Dazzling Light Painting Photography Inspiration and Tutorial
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Today I got a unique kind of photography inspiration and tutorial for you. Here you’ll learn Light Painting technique of photography. This is kind of a special in photography, such as Long Exposure. This effect is not really a commercial one but it creates seriously cool pictures.
This is one of those type of things which can’t be described and has to be shown instead. So I wanted a video tutorial which does not only show the technique but also its usability. Thankfully I found one on Youtube, you can watch it below.
Exceptional Examples of Bokeh Photography and Quick Tutorial
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Bokeh is an excellent effect in photography. Easy to create and never failing to impress are the two features that have made it one of the most popular effect among photographers.
Today I have gathered 20 of the very best examples of photos containing the Bokeh effect. These inspirational pictures try to explain many techniques of using this effect with different types of lighting and environment. You’ll also find a quick tutorial for capturing such Bokehs’.
At last my wait was over when Photoshop CS5 introduced its new feature of Content Aware Fill tool which and has reduced all of my effort to remove an object without affecting the background, wow!
I have been waiting for such a miraculous feature for many years but now I am very happy to see this feature in CS5. It is very simple and involves only a few steps to do this feature.
So without much further ado, let’s start it.
I came across this very cool little snippet to create inside dotted or stitched effect in css3 without using any images or background images here. There were many unnecessary lines of codes in the original snippet so I took the liberty of cleaning it up and providing you with this simple tutorial.
So what we are going to make is a 400 x 400px square with this effect.
Creating a Custom Database Error Page and Error Notification for WordPress
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In high traffic WordPress blogs/sites sometimes we have to face problems with our servers not able to keep up with the load and it results in a server crash. When this happens users are unable to access the website which creates a bad impression for daily visitors/readers. So to at least showing them a little excuse message of some sort would be a good idea. I googled a little and came across this awesome little snippet, here. This Micro Tutorial below will show you how to cover the Database related errors for your site’s users and show them a customized message. You can design this message as you like as it will be done via HTML/CSS.
Also in addition to that there is a mail function included in this code which will send you email whenever there is any error in your database and this page is displayed.
Today, we’ll learn how to make an artistic Peeling Off effect on any image. You need to be frequent in such effects to make impressive photo manipulations. I’ll be making some photo manipulation tutorials soon, but first – let’s just get you going on creating some simple and easy, yet striking photo effects. And this tutorial will teach you one of them.
Do you remember Photoshop Paint and Blood brushes, I promised this tutorial in the description of that post. In this tutorial, I’ll be using those brushes so if you don’t have them, please download it, and then carry on.
How to Stop WordPress Editor from Removing iFrame and Embed Code
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A few days ago, we published a post “14 Advanced Level Photoshop CS5 Video Tutorials” which consisted of 14 iframe/embeded videos from youtube, vimeo etc. But it’s a known issue that WordPress editor will remove the iFrame code as soon as the tab is changed from html to visual or vice versa. This is a real problem needed to be sorted out – so I did a little googling and found several fixes for this issue.
Out of those solutions this one seems to work well for me, I found it here.
You’ve probably heard about CSS sprites, but do you know what they really are and why you should use them?
A simple answer is that a sprite is a composition of multiple smaller images into one large image. See the thumbnail of this post for an example.
It might sound a little counterproductive to create a larger image, because it might take longer to download it right? Well, that’s not exactly true.
Some people usually have a hard time making a creative brush. Today I’ll describe a simple way to make a tasty brush. Just make a simple shape, make a few copies and you got your brush design. See the tutorial below for an example. But before that, let me just define a few things about a brush.
When we make a brush, the solid black color takes the value of 100% color (0% transparency) while gray color is takes the value of 50% color (50% transparency) and white is 0% color (100% transparent).
Once the brush is made, the user can use the brush with any color but it is a good practice to make it in grayscale. I usually make these brushes in high-resolution so that they could work well in any kind of use, but if your object, from which you are creating your brush, is larger than 2500 Pixels, the Define Brush command will not work.
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