Tutorial to Create A Colorful Light Burst Text Effect In Photoshop.

I found this tutorial on net for the photoshop lovers. Very Good effect.There's quite a few steps involved, but they're all very easy.


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Some Stunning CD Designs

Theme- The Hole in CD (Compact Disc)

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Download Some Beautiful Wallpapers

High resolution wallpapers to download

There are 13 nice wallpapers to download

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Some samples are

Inspirational Graphics From Neil Duerden

Neil Duerden Graphic Designs

artists, art works as an illustrator Neil Duerden
http://neilduerden.co.uk/

Advanced Photoshop® - The magazine for Adobe® Photoshop® Professionals

The Last Two Editions of Advanced Photoshop magazine

Advanced Photoshop® - The magazine for Adobe® Photoshop® Professionals

Issue 31

Techniques
The latest and greatest techniques;
- Work with CS3’s Smart Filters
- Master a professional Photorealism style
- Edit JPEGs and TIFFs in the new Camera Raw

Creative Tutorials
Challenging & inspiring Masterclasses inc;
- Create globes from photos
- Design a piece of Pop art

Also featured;
- How to put on an exhibition
- How to find your unique Photoshop style
- Interview with Nicoletta Ceccoli

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Advanced Photoshop® - The magazine for Adobe® Photoshop® Professionals

Issue 30

Techniques
The latest and greatest techniques;
- Applying Lighting renders
- Integrate Poser renders
- Professional retouching masterclass

Creative Tutorials
Challenging and inspiring Masterclasses including;
- Create a photomontage
- Design a lowlight landscape

Also featured;
- 2007 Graduate Showcase
- Photoshop CS3 and CS3 Extended update
- Win one of three work placements with McFaul

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Microsoft Silverlight, A competitor for Adobe Flash

Microsoft Silverlight

A Competitor for Adobe Flash from Micrsoft

Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET–based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/

http://silverlight.net/

Microsoft Silverlight (code-named Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere or WPF/E) is a proprietary runtime for browser-based Rich Internet Applications, providing a subset of the animation, vector graphics, and video playback capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation. Version 1.1 also includes a complete version of the .NET Common Language Runtime, named CoreCLR,so that Silverlight applications can be written in any .NET language.

The latest release is version 1.0 beta, with an alpha release of version 1.1 made available as well. The runtime is available for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.4, with browser plugins available for Internet Explorer 6.0/7.0, Firefox 1.5/2.0 and Safari 2.0; Opera is not supported in the current releases but will be supported with future builds,as will be Windows 2000.Additional platforms are being considered as well.

Silverlight aims to compete with Adobe Flash and the presentation components of Ajax. It also competes with Sun Microsystems' JavaFX, which was launched a few days after Silverlight.The first CTP of Silverlight was released in December 2006. Microsoft aims to have a final release by mid-2007. An unattributed report claimed that Microsoft aims to release certain parts of Silverlight source code as open source software, but the claim has been denied by Microsoft. Sam Ramji, Microsoft director of platform technology strategy, said Microsoft has no plans to open source Silverlight.However, portions of the Dynamic Language Runtime, included with Silverlight, have been made available on Microsoft's CodePlex website using the Microsoft Permissive License.

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My Favorite Top 3 Flash Websites of All Time

The Ninjai - My No:1 Flash Website of All time

Best flash Animated Website I have Ever Seen.
Make sure You see all the chapters. First two chapter may be some boring but after that you will masmerise with quality of the animation, background music, the bird... no more words...Hats off to this team

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Neostream - My No:2 Flash Website of All time

The Concept and character is excellent. Brilliant Work!

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Questfortherest - My No:3 Flash Website of All time

Even though it's little confusing to navigate it's gorgeous to see all the four parts of the site. Enjoy

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Report Paid Links to google

Google says 'No' to Paid Links

Google launched a new service in their WebMaster Help Center called Report Paid Links.
In Googles WebMaster tools you can see a new link called 'Report paid links' when you click this, it takes you to a form where you can report sites that sell and buy links for Google PageRank system.

