Lern 2 Type n Speek Rite

I have bin thinkin n i am forceddddd 2 cunclude tha we have a prob.


I don care how fast U cn type. The real Skillz lyez in bein able 2 type wile still manetanein sum rezemblnce 2 the enGlisH langwage. This iz Y i hav creeated the:



Skewl 4 Ppl Who Dont Type Good!

or
SPWTG



This 5 week course will, through repetition and careful use of large bat, help you radically improve your typing skills. One student reported that after our course, the people she was chatting with actually understood what she was saying!

Week 1: Basic typing skills.
* The use of all 10 fingers to type comprehensively and quickly

* Relearning the alphabet and locating all the letters on the keyboard


Week 2: Spelling.
* The use of S and Z – are they really interchangeable?

* Why using the letter “u” rather than “e” all the time makes you seem stupid


Week 3: Capital Letters
* Other ways to denote emphasis or urgency

* When to use them – proper nouns etc.

* The letter “I” when referring to your self


Week 4: Abbreviations and Short Forms
* When they’re acceptable

* Why making up your own doesn’t work


Week 5: Punctuation
* Proper use of the period

* Where and when the exclamation point belongs



And for only $9.95 you can also participate in our workshop: Internet Safety for Idiot’s

Topics covered include:


* Personal Information – why Doobies website for Gamez may want your credit card number, and why they shouldn’t get it.

* Social Networking Sites – how adding anyone and everyone to your “friends” list makes any security features you have on there pointless.

* Pop-Up’s – Why they want you credit card info in order to send you your free Plasma screen TV and why you always seem to be the 1,000,000th visitor.

Life in the Short Lane

It’s not easy being short. At 5 feet and a quarter, I am constantly shadowed (literally) by my almost 6-foot younger sisters and my father. I used to be one of the tallest kids in my class, and maybe if things had gone the way they were heading I would be. But my mother and I have learned to adjust. For example, the Blind Soup Grab in which the cans in the pantry are stacked above your head so you reach for one blindly and hope it’s not cream of broccoli. Or the scaling of the book shelves to reach the DVD’s and then there is the great Pilates worthy stretch for the mousse in the bathroom cupboard. It’s not only at home either. The other week, my search for cheap martini glasses to use as party favours brought me to the glass isle of Dollarama. Of course, being the dollar store and 9 o’clock on a Friday night, there was no one around to help me. Every nerve in me was tensed for the great crash I was sure would come as I stretched as high as I could to reach my prize, always careful not to use the shelf for support. My efforts thankfully were rewarded and I left unscathed, glasses in hand. Life in the short lane has its perks though. I can wear heels (my “chocolate”) without worrying about low-flying aircraft and there’s room at the end of my bed for my two Build-a-Bears which, at nineteen, I am probably too old for anyway. In the end I am happy the way I am. Maybe I’m missing a few inches vertically and maybe I have a surplus horizontally, but I’m OK with that. In the words of Dale Griffith “I like me”.

2 Awesome Alpha's

Well I'm starting to get all the kinks of the store ironed out. I have two fabulous Alpha sets up right now - Gel and Block Letters. You can get them in the store :). And of course it's all free.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone!

I hope you all had a great holiday and that you're still going strong with those resolutions LOL. As It is currently snowing crazily outside and I still have a half-hour until my first class of the day, I thought I'd make a post (though honestly I don't know what it'll be about). Maybe a tutorial? Now I just need a theme...hmmm...selective recolouring? Nope already did that. Oh! How about....

Grunge Look!

Now there are all kinds of products, actions and tips out there for how to do this, but I'm going to show you the easiest way, using nothing beyond what you already have.

What You'll Need
Photoshop
Photo (or other item you want to "grunge")

Tools Used
Brushes

OK, Hold on tight...

1. Open your photo. I'm going to be using this picture I found on the internet of a band I like.
2. Next you want to desaturate the image image>adjustments>desaturate or ctrl+shift+U.
3. Open your brushes and select the brush called Dry Brush on Towel. You may need to load a different brush set to find it. This can be done by opening you Brushes Menu and clicking on the small triangle button on the top left. This should open a new menu - select Wet Media Brushes.
4. I'm using plain white (ffffff), but you can use any neutral really depending on the look your going for. Using the colour you've selected "stamp" your brush along the edges and especially in the corners of your photo. The trick to to keep it from looking to uniform.
5. If you wanted to, you could also add some tiny tears using the Polygonal Lasso. Just make a vaguely triangular shape starting from the edge of your photo and delete the area you have selected.