mickyroudy

funny videos

2012-06-09T10:56:00.000-07:00

here are some funny videos to have fun

here are some funny videos to have fun
if you want me to upload more funny videos (subscribe) to me and i will add more videos

download free sony vegas intro (and how to edit it)

2012-06-09T10:54:00.002-07:00

hey guys..today I will give you free sony vegas intro

hey guys..today I will give you free sony vegas intro
download link: http://adf.ly/773003/sony-vegas-intro-1
extract it with winrar
if you don't have winrar download it from here:
http://adf.ly/773003/win-rar
sry I forgot to mention in this video how to edit it so I made a new video on how to edit sony vegas templates and intros
video link: http://adf.ly/773003/edit-sony-vegas-intro-video

how to edit sony vegas intro template!!HD!!

2012-06-09T10:53:00.003-07:00

in this video your are going to learn how to edit text in sony vegas..it's very easy

in this video your are going to learn how to edit text in sony vegas..it's very easy
if you want to download the intro in the project go to http://adf.ly/773003/sony-vegas-intro-1-video and then download it from the discription
if you don't have sony vegas iam going to make a video on how to get it for free

vb 2010 tutorials(hacking and remember passowords and publishing)

2012-06-09T10:51:00.003-07:00

This is a video collection i made to help you in hacking and make other things in VB
download the project of how to make a phishing program here

This is a video collection i made to help you in hacking and make other things in VB
download the project of how to make a phishing program here:
http://adf.ly/773003/project
download the code of how to make a phishing program here:
http://adf.ly/773003/phishing-code
download codes how to make a program remembers passwords and etc.. here: http://adf.ly/773003/code-re
download projects how to make a program remembers passwords and etc.. here: http://adf.ly/773003/project-re

how to put any(copyrighted) music on youtube videos (music copyright issue)

2012-06-09T10:50:00.002-07:00

step1: get audacity from http://adf.ly/773003/audacity-download
step2: get lame_enc plugin (for mp3 exporting):
http://adf.ly/773003/lame-download
step3: put desired song into audacity
step4: click on edit , select , all
step5: go to effect , change speed
step6: replace 0.000 with 3.00
step7: click file, export as MP3 file
Note:: during your first Mp3 save, it may ask you to locate the plugin by yourself. The default location for this plugin is:
C: Program Files/Lame for Audacity/ (the icon with a gear on it)

how to make a program remember things (passwords-usernames,etc...)in vb

2012-06-09T10:49:00.002-07:00

Today I am going to show you how to make your program remember passwords and usernames, etc....

Today I am going to show you how to make your program remember passwords and usernames, etc....
download codes link: http://adf.ly/773003/code-re
download project : http://adf.ly/773003/project-re
Watch how to convert a program to .exe:
http://adf.ly/2OCkN
see how to make a phishing (hack) tutorial in vb HD:
http://adf.ly/773003/phishing-video

how to publish a program in VB 2010(.exe)

2012-06-09T10:48:00.001-07:00

today I'm going to show you how to convert a program to.exe
see how to make a phishing (hack) tutorial in vb HD

today I'm going to show you how to convert a program to.exe
see how to make a phishing (hack) tutorial in vb HD:
http://adf.ly/773003/phishing-video

how to send infinite nudges in msn.!! HD!!

2012-06-09T10:46:00.001-07:00

today i am going to show you how to send infinite nudges in messenger for free.. without waiting time..

today i am going to show you how to send infinite nudges in messenger for free.. without waiting time..

to download the patch go to http://www.apatch.org

How to download a video from youtube and convert it to MP3 without softw...

2012-06-09T10:44:00.003-07:00

Today I'm going to show you how to download a video from youtube for free and how to convert the video into MP3 without the need of any software

Today I'm going to show you how to download a video from youtube for free and how to convert the video into MP3 without the need of any software

To download a youtube video add a the word "kiss" in the link of the video
example: http://www.KISSyoutube.com\watch?v=XDt_x4gOKuE

Note: you will have a message when you go to the link you must click on "RUN" to continue

To convert the youtube video into MP3 :
1- copy the link of the video
2- link: http://www.listentoyoutube.com
3-paste the link
4-press go

TEXT TRICKS (how to flip text!!) HD

2012-06-09T10:43:00.003-07:00

Today I'm going to show you some text tricks on how to flip text upside down and decieve your friends.... enjoy!! :)

Today I'm going to show you some text tricks on how to flip text upside down and decieve your friends.... enjoy!! :)

link: http://www.flipmytext.com

how to change firefox template for free [HD] !!!!

2012-06-09T10:42:00.001-07:00

IN THIS video you will learn how to change firefox template for free without any money

IN THIS video you will learn how to change firefox template for free without any money

THE LINK: http://adf.ly/773003/change-firefox-template

Hand-Stitched Social Media Icons – Photoshop CS6

2012-06-09T10:40:00.002-07:00

Hand-Stitched Social Media Icons – Photoshop CS6 In this tutorial we’re going to take a look at how to create some very cool little hand-stitched icons for Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus. Even if you’re brand new to Photoshop you will be able to follow along with this tutorial and create some great little graphics....

Step 1:

I am starting with a document sized 1280 pixels by 720 pixels. I’ve dropped in a background and am ready to start creating these icons.

Step 2:

Grab your Ellipse Tool (U) and set it to draw a Shape. Check out the screenshot to see what the Tool Control bar looks like. NOTE: If you are using an older version of Photoshop you will want to use the icon on the far left of this bar to create a Shape Layer.

Step 3:

Hold down your Shift key and drag out a small circle into the center of your document like I have.

Step 4:

Look to your Layers panel and double click the thumbnail of our new Shape Layer and fill it with the color: #81bee9

Step 5:

It’s now time to add a few Layer Styles. Let’s start with a nice Drop Shadow by going Layer>Layer Style>Drop Shadow. Use the settings I have in the screenshot below.

