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WordPress Theme Generator

If you want to create a unique personalized WordPress theme, but don’t know how to use CSS or PHP: try this Theme Generator. Change colors, layout, header, font, several settings and preview instantly. Result is a saved to .zip file, download, extract and upload. Great new WordPress tool. read more | digg story

How To: Basic Comic Shine Effect with Photoshop

This post is dedicated to my brother, who loves to draw and now picking up digital coloring on his own. He asked me on how to make a metal appear shiny in the drawing. So I’ve come out with this basic guide. Hope this will be helpful for budding artists out there! Note that this [...]

How To: Dynamic Rounded Corners with CSS

At one point of time, I was so obsessed with rounded-corners. In my opinion, if used right, rounded corners will make an interface (especially segmented websites like blogs or portals) looks more manageable and attractive. When I was just learning up web-development and HTML, I will make use of tables made from 9-cells (3×3) to [...]

What's My Kuler? – Adobe Kuler Service

If you are familiar with [tag]design[/tag]ing with [tag]color[/tag], then chances are you will be fiddling with one (or a lot of) color [tag]wheel[/tag] tools. A lot of these [tag]tools[/tag] are made available for free, be it online or offline. Recently, [tag]Adobe[/tag] rolled out a new [tag]color-scheme[/tag] [tag]application[/tag] called ‘[tag]Kuler[/tag]‘. Flickr! Page As with most [tag]web[/tag]-based [...]

How To: Make Simple Night Sky with Photoshop

Alright, this is an annoyingly simple trick to make lots of little stars (for use with some night scene, perhaps). All you need is Photoshop 7.0 onwards. (Note: In this example, I will be using solid, plain background for the stars. Feel free to load with whatever thing you need to add the stars on. [...]

How To: Create LongHorn (Vista) ‘Aero’-styled effect

For some of us, Longhorn’s Aero ‘Transparent Glass’ style is wonderful, and for those who wanted to use this style for any of their designs, this simple guide is for you. Read on and find out. Note that this guide is made for Photoshop 7.0 and above. (‘Longhorn’ is a codename of Microsoft’s upcoming operating [...]

How To: Create 45 Degrees Lines in Photoshop

Ever saw those nice backgrounds that have those repeating diagonal lines on them on some super-cool website? I used to save them, blow them up, modify them and use them on some of my works – however this give you limitation if you want some different style. This guide will show the fundamentals of making [...]

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