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Photoshop HDR Photography Tutorial
Posted: January 31st, 10 Categories: Tips & Tricks
Photoshop HDR Tutorial
High Dynamic Range aka HDR, is a set of techniques that combines multiple exposures of images to create a single image. The results, you get more details in highlights and shadow areas. HDR Photography is very popular now, you find them in posters, ads, and event computer games.
Thanks to the advanced technology, we have powerful computer and software that can create HDR images easily. In this Tutorial, I will show you how to make HDR photography with Photoshop.'s build-in "Merge to HDR" feature.
jQuery 1.4 Released: Things you Need to Do Now
Posted: January 15th, 10 Categories: Tips & Tricks
Things you can do for jQuery 1.4
jQuery 1.4 , the latest version of the popular JavaScript Library jQuery, released on Jan. 14, 2010. So what now? There are a few things you can do now.
Quick tip: Taking Screenshots on an Android phone
Posted: January 4th, 10 Categories: Tips & Tricks
How-to: Take Screenshot on an Android Phone
Last year, I wrote a post teaching How to easily take screenshots on PC, Mac, and iPhone. Now that I am an Android user,I decide to show you how to take screenshots on Android devices. It's not as easy as taking screnshots on an iPhone, it's not hard neither.
Quick-Tip: Batch Plugin Update in Wordpress 2.9
Posted: December 19th, 09 Categories: Tips & Tricks
Quick-Tip: Batch Plugin Update in Wordpress 2.9
Wordpress officially updated to WordPress version 2.9 “Carmen” yesterday. One of its new feature is Batch plugin update and compatibility checking. This is feature I've been waiting for. However I did not find the feature at first. Continue reading and I will show you how to batch update plugins in New Wordpress 2.9
How-to: Code with Super-human Speed
Posted: November 21st, 09 Categories: Tips & Tricks
How to: Code with superhuman speed
If you are a web developer/designer, or programmer, there are certain codes you probably need to type repeatably.
To increase productivity, you can set up code snippets and shortcuts with your favorite code editor or a text substitution software. So you can quickly type a few lines of codes with a simple phrases or shortcut you defined. This will save you a lot of precious time.
Easy Text Replacement Solution with Typekit + Invitations Giveaway
Posted: November 4th, 09 Categories: Tips & Tricks
Text replacement with Typekit
Thinking about using Rich Typography in your web design? There are quite a few text replacement techniques such as: Image Replacement, Flash Replacement, JavaScript, PHP, and @font-face Font Embedding. The most commonly used solutions that you might have heard of are Cufón, sIFR, Typeface.js, P+C DTR... Each method has its advantages and disadvantages. Difficulty is one of the most important reason that keep web designers from using those text replacement methods.
Typekit is a service that let you easily embed both free and commercial fonts to your web design.Web designers don't need to worry about font copyright issues when using Typekit. Because Typekit has been working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license.
Although Typekit is still in beta, I got an Invite couple weeks ago. Let me walk you through, and find out if Typekit is right for you. I will give a way two Typekit Invites BTW.