Step 6:

The next thing we’ll do is add an Inner Shadow and change the expected black to a white so this “shadow” will act more like a nice highlight across the top of our icon. Go ahead and use the settings that I have in the screenshot below.

Step 7:

To add a little more shape to our icon we’re going to use a Bevel and Emboss Layer Style. Check out the screenshot below and carefully follow the settings that I have.

Step 8:

We also need to add some texture to this icon to really start to give it a fabric feel; something that would definitely be stitched. To do this, we first need to create a pattern. Go File>New and create a 4×4 document.

Step 9:

Hit Cmd/Ctrl + 0 (zero) to zoom that document all the way in to the maximum size for easy viewing. Create a new Layer, Layer>New>Layer, and drag the “Background” Layer and drop it on the trash can at the bottom of the Layers panel to get rid of it. You will be left with the transparent background.

Step 10:

Grab the Pencil Tool (B) and set the size to 1px. Set the foreground and background colors to their default black and white by hitting the letter “D”. Place tow black squares as I have by clicking with the Pencil Tool in those two spots. NOTE: Remember the document is only 4×4 and we’re drawing with a 1×1 pixel Pencil Tool. It will be easy to drop a mark on the pixel spots shown in the screenshot.

Step 11:

Hit the letter “X” to move white into the foreground color and place two white squares right below the black squares as I have in the screenshot.

Step 12:

Go Edit>Define Pattern. Give your pattern a name and hit “OK”. We can now close out this pattern file, no need to save it, we’re completely finished with it.

Step 13:

Now go Layer>Layer Style>Pattern Overlay. You are going to want to click on the pattern thumbnail to bring up all the patterns we have.

Step 14:

Simply select the pattern we just created to apply it to our icon.

Step 15:

Set the Blend Mode to Soft Light and reduce the opacity to 45%. Hit “OK”.

Step 16:

The next step is to add the stitching. This is actually pretty simple due to a feature I don’t use much in Photoshop –Type on a path. Select the Shape Layer we’ve just applied all of our Layer Styles to and notice that the path appears in the Photoshop document.

Step 17:

Grab your Text Tool and choose a simple sans-serif typeface, I chose Arial, and set the size to 8 pt. It is also important to choose the “Strong” Anti-Aliasing. Hover your cursor over the path and you will see the “Type-on-a-Path” cursor appear…

Step 18:

Click and create a circle of black colored dashes (-) around the path just like I have. TIP: Don’t worry if the dashes don’t seem to be perfectly centered around the path, we’ve still got some adjustments to make.

Step 19:

Go Edit>Transform>Scale and set the width and height (W and H) to 75% each.

Step 20:

Go Layer>Layer Style>Drop Shadow to drop a shadow underneath this stitching. Use the settings that I have below.

Step 21:

Reduce the Fill Opacity to 35% for the finished stitching.

Step 22:

All we have left to do is add our social media icon. Let’s drop in the Twitter bird and add a simple Drop Shadow to polish off this icon!

Step 23:

Shift select both Layers that make up this icon and go Layer>Duplicate Layers and hit OK. Use the Move Tool (V) to move the new icon either right or left and double click the thumbnail for our Shape Layer to change the color. I’m going with a Facebook blue: #685f9d, add the logo and you’ve created another icon in seconds! TIP: The Google Plus color I used is: #c04737

Download FREE sure target intro in adobe after effects

2012-06-07T05:24:00.001-07:00

Download this wonderful sure target template for free...

Now you can download this free intro

DOWNLOAD: http://adf.ly/773003/sure-target

35+ Awesome Vector Portrait Inspiration For Your Collections

2012-06-07T05:21:00.001-07:00

As being a popular method employed for representing images by means of digital and graphics enhanced artistic masterpieces a vector portrait illustration has been used in many programs. The majority of the digital illustrators take advantage of the vector representation to boost the appeal in addition to give obvious message of the concept that it really wants to ship to the specific audiences.

The current day’s advertising and marketing market includes a popular for vector portrait inspiration because of the moment visual impact it provides towards the clients. Just about all types of advertising firms are today searching forward to produce a large market understanding of their items or services with the aid of vector illustrations. These illustrations take advantage of vector images in easy and obvious way to ensure that it may be understood by any kind of audience. It’s produced with the aid of a lot of shapes, lines, curves, and points which are combined within the accurate method to represent the thought of the information it’s supported by. They provide the right description of their contents and could be thus understood by everybody easier. When in comparison towards the traditional types of images ad bitmaps, representation through vector portrait inspiration offer good quality in addition to cleaner identity from the context that they aim at.

Among a lot of large advantages of the vector illustrations, one of these includes the look or representation from the lines from the vector images. The proportions from the vector images always remain similar and also the lines remain smooth despite the rise or decrease in their size. Changing the traditional pixel based pictures, these drawings are employed to signify images which can be super scalable and even more clear. Vector portrait inspiration, these images could be enhanced using three dimensional features also. Given that they can scale up to and including size that you need to, they’re also highly employed for web creating reasons. You are able to build a website superbly with amazing vector graphics, skills and colours providing an authentic and aesthetically enhanced appeal. vector portrait inspiration are great to understand the way they did the labored.

So after some research i finally found the 40+ Vector portrait inspiration images.

1. Wise up

You received What you want, Now you can hardly stand it though, By now you know It&#8217s not going to quit Sensible Up &#8211 Aimee Mann

2. Vector Kid

Lawnz’s Kid is the end result of about eight hours’ perform in Illustrator CS2, a cheeky, characterful vector portrait.

3. Hawaiian-Eyes

based mostly off of my earlier photograph &#8220belle&#8221, i hope you all like it as considerably as the photo! model: Jessica punchameleon.

4. Thawana Broska

This picture was taken on March 29, 2009.

5. Captain-Malcolm-Reynolds

Well appear at this. &#8216Pears we got right here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?

6. Lubitel

7. The Red Sun By Alex

8. Portrait by Alex

operate is executed in CORELDRAW X3

9. KasiaGacek_Vector Portrait

10. Listen

This portrait of Ashlee Simpson, reworked from an image from her album cover, has some outstanding vector detailing in her jacket, trainers and beat box.

