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April 7, 2007

SLR camera for website images

Importance of using your own photographs With Internet copywrite laws gaining strength, it's important now more than ever to start taking and using your own photographs in your website designs. Hence the reason for this category, Photography. Over the next few months I'll be posting entries discussing how to get the most out of your camera and demonstrating ways to make your website images and photographs more interesting for your visitor. Nothing captures an audiences attention more than a fantastically composed image. What's the best camera to use? Digital SLR camera's are fast becoming popular amongst both amateurs and professionals....

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Posted on April 7, 2007 1:40 AM | | Comments (0)

April 9, 2007

How to take night photos with SLR camera

Photographing night lights If your like most people, your first photo's of night lights turned out as a series of colored circles or worse, as an empty black image. A black screen is due to your shutter speed (check manual) being set too fast. This can happen if you have your SLR camera set on automatic. Shutter priority is more effective for night photography. Even though I had mine set on shutter priority, the colored circles were caused from it being set to only 1 second. In short, what this means is that I didnt' give my camera enough time...

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Posted on April 9, 2007 7:55 AM | | Comments (3)

April 10, 2007

Smart objects in Photoshop CS2

How to use smart objects in Photoshop CS2 Smart objects in Photoshop CS2 have a similar concept to Corels Paint Shop Tubes. For example, smart objects allow you to easily place images onto your canvas with a few clicks of your mouse. Your then able to resize them, keeping the quality of the image as you do so. If you place more than one instance of any smart object on your picture, any changes you do to that smart object will effect all of them. This can be very handy if your creating an image that contains multiple elements such...

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Posted on April 10, 2007 12:40 PM | | Comments (0)

April 16, 2007

How to make a flash cartoon head animation

Cartoon Head Animation - Adobe Flash Tutorial As you've most likely realised by now, the best way to learn how to use Adobe Flash is to follow a fun tutorial. Not only will you learn how to use Flash, you'll also have an animation at the end of the tutorial to impress your friends with. Here is a popular tutorial aimed at beginners that will show you how to make a cartoon head animation. The animation looks similar to a billiard ball with eyes that move to show emotion. It is demonstrated in 2 parts. The software used to make...

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Posted on April 16, 2007 6:54 AM | | Comments (1)

April 21, 2007

How to resize an image in Photoshop CS2

Resizing Photos and Images Here is a tutorial for complete beginners on how to resize an image using Photoshop. Resizing images is one of the most used tools amongst website developers. In the majority of cases, photographs taken with digital cameras are not website friendly, specifically where size is concerned. Therefore, it's important to know how to resize images properly and not simply display them smaller. Even if an image is displayed at 200 x 200 pixels, it may still be in its original large size. This is quite often the reason for slow loading websites. The graphic software used...

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Posted on April 21, 2007 6:25 AM | | Comments (0)

April 23, 2007

How to make Photoshop brushes

Photoshop CS2 Tutorial This tutorial will show you how to make your own Photoshop brushes. The graphic software used in this tutorial is Adobe Photoshop. While it specifically uses a graphic that is effective for creating edge effects, you can in fact use any graphic you like. The first step is to select part of the image you want to turn into a brush. Then crop the image ie. Image / Crop (along the top toolbar). Next choose the magic wand tool. Handy tip: If your using Photoshop CS2 you simply need to press your keyboards W key to select...

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Posted on April 23, 2007 11:33 AM | | Comments (1)

April 24, 2007

How to use Photoshop layers

The low down on Photoshop Layers for beginners Any experienced graphic artist will tell you that layers is one of the most important and most used tools within Photoshop. It is highly recommended that beginners to Photoshop learn how to use layers effectively from the very start of their designing career. The tutorials below have been chosen for their excellent quality of information in helping you get off to a quick start. The graphic software used in these tutorials is: Adobe Photoshop. 1. The first tutorial below will demonstrate how to use Photoshop layers. It is one of the most...

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Posted on April 24, 2007 11:57 AM | | Comments (0)

April 25, 2007

How to use Photoshop curves tool

Photoshop Curves tutorial for beginners Yesterday I made a blog post explaining how to use Photoshop layers. Today I'll be demonstrating how to use another incredible tool ie Photoshop curves tool. The curves tool is particularly useful for photographers. If your like most people, at one time or another you've opened up the curve tool, played around with it a little and quickly closed it down. At first glance it can seem very intimidating. However, by spending a few minutes looking over a couple of tutorials, you'll soon realise the power of this tool in transforming images into remarkable photographs....

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Posted on April 25, 2007 7:49 AM | | Comments (0)

April 26, 2007

How to make a database Microsoft Access

Microsoft Access Tutorial - How to create a database Building a database isn't as hard as it first seems. Listed below is a series of tutorials that will visually demonstrate how to build a database from scratch using Microsoft Access. They are highly recommended for beginners to help them off to a quick start. Step 1: Planning your database The first step to making a database is to firstly plan one. This important step is often overlooked by eager beginners wanting to jump right in the deep end. However, without a clear plan, your database might end up a jumbled...

