David Maran's Personal Portfolio

Layers, Selections And Masking

David — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:22:21 +0000

Layers play an essential role in all aspects of Photoshop. Working with layers lets you keep various elements in a design separate from each other and the base image, this is called non-destructive editing. It gives you the opportunity construct an image stages and maintain the flexibility to make any edit changes you want at a later stage. This tutorial should help you understand how layers can be created quickly and effectively.

Paths And Clipping Paths

David — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:15:09 +0000

Creating paths and clippings within photoshop can be a daunting task, this tutorial will help you understand how it is do and the theoretical information about it. A path is any shape or line that outlines a form in an image or creates a new shape. It is made up of ʻanchor pointsʼ that determine the start and end of each line segment, these points can have ʻhandlesʼ which produce curved lines – a point without a handle makes a sharp corner and straight lines.

Photoshop CS5 Navigation And Tools Explained!

David — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:05:48 +0000

This tutorial will take a step by step approach at where you would find each tool and how they can be used. The Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 workspace is arranged to help you focus on creating and editing images. The workspace includes menus and a variety of tools and panels for viewing, editing, and adding elements to your images.The Application bar, tools and palette are (like most things in Photoshop) customizable. Panels can be grouped together, torn off, collapsed and width controlled.

Light Photography

David — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:58:05 +0000

Hey All,

Around a year ago i experimented with light photography, if any of you have done this then you will agree its great fun! I produced a series of images, these subsequently were used in some of my previous portfolio work as well as client work.

Have a look through and let me know what you think!

Top 5 JQuery Scripts

David — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:51:09 +0000

Here are 5 Jquery plugins/ scripts that are useful to me and maybe useful to a lot of other people.

Adding Lightbox

This websites will show you how to add lightbox onto your website even if its flash or javascript. Very useful for all people trying to show images on their website.

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RoyalSlider

Ever wanted to have a slider on your website? With this script it will allow you to add a range of images that carousel through. This can all be managed very easily. Have a good at the script and let me know how you get on!

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Minimit Gallery

Minimit Gallery script will allow you to show all your images in a nice simple and clean way. The script isn’t very hard to install however to tweak it may take some knowledge of javascript swell as HTML and CSS.

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Elixon Tooltip

This script has always been something i have wanted to use for a long time just never found anywhere to use it! Simply add a tooltip to your websites, links, headers and navigation.

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Auto Scroll Ticker

I have used this script once on the MVM website, it allowed me to show the latest news post from the website.

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PHP-Nuke Template Tutorial

David — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:20:10 +0000

This tutorial was created around 2008, it was made for people to understand and create their own php-nuke themes. This tutorial has beenmade to be aseasy to understand as possible but knowledge in html and css would be needed.

This is a moderate of difficulty, follow the steps with the document below.

Make sure you follow it correctly, this tutorial may not be compatible with the latest php-nuke but most chances are it will! So give it a go and see what its like.

First Paragraph Below

“OK, where do you start with converting a design or image into a php theme, if you new to php this will be painful, but if you can navigate your way around simple html coding, search and replace function with in your html editor this might be what you’re looking for.”

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Tutorial – Acrylic Glass Bar

David — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:11:34 +0000

Tutorial showing how to produce a Acrylic Glass Bar, it is a fairly old post but is still very relivate to photoshop to date.
If you have any problems please comment on the post and let me know.

This tutorial creates a red glass bar that looks good on most websites or graphical interfaces.

My Personal Portfolio

David — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:51:25 +0000

Hey All,

Through the next few days i am going to be finished off my portfolio so its all squeaky clean, hope you enjoy what you see.

A overview of what is it coming

A selection of tutorials for photoshop, illustrator, flash and dreamweaver. There also will be some techy coding tutorials in the near future.
reviews of products or websites that people have produced.
News on the latest products (e.g. apple releases)
Latest Blog post about what is going on with the latest websites, i will also be look for your input.

Hope to see you all soon.

Cheers,
Dave