Photoshop Water Tutorial Second Picture is devoted to original tutorials about 3D graphics, Photoshop, Photography and Web Design. Water Tutorials Picture 1. 16.07.2008 Category: Photoshop In this Photoshop water tutorial I cover the creation of a water surface in Adobe Photoshop CS3. A Photo for Water Tutorial Picture 2. First we need to choose and prepare a photo for this photoshop water tutorial. The Reflection in Water Picture 3. Picture 4. Basic Photoshop water is created with a reflection. Duplicate the background layer by right clicking on it and selecting Duplicate Layer... from the menu. The Waves There are several different methods to create waves or ripples in Photoshop. To use the Glass filter (or displacement filter) effectively we first need a picture that we are going to use as a texture in the Glass filter. Texture for the Glass Filter Let's create the texture. Noise Filter Picture 5. 50% crop after the Noise filter. First add noise with the Noise filter (Filter > Noise > Add Noise...). Perspective
99 of the Best Windows Freeware Programs You May Not Know Of Due to the popularity of my previous article on Help Desk Geek entitled 99 ways to make your computer blazingly fast, I’ve decided to write another list post with 99 items, but this time on Windows freeware programs that you may have not heard of. If you search for “best freeware programs” or “top freeware apps”, you’ll get lots of lists, but mostly with programs everyone has already heard of: AVG anti-virus, 7-zip, Firefox, OpenOffice, etc., etc. That’s all nice and fine, but what about all those little gems programs that work great, but don’t get all the headlines? In this article, I will try my best to mention as many small name freeware programs as I can that can help make you more productive! It’s a long list, so feel free to bookmark it and refer to it later on. These are written in no particular order! Additionally, some of the programs I mention have free versions that have a few restrictions or are limited in some way. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
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Best Places to Get Free Books - The Ultimate Guide When we were reviewing 10 of the best online resources for free books, we had a LOT of readers chime in with their own favorites as well. Thank you for all your helpful contributions! In fact, we had so many suggestions, we have enough to compile a huge list from them, so here they are in no particular order: ManyBooks – Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader – Thanks Tony Bryan & abben BookCrossing – Where real books are released into the wild to be found by others – Thanks EngtechLibraryElf – The perfect companion to a public library system – Thanks EngtechScribd – Open library to publish and discover documents online – Thanks CincauHangus Word Public Library – 400,000 PDF ebooks for download – Thanks EllenFree Tech Books – Free computer science and engineering books (+ lecture notes) – Thanks EllenBookins – Swap real books with other readers – Thanks Jimbob WellToldTales – Free short story podcasts (like audiobooks, but shorter) – Thanks Kevin C. Google+