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Exclusive Adobe Announces Preset Sharing and Layer Panel Enhancements for Photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:55:12 PST

Today, Adobe Announces Preset Sharing and Layer Panel Enhancements for Photoshop

Nulled ZEPHYRUS – ThemeForest Crative 1.6 and Joomla 1.5 Templatee

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:00:38 PDT

This is a nulled template for themeforest creative 1.6.x and joomla 1.5.x template

ZEPHYRUS – ThemeForest Creative Joomla Template
6 Color Styles
29 Module Positions
One Two or Three Column Layout
PSD’s Included Valid HTML
QuickStart Package
Online Documentation
Support Forum

WordPress Template Tv-Showz.com Database 24/09/2011 UPDATE

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:37:41 PDT

This is an update of TV-Showz.com Wordpress Template Database. (it includes everything that has been on it on the date of 24/09/2011)

Dont forget to change the site url in the Database once you have imported it into PhpMyAdmin, if you dont do this everything will link to Tv-Showz.com!

Admin Login:

Username: Admin
Password: Admin

Demo Download

Create Smooth Skin Without Losing Texture in Photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:59:16 PDT

In this tutorials we well create Smooth Skin Without Losing Texture in Photoshop There are several ways to smooth skin in Photoshop. All to often, however, skin can appear too smooth, fake, and synthetic. Today I will demonstrate a straightforward technique to help you smooth skin fairly quickly while preserving the texture of the pores. Let’s get started!

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

There are several ways to smooth skin in Photoshop. All to often, however, skin can appear too smooth, fake, and synthetic. Today I will demonstrate a straightforward technique to help you smooth skin fairly quickly while preserving the texture of the pores. Let’s get started!

Final Image Preview

Take a look at the final image that we will be creating.

Original Image

Before we begin, let’s take a look at the original image.

Step 1

First, open your image and duplicate your background layer. Simply drag the layer onto the new layer icon in the bottom right of the layer palette. Now set the blending mode of this newly created layer to "Vivid Light."

Step 2

Now, let’s invert this layer. Do this by pressing Cmd + I or Image > Adjustments > Invert. Then, apply a Gaussian Blur by selecting Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Applying a blur filter to an inverted picture will make it look shaper. Use the slider until you can see the pores on her face.

Step 3

Now let smooth the skin! Go to Filter > Other >High Pass. Move the slider until you are happy with the smoothing. You may notice some ghosting and other weird stuff around the eyes – just ignore it for now. Concentrate on the cheeks, forehead and nose.

Step 4

Almost done! Create a new mask for the layer and fill it with black to hide the image. Switch your color to white, select the mask and start drawing on the skin with a soft brush. Start at the cheeks, move over to the forehead, the nose and stop on the chin. If the effect is too strong for your liking, just lover the opacity of the brush and you’re good to go!

Final Image

We’re finished! I hope that you learned a few new techniques here. If you have a different approach, let me know in the comments!

Fix Shortcuts Virus on External/Flash Drive Folders

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:02:20 PDT

Solution to Fix Shortcuts Virus External/Flash Drive Files :

The good side of these viruses is that they don’t delete the actual content. It was just hide in our Flash Drive. We can easily recover all the files.
Step 1: If you are affected by Shorcut Viruses,Do not format your Flash or External Drive. If you format you can’t Recover it.
Step 2: Check your Flash Drive’s Drive Letter ( Example : I: or K:)

Step 3: Click on “Start” –>Run–>type “cmd” and click on OK
Step 4: If your Flash Drive Letter is K: then Type the below command in your “cmd” and Press “Enter”
attrib -h -r -s /s /d k: *.* (Check the screenshot ) Note : Replace the letter k: with your flash drive letter

Step 5 : Now your files will be visible.Make sure to keep the antivirus up-to-date to prevent viruses.

Online User Counter simple script

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Tue, 24 May 2011 09:45:29 PDT

This script gives an accurate count of the number of users online. Very easy to add to webpages, just insert the line "" and it would display the string "xx users online" (where xx is the number of users). Instead of depending on 3rd party hosted solutions create your own targeted online users script. This is a modified Mitch script (see references below), with a few enhancements added to handle proxies and collisions.

