Why do you love the holidays? Is it because you get to spend time with your family, eat like crazy, open gifts, buy gifts, or to create some awesome text using Photoshop? Well, for me, it is all of the above <grin>. I love the holiday season, it brings out the best is everyone. For this tutorial, I will show you how to create some really cool candy cane text using Adobe Photoshop. I currently use CS4, but you could get this done in CS2, or CS3. Enjoy! Step One Open up Photoshop and create a new document that is 10px wide, ...
Along with Facebook, Twitter has grown into a huge social network for a lot of people. You can find your average joe, celebs, employers, friends, co workers, family members - the list goes on! When you sign up to Twitter, you get a pretty plain background with ways to update it with standardized one Twitter offers. However, what if you could create your own? I will show you show. There are two ways to create a Twitter background, one being a tiled background, like my twitter page, another to have some information and a picture/company logo to the left of the ...
With the holiday's coming up, it would be nice to put some awesome themes on your blackberry cell phone. For only $2.50, you can have this awesome theme on one of the following blackberry phones: Curve 83xx (OS4.5), Curve 8900 (OS 4.6), Bold, Storm, and Tour. Below are images of the theme and a link to purchase it. The picture's below are from a Bold. At the bottom you will find a link to view picture for the other phones and purchase your theme. The theme includes awesome icons and even better backgrounds. The color of the fonts are Red/Green. This picture ...
As design comes second nature to a lot of us, we try to come up with new ways to show our site visitors ways to improve the look of our personal or business website. Pressing text into a background is just another way to add a slight flare to your designs. This tutorial will be a quick one and will not be very hard. It only consists of two layers! Let's get started. Step One Open up photoshop, create a new file with 500 pixels high x 500 pixels wide. Fill it in with a red/orange color (#db4848). If you pressing your text into an ...
If you read my first draggable div tutorial, you would know that I had planned to show you how to add a close and open function for this. So within this tutorial, I plan to show you what the old code looked like, and how to add the two extra functions. At the bottom of the tutorial you will see a link to view it in action. Here is the full code from the previous tutorial: See it in action. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <style type="text/css"> #maindiv{ z-index:10; background: #FFC; color:#000; width: 400px; height: 250px; position: absolute; top: 50px; left: 50px; padding:10px; } #header{ color:#000000; background: #CCC; padding:5px; text-align:center; } #header:hover{ color:#fff; background:#000; text-align:center; } </style> <script ...
