Vintage Photo Effects Using Adobe Photoshop Good evening all, in this detailed tutorial I’ll be showing you how to turn back time and age your photographs/images by decades. What We’ll Be Creating Preparation Before we jump right into all the good stuff, you first need a photo or image to start with. I’ll be using the image below, a photo with a street view in America. Removing The Color & Adding Some Texture Open up your photo in photoshop, right click on your background layer and select “Duplicate Layer” from the menu. With your duplicated layer selected go to “Image > Adjustments > Desaturate” (Shift + Ctrl + U) then add some texture by going to “Filter > Texture > Grain”, use the settings below. Now add the noise filter “Filter > Noise > Add Noise”, again use the settings below. You should have something like this. Tinting The Image Most old photographs appear to have a brownish colored tint to them, so to try and replicate this we’ll just simply add a block of color. Enhancing The Photo’s Lightness Grunge Effects Burning The Edges
How to Prevent Image Bandwidth Theft With .htaccess Protect your images from being linked by other websites while you pay the bandwidth! by Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.com If your website displays beautiful pictures, you may encounter the ugly situation where your photos and other images are used without your permission on other sites. Even worse, those websites "hotlink" your pictures, that is, they don't host the pictures directly on their site, but embed them into their pages by linking to the copy on your site. This way, not only do they infringe your copyright, but they also make you pay for their bandwidth. System Requirements The solution outlined in this article requires your site to be hosted on a machine using the Apache web server. If this is not the case for your website, you cannot use the suggestions given here. Steps to Take Protecting your images using a .htaccess file is trivial. Put all the images you wish to protect from being stolen (bandwidth-wise) in a separate directory. That's all there is to it.
Adding Custom Google Maps to Your Website | Stiern Maps are often placed on a company website to help customers find their way there. For that, Google Maps is excellent. But wouldn’t it be nice to add your company logo, parking lots, train stations, etc. to the map, to help the customer even more? Before we start, check out what we are going to create: Now, here is an overview: Overview Google Maps API The Google Maps API allows you to embed maps directly into your website. Getting the Coordinates As I do not expect you to know the precise coordinates of your location, I will explain a very quick way Google has provided to do this. When you enter this in your address bar, you will see this: The coordinates of Apple's head quarter in Cupertino The first number is the status code, and 200 means that everything is okay. Adding the Map to Your Website There’s no need to hesitate – let’s add that map to your website! After the URL, you will notice sensor=false. Just below what we have just inserted, write the following: center specifies our center.
20 CV créatifs pour votre inspiration Dans le domaine du web et du graphisme, un CV original et soigné est une des bases minimale à maitriser pour décrocher le job de vos rêves. Pour vos donner vos idées, voici quelques exemples de CV réussis. Quelques conseils avant de commencer… Avant tout, soyez vous-même. Inutile d’en faire trop en surchargeant le CV avec du contenu sans intérêt ou de sur-enchérir sur vos compétences. Surtout soyez original ! Quelques exemples : Avez-vous une préférence pour un type de CV ? Épisode 2, pour encore plus d’exemples : Pour aller plus loin : Découvrez 15 conseils simples et pratiques pour un CV graphique et attractif
gMapTip : Géolocalisation WP est un plugin vous permettant d’insérer n’importe quelle carte et d’afficher n’importe quel éléments sur cette même carte. Prenons un exemple simple et concret. Ce plugin permet entre autre de vos visiteurs en leur affichant tout ce qui se rapporte aux mots clés que vous avez définies. Si vous souhaitez montrer les différentes pizzeria de la ville de votre visiteur, il vous suffit d’insérer le mot “ ” et cliquer sur l’onglet “ ” de l’éditeur Visuel de WordPress. permet également d’affiner la recherche en modifiant les paramètre de la carte. 35 Fresh and Excellent Photoshop Tutorials from 2010 May 19 2010 With the release of CS5, Photoshop has become even more power-packed with features more simplified, and with better characteristics. Its features are so user-friendly such that even newbies can produce quality effects, and for professionals launching of CS5 is like getting box of Pandora with which they can get awesome results. Today we present 35 Latest Photoshop Tutorials from this year, which will showcase you techniques used for text effects, lightning effect, photo manipulation, web design and some general tips. All tutorials are quite innovative and modernistic and will help you learn fantastic ways to improve your skills and amplify your artistic know-how. However, these tutorials are just for brushing up your skills. Fresh Photoshop Tutorials From 2010 Create a Stylish Grunge Poster with 3D Typography in Photoshop In this tutorial author will show you how to create a cool grunge poster in Photohop. Creating an Impactful Disco Party Poster Light Effects in Photoshop
Word HTML Cleaner A tool to strip Microsoft’s proprietary tags and other superfluous noise from Word-generated HTML documents, leaving all the basic goodness intact. File sizes are greatly reduced, and the returned markup is easier to read, revise and employ. This is intended for fairly basic styled text documents: please don’t upload your 50,000-word richly illustrated annual report and expect a nice slim web page in return. If however you’re used to writing in Word and you regularly find it awkward to get your text ready to publish online, this is the tool for you. Typographer’s quotes and dashes, and other non-ascii characters, are converted to HTML entities to increase their portability amongst browsers and operating systems. Basic styling and structure, as well as links, image references and tables, should come through intact. HOW TO USE : Save a Word document ‘as Web Page…’ to your hard drive (this will not work with ordinary Word files, e.g., filename.doc).
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