Corrections: mysql_connect, passing the correct db param

// Configuration
$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbuser = "[to-add]"; // MySQL Username
$dbpass = "[to-add]"; // MySQL Password
$dbname = "[to-add]"; // Database Name
$timeoutseconds = 1200; // length of session, 20 minutes is the standard

$timestamp=time();
$timeout=$timestamp-$timeoutseconds;
$ip = substr($REMOTE_ADDR, 0, strrpos($REMOTE_ADDR,"."));

// Connect to MySQL Database
@mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass);
@mysql_select_db($dbname) or die("No db");

// Add this user to database
$loopcap = 0;
while ($loopcap<3 && @mysql_query("insert into useronline values('$timestamp','$ip','$PHP_SELF')"))
{ // in case of collision
$timestamp = $timestamp+$ip{0}; $loopcap++;
}

// Delete users that have been online for more then "$timeoutseconds" seconds
@mysql_query("delete from useronline where timestamp<$timeout");

// Select users online
$result = @mysql_query("select distinct ip from useronline");
$user = @mysql_num_rows($result);

mysql_free_result($result);
@mysql_close();

// Show all users online
if ($user==1) {echo $user.' user online';} else {echo $user.' users online';}
?>

Step by step overview of the script:

Retrieve the first 3 tuples of the IP (nnn.nnn.nnn)

Insert the row

Delete old rows

Get count of online users

1. Why the first 3 tuples of an IP?

Because of proxies, like the AOL proxy, AOL users daisy chain through a set of IP's that belong to a proxy. Each HTTP request would use an IP from a pool of IP's. Normally an IP address remains static per session, now with proxies, every single http request could be on a different IP, however these IP's mostly belong to a specific subnet, thus we retrieve the first 3 tuples of the IP.

2. Why the loop cap and timestamp addition?

Since the key of the table is the timestamp, the timestamp needs to be unique. Sometimes a collision occurs, one user gets the timestamp, the other and error stating that the key is already taken. To manage this we (a) suppress the error checking, by adding an '@' symbol in front of the PHP function, (2) increment the timestamp by 1 or 2 and try to insert again and (c) cap the tries to 3 in case the site is getting a HUGE amount of traffic (actually what we need to do is to track the load of the server, if the load is too high then we should start dropping requests).

3. Delete rows

The script will check each row to see if it exceeds the alloted time. If so, that row is deleted.

4. Display counter, online users

Select the number of unique IP's in the table. Get a count and display the results, that will give you the number of online users.

Create SQL table

Be sure to create your table first before running the script
CREATE TABLE `useronline` ( `timestamp` int(15) NOT NULL default '0', `ip` varchar(40) NOT NULL default '', `file` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '', PRIMARY KEY (`timestamp`), KEY `ip` (`ip`), KEY `file` (`file`) ) TYPE=MyISAM;
Why is the timeout/session 20 minutes long?

Wanted the "online users" to be comparable to other sites, the default timeouts seem to be set at 20 minutes. This number is changeable if you wish to compare to sites that have different session lengths.

Or

conf.php

// Configuration
$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbuser = "root"; // MySQL Username
$dbpass = ""; // MySQL Password
$dbname = "nono"; // Database Name
$timeoutseconds = 1200; // length of session, 20 minutes is the standard

$timestamp=time();
$timeout=$timestamp-$timeoutseconds;
$ip = substr($REMOTE_ADDR, 0, strrpos($REMOTE_ADDR,"."));

// Connect to MySQL Database
@mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass);
@mysql_select_db($dbname) or die("No db");
?>

useronline.php

include('conf.php');

// Add this user to database
$loopcap = 0;
while ($loopcap<3 && @mysql_query("insert into useronline values('$timestamp','$ip','$PHP_SELF')"))
{ // in case of collision
$timestamp = $timestamp+$ip{0}; $loopcap++;
}

// Delete users that have been online for more then "$timeoutseconds" seconds
@mysql_query("delete from useronline where timestamp<$timeout");

// Select users online
$result = @mysql_query("select distinct ip from useronline");
$user = @mysql_num_rows($result);

mysql_free_result($result);
@mysql_close();

