Exercise PS

Before you begin, go File...Save As this Wordpad document to your Exercise Folder on your harddrive. Save as Firstname.LastName.ExPS.htm. Also save a copy of each image below into your Exercise Folder.
Now, begin your work on your harddrive copies.

#1. Take the image to the left, bevel and emboss it to make it into a button. Do a Save for the Web and name it button.gif so it replaces the existing image.

#2. What is the hexadecimal number for the websafe color blue?

#3. Use the magic eraser to erase the yellow background of this image as well as the yellow letters. Fill the letters with a horizontally striped rainbow effect(use the gradient tool and fool around with the options palette to achieve this). Leave the background transparent. Save for the Web(hi.gif) with the minimum numbers of colors to make the rainbow appear. How many colors was it?

#4. Create a 200 pixel wide image that is 60 pixels high. Fill the image with a white background. Type your first name into the image using a blocky(wide)font. Make your name appear in a Style of your choosing from the Styles palette. Add a drop shadow to the name only. Save it so it appears to the right of this line in your exercise folder.

#5. Visit Adobe's Studio Exchange. This is a website that Adobe users share plugins they have created. You may need to sign up. They will not spam you. In the left column, click Advanced Find. Change the Product pulldown to Photoshop, change the Version pulldown to 7.x and higher, change the type to Actions and change the Category to Text Effects. The rest of the form can be left blank. Click Search. Browse until you find a Photoshop 7 action that you like that, in a design sense, represents a reaching out or spreading theme. You have been hired by a company that "broadcasts thoughts" on the internet. List the name of the action you would choose and code a link to its page under this question in bold.

#6. Unfortunately the school district security does not allow you to download actions. I have downloaded and stored some actions in the PSactions folder on the I drive. Create a text graphic that says your First Name and Last Name using one of the actions in the PSActions folder in the JSCL folder on the I drive. If you cannot remember how to use an action visit the Using Actions page. Code this image into this page under this question.

Create a new folder in my Exercise PS folder on the server. Title the folder with your firstname.lastname. Save this html document into your folder. Do a File....Save As....Firstname.Lastname.exps.htm an extra copy into your newly created folder on the server. Also, save your images into that folder on the server. Open up your exercise on the server in a browser to make sure it appears the way your want it.