In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Paint Shop Pro’s Inner Bevel effect to create smooth 3D graphics and text.
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Here you’ll find articles about website development, WordPress, and other topics that I’m interested in. I hope you enjoy them and find them useful. Comments and feedback are always welcome!
Using the Paint Shop Pro Text Tool
This tutorial walks you through some cool features of Paint Shop Pro’s versatile text-making tool, and shows you some groovy tips and tricks along the way!
Making a Rollover Menu Bar
This Photoshop 4 tutorial (also works with later versions of Photoshop) is quite a big one. I’ll show you how to make one of those trendy menus that look like one image, but are in fact several images joined together, with each image changing as the mouse moves over them. Oh, words will never do – take a look at it in action!
Understanding Image Formats
In this tutorial, we’re going to look at the three common image formats used on the Web: GIF, JPEG and PNG. You’ll learn how these image formats work, and where to use each type of image in your Web pages.
Photoshop’s Save for Web Feature
As of version 5 and greater, Photoshop includes a very handy “Save for Web” command. This feature allows you to produce a copy of your image that is optimised for Web use. This means that the image file will be as small as possible, and that the image will use only Web-safe colours (if desired). Save for Web can produce GIF, JPEG, or PNG format images.
Rollover Buttons with JavaScript
These days every man and his dog is using JavaScript to create “rollover”, or “mouse-sensitive” buttons on their site. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, move your mouse over this baby:
Get the idea?
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HTML Frames
When HTML frames were first introduced into Netscape 2 and IE 2.1, they were often criticized as ugly, slow and unmanageable. Thankfully, today’s browsers have come along way with their implementation of frames, and if properly used, frames can help to make a site more attractive and easier to navigate.
For example, a site can use one small frame for its navigation menu, with the main content displayed in a second, larger frame. The navigation frame remains the same while the main content frame changed to display the different content pages.
HTML frames can also be used in an arty way to position graphic elements on the screen.
Groovy 3D Lighting Effects in Photoshop
The Photoshop Lighting Effects filter is one of the most powerful filters built into Photoshop. With it you can create fantastic 3D detail in your images. In this tip we’re going to show you various 3D effects applied to a simple button, using just the Lighting Effects filter and channels.
A lot of these effects can be achieved using the “Effects” options in Photoshop 5 or the “Layer Styles” options in Photoshop 6, but it’s still worth knowing the theory behind them, and this tutorial has lots of other goodies in too, so read on!
Gorgeous Gradients in Photoshop
Photoshop’s gradient fill tool allows you to produce all sorts of effects, from subtle shading to wacky psychedelia. I’m going to show you how to use the gradient tool, make your own gradients, create 3d-like objects using gradient shading, and other fun-filled (haha!) stuff.
Fun-FILLED. Geddit? Oh, why do I bother…
Using CuteFTP
This tutorial covers the basics of uploading your website using GlobalSCAPE’s CuteFTP for Windows. It was written using CuteFTP 4, but the tutorial should also be useful for users of later versions.