Tag Archive | "tutorial"

Creating A Dreamweaver Page

Friday, July 10, 2009

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Note: This tutorial will build on the prior tutorial (Defining a Dreamweaver Site). Adding web pages to your Dreamweaver site is easy!  There are numerous ways to do this, but I wil demonstrate how to right-click (command click) to add a new web page to your Dreamweaver root folder. Get the latest Flash Player to see this [...]

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Defining a New Dreamweaver Website

Friday, July 10, 2009

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One of the first things you should do when creating a Dreamweaver web site is to “Define” the site.  Defining the site creates the root folder of your web site.  The “root folder” is the folder that will contain ALL of the contents of your web site.  You can also tell Dreamweaver how to connect [...]

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Six Ways to Duplicate a Photoshop Layer

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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Six Ways to Duplicate a Photoshop Layer

In almost every Photoshop project I put together I find myself duplicating a layer or three.  This morning I was thinking about the ways to do this – Jeez…there are a lot of different methods for duplicating layers! Different ways to duplicate a layer: Select the layer that needs duplicating and hit Ctrl + J (Command + [...]

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Panorama Using Photoshop’s Photomerge

Friday, June 26, 2009

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Learn how to seamlessly blend a series of photos into a panorama using Photoshop CS3 or CS4’s Automate – Photomerge command.  

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Photoshop – Create Your Very Own Holiday Turducken

Saturday, December 13, 2008

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Photoshop – Create Your Very Own Holiday Turducken

Happy Holidays! I was browsing my neighborhood grocery store looking for a turkey to fry when I glanced down and discovered a Turducken! Now, I had always thought a turducken was something conjured up in fables and fairytales; but there it sat, like some sort of monster from a Mary Shelley novel, all packaged up and [...]

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Using Photoshop’s "Photomerge" to Create a Panorama

Friday, December 5, 2008

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Using Photoshop’s "Photomerge" to Create a Panorama

Panoramas traditionally are best shot using a camera, a tripod, and a wide angle lens.  However, Photoshop’s “photomerge” command allows you to easily create a panorama without the tripod or the wide angle lens.  The tutorial below describes how to use Photoshop’s photomerge command to merge a slew of images into a single panorama. Want to [...]

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Adobe Acrobat 9 – Place Multiple Fields

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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Adobe Acrobat 9 – Place Multiple Fields

I recently had to build a form that had a column of multiple check boxes.  Hand drawing each of the check boxes would have been a major pain in the derrière, so I decided to use the “Place Multiple Fields” dialogue box in Acrobat.  What a time saver!  In this tutorial I will create a Thanksgiving [...]

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Photoshop Tutorial – Post Card Text Effect

Thursday, October 30, 2008

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Photoshop Tutorial – Post Card Text Effect

I love this effect. It reminds me of a gift shop postcard and its simplicity will surprise you. Find an image Add some text Adjust the layer FILL slider (not the layer opacity slider) to 0 – opacity Add a bevel effect (or some other layer style). Wha-Lah!  Try it yourself! – Download Image

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Photoshop Tutorial – Layer Masking Technique

Friday, October 24, 2008

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Photoshop Tutorial – Layer Masking Technique

There is real power behind Photoshop’s ability to use layer masking in image compositing.  Combining different visual elements into a single image so that all the elements are part of the same scene can yield some surprisingly cool results.  However, pulling this off so that it look realistic can be difficult.  This tutorial will demonstrate how [...]

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Photoshop Patch Tool

Thursday, October 2, 2008

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Photoshop Patch Tool

Photoshop’s Patch Tool lets you repair a selected area with pixels from another region of a photograph. The Patch tool, amazingly, matches the lighting, texture, and shading of a sample area to the source area. Like a mad biotech scientist, your can also clone features of a photo. If you love your cat why not have [...]

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