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Negative Ghost

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Tutorial I will show you how to create negative/ghost effect using gradient maps. First of all, open the photo you want to apply the effect to. I choose this one:. I found this photo at the awesome free stock photo site http:/ www.sxc.hu. This photo was taken by justsexy. Go to Image- Adjustments- Gradient Map. Click on the gradient to open the Gradient Editor. Apply these settings, or try to come up with some better ones. You can see the results on the photo as you are changing the gradient map.

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Gradient Wallpaper

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In this tutorial I will show you how to create one of them really smooth looking OS X wallpapers. Well, not exactly the same but you get the point. I've been using this technique a lot in my website layouts and signature images too and I've had many people emailing me asking how I do it. So here you go! Select a nice blue foreground color, I choose #003399. Now, that's way to plain right? So let's move on. The pen tool can be a bit tricky if you haven't used it before but try to draw something like this:.

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Unix Timestamps

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In this tutorial I will show you how to use the time() funtion. First of all, what it does:. The time() function simply returns the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch wich is: January 1 1970 00:00:00. You'll probably see this date again alot of times,. Because if you for some reason mess up your code,. Time() will just return this date. Time() returns a int like this:. Now, it's hard to tell what time and date it is just by looking at that number,. But we can use along with the date() function:.

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Cartoon Clouds

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In this tutorial I will show how to draw some really nice cartoonish clouds. Open a new "document", 480px x 320px:. Use the paint bucket tool to fill the background with a nice blue color. (I used #3f72c6). Select the Elliptical Marquee Tool:. And make sure you are using these settings:. And now for the "fun" part:. Select an area like this:. Choose the gradient tool:. And use these settings:. Press the D key to select the default colors.). That should give you something like this:. Want to get in touch?

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CSS File Protection

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In this tutorial I will try to teach you an experimental method for hiding CSS files I came up with a while ago. We're going to use .htaccess and PHP for this. This is what we are going to do:. In the index file, before we include the CSS file, we're setting a key (using sessions) and in the CSS file, we check if the key is set and if it's not, we make it stop executing the code so it wont output any CSS. And if the key is set, we output the CSS code and change the key to something else. We use session s...

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A fresh little menu

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A fresh little menu. I will now try to show you how to make a somewhat fresh and simple menu for your website. Lets start by making a 168x140 document with a transparent background. Use the "Rectangular Marquee Tool" (Hotkey: M) and select an area that is 168px wide and 28px high and fill it with white like this:. Right click on the layer you just drew the white rectangle in, go to "Blending Options." and apply these settings:. You should have something like this now:. Ok, that turned out well, right?

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Removing Timestamps

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Some people like them, some people don't. I'm talking about the timestamps on the photos you take with your digital camera. Sure, it isn't on all the cameras, and on most of them you can disable this. But what if you forgot? Or regret that you did use it? Well, that's no problem if you have Photoshop. And now, I'm going to show you how to remove them without destroying the photos. Open the photo you want to work with. I choose this one:. Make sure the tool is set to theese settings:. Want to get in touch?

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Soft Layout

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Ok, we're going to start with a 480 x 128 image with a white background. Now, add a new blank layer above the background layer and select about half of the image with the Rectangular Marquee Tool. (Make sure you are working with the new layer.). Set the main color to white (by pressing the D key on your keyboard) and fill the selected rectangle with white by pressing CTRL Backspace. (Or the command key backspace if you're working on a MAC. I think). Here's what we got so far, right? The progress so far:.