Image-Hover Tutorial

This is a tutorial showing you how to make image hovers using HTML and CSS. This can help you make the navigation on your site more spiff. There are many other ways you can build on this coding to make it more complex, interesting, and creative. Plus hovers are just fun to play with.


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Photo-Merge

This is a really simple, but really helpful tutorial. Ever take panoramic shots and then have to go through each one and try to find where they match up? Well, with CS3 you don't have to. Just open up as many shots as you want, go to File - Automate - Photomerge and select your settings. If you already have all the images open, you can just select Add Open Files. Then, sit back and watch as Photoshop automatically lines them up to each other, and uses masks to hide the parts that are not needed. Here's an example.

I took these six images. . .


















And, using Photomerge, got this:

The Basics of Divs

This is a little tutorial to just kind-of give you a visual explanation of what a Div is. In short, what I'm trying to explain is that divs are basically two-dimensional boxes. They can be put inside each other, hold each other, and be combined in various ways. I will use divs in nearly all of my Dreamweaver tutorials.

Adding Interest to Text

This is a tutorial showcasing some of the ways you can make text more interesting. It also helps show you how to make it blend, or mesh, with an image.

Vector-Style Portrait

This is a tutorial to show you how to make a vector-style portrait using Photoshop. Vectors are usually made in Illustrator. It is, actually, impossible to make a true vector in Photoshop, but that's why it's called vector-style. I'll just be making a simple one, but you can use the same techniques to make a very complex piece. This is also good practice for using the Pen Tool. Trust me, you want to be able to use this thing well. It makes everything easier. If you'd like to view a larger version, you can find it here.





The photo I used in this tutorial is from Yellow-Stock of DeviantArt.


Here are some examples of really good vector-style pieces.
Motin45's
FKindgren's
Japanese-Whaleboy's
Rizart3's

Dark Photos

Sometimes it's simple impossible to get a shot that's neither blurry nor dark without professional equipment. Dark photos can be very interesting, but most often they need tweaked a little. These are just a few ways to handle dark photos.
I'm going to start with this photo.



You can always try lightening it with levels [Image - Adjustments - Levels...], but that often causes graininess with very dark images like the one I'm using. If you want a similar affect, you can try changing the exposure [Image - Adjustments - Exposure...]. If you raise the exposure, it will look just the same as if you raise the levels. The difference is that Exposure gives you two other options. Fiddle around with the Offset and Gamma Correction.



This does not look good on this photo, but it could certainly work for others. Another approach is to not try to change the darkness, but change the sections that aren't dark. One way to do this is by raising the contrast and/or brightness [Image - Adjustments - Brightness/Contrast...].

School of Fish, with a Swish.

This a tutorial on how to make a school of fish, using a brush and a path. The same techniques can also be applied to many other things. Birds, stars, hearts, Smurfs, whatever.



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First tutorial - Custom Shapes with Pen Tool

This is a good tutorial to watch, even if you don't particularly want to make custom shapes. I'll probably use the pen tool to some extent in most of my tutorials, even if I don't use it to make custom shapes. Now is a good time to get familiar with it. And believe me, you can have a lot of fun with it. If you would like a larger view, here it is.




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