11. Vector Potrait By Tusami

A undertaking for Business Art class: to develop a vector portrait of yourself. I feel my turned out quite dang excellent&#8230 vectors are enjoyable but evil and time consuming too. We have been supposed to mimic the fashion carried out on the film Scanner Darkly. But this one was entered into the Smoke brush art present and I got 2nd put in state-of-the-art personal computer graphics and the scholarship to go to the Art Institute of Colorado&#8217s Summer season Studio Workshop Animation system! Yey!!! I&#8217m quite proud of it_TUSAMI.

12. Zodiac Themed Portrait

Hello fellow vector fanatics, my name is Sharon Milne and I at times go below the moniker ChewedKandi. I’ve been interested in digital art for more than a decade now but it wasn’t right up until five many years ago that I received into vector art. Considering that then it’s been an addictive and scalable journey with Adobe® Illustrator®.

13. Hellonastick

My entry for &#8220FOR THE WIN CONTEST&#8221 vector/vexel portrait category_Rizaldy.

14. Crisvector

15. Pixie

This vector portrait of Bjork realistically reflects the singer’s elfin charm.

16. Rather Woman Is Surfing

A new vexel style I tried to add much more contrast to this, given that all of my old vexels appeared washed up and bland. So&#8230 right here&#8217s my attempt at a very contrast vexel_INTO YOUR HEART.

17. Christian Bale

18. Eternal Flame

A vexel of Rihanna.The shading on the shirt is mainly improvised so I hope I received it proper. The background is vexelled too.

19. Hillary Duff

I love the end result of the hair but hate the necklace. Received lazy towards the finish with the necklace so it&#8217s a bit messy_MS Correct BLUE.

20. Michelle Trachtenberg vector

21. Hey Small Ville by into your heart

Little Ville Lois&#8217 ever affectionate nickname for Mr. Clark Kent, A.K.A Brandon Routh.

22. I Enjoy Mason Face Art

Artwork of my nephew Mason from a 2003 photograph.I sketched and planned out the artwork in Photoshop CS4 and finalized it in Illustrator CS4_MEL MAECELO.

23. Matthew Goode Art

Matthew Goode seems in Tom Ford&#8217s &#8220A Single Man&#8221. The original picture is from the January Situation of GQ Magazine and it was taken by Peggy Sirota.

24. kaley cuoco

Manufactured with Photoshop 7

25. Angelina Jolie

26. Purple

27. Penelope

Since I admire Penelope Cruz. I made an artwork of her_GERSHNOV.

28. Till I Get Over You

Artist Tash25 renders this portrait in a super-realist fashion, crisply capturing the play of light on the model’s face and dress. The delicate monochrome tonality lends the image a great retro ambiance.

29. Sherri Dupree

30. Lyla Art

Artwork that I did fo the really cute Lyla. I referenced it from a picture taken by her parents.It was quite challenging doing the colours&#8211baby skin tends to be smooth and it was difficult to get the proper quantity of specifics in.I started out this in October 2009 and ultimately got close to to finishing it January 2010_MEL MARCELO.

31. Brian Cat Art

Private artwork I did from a picture I found online. He&#8217s a pal on MySpace&#8211I contacted him about utilizing the picture but I have yet to receive a reply. Considering that I adore it, I went ahead and did the artwork_MEL MARCELO.

32. Kimura Kaela

This is a portrait of one of my favored Japanese singers,Kimura Kaela.

33. Steve Jobs

Hello! I&#8217m Cristiano Siqueira, an illustrator from Sao Paulo / Brazil.

34. Diego Luna Art

1 of my favourite actors. I referenced this artwork from a wonderful photo that I spotted in an issue of Entertainment Weekly from spring 2008_MEL MARCELO.

35. Bob-burnquist

Hello! I&#8217m Cristiano Siqueira, an illustrator from Sao Paulo / Brazil.

36. Zooey-Deschanel

37. Ethan&#8217s Colored Portrait

The hair was tough once more, but thank goodness for individuals hair brushes from deviant art. Extra much more hair on the within instead of relying on the gradient filling alone. Also used a thicker stroke this time all around to give far more fullness to his head of hair.

38. Dickeys vector

39. Kristen Stewart

40. Vector Potrait of Trent

This photograph was taken on September 5, 2009.

Create Sci-Fi Style Laser Light Special Effect in Photoshop

2012-06-05T09:24:00.000-07:00

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Design this Sci-Fi Style Laser Special Effect in Photoshop. A beginner friendly tutorial, this effect can be widely used in a range of designs (not just sci-fi) to add extra effect, have a try :)

The process of creating this is really quite simple and can’t be done in just 3 easy steps below. Techniques include some basic layer blending, selection, painting skills.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial:

(Background image used: Enter the Inferno by alexiuss)

PSD File Download

OK Let’s get started!

Step 1

Create a new document with black background (size doesn’t really matter in this tutorial), create a new layer and use the rectangular marquee tool to draw a selection, and fill it with a colour of your choice:

Deselect the selection, apply the following Gaussian Blur filter setting to this layer:

Then use the free-transform tool to compress it down, as shown below:

If you’re not quite happy with the colour chosen, you can use the Hue/Saturation Adjustment (Ctrl + U) to adjust the colour slightly. Then use a soft eraser to remove some parts of the line as shown below:

Duplicate this layer once, further compress it down until it forms a slim line:

You will have the following effect:

Step 2

Create a new layer, use a soft white brush to paint a dot over the line as shown below:

Set this new dot layer as a clipping mask to the previous layer, you will have the following effect:

Create another create on top, again use the white brush to paint a big dot, compress it down as shown below:

Change the layer blending mode to “overlay”, duplicate this layer around 3-4 times, you will have the following effect:

Step 3

Now we want to add some air flow around the laser effect – you will either use the cloud filter (mixing with a 30px feather Lasso Tool) to render some cloud over the laser, or you can use a free cloud/smoke brush (you can find lots of those on the internet), add some cloud effect over it:

Then use the warp tool to warp this cloud to make it stretched, and form a flowing effect:

and here is the effect you’re aiming to achieve:

OK we’re done! Group all these above layer into a folder, and add it to your design!

