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5 Photo Gallery Plugins for WordPress

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If so, then these photo gallery plugins for WordPress must be worth volumes. Each plugin creates the photo gallery a bit differently — jquery slideshows, flash slideshows, automatically from  your flickr set — which you choose is purely a matter of preference. Image galleries are one of those features that can help your website or blog rise above the rest. Quality photos can draw in your visitors and keep them on your site longer. Sure, you can... 

Software Review: Vertus Fluid Mask 3

I was a little hesitant when I signed up for this review. A masking program? I’ve seen quite a few masking programs that were hard to work with, with steep learning curves, bad tools, poor quality and more. I went in to it with pretty low expectations, to be honest, so I was blown away when I encountered the level of quality in Fluid Mask. Most of the time I create cutouts using photoshop layer masks and spend a lot of time zoomed in up close. It’s seemed to work pretty well — I thought... 

10 Places to Download Free Icon Sets

Whether you want to spice up the look of your desktop, create a unified theme on your website, or use them for graphic design, matching icon sets come in handy. Although in recent times the use of icons has shifted towards web and interface design, icon sets are useful for many purposes. If you have the proper skills, you can use applications such as Illustrator to customize your vectors and design a spiffy icon set, but why re-create the wheel? Here are 10 top resources for free icon sets. Download... 

How to Add HTML Code in WordPress — Try Embedit

If you have a WordPress blog that you want to make more like a website, then at some point along the line, you’re going to want to add specialized code to it to give it some flare. This may be in the form of advertising, affiliate links, videos and something else. Whatever you want to add, chances are it’s going to require a little snippet of HTML. In this post we’re going to look at how to easily add HTML code to your pages and posts. Sometimes you may just be able to copy... 

Remove Moiré Patterns in Photoshop

A TutorialBlog.org reader writes us today with a question about how to remove a moiré pattern using photoshop. Are there any plugins for photoshop to reduce/eliminate moire patterns? — William For those of you that don’t know, a moiré is an unsightly pattern that emerges when “two grids are overlaid at an angle, or when they have slightly different mesh sizes.” (Thanks, wikipedia.)  Read More →

Photoshop Tutorial: Plain Pic to Glamour Girl, Retouching Techniques. (part 1 of 3)

Greetings, pixel pushers! Today I’m going to teach you how to subtly transform a good picture into an excellent picture in just a few easy steps. By the end, you will be able to turn your pictures into beautiful portraits for business, friends, family members, even touch up your own myspace pics… This will come in handy when using your own photography on a website, or using your friends for product demonstration photos. This process is very similar to what magazines do to make sure skin... 

Easy Keys to Great Graphics in PowerPoint

PowerPoint is all about making information interesting — and visuals have to do a lot of the heavy lifting.  So incorporating graphics is one of the most important aspects of presentation development. Creating a great graphic is the result of two obvious steps, plus one that people often forget . . . 1.  Make it or find it 2.  Insert it AND 3.  Polish it! Step 1 is outside the scope of this tutorial.  But choosing the right images is crucial to success, so here are a few reminders:  Read More →

Get Motion-Vated! Animate PowerPoint Charts

So, you’ve worked hard to create an interesting, informative PowerPoint show. It looks good! Your presentation is well-organized, visually effective, and nicely paced. But on presentation day, some people in the audience are still looking at their watches, staring out the window, or sneaking in some email responses. What’s missing? Maybe it’s motion. Humans are actually programmed to pay attention when something moves, in case it might be something fierce. So take advantage of that fact... 

Three Ways to Spark PowerPoint Creativity

It’s really easy to get in a rut with PowerPoint, especially if you have to make presentations often. And if you don’t work with PowerPoint very much, it may be equally challenging to find a creative approach, instead of just getting some slides made as best you can. Either way, it helps to be prepared! Don’t wait until deadline pressure is on top of you — keep some inspirations stashed away for the moment of need. And practice some techniques that can produce quick breakthroughs when... 

How to Install WordPress Themes

Let’s be honest, the free WordPress themes users get after installation are equal to or lesser then the ringtones that come on new cell phones. Very rarely do users like the classic WordPress themes they are given, and even in those rare cases that they do, they’re probably going to want to switch it out before too long. Below I’m going to walk through installing and uploading new themes to your WordPress blog or website. Fortunately, putting a new WordPress theme on your blog is... 

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