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Spaghetti and Meatball Pot Pie. Remember those meatballs I made for a “special idea” on Friday? Here is that idea, Spaghetti and Meatball Pot Pie. I took the concept and figured if pizza was a good pot pie, then spaghetti and meat balls would be too. This isn't as much a recipe as it is a process. I started by greasing the inside of ramekins (1 cup sized, 3 1/2” in diameter).

Then I put in a mix of white and mild cheddar cheese. Next I add in two of the meatballs and sauce. Top that with some vermicelli that had been tossed in the sauce too. Another piece of cheese. For the crust, we made one order of our standard pizza dough and then cut out 3 1/2” circles. I rolled those out a little bigger and then pressed them over the top of the ramekins. Since I wanted the crust to be reminiscent of garlic bread, I made a glaze of butter, roasted garlic, parsley and thyme. I fired up Alexis' Big Green Egg to 450f and set it up in “convection oven” mode with the plate setter legs down. About 15 minutes in, they started to brown. Digital Infrared Photography IR Conversion, Modification & Scratched Sensor Repair.

Quick Tip: Remove a Person From a Photo With Photoshop CS5’s Content Aware Feature. With the launch of the new Adobe Suite of programs comes the long awaited Adobe Photoshop CS5. Packed with new features to speed up your workflow it truly is the most advanced edition of Photoshop to date. One of the new features we will be looking at today is called Content Aware. This feature allows you to quickly fill in a selection with surrounding content making it look like a part of the original image.

In this case we will choose to remove a person from a photo, this can be done in less than five minutes. Original Image Before we begin, download the image that we will be working with. Step 1 Using the content aware tool on different images produces different results. Step 2 We are extracting the person on the left from this photo. Notice in the image below how far I am drawing the path from the subject. Step 3 Once you complete the path around the subject, turn it into a selection. A dialog box will pop-up, make sure the feathering is set to 0px. Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 (Optional) Tutorials. 43 Photography Hacks, Mods And DIY Projects. Photoshop. 350 Photoshop Tutorials | Best Photoshop Tutorials. Photoshop is what makes the virtual world seem alive.

Its nothing less than a blessing for designers. The Internet is full of Photoshop Tutorials and you will find a tutorial on each and every tool. With that being said, we understand that these tutorials require time and effort to find so we’ve saved you both. How? Well, basically, we compiled a collection of easy to understand Photoshop tutorials that will aid you with just about every aspect of Photoshop and teach you the essentials of the software.

Who knows, after going through these tutorials, you may end up being the next big thing in the world of Graphic Design. This article is divided in 14 Sections: Advertisement Tutorials for Beginners 5 Common Photoshop Myths Solved for Absolute Beginners In this post, author will provide 5 Simple, Yet Useful Photoshop “How-to”s for Absolute Beginners. More Information on 5 Common Photoshop Myths Solved for Absolute Beginners How to Use and Create Brushes in Adobe Photoshop Text Tutorials Fire. The best 30 photo manipulation tutorials for Photoshop | dpxmag.com. Digital Diversity » Tutorials. 25 Free, Easy to Download Paper Textures - Photoshop Tutorials & Photoshop Resources. I’ve organized 25 free paper textures: 5 crinkled paper textures, 5 worn paper textures, 5 torn paper textures, 5 burnt paper textures, and 5 grunge-stained paper textures.

No funky zip files or random secondary blog posts, these are all laid out neatly and ready to be downloaded easily. The other day I was searching for some paper textures for another Photoshop tutorial I wanted to do and I was having some problems. It really isn’t hard to find paper textures; they’re all over deviantART, Flickr, and everyone and their mothers’ blogs. With a billion choices, ranging from blog posts to Flickr images to zip files… I got kind of annoyed with all the different sources and methods of downloading paper textures. So, I decided to do a blog post with my favorite paper textures. I’ve gone ahead and limited my selection. You won’t find “200+ premium textures” here. The best part is all of these images link to single images out there on the net that are free for you to use. Related posts:

500+ Exceptionally Beautiful Photoshop Patterns For Classy Designs. This time I am proposing 500+ patterns for Photoshop, (PAT) or separate image for your designs funds or CSS, is wood, designs crazy handrawing, skulls, points, slashes and much more are looking for designers, including floral and metal. Files. PAT can be loaded within Photoshop using the Load command when you are in something that requires adding a pattern as in the properties of a layer (blending options), I have also included for GIMP.

Patterns are images or vectors symmetrically repeated horizontally or vertically, or combined to give a sense of continuity, we see clearly in carpets, in honeycomb cells and mutual funds website inclined lines in Photoshop can be used to recreate an image from small to be repeated several times, CSS is applied using the function repeat-x, repeat-y or repeat-x to avoid creating something big. Whatever you need you can create the same but today I come to present a collection of 500+ amazing patterns formats.

Stripes grunge effect Black & White Patterns. Photo Effects.