IT and Software Tutorial

The Top 10 Photoshop Tips and Tricks

2008-04-03T05:55:00.001-07:00

This Photoshop tips and tricks ebook contain information about 10 Photoshop tips and tricks. How to using variables, add a file name as a text layer script, video reverse script, using droplets in Lightroom, selective coloring, posterizing images, sharpening images, tips using pen tools, animating layer masks, type shortcuts, adding transparent overlays.

For example; Photoshop variables, or Data-driven graphics make it possible to produce multiple versions of an image quickly and accurately. Let’s say, for example, that you need to produce 500 different Web banners or 200 different business cards based on the same template. In the past, you had to manually populate the template with data (images, text, and so on). With data-driven graphics, you can use a script referencing a database to generate the Web banners for you. In Photoshop CS3 you can automate this process with the Variables feature. Basically, you design a template in Photoshop, putting all of the elements that will change (the variable elements) on separate layers, and then select layers in the template and assign them as variables.

Creating Attractive Banners Using Photoshop Elements

2008-04-03T05:52:00.000-07:00

Although Photoshop Elements has a lot of tools (located in the tool box) that you can use, here are some that you will frequently use when creating and modifying images.To quickly change from tool to tool, you use keyboard short cuts, denoted by the letters in parenthesis. For example, if you wanted to use the Move Tool, type the letter “v” on your key board.

Learn HTML And CSS Using Pictures

2008-04-03T05:37:00.000-07:00

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on — and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is used to help readers of web pages to define colors, fonts, layout, and other aspects of document presentation. It is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation (written in CSS). This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content. This complete ebook about HTML and CSS learning, very easy to learn to create homepage using this ebook.

Manipulating Digital Photos Using Photoshop

2008-04-01T05:42:00.001-07:00

Objectives of this photoshop tutorial are; modify your photograph, correct exposure problems and red eye, combine photographs to create panoramas, create a digital contact sheet, and print customized print packages.

Whether you have digital photographs or photographs that you have scanned electronically, you may find that there are times that you would like to manipulate them. This manipulation may include cropping the photo, getting rid of red eye, erasing dust spots or repairing scratches. This seminar will walk you through the process of correcting “not so perfect” photographs as well as working with images to create panoramas, digital contact sheets and customized picture packages as well as save files in the appropriate file format.

Contour And Edge Tracing Methods

2008-03-06T04:58:00.000-08:00

Novel contour and edge tracing methods provide alternatives to edge detection. Use transparent background or freely select the colors for background and line. We used this plugin filter to create the camera outline used in our banner. Power Retouche Photoshop plugins are also for Paint Shop Pro, Corel Draw, Illustrator, Fireworks and other graphic software or photo software for graphic design.

WINDOWS XP: Tips And Techniques

2008-03-06T04:31:00.000-08:00

This workshop is intended to demonstrate many of the powerful timesaving features of Windows XP. It is geared for people who are familiar with the basics of using Windows XP and are interested in learning some “power user” techniques.

Applying Visual Basic for Human Machine Interface Applications

2008-03-06T04:09:00.000-08:00

Object based technologies and the Visual Basic programming language have gained widespread acceptance in the general marketplace with over 3,000,000 users worldwide. This paper will explore the technical issues that must be addressed in providing information delivery from plant floor devices to the enterprise in human machine interface applications utilizing Visual Basic technologies. Issues to be addressed will include PLC and control system connectivity, database connectivity, recipe download, logging, trending, and alarming. The paper will explore how off-the-shelf technologies based on specifications such as COM, ActiveX and OPC can be used with applications developed in Visual Basic to address these issues and provide flexible, cost-effective information delivery systems.

Securing Microsoft Windows

2008-02-23T04:37:00.000-08:00

This guide is for the average user or a new user who just bought a computer, and is willing to secure his Windows Operating System. This guide does not contain complex tips meant for advanced users, but rather the basis of Windows security for everyday use. There is nothing incredible or until now unknown in this guide, so if you are looking at this, you can skip it. The purpose of this paper is to help you configuring securely your OS, and to disable some default dangerous settings.

