While the name was inspired by an old fashioned "Make It & Take It" craft gathering, the concept of a "Website Make & Take" is the same.
The basics ingredients include: Some sort of gathering (i.e. a class), a common interest (that of creating your own website), and finally some hard workers (you!). So if we have those things and a decent Internet connection we can accomplish great things.
Best of all the Website Make & Take is a low cost concept. For the cost of a domain name we can setup and take advantage of a myriad of free services to create a highly functional, easy to maintain website.
Services like Blogger, Flickr, Diigo and more make it easy and affordable to setup and maintain your own site and look like a pro doing it.
I will have more to come as I intend to migrate the resources I am currently using to help others setup and maintain their own websites to this blog.
Check back again and I will see you soon! ~Nicole
10 Minute PhotoShop: Getting More Creative
The Make & Take header demonstrates how you can use PhotoShop's features to get more creative and forge custom designs from simpler elements.Observer the layers panel for the header file (below).
The layers on the top of the panel are the foreground, while the each item below it is farther in the background, placed behind the other elements.
This combined with some filters and effects helps us achieve our end result.
Our Make & Take text is positioned on top of the paintbrush graphic allowing it to stand out and be readable.
Our paintbrush graphic has been "Smudged", "Dissolved", "Duplicated" and given a semi-transparent opacity level.
Behind that we have rectangular shape which has been filled with color and has a number of effects that can be seen in the indented list below it.
The combination of the layers, filters and effects are what create the finished product, our header!
10 Minute PhotoShop: Adjusting, Resizing and Retouching
Another very commonly used menu in PhotoShop is the Image menu.In this menu you can find things that will help you resize an image or document, change your canvas size or make quick adjustments such as Crop and Reveal All.
You will also find adjustments for light and shadow levels, colors and brightness and contrast here.
PhotoShop offers a wide range of touch up features which take some time to learn and practice, many of which you will find right here in the Image menu.
10 Minute PhotoShop: Layers
The Layers Palette is located at the bottom of all of the docked palettes on the right hand side of the PhotoShop workspace.Layers allow you to organize content in your PhotoShop files from front to back. What this means is that you can get really creative by layering objects and experimenting with filters and effects.
You can also use layers to create simple objects such as buttons, text boxes and custom headers.
Notice the layers listed here for our sample file, the header for our website and blog (MakeandTake.me).
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