You can adjust the layer opacity of the original laser base layer (the very first layer we created in this tutorial) to fade the effect, or compress the layer group with free transform tool to reduce it’s height and width:

That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful! Till next time, have a great day!

23 Stunning and Dreamy Ancient City Landscape Illustrations

2012-06-05T09:16:00.003-07:00

There is something about illustrations that I simply love. Illustrations give you the power to put magic in your work. An artist can put his imagination on canvas using illustration. That is preciously why I love illustrations. Photographs show you what is true; after all you can take the photograph of something that exists. Of course you can manipulate and enhance the photographs but nothing like illustration where you draw something out of your imagination.

Today’s theme is dreamy ancient city landscape illustrations. Therefore, it is interesting to see illustrations of ancient legendary cities like Atlantis and other mystical city landscapes as envisioned by the illustration artists. The landscapes are so different across every painting but one thing that remains constant is that the illustrations portray the misty city landscapes during night time. After all that’s the only way you can create the dreamy effect. It is interesting to see how the artists have envisioned the city landscape. You see the ancient cities in trees, forests, hills, near seas or oceans, on mountain tops, on caves etc. In fact some of the cities look futuristic rather than ancient.

Hopefully you will enjoy watching the dreamy ancient city landscape illustrations.

Atlantis

Source : aksu

The Lost City

Source : jcbarquet

Eldt

Source : KingCloud

Secret Valley

Source : Alayna

Beacon

Source : andreasrocha

The Hidden City

Source : adib

Floating Island

Source : Star

Cave SoE

Source : dem888

Misty temple

Source : YuChengHong

Peak city

Source : Star

The Hidden City

Source : grantregan

The Nordic Gate

Source : Ginji

Netherworld Archipelago – the Capital

Source : JessevanDijk

The Forgotten Atlantis

Source : firedudewraith

Village

Source : LactroX

Medieval City

Source : GordonTarpley

Soul of the Freedom

Source : 6Doug9

Ancient lava city

Source : HeQun

Shpellë

Source : HeQun

Tree City

Source : Falindriel

Strong hold Lights

Source : PyroFirearms

Archisoilus, Master of the Ground

Source : Edarneor

Age of Thrones

Quick Tips: Instagram your images using Photoshop

2012-06-05T09:09:00.004-07:00

Instagram reinvented the photo sharing on our social media structure. It's a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your pictures to friends and family. And what I like the most about Instagram, are the various schemes that offers you to filter your pictures with your own little touch.

My all-time favorite Instagram filter is the "Nashville" and today, I will show you a quick tutorial about how to achieve that same effect on your images. It's a very simple effect and very easy to accomplish in Photoshop.

Step 1

Open your image in Photoshop and double-click on the background layer to make into a layer and named it Nashville.

For this tutorial, I've used an image from Patrick Smith from Patrick Smith Photography. You can check more of this work on his Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrick-smith-photography.

Step 2

Create a new layer and fill it with the color (Red: 247 , Green: 217 , Blue: 173) and leave the opacity to 100% and your blending options to "Multiply".

Step 3

Click back on the "Nashville" layer and click Image > Adjustments > Curves. First go into the green channel and put the output to 37 and then go to the blue channel and put the output to 133.

Step 4

After click Image > Adjustments > Levels, change the gamma (the middle) to 1.36 and the input to 236.

Step 5

Now let's play the contrast by going to Image > Adjustments > Brightness / Contrast. Put the brightness to 6 and contrast to 51. Don't forget to uncheck "Use Legacy" if it is checked.

Step 6

Give another curves to the image by again going to Image > Adjustments > Curves. But this time go to the green channel and put the input to 13 and in the blue channel, put the input to 88.

Step 7

To give more depth let's change again the contrast by going to Image > Adjustments > Brightness / Contrast. Simply enter the brightness to -6 and contrast to 33.

Step 8

Give another one last curves touch by going to Image > Adjustments > Curves. Go to the red channel and put the output to 4 and in the blue channel, put the output to 14. Lastly merge all the layers to visible.

Final Words

That's it! This is how we create the "Nashville" filter from Instagram in Photoshop. At this point, the rest is up to your creativity to experiment different concepts to finish this image.

You can also use the same technique for your own images and also create an action in Photoshop. By creating an action, you'll just have to play the action instead of redoing all the steps!

Download the Photoshop File

Download the Photoshop file used for this tutorial

Undress a Giraffe in Photoshop.. [PART 3]

2012-06-05T09:06:00.001-07:00

Have you ever wanted to know what a Giraffe looks like without its spots? If so, this tutorial is for you, you pervert! Today, we will demonstrate how to undress a giraffe by removing its spots. We will then show how to turn its spots into an outfit that will be draped over an ironing board. Pretty cool! Let’s get started!...

Step 31

Apply Perspective transformation.

Step 32

Make active top layer of the jacket layers. Erase iron and area above ironing board. Try to imitate skin wrinkles shape.

Step 33

Draw white line with Line Tool in a new layer above giraffe jacket, use weight around 13 px and apply Gaussian Blur Filter (R=10px).

Step 34

Change Blending Mode for this layer on "Overlay".

Step 35

Copy neck area from the original retouched Giraffe layer. Paste it into a new layer below ironing board layer. Apply flip Vertical transformation to this shape and Gradient Overlay layer style effect with settings like on the screen shot below.

Step 36

The final part of our work is creating the drop shadow effect for Giraffe and Ironing board. Load selection for Giraffe shape (Command/Ctrl + click Giraffe layer thumbnail). Create a new layer below of the all visible giraffe layers. Fill selection with any color.

