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Some Great Illustrator Tutorials

Jan 31, 2007Comments

NDesign Studio has a great post that covers some great Illustrator Tutorials.
These step-by-step Illustrator tutorials include the original source file for download. The tutorials go through a great range of skills and is perfect for users who are new or are just looking to brush up on their Illustrator skills.
Here’s a list of just [...]

Automatic Tag Clouds for Your Site

Jan 30, 20071 comment so far

On modern websites (to avoid the use of that ‘2.something’ word) tag clouds are often a feature that is found. Now to follow in the modern spirit tag clouds should be used to let the users contribute content.
Of course, this can be a good thing or bad thing. How do you prevent users [...]

Understanding the relationship between RGB and Hexadecimal

Jan 29, 2007Comments

Here is a great tutorial on understanding the relationship between RGB and Hexadecimal.
A lot of times when coding in CSS we use color codes to set things like font color, backgrounds, borders and more. If you jump in to someone elses style sheet that uses RGB codes and you are used to Hex color [...]

Photoshop Tip - Increase Canvas Size with Crop Tool

Jan 26, 2007Comments

If you’ve used Photoshop before, chances are you’ve used the crop tool. Most times it is used to get a better image composition or to get rid of certain portions of an image.
But did you know that you can also use the crop tool to increase the canvas size of an image?
Next time you [...]

Tutorials Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, PHP and More | Smashing Magazine

Jan 26, 2007Comments

As you know, when I come across a good tutorial I try to let you in on it.
Well, Smashing Magazine has an amazing list for you. This is not a single tutorial but over a list of over a whopping 200 different tutorials that cover: Ajax, CSS, Flash, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, RSS, XML and more.
While [...]

Learn How to Make Grass in Photoshop

Jan 24, 2007Comments

Now don’t get thrown off by the title! I’m not talking about anything illegal here… I actually mean grass. You know the stuff you walk on?
I remember creating a similar effect on a website I did for a landscaping company a while back. I did use different foreground and background colors though. [...]