How to Create a Cool Ad for Any Product
Today I’m going to teach you to create a cool ad for any product. It’s good way to show product for customers.
Difficulty: 3.5/5
- November 3rd, 2008
- Posted in Design, Effects, Photoshop
- 4 Comments »
One or multi paged portfolios
When an artist starts to make a personal portfolio, they always make at least 2 different kinds of portfolio templates ( well, I made 5 
). and then they have to consider many styles, single page, multi, flash and so on… I’m going to make your life just a little bit easier explaining the pros and cons of one-page versus multi-paged portfolios.
- November 2nd, 2008
- Posted in Design, Freelance, Web Design Styles, Website design
- 6 Comments »
Why I Converted to Adobe Bridge
Once upon a time I was a skeptic of Adobe Bridge. It took too long to open. It didn’t seem to necessarily enhance my workflow, so I just kind of ignored it. But, that has changed! Adobe Bridge has become an invaluable tool within my work environment.
- October 31st, 2008
- Posted in Design, Photography, Photoshop, Productivity
- 1 Comment »
The Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox
The Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox is often listed as one of the must-have tools for web developers. Having used the toolbar within my design environment, I whole-heartedly agree. It cuts back development time by hours. It makes what can be tedious tasks, almost fun. It lets me quickly glance at a website in a different size window. It helps me debug and validate Javascript and CSS code.
- October 29th, 2008
- Posted in Productivity, Software, Website design
- 8 Comments »
Using the Blending Sliders in Photoshop
One of my favorite techniques for removing (i.e. make transparent) dark or light areas of an image is to use the blending sliders available inside the Layer Style dialog box within Photoshop. These blending sliders are easily overlooked in pursuit of the more commonly-used Layer Styles available in this dialog box.
- October 29th, 2008
- Posted in Photoshop
- 3 Comments »
How To Create Your Own Ajax Contact Form
Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript and Xml) has become a very popular tool in web design. This tutorial will teach you how to make an ajax contact form using PHP and Jquery. See the code in action here. Read the rest of this entry »
- October 27th, 2008
- Posted in Ajax, Javascript
- 10 Comments »
Going from tables to <div>. (part 1 - Creating your layout)
OK, what we will be accomplishing here is taking your Photoshop layout and mapping it out with CSS - div’s, instead of Photoshop’s default HTML - tables. In order to be successful in this tutorial you have to already know html coding, and some CSS experience is helpful as well.
Lets start off with the basics. Instead of using html and using table cells to hold our background images to form the layout, we will be using <div>’s which can act the same way but are alot easier to edit and format. for each <div> we will be attaching an id to it, so they website knows how to format the cell. So the format of the html coding is now <div id=”idname here”></div>. Now we got to set the parameters for the cell that matches that id name, this goes inside of the <head> tag. Read the rest of this entry »
- October 24th, 2008
- Posted in General News
- 4 Comments »
Photoshop a Simple Stack of Photos
A quick tutorial on turning an image into a nice looking stack of pinned up photos.
- September 15th, 2008
- Posted in General News
- 1 Comment »