Basic Image Editing with Photpshop

2008-02-22T04:35:00.000-08:00

Photoshop Application Overview Inside Photoshop you will notice several different windows, menu boxes, and bars (Figure 1). At the top of the application window is the menu bar which contains basic application functions such as Save and Open, Cut, Copy, and Paste, etc.

The menu bar also contains advanced options for manipulating and altering your image, for example modifying the saturation or the brightness, and applying special effect “filters”.

Tuning Red Hat For Maximum Performance

2008-02-22T04:21:00.000-08:00

This Linux Red Hat tutorial details the process involved in transforming a stock, "out of the box" Red Hat installation into a finely tuned, stable system customized to individual needs and tastes. The material presented here is based on Red Hat 7.3, although many of the techniques and procedures discussed are equally applicable to other mainstream Linux distributions. And while the title uses the phrase "performance tuning," you'll soon discover that performance and security often go hand in hand.
Readers should have a basic understanding of common NIX administrative concepts and
tasks, such as file system layout, daemons and services, editing configuration files, the Linux initialization process, and networking.

Photoshop CS2 Tutorial

2008-02-15T05:39:00.000-08:00

Adobe Photoshop CS2 is a popular image editing software that provides a work environment consistent with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe ImageReady, and other products in the Adobe Creative Suite. This tutorial is an introduction to using Adobe Photoshop. Here you will learn how to get started, how to use the interface, andhow to modify images with basic Photoshop tools.

Underground PHP and Oracle Manual

2008-01-30T04:59:00.000-08:00

This book is aimed at PHP developers who are developing applications against an Oracle database. You may already be using another database and have a requirement or a reference to move to Oracle. You may be starting out with PHP database development. You may be unsure how to install PHP and Oracle. This book aims to remove any confusion. This book is not a complete PHP or Oracle guide. It is assumed that you already have basic PHP and SQL knowledge and want best practices in using PHP against an Oracle database.

Intermediate Java Programming

2008-01-07T06:47:00.000-08:00

The Java™ language provides most of what professional programmers expect to see in a language, and even in an object-oriented language. Beyond the basics, though, the Java language provides some useful tools for creating sophisticated programs.
This tutorial will introduce you to some of these more advanced Java language features commonly seen on typical Java technology development projects. This tutorial introduces you to capabilities of the Java language that are more sophisticated than those covered in the "Introduction to Java programming" tutorial.

Learn Visual Basic 6.0

2008-01-07T06:05:00.000-08:00

Visual Basic Software is a tool that allows you to develop Windows (Graphic User Interface - GUI) applications. The applications have a familiar appearance to the user. Visual Basic is event-driven, meaning code remains idle until called upon to respond to some event (button pressing, menu selection, ...). Visual Basic is governed by an event processor. Nothing happens until an event is detected. Once an event is detected, the code corresponding to that event (event procedure) is executed. Program control is then returned to the event processor.

In this first class, we will do a quick overview of how to build an application in Visual Basic Software. You’ll learn a new Visual Basic vocabulary, a new approach to programming, and ways to move around in the Visual Basic environment. You will leave having written your first Visual Basic program.

Java/J2EE CV Guide

2007-12-26T03:53:00.000-08:00

CV stands for “Curriculum Vitae”, which means “Course of Life”. A CV is not your entire life history or a shopping list of every job you ever had or every little Java/J2EE task you performed at your job or a “one size fits all application”. A CV or a Resume is an essential marketing tool in your job search and career progression. When writing a CV, look at it from your employers' point of view in order to stand out against the competition (i.e. other candidates). Preparing effective CVs presents a real challenge due to length, which can make them boring and result in important information being buried or lost in a long document. As a result your CV should be concise (recruiters don’t have time to read each CV from cover to cover), your top skills and experience should be prioritized in the first or upper most section of your CV, well organized with the following sections: Contact details, Profile, Career objective(s), Achievements, Skills, Employment history and Education and last but not least your CV should be nicely formatted (i.e. easy to read, concise, and not cluttered). Your CV will often be used as a basis for discussion at your interview, for example how did you go about improving the performance by 40% at MQR banking Ltd. So be prepared. Your CV should give your recruiter the confidence that you could do the job and interest in your skills and achievements to wanting to get to know you better. Your CV should market your strengths not your weaknesses. If you cannot market your skills and achievements then who can? Remember that your CV is your
prospective employer’s first contact with you.

