Archive for June, 2008

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Create a magnify glass effect in Illustrator

In this tutorial, we’ll create a unique Magnifying Glass shown enlarging a selection of text. We’ll work primarily with the pathfinder and basic shape tools to cut out our shapes for this illustration, though the pen tool will also be used. We color the elements along the way using various gradients.

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Making a cool navigation menu

This tutorial will explain how to design a cool, rounded navigation menu in Adobe Photoshop.

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Adobe Dreamweaver keyboard shortcuts

This article features a list of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 keyboard shortcuts.

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Create a Paypal contact form

Although it can have some issues, PayPal does provide a very simple way to take payments on a website. And with a little tweaking you can easily turn a PayPal “Buy Now” button into a form where the user specifies how much they’d like to pay and what they are paying for.

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Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area

One of the biggest challenge to web designers is finding ways to place a lot of information on a page without losing usability. Tabbed content is a great way to handle this issue and has been widely used on blogs recently. Today we’re going to build a simple little tabbed information box in HTML, then [...]

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Illustrator Shortcuts

This article provides a list of keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Illustrator CS3 and CS2.

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Photoshop Shortcuts

This is a list of Adobe Photoshop keyboard shortcuts. The versions included are : Photoshop CS3, CS2, CS and 7.

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Adobe programs keyboard shortcuts

It’s a proven fact that by using keyboard shortcuts your productivity with that software increases. This tutorial contains all the keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS2, CS, 7, Adobe Illustrator CS3, CS2 and Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, both Windows and Mac versions.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts

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Making a flowing liquid effect

In this tutorial we will create a flowing liquid effect in Photoshop. We’ll use for this an image of a overturned glass and make it look like the contents of the glass is spilled on the surface the glass sits on.
Step 1
Make a photo of an overturned glass on a surface, just like in the [...]

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Making a Web 2.0 Logo in Photoshop

This Photoshop tutorial will explain how to make a web 2.0 glossy logo or icon if you like. I tried to keep it as simple as possible. If you have any questions post them in the comments below.
I am starting with a 400×300 px white canvas. Draw your basic shape. I have started with a [...]