// Show all users online
if ($user==1) {echo $user.' user online';} else {echo $user.' users online';}
?>

Connaitre la Gestion de l'exception

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:39:00 PST

L’Exception
La première chose que je regarde lors de l'évaluation du code de quelqu'un est un bloc try / catch. Même s'il n'est pas un indicateur parfait, la gestion des exceptions est l'une des rares choses qui parlent vite sur la qualité du code. En quelques secondes, vous pourriez découvrir que l'auteur code n'a pas la moindre idée de ce qu'il ou elle fait. La gestion des exceptions pauvres peuvent avoir un impact sérieux sur la maintenance d'un système. Une bonne gestion des exceptions n'est pas très difficile, techniquement il n'y a rien à elle. Le tout se résume à saisir les fondements. Trop nombreux développeurs envisagé des exceptions dangereux pour le système.

Trois façon d’exceptions Catch en ASP.NET
1. Attraper Exceptions dans le Méthode(Fonction)
public void DownloadPdf(string path)
{
try
{
System.IO.StreamReader reader = System.IO.File.OpenText(path);
}
catch (System.UnauthorizedAccessException ex)
{
//Hey, vous n'avez pas accès à la file!
}
catch (System.IO.FileNotFoundException ex)
{
// Eh oui, le fichier n'existe pas
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// Oh La..la...
}
}
2. Attraper Exceptions niveau du Page
protected override void OnError(EventArgs e)
{
Exception exception = HttpContext.Current.Server.GetLastError();

// Informer l'utilisateur sur l'exception, l'enregistrer dans le log..etc..
}
3. Attraper Exceptions au niveau d’application
// In global.asax
protected void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Exception ex = HttpContext.Current.Server.GetLastError();

// Faites ce que, à l'exception ici.
}
Quelque Règle de bas :
Ne jetez pas new Exception ()
Exception est une classe trop large, et il est difficile d'attraper sans effets secondaires. Dériver votre propre classe d'exception, mais dériver celui-ci ApplicationException. De cette manière vous pouvez définir un gestionnaire d'exception spécialisés pour les exceptions levées par le « framework » et l'autre pour les exceptions levées par vous-même.

Ne mettez pas d'information importante exception sur le champ Message
Les exceptions sont des classes. Lorsque vous retourner les informations exception, créer des champs pour stocker des données. Si vous ne parvenez pas à faire ça, les gens vont avoir à analyser le champ Message d'obtenir l'information dont ils ont besoin. Maintenant, imaginez ce qui se passera au code appelant si vous avez besoin de localiser ou même à corriger juste une faute d'orthographe dans les messages d'erreur. Vous ne savez jamais mai code combien vous allez vous casser en le faisant.

Mettre « single catch » (Exception ex) par thread
La gestion des exceptions génériques devraient se faire en un point central dans votre application. Chaque thread a besoin d'un essai séparé / bloc catch, ou vous perdrez des exceptions et vous aurez des problèmes difficiles à comprendre. Quand une application se lance plusieurs threads de faire de traitement en arrière, souvent vous créez une classe pour le stockage des résultats du traitement. N'oubliez pas d'ajouter un champ pour le stockage d'une exception qui pourrait arriver ou vous ne serez pas en mesure de le communiquer au thread principal. Dans "fire and forget" des situations, vous n'aurez probablement besoin de dupliquer le gestionnaire principal exception handler au the thread handler.

Exceptions génériques capturés devraient être publiés
Il n'a vraiment pas d'importance ce que vous utilisez pour vous connecter - log4net, FEI, Event Log, TraceListeners, les fichiers texte, etc Ce qui est vraiment important, c'est: si vous avez attrapé une exception générique. Mais ce journal qu'une seule fois - souvent code est monté avec des blocs catch qui exceptions journal et vous vous retrouvez avec un journal grand, avec trop d'informations répétées d'être utile.

