Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category

Actions in Adobe Photoshop

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Action window in Adobe Photoshop CS3

An action is a way of automatically applying a technique to an image using a prerecorded series of commands. Actions are triggered either by pressing one or a combination of keys or selecting the action from the Actions palette (1). Many actions
are already supplied with Photoshop and can be found at the bottom of the Actions menu (2) by clicking on the side-arrow at the top right of the Actions palette.

An action can be as simple as opening a new canvas or as advanced as creating a drop shadow on an existing picture or, as
in our example, making snow.

Ready-made actions can be downloaded from the internet, saved to your hard drive and then installed in Photoshop. Use the Load Actions command (3) in the Actions menu to search for and install the downloaded ATN or Photoshop Actions fi le.
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Create Animation in Adobe Photoshop!

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Today we learn how to create animations in Photoshop! My example is with text because i don’t have photos for this kind of tutorial! Let’s start!

[1] Open Adobe Photoshop and create a new page with the size 350px x 150px!

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Create a Search Form in HTML!

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Contact Form

Today we learn how to create a search form in HTML! You have all files here and the 
final result here!

[1] Open Notepad and type the next code.

<html>
<head>
<title>PiticStyle - Create a Search Form</title>
<style type=”text/css”>
body {
background-image: url(”bg.gif”);
}
img   {
float: left;
}
</style>
</head>
<body><br>
<form action=”http://www.google.com/search” method=”get”><img src=”search.gif” mce_src=”search.gif”>
<input type=”text” name=”q”>
<input type=”submit” value=”Search”>
</form>
</body>
</html>

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Photo Effect - Play with Radial Blur in Adobe Photoshop

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Before

After

[1] Open the photo in Adobe Photoshop, click here (right click -> save target as) to download!

[2] Select Polygonal Lasso Tool and select the DJ place

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Opacity in CSS

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Example of Opacity

Today we learn about opacity in CSS! I made an example here and here you have the files.

Information about opacity in CSS:

The opacity property takes a value of the amount of transparency from 0.0 to 1.0. 0.0 is 100% transparent - anything below that element will show completely through. 1.0 is 100% opaque - nothing below the element will show through.

So to set an element to 50% transparent, you would write: opacity:0.5;

Neither IE 6 nor 7 support the CSS 3 opacity property. But you’re not out of luck. Instead, IE supports a Microsoft-only property “alpha filter”. Alpha filters in IE accept values from 0 (completely transparent) to 100 (completely opaque). So, to get your transparency in IE, you should multiply your opacity by 100 and add an alpha filter to your styles:

Alpha filter for IE:  filter: alpha(opacity=50);
Alpha filter for Mozilla:  -moz-opacity:0.5;

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13 Wordpress Plugins you must HAVE

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Ten minutes ago I do some updates to my plugins and I think is ok if I tell you what
plugins I use, to a good maintenance of your blog!

[1] Askimet - Askimet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments”. Is a good plugin but i think the spammers use PROXY and you never escape from this kind of people.

Askimet screenshot

[2] All in One SEO Pack - Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines: Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines, Generates META tags automatically, Avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs, You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want. This is the plugin which I love!

All In One SEO Pack screenshot

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Validate HMTL & CSS from your page.

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Hy! Today we learn how to validate HTML and CSS from your page. This tip is usefull if you have a website about webdesign where you have tools for development! Here is the final result
with a design what i made, you have all files in the archive HERE. Let’s Start.

[1] Open your text editor and type the next HTML code

<html>
<head>
<title>Validate CSS, HTML, XHTML from your page</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<form method=”get” action=”http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator” target=”_blank”>
<input name=”uri” id=”uri” size=”30″ value=”http://” /></p><br><br>
<label title=”Submit file for validation”><input type=”submit” value=”Validate CSS” /></label>
<label title=”Clear HTML data”><input type=”reset” value=”Clear” /></label>
</form>
</div>
<br>
<div>
<form method=”get” action=”http://validator.w3.org/check” target=”_blank”>
<input name=”uri” id=”uri” size=”30″ value=”http://” /></p><br><br>
<label title=”Submit”><input type=”submit” value=”Validate HTML” /></label>
<label title=”Clear”><input type=”reset” value=”Clear” /></label>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html> 

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Design an FREE Coupon in Adobe Photoshop

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

[1] Open Adobe Photoshop and create a new document with this size 200 px with 200px and with the background TRANSPARENT.

New Document in Adobe Photoshop with TRANSPARENT background

[2] Now you need to select the Custom Shape Tool.

Custom Shape Tool in Adobe Photoshop
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A Brief History of RSS

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

RSS large Icon

Where did RSS come from? How long has it been around? RSS has had quite a history, some of which is shrouded in folklore, so I can’t guarantee that my understanding of RSS history is 100 percent flawless. In fact, even what RSS stands for has changed over the years! There are three meanings for RSS and the version in which they were introduced:

  • Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91)
  • RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.90 and 1.0)
  • Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)

Today, the most common meaning is Really Simple Syndication.

So where did the idea of syndicationsubscribing to a site’s contentcome from? Long before RSS, there were various other formats (you couldn’t quite call them languages) that supported syndications. You might recall Microsoft’s Channel Definition Format (CDF), which worked with the Active Channel feature of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Using CDF, you could subscribe to various online publication sites. Internet Explorer would check those publishers regularly and download new data as it became available. CDF was introduced in 1997, and in the same year, a developer at Userland.com, Dave Winer, introduced his own XML-based format for syndication in his Scripting News Web log. Userland.com, which first appeared in 1997, specializes in Web publishing software, and figures heavily in the history of RSS.

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101 Commands to type in RUN

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

I found this file on a p2p program and i think is useful! To try this commands go to start > RUN > type CMD and it will be open a window.

Run window

CMD Window

Accessibility Controls
access.cpl

Add Hardware Wizard
hdwwiz.cpl

Add/Remove Programs
appwiz.cpl

Administrative Tools
control.exe admintools

Automatic Updates
wuaucpl.cpl

Bluetooth Transfer Wizard
fsquirt

Calculator
calc

Certificate Manager
certmgr.msc

Character Map
charmap

Check Disk Utility
chkdsk
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