Tutorial Link

http://www.slideshare.net/cknight23/how-to-create-a-custom-brush-in-adobe

Reflection–Rhetorical Choices Paper Prompts

• Who is your audience?
• My audience are students who are barely going to get a degree in Graphic design and who would like to know how to make brushes.
  
• What visuals did you choose to include Why? If you included a visual, why did you choose to include this particular visual?
• I included pictures of just about every step for my tutorial. I choose to include these pictures because I think it would make it easier to follow the instructions if you have visuals to go with them.
  
• What are the important or essential design elements of your set of instructions?
• I used PowerPoint to present my instructions, I used PowerPoint because i feel that with it I can make my instructions easier to follow.
  
• In which medium do you anticipate these instructions would be used?
• I anticipate these instructions would be used by students who are barely getting into the field of Graphic Design.
  
• How would you change the presentation of your instructions if you had to physically present them to a user?
• I would probably add some effects and animations for the students and teacher.
  

Introduction, Requirements, and Conclusion

Introduction

“Grrr…,” you exclaim, “There aren’t any brushes that I would like to use in Photoshop. I wish I knew how to make my own brushes.” You can make your own brushes; it’s not that hard it’s actually quite simple. In this tutorial, I will teach you how to make your own custom brush, so that you can use as a background or just a picture. You will need to know the basics of Adobe Photoshop, some shortcuts and the general layout of the tools on Photoshop.

Requirements

1. Adobe Photoshop CS2 or Higher
2. Computer
3. An image from the internet or your computer
4. Mouse

Conclusion

Now that you have your finished brush, you can use it as a background by changing the brush presets, as I should you before. Using the brush as background adds a little more to your advertisement, or picture. Making your own brush will give you an edge over someone who doesn’t know, because those people who don’t know will be stuck using the defaults that Adobe Photoshop has. While you will be able to use the ones that you have made and created.

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.