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Homeschool Diploma Photoshop Template

Dateline: June 3, 2003

By Ann Zeise

Homeschool Diploma in Photoshop

This is a Photoshop template for a homeschool diploma from high school. Click on the graphic or the link to download the full-sized Photoshop file to your computer.

In newer versions of Photoshop, it will ask about updating layers. This is fine, so click whatever means "okay." Click to see the Layers window so you can edit each segment to suit your your own wording and graphics.

It reads:

A to Z Home's Cool
This Certifies That
First Initial Last
Has completed a Course of Study meeting the Standards of our Homeschool
and is therefore Awarded this
High School Diploma
On the Third day of June in the year Two Thousand Three

I created it to nestle in the center of some bordered certificate paper that I bought at the office supply store.

You will need to have Photoshop installed on your computer, Mac or Windows, in order to make use of and edit this document.

You will need to have named your homeschool.

To edit to suit your purposes, download the DIPLOMA.TTF font here first, expand the .zip file, and install in your system's font directory. You need only one of the font files below, as they are both the same font, and the Photoshop template for a homeschool diploma.

Select A. and one B. Font file:

A. Photoshop template for a homeschool diploma

B. Compressed .zip file - 32K or Not Compressed - 52K

See below on how to install the font, if you need the help.

You may want to create a seal for your diploma or look for reasonable clipart on the internet.

State Seals in Color
Select your state from the list of states.

Parents need to sign the diploma, remember!

Shop for Certificate Paper, Diploma Frame

Put "certificate" in the search engines in an office supply site. Select "acid free" paper. Search for an 81/2 x 11" diploma frame, too.

Installing the Diploma Font on different Systems

How to install a font under Windows

  • Under Windows 7/Vista:
    Select the font files (.ttf, .otf or .fon) then Right-click > Install
  • Under all other versions of Windows:
  • If your font is packed inside a zip file just unzip the files you have downloaded using either the Windows Unzip tool or Winzip. (Recommended)

    Details: Download your zipped font file and save the zip somewhere on your hard disk such as your Desktop, go to the place where it is saved, double-click on the zip to open it, then either click on "Extraxt all files" or drag and drop the files from the zip window to your Desktop (hold down the CTRL key to select several files at once)

  • For the 20th century versions of Windows you must install an unzip tool first.
  • Note that with the internal unzip tool of Windows you must first drag and drop the font file to a location on your computer (for example on the desktop), then into the C:\Windows\Fonts folder. With Winzip, you can simply install a font using a simple drag and drop of the .ttf from the zip window to the C:\Windows\Fonts folder.
  • If you want to try it a different way, browse to your fonts folder. Then click on File > Install a New Font... in the Fonts folder menu then browse to locate your font in the window. Although this method is laborious, it would seem that it functions better in some cases.

How to install a font under Mac OS

Mac OS X recognizes TrueType and OpenType fonts (.ttf and .otf) but not the PC bitmap fonts (.fon).

Files are compressed, you may need an utility like Stuffit Expander.

  • Under Mac OS X 10.3 or above (including the FontBook) :
  • Double-click the font file > "Install font" button at the bottom of the preview.
  • Under any version of Mac OS X:
  • Put the files into /Library/Fonts (for all users),
    or into /Users/Your_username/Library/Fonts (for you only).
  • Under Mac OS 9 or earlier:
  • The old Mac fonts are not supported anymore at dafont. First, you have to convert the font files (.ttf or .otf) you have downloaded.
    Then drag the fonts suitcases into the System folder. The system will propose you to add them to the Fonts folder.

How to install a font under Linux

  • Copy the font files (.ttf or .otf) to fonts:// in the File manager,
  • or:
  • Go into the /home folder, in the menu select View > Show Hidden Files, you will see the hidden folder .fonts (if not, create it) then copy the font files there.

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