Ne prends pas (Exception) plus d'une fois par thread
Il existe de rares exceptions près (sans jeu de mots) à cette règle. Si vous avez besoin pour intercepter une exception, utilisez toujours l'exception la plus spécifique pour le code que vous écrivez.
Je vois toujours les débutants penser que bon code est un code qui ne lève pas d'exceptions. Ce n'est pas vrai. Bon code envoie des exceptions au besoin, et ne gère que les exceptions, il sait comment manier.

Conclusion
Vous ne devriez lancer des exceptions quand une condition en dehors des hypothèses de votre code produit. En d'autres termes, n'utilisez pas des exceptions comme un moyen de fournir la fonctionnalité de votre intention, même si quelque chose s'est mal passé.
Toutefois, une exception doit être généré si un véritable état de légitime inattendu se produit, comme une base de données utilisateur indisponible. Jeter ou de permettre des exceptions à jeter est plus cher que de simplement revenir suite à un appelant ou d'avoir le code pour gérer une condition attendue. Par conséquent, les exceptions ne devraient pas être utilisées pour contrôler le flux normal de l'exécution par le biais de votre code.

Battlefield 3 Pc graphic

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:00:38 PST

Battlefield 3 is an upcoming installment in the long-running Battlefield video game series, and the direct sequel to Battlefield 2. Unusually for a contemporary big-budget shooter, its lead platform is the PC rather than a console.

Photoshop 2011 BMW S1000 RR tuning virtual tuning show

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:54:18 PST

In This Photoshop Tutorial I will Demonstrate How tuning virtual BMW S1000 RR

How To Create Elegant, Glassy, 3D Typography in Photoshop and Illustrator

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:42:07 PST

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create elegant, glassy, 3D typography using Photoshop and Illustrator. For this project, I used my company logo. Feel free to apply this effect to any logo, text, or shape.

Let’s get started!

Impressive Dark Wallpapers

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:05:59 PDT

Dark wallpapers are a great choice for a desktop background, as they don’t strain the eyes, and they are also interesting because of the lighting and absence of light in various areas. Additionally, there are always cool themes that can be presented in dark wallpapers, such as night time, black and white, and fantasy style wallpapers.

How To Create Text with Diamonds Effect video tutorials

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:30:03 PDT

In this Tutorial you will learn how to Create Text with Diamonds Effect and adding lights to animated scenes.

Nice Provocative and Interesting Advertising Artworks

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 02:28:21 PDT

Effective advertisements grab your attention in whatever way they can, whether it’s shock and awe, intricate details that grab your interest, or by creating a related situation or concept that the viewer can connect with. But sometimes, one of the best ways is to be interesting, and in some cases, even provocative.
So, we gathered up some ads that were interesting and/or provocative to get you inspired.

How To Create 3D Effects With the Stardust Particle Engine

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:36:37 PDT

In this tutorial we’ll begin with a demonstration of how to use the Stardust’s native 3D engine. Then, I’ll show you how to get Stardust to work with Papervision3D; we’ll be creating 3D particle effects with Papervision3D’s Particles class and DisplayObject3D class.

Tutorial

Demo

Google and Sony Launch Internet Television Sets

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:09:03 PDT

Sony and Google Launch Internet Television Sets
Google is set to expand into television production by joining forces with Sony to release new TV sets that allow viewers to browse the Internet. The high-definition sets, which were unveiled in New York, will have LCD screens ranging from 24 inches to 46 inches and a remote control system that comes with the standard QWERTY keyboard to enter search requests, send emails or make comments on the Web whilst simultaneously whilst watching television.

The Google-powered TVs can search the Internet, programme guides and find all video connected to a requested entered into a search bar at the top of the screen. Furthermore, consumers will be able to search for their favourite television programs and Websites on the same screen, at the same time. This means that Google TV will make it possible for consumers to search the Web, access Facebook and watch films on YouTube in the comfort of their sitting rooms. Twitter and a number of music sites such as Napster, Pandora and Vevo, have also designed features for the system.
The new TVs will be built on Google’s Android operating system, use Intel Atom processor and navigate the Web via the Google Chrome browser. As the Internet television sets go on sale this month, it will be interesting to see how successful they will eventually become in the increasingly competitive market if the price is right.

How To Create 3D Euroleague Logo In CorelDraw

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 03:32:08 PDT

In this tutorial i will demonstrate how to create 3D euroleague Logo in coreldraw

Step 1
This is original image of Euroleague Logo.

