Response to Whitney

I totally forgot about this til today. Whitney had asked me how I added my signature at the bottom of my posts. It is actually easier than you think.

First I made a signature in Photoshop. It's really easy to do.

1. Make an image that is about 500 pixels across (width) and about 60 pixels long (height). Your resolution should be 96. You could use 72 but 96 always creates something nice for the internet.


2. Add an new layer, if you plan on adding an image as your signature. You don't want to be working on your background layer. If you are just using type photoshop will automatically add a new type layer, so skip this step.
   


3. Then pick a font that you want to use. I downloaded my font from
   
   http://kevinandamanda.com/fonts/fontsforpeas/
   


4. Create your signature. I made the font size about 4. If you think mine is to small maybe go up to a 5pt font or a 6pt but you don't want to get any bigger than that, it will just over power your post. If you notice on mine my LOVE is tilted. LOVE is a different layer than our names. I hope this is making sense.
   


5. Delete your background layer. You want your signature transparent. Once you delete the layer you should see a grey and white checker board behind your font. If you see that your signature is transparent. Again, I hope that made sense.
   


6. Once you are happy with your signature save it as a PSD, just so you can change it whenever you want.
   


7. Then save it as a PNG. It will ask if you want it interlaced. Select none.
   

Look you're done creating your signature.

Now you want to add the signature to your blog.

This is where I found my information.

www.kevinandamanda.com

I would follow her directions. They are very clear.

Marching Band & Other Things

I'm just getting worse and worse at this. I guess I just don't find my little life exciting enough to post about. I guess between school, work and Marching Band. I forget to update the blog.

Last night was family night for the Marching Band. Orem High hosted it. 4 Bands performed yesterday. Westlake was first, it's the new school in Saratoga Springs, who is in our class. They were good. If they are any indication of how other schools, in our division, are doing we're going to have some stiff competition. Then we performed. It was very nice. Yesterday was the first time, this season, that every band member was present. It really made a difference for the performance. Yeah we have a long way to go but so does everyone else. Payson was next. They are in the class right above us. They did well too. Rachel has only been with the guard for 3 weeks. I think if she keeps going the way she has they are going to be a rocking team. Then Orem went. Mom made is sound like the guard was just horrible. They were better than my team. I wish all of my students had as much confidence as they showed. I'm really jealous.

Friday we perform at the Homecoming game and then we have a competition on Saturday. I'll let you know what happens.

I really need to start taking pictures of things. I didn't bring the camera last night and so don't have anything to show. I'm going to have to remind myself every time we go somewhere. I have a few pictures from our trip to the zoo. But am so bad at uploading them to the computer that I just forget. Sad.

I'm taking a digital Photograhy class. We've already turned in 2 assignments (3 if your really counting, but the first was a self portrait and I'm not going to show that one....sorry)

Both had to be portraits. The first to use natural lighting. We couldn't crop it or photoshop it. It had to be an image straight from the camera. This is my favorite of the two.

The next assignment was to take a portrait in harsh light and use the flash fill setting on the camera. I tried to get more light on audrey's face but she wouldn't have it. This is the best I could get.


Our next assignment, due on Friday, is a landscape. But we can Photoshop it and crop it. Does any one have an idea where I can take a good picture? I could really use your help.

On the Trampoline

I have two videos here of audrey playing on the trampoline at the craftons, in vegas.

One is just audrey and the other is audrey and tyler throwing dirt on the trampoline. Sorry that I didn't stop them from doing it. I thought it was cute that they were playing together and not fighting...well you'll see you have to watch the two of them til the end. You'll laugh I promise. Again sorry for not stopping them. It was funny.

Audrey and her Arora Dress

We went to Costco the other day and saw that they had Halloween costumes out. We took the opportunity to take a look. Audrey decided that we were not going to be leaving with out this costume.