly. I will use some images from myschoolog that will help me get my message across clearly.

Images I choose for white paper

I chose this image because I wanted to show the students how easy it is to keep your notes online. You are able to save them and chose what course they are for as well. I will use this image in my document by showing the students how organized Myschoolog is with your notes.







I chose this image because as you can see you can add your classes and drop them into the days that you have to attend those classes. As you drop it in it asks your from what time to what time is the class and what room. I will use this image in my white paper by showing the students how organized they can become and how easy it is to organize between your free time and class time.

Questionaire

1. Are you constantly losing your notes? If so, how often do you lose your notes?

2. Do you sometimes have trouble recalling due dates, test dates, and assignments?

3. Would it be easier if the student could access their notes, to do’s, files or schedule through your cell phone?

4. Would you like to have you to do list and schedule linked to an alarm system that will send a sms message to your email or phone?

5. Would you like to organize your school life online?

6. Do you have trouble keeping your schedule organized?

7. Would you say that most students have trouble keeping their notes in one place?

8. Do you have trouble with staying organized?

9. If there was a tool that was accessible to you that could help you organize your school work and schedule would you use it?

10. Do you think that other students have the same problem of being unorganized?

Purpose, Audience, and Genre

What style is appropriate for addressing Professor Santoy as opposed to a style for students?

The style that is appropriate for addressing Professor Santoy is to be formal with her. The way you address is the same way you would address your boss versus when you address a student you are more casual with them.

What are the style or form differences of a blog versus a micro-blog like Twitter?

The differences of a blog and a micro-blog like twitter are that a blog is a lot more formal and longer and a micro-blog is casual, fun and very short. Micro-blog only allows for a couple of sentences usually used to answer what you are doing at the moment.

What do you think of a genre such as memos? Are they easy or hard to write?

I think that genres such as memos are straight and to the point. I have never written one before so I would say that it would be hard to write. Maybe as I learn and write more memos it would be a lot easier.

Project #2: Introduce Proposal/Research/White Paper

1. My intended audience for this proposal is Ms. Santoy and the students at TSTC. Ms. Santoy is my target audience because I need approval for my white paper proposal. And the students are my second target audience because they will benefit from the tech tool I have chosen. Ms. Santoy works as a Professor at TSTC Harlingen in the English Department. The other intended audience are students that attend school and swamped with a work load and wish to have everything organized and available online so that they can access it from home, school or their mobile phone. My intended audience will use the information I include in this writing project by using it to organize their school life. The technical background for intended audience is they are probably well-rounded on how to use the internet.

2. The goal and purpose of the white paper is to describe how the tech tool will be beneficial and help the students. My audience for the white paper is Ms. Santoy and the students at TSTC. What I have to do before I write the white paper is to find out as much information about the tech tool as I can and to experience the tech tool for myself to see if it’s easy to use and actually beneficial. Then I would have to get permission from Ms. Santoy to see if I can go ahead with my proposal. The goal of the proposal is to gain permission to write about a certain tech tool. The audience for the proposal is Ms. Santoy because I will need permission from her to write a white paper about my tech tool. Before I can write the proposal I will have to research a lot about my tech tool so that I can know as much about it as I can.