Archive for the ‘Tricks’ Category

Learn how to use the vanishing point option

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Vanishing Point is a filter that is found in Adobe Photoshop, since CS2 version. It makes things simpler when it comes to perspective, it allows you to clone with perspective, I advice you to watch this interesting Adobe Photoshop video tutorial.

Improving a picture with Adobe Photoshop

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

This video tutorial will be a great tool for all the photographers and graphic designers out there, in this competitive market where you need models and people to look as best as you can. And many of us know the miracles that we can do at photoshop.

In this video tutorial you’ll be able to follow step by step make-overs. It’s explained why you’re using this great tool, so you can start using any picture you have at hand. The tutorial itself lasts 14 minutes approximately, but it’s worth it!

Source: Jake Garn

Digital painting with Adobe Photoshop

Monday, March 17th, 2008

I found myself with a very interesting tutorial that will help you transform one drawing into an amazing picture. It’s impressive all the things you can do with Photoshop, all the image realism and even more.Thinking in all the people that love digital painting, I share with you all today this great tutorial.

Turn your fonts into curves

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

If you have some time designing, you should turn all fonts into curves already. But if you’re one of the newbies around (specially when we talk about web designing) you could have noticed that fonts change when you try to print them.

This is because it’s not the same font as the one you’ve used in your design. The ideal thing would tell everybody to get your same font so we all could have it, but it’s not always like this. This is why when we open it, it converts itself into a default font from the system.

There’s a solution for everything, with Adobe Illustrator you’ll be able to convert fonts into curves.

And what does this mean?
It’s all about transforming fonts into paths. This way anywhere where your design is opened, it’ll always have the same fonts. Attention, once the fonts are curved, you won’t be able to edit the text anymore.

We have three ways of doing this:

  • With the shortcut shift +ctrl++ O
  • Right Click \ Create Outlines
  • Menu Type\ Type \ Create Outlines

Any of these three forms do the same function as long as you have the text selected.

How to define a “successful” web site?

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

It’s true that a design for a web page has pretty, it’s not the most important thing for the user. Even when this affects the user, given that this is the first impression he/she will remember of the site. If the design is confortable, the user will stay there, but even more when the site is user-friendly. Trust me, there are millions of web sites out there with highly complicated navigation ways, and people don’t like to break a sweat when surfing.

What do you think will make people come back to your site? It’s the content. The very same thing that make the Googlebots come back to your site, it’s just the same things your readers will do. A site with good content, and daily updated will make people come back. It’s important to know that people like to visit interesting and informative web sites, but never a web site that was last updated 5 years ago!

Integrated payment from Paypal with PHP

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Micah Carric developed a class PHP that allows the web master to have a major control over their payments, through Paypal. It has 2 Scripts in PHP. If you want to download it or know more about it, check out the developer’s site.

Video Tutorials about smart objects in Photoshop CS3

Thursday, February 21st, 2008