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Posted on April 26, 2007 5:40 AM | | Comments (2)

How to use Flash Professional 8 tools

Flash Professional 8 / MX - Tutorial for beginners - How to use Flash 8 The video tutorial below is recommended for beginners wanting to learn how to use the following tools: Timeline - timelines control your flash animation. Layers - shows how to make a layer. Drawing and coloring shapes (circle, rectangle tools). Filling or outlining flash shapes with color. Also includes gradient fills. Rotating or scaling shapes and objects. Pen tool. Text tool. Lasso tool. Pencil tool. Brush, fill, eraser, zoom and hand tools. Frames - demonstrates how to create Adobe Flash frames and play them. Explains the...

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Posted on April 26, 2007 8:08 AM | | Comments (1)

April 27, 2007

How to make database form Microsoft Access

Database Forms - Microsoft Access Yesterday we showed you how to make an Access database. Todays tutorial demonstrates how to make a database form. The main advantage of database forms, are that they allow you to easily add or delete customers (or products etc depending on your database content) from a user friendly form interface. In other words, a database form interacts with the database so the user doesn't need to know how to edit the actual database tables. The picture below is an example of an Access database form: Note: Before you begin the tutorial below, you will need...

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Posted on April 27, 2007 12:21 AM | | Comments (2)

Make game animations in Flash, game sprites

Adobe Flash Game Animations - Sprites Shown below are a couple of tutorials for webmasters who include Flash games into their websites. The tutorials demonstrate how making flash animations for games, differs from making animations for website headers or movies. If your new to Adobe Flash, it's recommended you first look at 2 earlier tutorials. 1. How to use Flash tools 2. Stick man flash animation The two part tutorial below demonstrates how to animate game figures, or rather sprites as they are better known, into karate type moves. The animation uses a movie clip with 17 different sprites. Each...

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Posted on April 27, 2007 8:20 AM | | Comments (0)

April 28, 2007

Free avatar second life psd templates

Avatar Second Life, Photoshop .psd templates: head, body, clothing, shoes, tatoo, necklace and many others. When you first start Second Life, your avatar will come with enough hair styles, eye colors, makeup, skin tones and clothes etc to initially get you started. However, what if you want your avatar to be truly original? How do you go about creating your own graphic addons for your Second Life avatar? Second Life templates made with Photoshop .psd files are an extemely popular way to create your own avatar. PSD files will usually work in Photoshop, GIMP, and Paintshop Pro. Before downloading any...

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Posted on April 28, 2007 12:18 AM | | Comments (1)

Make a website with Adobe GoLive

GoLive Tutorial For Beginners This four part tutorial is for those new to GoLive, who need information to help them get a website up and running as quickly as possible. It demonstrates step by step how to start a new website from scratch. You don't need to have a webhost to follow this tutorial. Your website files will be saved to your computers hard drive and viewed from there until your ready to go live. Before starting to make your first website, it's a good idea to firstly plan your site. For example save any images you want to use...

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Posted on April 28, 2007 5:21 AM | | Comments (0)

April 30, 2007

Illustrator tools, how to use Adobe Illustrator

Tutorials explaining Adobe Illustrator tools and how to use them. Adobe Illustrator is one of the most popular leading software programs used for the creation of vector graphics. Illustrator is also used to create banners, brochures, business cards, cd labels, envelopes, letterheads and websites. Before following along with any of the tutorials listed in this blog over the next few weeks, you'll first want to learn how to use basic tools that are available in Adobe Illustrator. The best place to start is by opening Illustrator and clicking along the top toolbar on: Help / illustrator help / contents tab...

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Posted on April 30, 2007 12:16 AM | | Comments (0)

Difference between WSIWYG, text HTML editors

Difference between WSIWYG and text webpage editors - Dreamweaver, GoLive, NVU and JE Editor The video below is useful for beginners to webpage design as it demonstrates the difference between WSIWYG (what you see is what you get) and text editors for creating websites. You can find a link to each of the editors mentioned in the demonstration further down this post. It is recommended you download a few different editors, both WSIWYG and text, to see what one suits your particular needs. WSIWYG Editors: Dreamweaver - Download trial version. GoLive - Download trial version. NVU - Free Mozilla Editor,...

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Posted on April 30, 2007 3:11 AM | | Comments (0)

Create action script for Flash car game

Adobe Flash Tutorial - How to make an interactive car game. Anyone who plays online Flash games will tell you that car games are very popular. This tutorial will show you how to make an Adobe Flash movie where the viewer starts and stops a moving car. Furthermore, the viewer can also drag the car around the screen which is useful for panning to the left or right side of a road. Before starting the tutorial it is recommended that you already have an image of a car. Remember this lesson is teaching you how to use action script...

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Posted on April 30, 2007 7:09 AM | | Comments (0)

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