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Simple steps to create impressive illustration

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

In the recent project, I need to create some illustrated art works for my client, however my Illustrator skill is not well enough. As the result, I have tried with Photoshop, and the result is amazing, I just take more than 30 minutes to finalize the first one, and less than 15 minutes for next ones. Of course, you could do it well, just take a look at my tutorial.

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Lighting-speed car with powerful lighting effect

Friday, September 14th, 2007

In this tutorial, I will combine many simple effects to create an attractive and cool result, to make a lighting-speed car. As other tutorials on 9tutorials, I will just show you the ideas and concept, you should try other variables and settings you wants. Now, let’s start.

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Determining Whether an Email Account Exists

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

A common web application is having users sign up for some service. Often you want to confirm whether the given email truly exists. Realistically, there is only one accurate way of determining whether an email account exists and is active. You must actually send an email to the user and require that the user either respond to it or click a link in it to verify that the user received the email. (more…)

Basic Texture: Dirty effect

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Here is a very simple, generic tutorial I wrote up for a dirty metal texture. I tried to keep it pretty easy. I’m building off this basic texture and adding things like scratches, errosion, paint and maybe some crate support bars. So if you follow along with this tutorial, be sure to keep it so you can pick up where you left off :D

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Layer Style Techniques for Photohraphers

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

If you are a photographer, this tutorial is specially for you. This will explain concept and fundamental knowledge for using Layer Style in Photoshop in details one by one. Finally, I would show some practical techniques for photography works.

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Creating a Multilayer Drop-Down Menu

Monday, September 10th, 2007

When creating a website, navigation is always a problem. On a large complicated website, it can become a burden. Sometimes, having hierarchical drop-down menus can make this easier, allowing for a small amount of space on the screen to be used (the initial menu) to present a complicated menu system. (more…)

Beautiful compositing technique

Monday, September 10th, 2007

We’ll go through probably one of the most popular uses for layer masks, and that’s combining multiple images together seamlessly. The reason for this tutorial is not just to teach you compositing (because this really isn’t a compositing book, it’s a channels book), it’s to show you other ways to edit a layer mask, which are more like what you’re already getting used to with editing Alpha channels.

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Converting MS Access to MySQL

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

For small and large database projects, Microsoft Access works wonderfully. If you have a database with hundreds of thousands of records, maybe even connecting to other databases remotely. Security isn’t too much of a problem (no Access database is truly secure), and with a wide range of options for publishing and reporting on your data. (more…)

Beautiful lighting FX effect in Photoshop

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

This tutorial will show you how to make a beautiful lighting effect on scatters by using Photoshop. Keep in mind that I only provide the basic guidelines to creating this type of effect. There are tons of possibilities if you spend time to play with the settings and keep your creativity wide open.

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Better Red Eye Repair

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

I’m not a big fan of Photoshop CS2’s Red Eye removal brush, which is probably why I was so psyched to learn Dan Margulis’ trick for repairing red eye using channels. I guess the reason I don’t like the Red Eye tool is that it seems to replace the red eye with something only somewhat betterdark gray eye. (more…)