1. Open the image. 2. Choose Rounded Rectangle Tool (Shift+U), make a vertical rectangle with color #2E69FF. 3. Choose Blending Option of the layer with the rectangle with the folowing settings: 4. Make the transparency of the Layer (Fill) to 20%. 5. Make a new layer. Keeping Ctrl, click the left button of the layer [...]
February 24, 2011
Add a Shadow
1. Open the image where you want to add the shadow. 2. Select the image using the appropriate tool according to it’s complicity. 3. Copy the selected object at new layer from the Layer – New – Layer via Copy (Ctrl+J). 4. Turn it vertiсal using Edit – Transform – Flip Vertiсal. 5. Use Move [...]
February 18, 2011
Change Cloths Color
1. Open the image which color you are going to change. 2. Select the clothes which color you want to change. You can use each one of the selection tools. I will use Select – Color Range. 3. Select the color you are going to change and using the Fuzziness slider control the range of [...]
February 18, 2011
Twisted Ends
1. Open the photo you want to twist the ends. 2. You must first unlock the Layer. Yow will do this by double clicking on the padlock located at Layer Palette. 3. Now select the Rectangular Marquee Tool and select an object of the picture you want to apply the effect. 4. Now choose the [...]
February 18, 2011
From photo to sketch
1. Open the image which you want to turn into a sketch . 2. Select Image – Adjustment – Desaturate (Shift+Ctrl+U), to turn it into a black and white image. 3. Go to Filter – Other – High Pass and change the Radius in range of 3 to 6 pixels. Changing the radius depends on [...]
February 15, 2011
Make a sunset: Photoshop tutorial
1. Open the picture that you want to add a sunset on. 2. Choose Filter – Render – LightingEffects. 3. Select for Omni for Light type, move the slider of the Intensity to 50, change the color to ff7608 by clicking on the default color (box on the right of the slider with intensity). 4. [...]
February 15, 2011
Make a rainbow: Photshop tutorial
1. Open the picture that you want to add a rainbow on. 2. Make a new layer. 3. Take the Gradient Tool. Choose the style Linear Gradient – TransparentRainbow. 4. While pressing down the Shift key, make short vertical stroke in the middle of the picture. The direction should be from top to bottom. 5. [...]
February 14, 2011
Underlined animated text in Photoshop CS4
1. Open a new document (Ctr+N) with the following settings. 2. Choose foreground and background color and with Gradient tool make something like this: 3. Take Type tool and write the text you want 4. Right click on text in layer palette and choose blending option. In the window that will appear make the following [...]
February 14, 2011
Kleiner Perkins Invests $38 Million In Facebook
Storied Silicon Valley VC firm Kleiner Perkins is about to buy .0007% of Facebook for $38 million. Venture Wire first reported the deal,”The venture capital firm . . . is in the process of securing a stake in Facebook by investing $38 million from its $750 million debut digital growth fund, said two prospective investors.”
January 7, 2011
Design Patterns – Part 4
1. Mediator: When you have two classes that are in need of each other, you might create a strong coupling between them. In other words, a simple change in one class can affect the other. This is not a good thing since one of the core concepts in object oriented programming is to reduce the [...]

February 24, 2011
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