Step 37

Apply Distort transformation to created shape. Edit > Transform > Distort. Move top edge and left bottom corner left and down. Try to combine drop shadow and legs in same points. Correct central legs shadow with Eraser Tool.

Step 38

This is result of our transformation.

Step 39

Set Fill parameter 0% and Opacity around 20% for the shadow layer. Apply Gradient Overlay layer style effect. Make active Quick mask Mode, fill layer with linear gradient like on the example below.

Step 40

Click Quick Mask icon and apply Gaussian Blur to the selected area of the shadow layer.

Step 41

Duplicate shadow layer and apply Gaussian Blur filter with radius = 50 px and change Opacity to 70-75%.

Step 42

Create shadow effect for the ironing board using the same method. Load selection for ironing board and jacket, Apply Fill = 0%, Gradient Overlay effect with the same parameters. Apply Blurring 10 px and duplicate shadow layer with Opacity 75% and More Blurring.

Final Image

Undress a Giraffe in Photoshop.. [PART 2]

2012-06-05T09:04:00.001-07:00

Step 16

To remove stripes traces, use Patch Tool. Drag the selection border to the clean and textured skin area. When you release the mouse button, the trace of the selected area is patched with the sampled pixels. Repeat these actions to mask all stripe traces.

Step 17

You will have giraffe body without spots.

Step 18

Correct the "Clean skin" layer edges with smooth Eraser Tool to create blending effect between original (spotty) bottom layer and "Clean skin" layer.

Step 19

Mask the small defects with Patch Tool and Spot Healing Brush Tool. Choose a brush size in the options bar. A brush that is slightly larger than the area you want to fix works best so that you can cover the entire area with one click.

Step 20

Now we can change skin color and levels balance. Add "Gradient Map", "Levels" and "Black and White" adjustment layers and create Clipping Mask for "Clean skin" layer. Apply following settings.

Step 21

Insert Ironing Board image, it doesn’t require any changes and adjustments.

Step 22

Return to the retouched Giraffe layer and duplicate it once again. We will make Giraffe’s jacket using a new copy. Erase head and legs area.

Step 23

This is a shape for our future jacket.

Step 24

Correct the shape of the spotty jacket using Warp Transformation. Make a shape flatter. Go to Edit > Transform >Warp.

Step 25

Liquify filter from Filters menu will help you to create flat shape effect. Use large Forward Warp Tool to correct large areas and smaller Warp Tool size to work with parts such as legs or skin wrinkles.

Step 26

Now we have flatter shape for the jacket.

Step 27

Apply Free transformation to jacket shape, make it smaller and little bit stretched by horizontal.

Step 28

Select top part (above ironing board bottom edge) of the spotty jacket, cut out this part and paste it into a new layer. Stretch it by vertical using Free Transformation like on the example below.

Step 29

Apply Perspective Transformation to the top edge, Menu > Edit > Transform > Perspective.

Step 30

Keep active modified top part of jacket layer. Cut out top part again (above ironing board top edge), just leave stripe above trouser-legs ("Layer 20" on the screen shot below). Stretch top part by vertical again.

Undress a Giraffe in Photoshop.. [PART 1]

2012-06-05T09:02:00.001-07:00

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Tutorial Assets

The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.

Step 1

Let’s start by creating a new document in Adobe Photoshop. The size of document is 2200×3200 pixels at 72 px/inch of resolution. Start by filling the background with any color (white for example).

Step 2

First of all let’s create a simple and plain background. You may crate your own more interesting and multi-layered background – old style wallpapers or may be savanna landscape.

We will use gradients and filters. Unlock the "Background" – right click on background thumbnail and choose "Layer from background", click "Add a layer style" small icon in the bottom part of the Layers Palette. Apply "Color Overlay" and "Gradient Overlay" styles. Use setting and colors just like on the screen shots below.

Step 3

Create a new empty layer above background layer – click "Create a new layer" icon . Choose huge soft, light color Brush Tool and draw a spot in the central part of the document.

Step 4

Create a new layer above light spot layer. Go to Menu > Filter > Render > Clouds.

Choose Filters menu again and find Blur filter, apply Motion Blur and Gaussian Blur filters to clouds layer one by one. Add Layer Mask to blurred layer, click "Add Layer Mask" icon. Make Layer Mask active and fill it with black and white Reflected Gradient in the bottom part of the document.

Step 5

In order to create Vignette effect, choose Menu > Filter > Distort > Lens Correction > play with Vignette Amount & Midpoint settings.

Step 6

Merge all created layers. Make lighter the right part of our background, the light source will be directed from right. Make active Quick Mask Mode , choose Linear "black and white" Gradient Tool. Fill layer with gradient from left to right edge of the document. The left side should become pink. Make Quick Mask inactive (click icon).

Step 7

You will have selected area like on the screen shot. Play with Levels settings. Menu > Image > Adjustments Levels, move gray marker left. You can add small noise effect, to the created background layer. Go to Menu > Filter > Noise > Add Noise > 4; Uniform.

Step 8

Insert giraffe image. Menu > File > Place – choose giraffe .jpg file. In order to separate giraffe silhouette from background, choose Polygonal Lasso Tool. You may use other methods, but this one is pretty easy and convenient. Click in the giraffe silhouette area to set the starting point. Continue clicking to set endpoints for subsequent segments. To close the selection border click over the starting point.

Step 9

Click Refine Edge to improve the quality of a selection’s edges.

Step 10

Use following Refine Edge settings. Click "Ok" and inverse selection: Menu > Select > Inverse. Erase or clear selected background area (Menu > Edit > Clear).

Step 11

In order to retouch and improve color balance of the Giraffe image choose Shadows /Highlights from Image > Adjustments menu. Apply following settings:

Step 12

Add the new adjustments layers above Giraffe layer- "Levels", "Color Balance", "Selective Color Options", click icon in the bottom menu of the Layers Palette. Select all adjustments layers (make them active), right click > choose "Create Clipping Mask". Apply setting for each adjustment layer like on the examples below. Fill "Selective Color" and "Levels" Layers Masks with linear "black and white" gradient.

