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Creating Glassy Objects Using Layer Styles
Layer styles are a hugely powerful feature in Photoshop, especially when you combine several different effects into a single design. In this brief tutorial, we will look at one example of how to use...
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Quick Tip: Precision Colour Control in Photoshop
I’m always preaching about the importance of non-destructive editing in Photoshop, and adjustment layers have to be one of my favourite features. In today’s quick tip tutorial, I want to show you a...
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A Different Type of Vintage: 40s Movie Inspired Retro
I’m a huge supporter of style in web design and in the past couple of years we’ve seen many popular styles come into the mainstream. From grunge to watercolor, pixel art and retro vibes, the web is...
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Create Beautiful CSS3 Typography
It has been suggested that beautiful and usable websites are created on a foundation of beautiful and usable typography. I’ve even read an article that suggests that the web is actually comprised of...
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The Manual Comic Technique
Wait. What? Is this really another “turn a photo into a comic” tutorial? Well, yes and no. Yes, I’ll be showing you how to turn a regular photo into comic-style illustration but no, I won’t be using...
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Getting to Know Clipping Masks and Layer Masks in Photoshop
Today, we are going to look at two of Photoshop’s primary masking techniques – layer masks and clipping masks. We’ll be comparing the two by looking at how they work on a practical level, the basic...
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Creative Problem Solving: PHP, jQuery and the Semi-Dynamic
The other day, I was asked to do something a little tricky on the Highland Marketing website. I had a static slider window that featured a number of “slides” promoting different services and unique...
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Making of the Contained Sticky Scroll jQuery Plugin
Last week, I made a slight tweak to the blog’s functionality. You can see the effects of this change in the sidebar, which should stick to the top of the page as you scroll down, but which won’t...
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Grunge Fusion: Creating Stunning Textures with Blending Modes and Filters
Back around Christmas time, I released a pack of really bold, gungy textures that I had created specifically for Echo Enduring readers. One of the comments that I received suggested that it might be a...
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Improving the Login Form Experience
Over the past few months, it seems that pretty much every site I’ve been working on has required functionality that allows users to register and then log in, either to access certain content or to...
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