Step 2
For start open new document and start drawing. Begin from the circle.

Step 3
Draw proporcional smaler circle inside.

Step 4
Color them, select toghether and use Trim option.

Step 5
Smaler circle will cut bigger one and only this will ring stay.

Amazing 50 Digital Artworks from Photoshop Masters

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:12:51 PDT

Amazing 50 Digital Artworks from Photoshop Masters

GTX 460 WHDI Edition the First Wireless graphic card by Galaxy

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:04:32 PDT

Galaxy outs the GTX 460 WHDI Edition the World’s First Wireless Graphics Card Enabling PC-to-TV Connectivity , allowing you to stream video ,pictures and more using five antennas sticking off the back of the video card send the content out to the TV to a small black wireless receiver box that you connect to an input on your TV set , also The latency of the card promises to be less than one millisecond making it appropriate for gaming.

The card use WHDI technology from AMIMON as the platform for it’s new Galaxy GTX 460 WHDI Edition shipping in October.

The Galaxy GeForce GTX 460 WHDI Edition provides an uncompressed wireless PC-to-TV connection enabling consumers to view the entire content of their PC screen on their big screen TV. AMIMON’s WHDI technology has no noticeable latency (less than one millisecond) making it an ideal solution for gaming. The no-latency link enables consumers to enjoy full interactive PC applications on their TV. Content such as Internet video, flash media, digital photos and PC games can all be viewed and experienced on the TV with a convenient wireless connection.

How To Create Astonishing Nightclub Themed 3D Typography

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:10:49 PDT

To Create this tutorial astonishing nightclub we will use Photoshop, Illustrator, and Cinema 4D to create a stunning nightclub themed 3D composite.

Let’s get started!

Use Photoshop CS5 Extended to Create a Simple 3D Logo

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:47:16 PDT

Today, Zorana Gee, Adobe Photoshop Product Manager will walk us through a simple design project using Photoshop CS5 Extended’s 3D tools. In this tutorial you will receive a brief introduction to the 3D workspace in Photoshop and receive some great tips on how to incorporate 3D into your Photoshop workflow.

Zorana has been on the Photoshop team for over 10 years and has been involved with Photoshop Extended from the beginning. Zorana was instrumental to the 3D effort as well as driving many feature improvements within Photoshop. She is the author of 3D in Photoshop: the Ultimate Guide for Creative Professionals and the iPad app, Photoshop 3D Guide. Zorana speaks worldwide representing Adobe and the Photoshop family line of professional products.

How to Create a Banana Ship in Photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:26:08 PDT

In this Tutorial, we will create a fantasy flying ship from a photo of a banana.

Tutorial Details

Program: Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator CS4+
Difficulty: Intermediate
Estimated Completion Time: 4 Hours

Let’s get started!

Amazing jQuery Navigation Tutorials

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:28:16 PDT

jQuery is the right choice to create an attractive, dynamic and usable navigation. The most important of these is making it easier for users to visit your website. Here are 20 tutorials how to create navigation menus using jQuery, accompanied by demonstrations in each tutorial for web designers and web developers.

1. Puffer Fish Navigation - Demo here

2. Fancy Navigation with jQuery – demo here

3. Slide and Hide Section Navigation – demo here

4. Mega Dropdown Navigation – demo here

5. Kwicks Menu with jQuery – demo here

Marvelous Photographs by Drew Hopper

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:39:52 PDT

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How to Make a Stormy Fantasy Scene in Photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:51:36 PDT

In This Tutorials we Learn how to create this surreal fantasy image of a lady on an epic budgie. You’ll learn how to combine and blend several stock photos, create a rain storm, then finish it off with a photo effect.

Let's Get Started

How To Create in Photoshop a Fantasy Girlbird Illustration

noreply@blogger.com (tuts) — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:30:19 PDT

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a fantasy bird girl illustration using digital painting and photo manipulation techniques.

Tutorial Details

Program: Adobe Photoshop CS4+
Difficulty: Advanced
Estimated Completion Time: 7 - 10 Hours

Let’s get started!