As Google says:
Google uses a number of methods to detect paid links, including algorithmic techniques. We(Google) also welcome information from our(Google) users. If you know of a site that buys or sells links, please tell us(Google) by filling out the fields below. We'll(Google) investigate your submissions, and we'll(Google) use your data to improve our algorithmic detection of paid links.

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PhotoShop Smoke Effect Tutorial

Simple PhotoShop - Smoke Effect Tutorial

Here you can make some very cool smoke with just a simple filter effect. I havnt seen a tut like this on the internet yet so I thought I had better post one. But anyway I find it a very useful method, I use it quite a bit.

1. Step one, open a new image, it doesnt really matter what size but be sure to set your background color to black. (this effect generally looks its best on a black background.) Make a new layer and select the \"Polygonal lasso tool\" and create an abstract shape that looks similar to the example below.(It doesnt really matter what color you use here either, but just dont make it too dark, and feel free to experiment.)


2. Now we can start our highlights of our smoke. Select the \"Dodge\" tool and make the brush size around \"50\" and the \"Range\" to \"highlights.\" Now use this tool around the edges and corners of your shape. Next, select the \"Burn tool\" and use it in the middle and wherever you see fit. You should have something that looks like this:
   
   


3. Here we can make it look like smoke now. Go to \"filter\"/\"Distort\"/\"Wave.\" And make the settings as follows: - Generators \"5\" - Wavelength \"10\"/\"120\" - Amplitude \"5\"/\"35\" - Scale at \"100%\" for both.


4. Right after you have used the \"wave\" filter you can go to \"Edit\"/\"Fade-Wave\" and set the opacity to \"50%.\" Now repeat this distort and fade method many times, or untill you think it looks best.
   
   


5. To make this effect look even better you may have to \"distort\", resize, and change the blending modes when fading a bit. And lastly, to make it different colors instead of the same throughout. make a new layer and use the \"brush\" tool all over the place using different colors. then set that layers \"blending mode\" to \"Overlay.\" And there you have it, a simple yet effective smoke method!
   
   

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Now you can view powerpoint presentation without powerpoint, in Gmail

Gmail Sideshow

Gmail users who get PowerPoint(Microsoft) attachments in their in-boxes can now view them without having PowerPoint installed on their machines. This option now shows up on all accounts.


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Adobe "Apollo" codename has been replaced by "Adobe AIR".

Adobe AIR beta (p.k.a. Adobe Apollo)

The "Apollo" codename has been replaced by "Adobe Integrated Runtime", or short: "Adobe AIR".

Download the beta version of Adobe AIR, and start building applications that bridge from web to desktop.

This new version of Adobe AIR adds first class support for HTML as an application base and a host of new features including an integrated SQLLite engine and ActionScript 3 API.

More info: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/

Adobe Flex 3 now in beta

Major feature release accelerates development and marks the first deliverable for the open source Flex project.

This early public prerelease version begins a new, more transparent product development process from Adobe, with frequent, regular access to early builds and greater insight provided into the feature roadmap and planning process. The Flex Builder 3 beta release will provide you with an opportunity to explore powerful new features, communicate early feedback, and test existing Flex applications with the new Flex 3 framework. Some of the new major features include:

• Support for the new Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).
  
• Code refactoring.
  
• Memory and performance profilers.
  
• SWF file size reduction through persistent framework caching.
  
• Advanced datagrid.
  
• Web service introspection.

Read Matt Chotin’s feature overview article to learn more about the rest of the features in the release. You can also view the complete detailed specs for Flex Builder 3.

Apple Safari 3 public beta, runs on XP/Vista too

Steve Jobs announced at WWDC the immediate availability of Safari 3, which for the first time will also run on Windows XP/Vista.

According to Steve, it's the fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.

12 reasons why you'll love Safari:

1. Blazing Performance
   
2. Elegant User Interface
   
3. Easy Bookmarks
   
4. Pop-up Blocking
   
5. Inline Find
   
6. Tabbed Browsing
   
7. SnapBack
   
8. Forms AutoFill
   
9. Built-in RSS
   
10. Resizable Text Fiels
    
11. Private Browsing
    
12. Security
    

Flower Brush for Phototshop

Flower Brush for Photoshop - 480 Kb

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Inner Universe Photoshop Brush

This brush is called Inner Universe


Inner Universe Brushes for Photoshop
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