Graphics

Look at the pretty button, the shiny red button! Oh no, wait. Your button isn’t red. Your button isn’t even shiny! It is rather dull these days because you (like many others) have forgotten about styling up your buttons to get your Web site interface a smooth new look. Buttons are the last thing people [...]

I got an E-mail from a Lockergnome reader the other day named Tom. Tom wanted to know where he could find a good quality version of that orange RSS icon that you see on just about every Web site out there today. Well, there is no reason to search long and hard. [...]

Now this might be a kind of oddball situation, but do you need a good browser screenshot for a Web site design or another Web project you would like to move forward with? Now you could install all of these browsers and get your images that way - or you could take this shortcut.
The [...]

It seems like almost every time I turn around there is a new way of using JavaScript to make things look better. Now I know a lot of folks block it, due to security reasons - but that is another post for another day. When used for the power of good, JavaScript can be a [...]

Truer words have never been spoken. I believe that after reading the piece in below, explaining the dangers of saving a jpeg the wrong way will help bring some semblance of peace back into your life…

Traditional photographers have long learned that making great photographs is a matter of luck when you have no time, are pressed to capture a flimsical moment and have an automatic camera that doesn’t allow you any control on how the image that needs to be captured.
It may happen that some image details will be lost [...]

Yesterday I wrote an article about making home movies. I received a very interesting letter from Jeremy (thanks Jeremy) and he led me to another great site for you to use. This site seems to have about as much as the PC Magazine article had in it. If you do not get the magazine, please [...]

I subscribe to PC Magazine and I do enjoy it. They write a number of very good and useful articles in the magazine. The latest one I have read is a story on making movies. The article can be found in the January 2005 edition and starts on page 147. You can read a story [...]

Neur0 has written an excellent article that beginning and future users of Adobe Illustrator will want to give a read. It is written as a tutorial in designing a simple logo, but also touches on general topics of graphics design such as the differences between RGB and CMYK and the strengths of each.

Alien Skin software, which is a local company here in North Carolina,
announced Wednesday that it would be doing
another plugin suite.
I have been following Eye Candy collections since Alien Skin produced
Black Box
a long time ago. Eye Candy plugins are an easy way
to create effects in Photoshop or other graphic design programs that
it supports.

Alien Skin Software on [...]

The new version of QuarkXPress will now offer to add Photoshop file
format PSD. QuarkXPress will be adding this as a plugin named QuarkVista.
“Quark Inc. on Tuesday introduced QuarkXPress 6.5, a new version of their
flagship desktop publishing software. New features have been added including
the QuarkVista image editing plug-in, native multi-layer Photoshop file
import and layer editing and [...]

You may recall I wrote about some color sites a few weeks ago; one of my regular readers sent me several more sites that I missed. I think these sites will be worthy of your visit. If you need to add color to your world or just your Web site, take a look at these.

There is a new free image hosting service available! Yes, I know there are about two dozen and about half of them are not worth your time, but UploadHut.com hopes to change those perceptions.

Everyone is using them now and if you’re planning on creating your own banner ad, then there are some things that you should know.

Thanks go out to Monica for more tips on the new tools in PSP 9. Monica is one of my regular readers and writers. She, herself, is a PSP guru. I have seen some of her work and she is extremely talented. She sent me some more information on the updates to PSP and a [...]

I’ve started back with my learning of PSP 8. After some amount of searching, I found what I consider to be a very highly-recommended PSP tutorial site. If you are interested in learning PSP to any degree, I think you should visit here.

I’ve started back with my learning of PSP 8. After some amount of searching, I found what I consider to be a very highly recommended PSP tutorial site. If you are interested in learning PSP to any degree, I think you should visit here.

New to Photoshop CS is the Lens Blur filter, an interactive menu that lets you add interesting visual effects to images. In this video tutorial, Deke McClelland gives a hands-on demonstration of how it works.
The Lens Blur filter in Photoshop CS lets you add selective focus to an image to create interesting visual effects. [...]

For those of you sick of hearing me talk about PSP, I apologize in advance. For those of you who appreciate graphics, please read on. When the web first began, it was nothing but text. Since researchers were the only ones to use the new medium, that worked very well. The web had no original [...]

Thanks to Dri-Anna, one of my regular e-mailers, I had the opportunity to learn about PhotoImpact XL. I must be honest and say up front I never heard of the product. She wrote to me and thinks I am head over heels in love with PSP. Therefore, she wanted to tell me about PhotoImpact XL. [...]