Step 13

Load selection for white stripes with Magic Wand Tool. It is not necessary to load selection for all white spots at once, you may do this work by portions. Go to Menu > Select > Modify > Expand (expand by 1px).

Step 14

Duplicate the retouched Giraffe layer and fill selected stripes with brown color in the duplicated layer, name it "Clean skin layer". The original retouched Giraffe layer will be needed in the future steps, be sure that the original layer is below duplicate). Use 0% hardness brush and hold down the "Alt" key to activate Eyedropper Tool and find right color next to each stripe.

Step 15

You should have something like this and you may fill out white areas with color step by step. Brown color stripes will be helpful to create more accurate result.

20 Fresh CSS3 Tutorials

2012-06-05T08:58:00.002-07:00

The design industry is probably one of the fastest changing and growing. Designers have to keep their eyes on everything, including new trends in visual design, as well as interaction technologies like jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3. Designers are using these technologies to express more creativity in design production and make user experience richer.

In this post today, I would like to share with you some amazing and beautiful CSS3 tutorials for creating various web design elements and interactions. Use this collection to learn something new and be prepared for the near future of the web.

Quickly Build a Swish Teaser Page With CSS3

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a teaser page using just CSS, no images or even a Photoshop design. Use it for any app or website that’s getting ready to launch.

How to Create a CSS3 Dropdown Menu [Tutorial]

In this short tutorial you will learn to code navigation menu in pure CSS3. Simple, clean and professional outcome.

Orman Clark’s Vertical Navigation Menu: The CSS3 Version

By following this tutorial you will learn to recreate Orman Clark’s vertical navigation menu with CSS3 and jQuery while using the minimal amount of images possible.

Accordion with CSS3

In this tutorial you will see how to create an accordion that will animate the content areas on opening and closing using hidden inputs and labels.

Tutorial: CTA button without images using CSS3 and Entypo

In this tutorial you will learn to create button using 100% CSS and Entypo. Buttons without images are more flexible, require less data to be downloaded and are easily changed and updated.

Create the Illusion of Stacked Elements with CSS3 Pseudo-Elements

In this tutorial Tom Kenny will guide you in creating the illusion of stacked elements with CSS3 pseudo-elements.

Pure CSS3 LavaLamp Menu

Another cool tutorial for creating originally jQuery based effect. Learn how to create LavaLamp effect using only CSS3 transitions.

CSS3 signup form

In this article you will find out how to design a clean and attractive CSS3 signup form.

Timeline Portfolio

In this tutoriail you will see how to create beautiful and impressive portfolio using Timeline jQuery plugin and CSS3.

Apple-like Login Form with CSS 3D Transforms

In this tutorial you will see how you can use CSS3 transforms to create an interesting flipping effect on an Apple-inspired form.

How to Create an Image Slider using jQuery and CSS3 [Tutorial]

In this tutorial you will learn to create a slider with “Nivo Slider jQuery Script” and CSS3.

Making an Impressive Product Showcase with CSS3

Amazing tutorial showing you how to spice up a plain old product page with some CSS3 magic and jQuery.

How to Create a Stylish Image Content Slider in Pure CSS3 [Tutorial]

In this tutorial you will see how to create a clean and beautiful CSS3 only image slider.

CSS3 Pricing Table

This tutorial consists of a whole bunch of new CSS3 features including: transforms, gradient, shadow and nth-child.

CSS3 breadcrumbs

Catalin Rosu will show you how to create your own cool CSS3 breadcrumbs in order to increase website’s usability.

Animated Content Tabs with CSS3

In this tutorial you are going to implement some simple CSS3 content tabs using radio buttons together with the :checked pseudo-class and sibling combinators.

Responsive Horizontal Layout

In this tutorial you will find out how to create a horizontal layout with several content panels.

Login and Registration Form with HTML5 and CSS3

In this tutorial you are going to create two HTML5 forms that will switch between login and registration using the CSS3 pseudo class :target.

Responsive Content Navigator with CSS3

In this tutorial Mary Lou will show you how to create a content navigator with CSS only.

How to Create Calendar using jQuery and CSS3 [Tutorial]

In this tutorial you will learn to code the CSS3 calendar using jQuery and jQuery UI.

How to Create a CSS3 Dropdown Menu

2012-06-05T06:33:00.000-07:00

In this short tutorial you will learn to code navigation menu in pure CSS3. Simple, clean and professional outcome.

Step 1 – HTML Markup

We will create an unordered list with a list item and an anchor tag for each menu link. To create the sub menu add another unordered list inside of the list.

1<ul class="menu">

2

3    <li><a href="#">My dashboard</a></li>

4    <li><a href="#">Likes</a></li>

5    <li><a href="#">Views</a>

6

7        <ul>

8            <li><a href="#" class="documents">Documents</a></li>

9            <li><a href="#" class="messages">Messages</a></li>

10            <li><a href="#" class="signout">Sign Out</a></li>

11        </ul>

12

13    </li>

14    <li><a href="#">Uploads</a></li>

15    <li><a href="#">Videos</a></li>

16    <li><a href="#">Documents</a></li>

17

18</ul>

Step 2 – Menu Layout

We will start to remove the margin, padding, border and outline from all the elements of the menu. Then we will add a fixed width and height to the menu, rounded corners and the CSS3 gradients. To align the links horizontally we will float the lists to left. We also need to set the position to relative because we will need that to align the sub menus.

