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Art Spider

2008-03-21T22:55:00.000-07:00

The bare limbs.

PSI of a Day

This is hundreds layers art work.

Sea Algae

2008-03-20T23:12:00.000-07:00

Is it sea algae?

When you walk forward to see...

Could you see the differences between these 2 snakes?

They are the same image but the former was produced by flipped horizontally of the latter.

Mummy...

2008-03-19T22:58:00.000-07:00

French bulldog

PSI of a Day

A new born dinosaur

Eye

2008-03-18T23:06:00.000-07:00

The source image is shelved bracelets.

PSI of a Day

When the full moon was there...

Alien's Entry

2008-03-17T07:58:00.000-07:00

Original Image

The Supercomputer Cords

PSI of a Day

Who knows if the alien is one of the racer...

Silver Phoenix - PSI Tutorial

2008-03-16T19:50:00.000-07:00

As I promise, below are steps for producing the Silver Phoenix.

1. Select the portion of the photo, copy and past in a new file.

2. Ctrl + T, right click and select warp. Point the cursor to that particular part of the image and drag.

Silver Phoenix is coming out !

3. After getting the bird head shape, delete the all the unwanted portions. Warp several times to obtain every body parts.

Step 2 and 3 are the most important step as we can manipulate other body parts of the bird by using the bird head.

The Final Image

Here is photoshop file with every layers of the final art work

2.5 MB

Lost in the Tomb II

2008-03-16T14:44:00.000-07:00

PSI of a Day

I was planning to design a download button for photoshop file (.psd) but I suddenly came out with the above idea

Lost in the Tomb I

2008-03-15T22:45:00.000-07:00

Pack Cemetery

PSI of a Day

How can I get out of here with a touch light?

ThunderCat?

2008-03-14T22:02:00.000-07:00

This is a surf spot.

ThunderCat or ThunderWolf!?

You are welcome to comment this entry. I need your feedback

Burning Sword

2008-03-13T22:30:00.000-07:00

A piece of weathered wood on a rock.

PSI of a Day

The fire was created by using brush and smudge tools. This is the similar technique I applied for Big Buck Rocket except the overlapping layers was needed for producing this effect. Meanwhile, the sword was solely created by the layers of the weathered wood

Trilobite is still alive!

2008-03-12T10:50:00.000-07:00

This time, the contest title is XT 660 Engine.

After utilising one of the engine components, here is the outcome.

Hope you enjoy it

The Silver Phoenix

2008-03-11T22:57:00.000-07:00

This is a chiseled headstone photo.

By using the pattern on the headstone, multiple layers were created and warpped to become...

The Silver Phoenix !!!

Motocross Jump

2008-03-10T22:33:00.000-07:00

Unbelievable feat

After editing...

Here is my serious entry

Hey guys! Are you ok?

Photoshopped Image of a Day

2008-03-09T22:58:00.000-07:00

I am going to challenge myself to post one entry per day in Photoshop Contest. Since I am not a premium site member, the entry and vote for each contest are limited within 3 days. Thus, I need to work very fast in editing and posting each entry. I am going to start Photoshopped Image (PSI) of a Day where my daily photoshopped image is available in SoftDiscovery and my Photoshop Contest account. I apologise to you all since I only able to post photoshop tutorials at the weekends

Original Photo

Hard candies

PS Image

Candy OS, your choice of operating system.

Ermm...Why I never heard about Candy OS

Joining the Photoshop Contest

2008-03-08T22:49:00.000-08:00

Original Photo

Big Buck Brewery

I have joined this community as I found a lot of great entry there. This is a big fun and challenge to me. Here is my latest entry.

Big Buck Rocket

I am going to post the editing procedures for this picture soon

UFO?

2008-02-28T06:28:00.001-08:00

When the marble and the gas stove come into contact...

THEY BECOMES

Do you know what happen at the next day?

The next morning...

This blog is best view in Firefox.

Play and Feed Hungry People

2008-02-23T17:41:00.000-08:00

When I came across FreeRice, I was surprised by their ‘play and help’ idea. By playing this game, we can help the hungry people through UN World Food Program (WFP). FreeRice is a nonprofit, sister site of the world poverty site.

How This Project Works?

First, you may wonder who is going to donate the rice. You may notice advertisers’ names on the bottom of the vocabulary screen; the rice is paid by them.

Why don’t FreeRice provide the food directly instead of asking us to play a game for it?

The money will be generated by the advertisers on the bottom of your screen which is then used to buy the rice. WFP is responsible to buy food locally to support local farmers (wherever possible) and distribute the rice. By playing the game, you help generate the money that pays for the rice donated to hungry people.

To play or not to play?

