Friday 18 September 2015

FRIDAY POSTING

Describe the "Letters of your Name" assignment as if you needed to teach it to a new student.

To start off, you take an image off the internet. The image does not matter, as long as it's school appropriate. Whatever your image is, copy it (or save it, but that takes a lot more effort), and paste it into Photoshop (or open it if you saved it).
But, uh oh, how do you paste it? You can look all you want, the only paste button, in edit, is blurred out. That's because first, you have to go into file, and click "new" (if you saved the picture, you can just click "open"). Once you make a new picture, all the dimensions from the picture you copied will be copied as well (don't question it). And, because we actually have something to paste on to, the paste option will no longer be blurred.
With this all finished, you now just take all of the picture out of the... picture... except the letter itself (keep in mind, you want block letters). There are two ways to do this.
1st: Using the eraser tool. This will be the first option to come to your mind, and it's pretty self explanatory. Hold the mouse button down, and move it across where you want to erase.
2nd: Using the lasso tool. This might need a bit more explanation. You circle the area you want to delete with this tool (more for inside, but if you can find a way to circle the outside without deleting your letter, that works too), right click, and click "delete".
Once that's done, remove the background layer. The layers are on the right side. Right-click the layer that says "background", and then left-click on "delete".
Do this for each letter in your name before moving on.


http://www.tablesgenerator.com/html_tables


This is a tool you will need for step 2. You'll need to make one row for each word, and one column for each of the letters in the longest part of your name. For example, my name is "Dylan Punter".
This would be my table. Set this up in Table - Set Size (one column per letter, one row per word).
Take your table's HTML (the code at the bottom, and go into your blog post menu. Click "HTML", and paste it onto the page you see. Between every "<th>" and "<th/>", add your image. Same for "<td>" and "<td/>".

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