This tutorial will show you a few quick and easy techniques for color correction and blending to convert a photo into a great-looking painting. Remember, the best techniques depend on the kind of image you’re editing and the effect you want to create in it. One of the exciting new features in Photoshop is the [...]
Today I thought I’d feature this nice open source Gem that some of you might like to add to your Ruby application. It’s called GrabzIt, which is a free library that supports multiple programming languages which allows you to programmatically take screenshots of a website. This very flexible Gem can be called from any type [...]
One great tool for sprucing up your site is the color picker. The Flexi Color Picker from David Durman has no flash, images, external libraries, CSS or 1px divs, and is only 4.3KB minified. Got to try this one. Below is the code. < <html> <head> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”colorpicker.js”></script> <style type=”text/css”> #picker { width: 200px; [...]
Post your updates on Facebook easily whenever you like it. Code Canyon’s Facebook Post Planner does it for you and with this plugin, you can select pages, posts, custom types, etc. Below are its features: For V1.2 Filter the pages/groups on Facebook. Post to fan page as the fan page itself. For V1.1 Schedules the [...]
Today’s post will show you how to create a realistic rain effect to your photos with Photoshop. Before After In this tutorial, you will apply Hue/Saturation, Blend Mode, Adjustment Layer, Gradient Tool, Opacity, and Brush Tool. It’s better if you use a digital photo that is 1000 pixels wide because if you use an image [...]
Today I thought I’d take a break from posting tech-related stuff and decided I’d post something about one of my other personal interests – photography. Here are 8 infographics that tell you something quite interesting about the world of photography: its history, how it evolved and adapted to change, and also a few equally interesting [...]
Lots of websites have started using plugins that display the latest tweets from Twitter. Well, here’s a simple jQuery script shared by ayalcinkaya from Mkyong that uses jQuery which basically has the same concept except that it retrieves only the user’s one latest tweet. jQuery AJAX $(‘#last-tweet’).click(function(){ $(“#tweet_result”).text(“Loading……”); var username = $(‘#username’).val(); $.ajax({ type: “GET”, [...]
Here’s a fresh tutorial by the guys at Script Tutorials about developing a sleek musical dropdown menu with HTML5 and CSS3. This navigation menu has CSS3 animation effects and an HTML5 Audio element was used in adding music to the menu. Follow the simple steps below: Step 1 HTML <ul id=”nav”> <li><a href=”#”>Menu element</a> <ul> [...]
A cool lightbox to add to your site is web developer Paul Engel’s creation called Topup . Topup is a lightbox that is very easy to use for showing images in Web 2.0 approach of popups. Its library is jQuery and jQuery UI to maintain compatibility of cross-browsers. It has the following features: TopUp is [...]
Usually, websites and blogs display the date (month-day-year) of published posts, and then there are some that show you how long it has been since an entry was published by displaying something like “Posted 1 week ago”, “2 months ago”, “3 days ago”, etc. Today’s featured PHP snippet will allow you to do the latter. [...]
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