1.menu,

2.menu ul,

3.menu li,

4.menu a {

5    margin: 0;

6    padding: 0;

7    border: none;

8    outline: none;

9}

10

11.menu {

12    height: 40px;

13    width: 505px;

14

15    background: #4c4e5a;

16    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #4c4e5a 0%,#2c2d33 100%);

17    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #4c4e5a 0%,#2c2d33 100%);

18    background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #4c4e5a 0%,#2c2d33 100%);

19    background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #4c4e5a 0%,#2c2d33 100%);

20    background: linear-gradient(top, #4c4e5a 0%,#2c2d33 100%);

21

22    -webkit-border-radius: 5px;

23    -moz-border-radius: 5px;

24    border-radius: 5px;

25}

26

27.menu li {

28    position: relative;

29    list-style: none;

30    float: left;

31    display: block;

32    height: 40px;

33}

We will hide the sub menu temporarily to be easier to style the first level.

`1`	`.menu ul {` `display:` `none; }`

Step 3 – Menu Links

To style the menu links we will add some basic CSS properties like font, color, padding, etc. Then we will add a dark text shadow and a color transition to create a smooth effect when the color changes on hover state. To create the links separator add a border to the left and right and then we will remove the left border from the first link and the right border from the last link. For the hover state we will only change the text color.

1.menu li a {

2    display: block;

3    padding: 0 14px;

4    margin: 6px 0;

5    line-height: 28px;

6    text-decoration: none;

7

8    border-left: 1px solid #393942;

9    border-right: 1px solid #4f5058;

10

11    font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;

12    font-weight: bold;

13    font-size: 13px;

14

15    color: #f3f3f3;

16    text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.6);

17

18    -webkit-transition: color .2s ease-in-out;

19    -moz-transition: color .2s ease-in-out;

20    -o-transition: color .2s ease-in-out;

21    -ms-transition: color .2s ease-in-out;

22    transition: color .2s ease-in-out;

23}

24

25.menu li:first-child a { border-left: none; }

26.menu li:last-child a{ border-right: none; }

27

28.menu li:hover > a { color: #8fde62; }

Step 4 – Sub Menu

First let’s remove this line of code that we have added on the second step.

`1`	`.menu ul {` `display:` `none; }`

Now we will style the sub menu. We will start to position the sub menu 40px from the top and 0px from the left of the menu item and add bottom rounded corners. We will set the opacity to 0 and on hover state to 1 to create the fade in/out effect. For the slide down/up effect we need to set the list height to 0px when is hidden and to 36px on hover state.

1.menu ul {

2    position: absolute;

3    top: 40px;

4    left: 0;

5

6    opacity: 0;

7    background: #1f2024;

8

9    -webkit-border-radius: 0 0 5px 5px;

10    -moz-border-radius: 0 0 5px 5px;

11    border-radius: 0 0 5px 5px;

12

13    -webkit-transition: opacity .25s ease .1s;

14    -moz-transition: opacity .25s ease .1s;

15    -o-transition: opacity .25s ease .1s;

16    -ms-transition: opacity .25s ease .1s;

17    transition: opacity .25s ease .1s;

18}

19

20.menu li:hover > ul { opacity: 1; }

21

22.menu ul li {

23    height: 0;

24    overflow: hidden;

25    padding: 0;

26

27    -webkit-transition: height .25s ease .1s;

28    -moz-transition: height .25s ease .1s;

29    -o-transition: height .25s ease .1s;

30    -ms-transition: height .25s ease .1s;

31    transition: height .25s ease .1s;

32}

33

34.menu li:hover > ul li {

35    height: 36px;

36    overflow: visible;

37    padding: 0;

38}

We will set the width of the sub menu links to 100px. Instead of left and right borders we will add a bottom one and remove it from the last link.

1.menu ul li a {

2    width: 100px;

3    padding: 4px 0 4px 40px;

4    margin: 0;

5

6    border: none;

7    border-bottom: 1px solid #353539;

8}

9

10.menu ul li:last-child a { border: none; }

To finish it we only need to add an icon to each sub menu link. To do it we will create a custom class for each one and add a background image.

menu a.documents { background: url(../img/docs.png) no-repeat 6px center; }

menu a.messages { background: url(../img/bubble.png) no-repeat 6px center; }

menu a.signout { background: url(../img/arrow.png) no-repeat 6px center; }

Conclusion

We’ve successfully created this pure CSS3 dropdown menu. If you have any question let me know in the comments. Also don’t forget to leave some feedback and share it with your friends. Follow us if you want to be the first to know about the latest tutorials and articles.

How to Create a Fast Hover Slideshow with CSS3

2012-06-05T06:08:00.000-07:00

A little fast-running image slideshow that plays on hover and pauses when mousing out. The current image will stay visible.

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Today I want to share a little hover slideshow with you. The main idea is to run a super-fast image slideshow on hover and show the current image when mousing out. It’s just a fancy effect to play with and I got the idea from Contain.r. We’ll be using CSS animations for the slideshow and control the pausing and running with animation-play-state.

Please note: this is just experimental and will only work as intended in browsers that support the respective CSS properties.

This is our simple structure:

<div class="hs-wrapper">

    <img src="images/1.jpg" alt="image01"/>

    <img src="images/2.jpg" alt="image02"/>

    <img src="images/3.jpg" alt="image03"/>

    <img src="images/4.jpg" alt="image04"/>

    <img src="images/5.jpg" alt="image05"/>

    <img src="images/6.jpg" alt="image06"/>

    <img src="images/7.jpg" alt="image07"/>

    <img src="images/8.jpg" alt="image08"/>

    <div class="hs-overlay">

        <span>Summer <strong>2012</strong></span>

    </div>

</div>

We’ll show and hide the images using an animation:

.hs-wrapper img{

    top: 0px;

    left: 0px;

    position: absolute;

    animation: showMe 0.8s linear infinite 0s forwards;

    animation-play-state: paused;

}

The animation will be paused and we’ll just run it on hover:

.hs-wrapper:hover img{

    animation-play-state: running;

}

The animation will simply make an image visible and put it on top of the “stack”:

@keyframes showMe {

    0% { visibility: visible; z-index: 100; }

    12.5% { visibility: visible; z-index: 100; }

    25% { visibility: hidden; z-index: 0; }

    100% { visibility: hidden; z-index: 0; }

}

As you can see, each image will have the same animation but we will start the animation for each image with a delay. We also want to reverse the stacking order of the images by setting the z-index accordingly. Since we will run the whole animation for 0.8 seconds, we’ll delay the start for each image with 0.1 second (except the first one):

