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You can come up with some really cool effects using brushes to mask with, and it’s really easy. I can’t remember where I first saw this effect done. My image probably isn’t the best one to show this off to its full capacity. I have a folder with old images that I use for these tuts and I randomly stick a pin in and use what I come out with. Try a portrait image, or if you are doing a composite this can give the image an interesting effect. Try taking the opacity of the brush down on occasion and change its size particualrly to the outside of an image. Your job to fiddle remem...

Just what are Displacement Maps ? Displacement maps allow you to warp and distort images by moving pixels according to the guidelines set out by a predefined “map.” It’s a bit like creating a 3D effect (for want of a better word). How do they work ? A Displacement Map is always a B&W image. Black moves pixels to the right and/or down. White moves pixels left and/or up. Think of them in terms of valleys and peaks – the valleys are black and the peaks are white. Need to know stuff Displacement maps MUST be grayscale.Displacement maps MUST be saved in the native pho...

You can make this an etched glass effect, or, by inverting the filter, make it appear as though the shape/type/whatever is moulded in the glass. Because my glass is light, I will be using a black filled shape. If your bottle or glass is dark, the type/shape/whatever, would need to be white. So lets get straight on with it. You can click through on my glass image below to get the larger start image, or you can use one of your own. Just remember that any settings I use are relevant to this file 720 X 1000 @72dpi. Your first step will be to create a new layer above the b/ground layer and then fi...

What a great effect this one is, I first saw it done by Corey Barker. Just a couple of points that may come in handy before we get on with the tutorial. I’ve created a car shape for you to practise on, if you would like to make your own shape there are a couple of things you need to know – after you have created your shape, you are going to have to be able to lock the transparency of that layer at some point – here’s how you can make that happen. Right click on the shape layer and choose Rasterize from the menu. Making sure the shape layer is active, hold down your Ctrl...

This is a cool effect and it is really easy to do. I suspect that it could also be done in Elements and perhaps Gimp etc., My file is 700 x 500 @72 dpi, you will have to adjust some of the sizes to use this effect on a larger file. You can nick my image below to practise on if you like … copyright is mine yada, yada. With the/your image open choose the shape tool from the tools palette and make sure that the Rectangle Tool is selected. Make your foreground colour black. Draw out a rectangle on your image similar to the one below. In the layers palette, and making sure that you are wor...

You may find this useful if you have some fishies that need a new home. Create a new file 800 x 600 @72dpi (to practice on). You can fill the background with any colour, I chose black. Create a new blank layer above the background layer and fill it with a ‘water’ colour, I chose R 0 – G 153 – B 153. You can now duplicate the new layer. Begin working on the top most layer. I have my foreground set to the colour mentioned above and the background to black. We are going to do a Render>Clouds – Hold down the Shift key just before you click on Clouds and it will giv...

About Author: Tony Tran who was release many blog talking about Search Engine Optimization and Blogger.

About Author: Tony Tran who was release many blog talking about Search Engine Optimization and Blogger.

About Author: Tony Tran who was release many blog talking about Search Engine Optimization and Blogger.

About Author: Tony Tran who was release many blog talking about Search Engine Optimization and Blogger.

About Author: Tony Tran who was release many blog talking about Search Engine Optimization and Blogger.

Database Stuff Before we start with any of the coding, you will need to go into your phpMyAdmin and (if you haven’t already got a ‘threads’ and ‘replies’ table) paste this in the SQL box. If you already have a threads and replies table in your database then you will need to change it accordingly to what’s on the tutorial. PHP Code: CREATETABLE `threads`( `id` INTNOTNULLAUTO_INCREMENT , `title` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOTNULL , `message` TEXTNOTNULL , `author` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOTNULL , `replies` INT( 11 ) NOTNULL , `posted` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOTNULL , PRIMARYKEY (`id`)...

In many cases, the pages on a website consist of much content that is common between them. Using traditional methods, that content would have to be reloaded on every request. However, using Ajax, a web application can request only the content that needs to be updated, thus drastically reducing bandwidth usage and load time. The use of asynchronous requests allows the clients Web browser UI to be more interactive and to respond quickly to inputs, and sections of pages can also be reloaded individually. Users may perceive the application to be faster or more responsive, even if the application h...

Before sending data to the server, we have to explain three important properties of the XMLHttpRequest object. The onreadystatechange Property After a request to the server, we need a function that can receive the data that is returned by the server. The onreadystatechange property stores your function that will process the response from a server. This is not a method, the function is stored in the property to be called automatically. The following code sets the onreadystatechange property and stores an empty function inside it: xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=function() { // We are going to write ...