Written Tutorial Starts: 1. The Simple Hyperlink: It All Begins Here The most basic link is a link from one page of your website to another. This can be done in Dreawmeaver CS6 by highlighting the item you want to turn into a link (we’re going to use a word in our navigation bar)...
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Textures & Patterns in Web Design – Photoshop CS6
Written Tutorial Starts: 1. Find Amazing Textures. The web is loaded with amazing design resources and textures, you will be bombarded with loads of content if you run a google search, but here are a few of my favorite places to find amazing textures. Subtle Patterns: http://subtlepatterns.com/ Lost & Taken: http://lostandtaken.com/ Brusheezy Patterns:...
Create a New Site (Local Root) – Dreamweaver CS6 Tutorial
Written Tutorial Starts: 1. Site? Local Root? What? Dreamweaver provides you with a quick and easy way to organize your files within Dreamweaver and allow you to take advantage of Dreamweaver’s powerful website organizational tools, upload your website to a web server, auto maintain links when pages are moved around, as well as...
Curves, Curves, Curves! – Photoshop CS6 Tutorial
Written Tutorial Starts: 1. Opening Curves Before we learn about the Curves Dialog box, we’ll need to open it up. You can make a quick adjustment on your image with Curves by going Image>Adjustments>Curves. I prefer working with Adjustment Layers, it’s cleaner and you can control the Adjustment Layer just as if it was any...
How to Shoot and Photoshop Stunning Black & White Images
Capturing Beauty The very first step to creating an amazing black and white image in Photoshop is to capture a beautiful and interesting image. Capturing beautiful imagery is ten percent technical know how and ninety percent mindset. Are You Interesting Enough? Capturing beautiful and interesting photographs is summed up best by photographer Jay Maisel...
Create Apple iOS Chat Bubbles in Photoshop CS6
Step 1: Start by creating a new document sized 1280px by 720px. I’ve dropped in a background of light gray and a little noise to add some texture. Step 2: Grab the Rounded Rectangle Tool (U) and set it to draw a Shape using the control bar at the top of the work area....
Hand-Stitched Social Media Icons – Photoshop CS6
Step 1: I am starting with a document sized 1280 pixels by 720 pixels. I’ve dropped in a background and am ready to start creating these icons. Step 2: Grab your Ellipse Tool (U) and set it to draw a Shape. Check out the screenshot to see what the Tool Control bar looks like....
Adobe Camera RAW 7.0 Tutorial for Photographers
Adobe Camera RAW 7.0 Tutorial for Photographers – Photoshop CS6 Whether you’re a seasoned pro or fresh out of the gate with your first quality digital camera, shooting your photographs in RAW is an absolute must to achieve higher quality results with your photographs. In the following tutorial and Photoshop CS6 feature run-down, we’re going...
The Blur Gallery: Tilt-Shift Blur, Iris, & Field Blur – Photoshop CS6 Tutorial
The Blur Gallery: Tilt-Shift Blur, Iris, & Field Blur – Photoshop CS6 Tutorial Adobe introduced the Blur gallery with the launch of the Photoshop CS6 Beta. This Blur gallery contains three new blurring features that behave like filters but give you control before ever committing a change. With a great amount of control over selective...
Introduction to the New Crop Tool – Photoshop CS6 Beta
Introduction to the New Crop Tool – Photoshop CS6 Beta For any photographer or blogger who made use of Photoshop’s awesome Crop Tool you will be delightfully surprised with the sweeping changes that Adobe has made to this awesome little tool. I used the Crop Tool every single day, whether is was cutting screenshots, cropping...
Content-Aware Move Tool Tutorial – Photoshop CS6 Beta
Content-Aware Move Tool Tutorial – Photoshop CS6 Beta One of the more cutting-edge features delivered in Photoshop CS6 Beta is the brand new Content-Aware Move Tool. The concept of this tool is that you will be able to select objects in your image and move them around and Photoshop will do all the edge work...
Create Custom Shadows – Photoshop CS5 Tutorial
Create Custom Shadows – Photoshop CS5 Tutorial Creating a great drop shadow has become one of the fundamental skills for any graphic or web designer using Photoshop. In this tutorial we’re going to start at the most basic of basics and break out the good ole’ Drop Shadow which we all know and love so...