Creating Logo Using Corel

2007-12-26T03:26:00.000-08:00

Welcome to CorelDRAW®, a comprehensive vector-based drawing and graphic-design program for the graphics professional. In this tutorial ebook, you will create a logo for an imaginary coffee shop. What you will learn In this tutorial, you will learn how to • draw shapes • add color to objects • duplicate objects • rotate objects • mirror objects • import images from another file • fit text to a path • use the Smart drawing tool • use the Ellipse tool • use the Rectangle tool • use the Interactive drop shadow tool • use the 3 point curve tool • use the Text tool.

How To Use Coreldraw

2007-12-19T04:52:00.000-08:00

Learn how to select and size objects,text, and nodes with the Pick Tool in CorelDRAW X3. Step-by-step explanation for how to use CorelDRAW & PhotoGrav to apply photos to marble. How to set up the artwork for watch dials. How using the assumed color standard color space eliminates the need for an ICC profile -- in certain cases.

Javascript BasicsTutorial

2007-12-19T04:25:00.000-08:00

JavaScript is a programming language, albeit a lightweight programming language. Unless you know the basics of using a computer, no matter how determined you are, you're not ready to learn to program. If you can open files and programs, save stuff, find stuff on your computer, and know what the start menu is, then things shouldn't be too difficult. If something is confusing for you, then you need to go find a computer tutorial/book/manual and look it up.
To learn JavaScript, you'll need to know HTML and XHTML. Do a search somewhere (like Axion Networks) and learn them, they're real easy. Then come back and learn JavaScript.

Mastering PHP Security

2007-12-18T05:44:00.000-08:00

PHP is a powerful language and the interpreter, whether included in a web server as a module or executed as a separate CGI binary, is able to access files, execute commands and open network connections on the server. These properties make anything run on a web server insecure by default. PHP is designed specifically to be a more secure language for writing CGI programs than Perl or C, and with correct selection of compile-time and runtime configuration options, and proper coding practices, it can give you exactly the combination of freedom and security you need. Author of PHP Security (O'Reilly) and HTTP Developer's. Handbook (Sams) . Founder of PHP Security Consortium. Member of Zend Advisory Board and an author .

My SQL 2005 Tutorial

2007-12-15T01:27:00.000-08:00

As you most likely know, SQL Server 2005 is primarily thought of as a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). It is certainly that, but it is also much more. SQL Server 2005 can be more accurately described as an Enterprise Data Platform. It offers many new features, and even more enhanced or improved features from previous editions of the product. In addition to traditional RDBMS duty, SQL Server 2005 also provides rich reporting capabilities, powerful data analysis, and data mining, as well as features that support asynchronous data applications, data-driven event notification, and more.

GNU and Unix Commands

2007-12-14T03:34:00.000-08:00

In this tutorial, you learn how to use GNU and UNIX commands. Is organized according to the LPI objectives for this topic. Very roughly, expect more questions on the exam for objectives with higher weight.To get the most from this tutorial, you should have a basic knowledge of Linux and a working Linux system on which you can practice the commands covered in this tutorial. Sometimes different versions of a program will format output differently, so your results may not always look exactly like the listings and figures in this tutorial.

Create Web Page With Dreamweaver

2007-12-12T04:44:00.000-08:00

This web resource was created by the Center for Instructional Technology for faculty in the Markets and Management program at Duke University in conjunction with class projects involving the use of Dreamweaver in the creation of course web pages.This tutorial is applicable to the version 3 of Dreamweaver. Although screen shots are taken from the Windows release of the program, the screens shown should be identical to the Macintosh release of Dreamweaver 3.