.hs-wrapper img:nth-child(1){

    z-index: 9;

}

.hs-wrapper img:nth-child(2){

    animation-delay: 0.1s;

    z-index: 8;

}

.hs-wrapper img:nth-child(3){

    animation-delay: 0.2s;

    z-index: 7;

}

.hs-wrapper img:nth-child(4){

    animation-delay: 0.3s;

    z-index: 6;

}

<!-- ... and so on -->

The percentages of the animation are calculated as follows: take the 100% of the animation timespan and distribute 8 images over it. Each one runs 0.1 seconds which means that at 12.5% we want the second image to show. The second image that will show, will be on top of the current one (although they have the same z-index) because it follows in the HTML structure. Having tried some other possibilities (i.e. not messing around with the z-index, setting 12.6% as the next step, etc.) it seems that this variant performs the smoothest. Nonetheless, sometimes there seems to be a bit of a lag.

The overlay, which will be shown on hover, will have an absolute position and since we want to fade it in and animate the box shadow, we’ll add a transition to it:

.hs-overlay{

    position: absolute;

    width: 100%;

    height: 100%;

    opacity: 0;

    z-index: 500;

    background: rgba(0,0,0,0.6);

    box-shadow: 0 0 0 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.3) inset;

    pointer-events: none;

    transition: all 0.3s linear;

}

On hover, when the slideshow starts running, we’ll show the overlay:

.hs-wrapper:hover .hs-overlay{

    opacity: 1;

    box-shadow: 0 0 0 5px rgba(255,255,255,0.3) inset;

}

You can increase the opacity level of the background color of the overlay in order to make the effect more subtle. Note, that the images have the same background which makes this effect less seizure-inducing than if you would use a different color for each one. Black and white images with a not too transparent overlay like in Contain.r are a good fit for this effect.

And that’s it! I hope you find it inspiring.

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40 Excellent Fonts to Use Through Google Web Fonts

2012-06-05T05:59:00.001-07:00

In recent years the possibilities for using a wide variety of fonts and typefaces in web design has come a long way. There are now several different options for approaches that you can take when you want to use a font other than the basic, standard web safe fonts. Google Web Fontshas quickly become one of the leading options.

With Google Web Fonts it is quick and easy to implement a wide variety of fonts into the websites that you design and code. There are currently more than 500 fonts that are available through Google Web Fonts, and many of them are of sufficient quality to use in professional designs. In this post we’ll feature 40 fonts that you can start using today.

Droid Sans

Droid Serif

Oswald

Lobster

Lobster Two

Yanone Kaffeesatz

Ubuntu

Arvo

PT Sans Narrow

Open Sans Condensed

Dancing Script

Francois One

Arimo

Tangerine

Shadows Into Light

Shadows Into Light Two

PT Serif

Vollkorn

Amaranth

Architects Daughter

Nunito

News Cycle

Copse

Bevan

Neuton

Tinos

Bad Script

Goudy Bookletter 1911

Maiden Orange

Just Another Hand

Signika

Nixie One

Kameron

Merienda One

Berkshire Swash

EB Garamond

Bangers

Coustard

Brawler

Patua One

Create a Dark Knight Rises Style Wallpaper in 3 Easy Steps

2012-06-05T05:54:00.001-07:00

I’m a long time Batman fan, and I love the look of these newer films. The textured metal bat symbol is great eye candy. Using that basic look of the film logo, lets see if we can create something similar in just a few simple steps.First up, here’s a look at what we’ll be creating.

Step 1 – Drawing the Bat Symbol

I used the pen tool in Illustrator to draw my bat symbol. If you’re an Illustrator guru, jump in and draw a similar shape, or feel free to embellish it a bit with your own creative flare. If you’re not familiar with drawing in Illustrator, you can download my vector bat symbol here.

Hint: If you are drawing your own symbol, only draw one side, and then duplicate and flip it so that both sides are identical.

Create a new Photoshop document at 1920×1200 (or whatever screen resolution you are targeting). Set the background color to #2e3943. Copy and paste the bat symbol vector on a new layer within the document and scale it to the center.

Step 2 – Applying Texture and Lighting to the Bat Symbol

Next up, apply the following layer styles to the bat symbol layer.

For the textures, I combined two different files. The first is from a collection called Scratched Metal here at WeGraphics. If you’re not a member of WeGraphics any good metal texture will give a similar effect. The second texture is by wojtar-stock and can be found here.

Place the first texture on a layer above the symbol, scale it down so that it just covers the symbol, desaturate it (Cmd+Shift+U) and then (Cmd+click) the bat symbol’s layer thumbnail to load the layer as a selection. Press (Cmd+Shift+i) to invert the selection and press the delete key to remove any texture outside the bat symbol shape. Now set the texture’s layer blend mode to Overlay.

Now do the exact same thing with the second texture file.

To create the highlights, I simply took a soft white brush set to 30% opacity and used different brush sizes to paint these highlights.

I placed these highlight in areas that I felt the light source may be hitting. I also used a dark brush to paint some shadows.

The image below shows the areas where I painted shadows and highlightghts.

Step 3 – Adding a Background Texture and Lighting

Last up, we’ll add a background texture with a little bit of subtle lighting. For the background texture I used a selection from the White Grunge collection here at WeGraphics. Again, if you’re not a member of WeGraphics (you should be) you can use any other subtle gray or white texture. It needs to be high resolution and no too busy that it distracts from the bat symbol.

I placed the texture on a background layer and inverted it (Cmd+i) and then set the layer’s blend mode to Opacity.

Finally, I used a large soft white brush with a low opacity to paint subtle light on a layer above the background texture. I painted this light at a slight diagonal.

That’s it! If you’d like to download my version as a 1920×1200 desktop wallpaper, I’ve made it available here.