The rice you donate makes a huge difference to the person who receives it. According to the United Nations, about 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of them children. To a mother or father watching a loved child die in their arms from hunger, the rice you donate is more precious than anything in the world.

I love the above answer. I have decided to put the banner at my site bar to promote the project. How about you?

Do You Believe This?

2008-02-17T03:17:00.000-08:00

After I saw the below photo from ModelElaine, I have decided to transform her to an extremely charming girl by using photoshop.

Before

After

Observe and compare both photos carefully, enjoy!

Update: 21.2.2008

After encouraged by Saphrym, I decided to post a simple tutorial for this art work. The tool which playing the most important role is Rectangular Marquee Tool.

1. Unlock the background layer (the photo).

2. Right click the exiting layer and choose duplicate layer.

3. By using Rectangular Marquee Tool, select the edge of her mouth.

4. Press “Ctrl + T” and adjust the selected area to let her smile .

5. Try to use Rectangular Marquee Tool to adjust other parts as well.

6. You may need Clone Stamp Tool and Blur Tool to get smooth colour.

7. Below photo is not complete as you may find her face is not natural. Use Eraser Tool to get back the original skin colour of her face.

8. Lastly, merge the two layers and using Blur Tool to get the perfect tone.

Valentine's Special

2008-02-14T21:27:00.000-08:00

A flowers' photo? Observe carefully, you will be surprized... The answer for the meaning behind the picture will be revealed at the end of this article.

Here is the original photo from R. J. Malfalfa.

1. By using the Quick Selection Tool, the 2 flower is selected accroding to the edge and delete the background.

2. Right click to choose the Feather Selection. Set the pixels to 5.

3. Press the key 'Delete' for 2 to 3 times to get the following effect.

4. By using the Eraser Tool, delete the noise on the flower.

5. Place the flower picture several times on the new file to obtain the following arrangement.

6. Fill the flower photo with transparent background you did before with pink colour.

7. Again, add and arrange the above picture to the desired position.

8. After merging all the layers, use the Blur Tool to get the smooth and perfect picture.

Ok, the answer is....

The Power of Radial Blur Tool II

2008-02-06T03:45:00.000-08:00

Hey! I can FLY.

This photo is produced by 2 tools: Extract and Radial Blur Tools.

1. For the fish photo, go to Filter >> Extract.

2. By using Smart Highlighting mode for Edge Highlighter Tool, cover the fish.

3. Fill the area you want to retain by using Fill Tool.

4. Eraser Tool is needed to delete the left over background.

5. Add the fish layers to the bridge photo. Ctrl + T to transform the positions and sizes of the layers.

6. You may use 10 Radial Blur and 1 Radial Blur for the first 2 layers.

7. Duplicate the third layer and transform it into a shadow like shape.

8. Adjust the Opacity for the shadow layer to 30%

Done!

The Power of Radial Blur Tool I

2008-02-03T07:07:00.000-08:00

Here is the transformation of a bridge photo captured by Chica

Before

After

1. Open the bridge photo, go to Filter >> Radial Blur. Set Amount to 100, Blur Method: Zoom, Quality: Good.

2. Open Car 1 photo. Double click the lock which is indicated by the red circle, choose OK. By using Magic Wand Tool, select and delete the white empty space.

3. Repeat step 2 for Car 2 photo.

4. Drag the Car 2 photo into the bridge photo. Ctrl + T to transform the Car photos to appropriate size and position. Set 10 and 50 for the Amounts of Radial Blur for Car 1 and Car 2 photos respectively.

Here is it!

Improvement of the BlogSpot Comment Section II

2008-01-31T22:00:00.000-08:00

Lev Walkin has provided several JS-Kit's services for web publishers to enhance their websites. These useful interactive features can be integrated into BlogSpot and Tumblr. One of the powerful services is JS-Kit's Comments.

Advanges

1. Fast and Neat

Ajax-based tool.

2. Simple but Feature-riched

User friendly.

3. No Change on Default Comment Features

Both comment features can work at the same time.

Solution:

Before install the JS-Kit's Comments, save your template.

In the ‘edit html’ page, click ‘Expand Widget Templates’.

Add the following code after <data:post.body/> tag.

Suggested by JS-Kit:

Put this code after the 'post-footer'

and in 'footer-wrapper':

Alternatively, You can add this comment feature to specific articles by pasting

at the end of the articles

add this comment feature to all post by adding the code to the text box of Post Template at Setting >> Formatting.

For the later, you need to type the text of article above the code.

Cool?

U Comment I Follow Policy

2008-01-27T06:19:00.000-08:00

SoftDiscovery is under the U Commant I Follow Policy in the blogosphere. I really appreciate everyone’s participation in posting a comment. However, spam is not tolerable. Hence, I reserve the right to delete any comment solely for link purpose and not contribute to the discussion for which I would like to apologize in advance.

Ultimate methods to Get High Traffic and Ranking

2008-01-23T16:31:00.000-08:00

Have you decided to boost your website's popularity? A New blog or website has to strive very hard to gain a place in the rankings and to have significant traffic. Here is a big project combining some powerful techniques and services to get high traffic and ranking. This project can help us get a higher position in Technorati Ranking, Alexa Traffic Ranking and also Google’s PageRank provided you support it.

Step 1: Viralink

I am going to start a new chain of viralink. Below is a matrix of 100 stars where each star represents a link to your site. I chose to set 100 links as a limit because any page that contains more than 100 links is considered as link farm by Google. You must be curious how this viralink works. This method was introduced by Andy Coates and the following steps can enhance the viralink effect for least several hundred folds.

Viralink
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Step 2: Build Up Your Technorati Authority and Ranking

According to Technorati’s blog,

Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has.

And

Technorati Rank is calculated based on how far you are from the top. The blog with the highest Technorati Authority is the #1 ranked blog. The smaller your Technorati Rank, the closer you are to the top.

With the help of Viralink, for sure your Technorati Authority and ranking will increase tremendously within a short period of time.

People Who are Ready for Technorati Favorite Exchange

Julia Borsos

bloggers4acause

Step 3: StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking website like Digg, Reddit, or Del.icio.us. Many bloggers found that StumbleUpon have generated significant traffic to their blog.

Step 4: Digg

More people digg this particular page, more people will follow up this method and more backlinks you will get.

Summary

You are welcome to adapt this article for your blog to generate high traffic and Technorati Ranking for your site.
Leave me a comment to inform me that you are willing to join this project and I will add you in the viralink.
Copy the viralink's star matrix and link one of the star as your site's url.
I assume that you are ready for Technorati favorite exchange. Leave your Technorati link for me to fave you.
Don’t forget to add me to Technorati Favorites and digg this article, but stumble only if you like this article. I will stumble your site in return (Update at 27.1.2008: But I will make sure not to against TOS of StumbleUpon).
Of course, any webpage or website that contains any pornographic, hate-related, violent, or illegal content is not acceptable. One link per person and be sincere and not tamper with others' url.

Improvement of the BlogSpot Comment Section I

2008-01-18T18:44:00.000-08:00

Not as the Wordpress theme, BlogSpot doesn’t display the comment avatars in the comment section. Sometime you may find it difficult to differentiate between the comments posted by the author or his readers. After posting a comment, the reader may forget to check your reply. Luckily, these problems are solved by implementing both hacks by PurpleMoggy and Hackosphere.

For my current template, there were complications if I didn’t apply the hack from Hackosphere before that of PurpleMoggy. If you found it is working either ways, please kindly tell me.

Of course, before starting any hack, don’t forget to save your template.

Step 1:

Find the CSS section for comment. It may look like

/* Comments
----------------------------------------------- */

Add below codes under this section.

.comment-body {
margin:0;
padding:0 0 0 20px;
}

.comment-body p {
font-size:100%;
margin:0 0 .2em 0;
}

.comment-body-author {
margin:0;
padding:0 0 0 20px;
}

.comment-body-author p {
font-size:100%;
margin:0 0 .2em 0;
color:#CC3300;
}

You may change the font colour (in color:# CC3300;) as you like and/or you may want to add background colour to the comment that you post (as the site author), for example by adding background:#6572f1; after margin:0 0 .2em 0;

Step 2:

Search for this tag <dl id='comments-block'>. Add the red and blue colour codes in this page. The red and blue colour codes correspond to author comment highlighting and comment notification respectively. The comment notification is a free service provided by Ramani (author of Hackosphere) in bvibes.com. You may click the 1click notifier button to send a notification to the commenter after you have replied his or her comment, provided the email is shared in the commenter’s profile.

Step 3:

Here is PurpleMoggy’s hack adapted from Singpolyma. Adding the codes below before </head> tag.

You may host the .js file yourself and customize the codes below in the file. Like PurpleMoggy said, you may change the image size to ridiculous parameter to get the original size of image.

BloggerProfiles.noimage = 'http://knowledgeble.googlepages.com/18.gif';
BloggerProfiles.imageWidth = 10;
BloggerProfiles.imageHeight = 20;

Step 4:

Adding the purple colour tags as shown below.

You may change the float:right to float:left. If you found the avatars are very near to the comment text, the CSS below suggested by PurpleMoggy should work.

.commentphoto img {
margin: 2px;
}

And SAVE the template. Yeah! You are done .

Adapted from Hackosphere and PurpleMoggy.