Photoshop – A Home Appliance?
October 23, 2011 | 
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Okay! Photoshop is a lot of things but it is not a dishwasher. I’ll grant you that. But it can be very useful around the house. Maybe even indispensable.
Not long ago, I clicked my garage door opener and, after some screeching that sounded like derailing train, it shuttered to a stop in a painfully crooked position. Fast forward to the garage door installer showing my wife and me pictures of new garage doors. Lots of styles, lots of colors… and lots of indecision. But the solution was easy. I digitally scanned some contenders from the installer’s? brochures and albums and then took a digital picture of my garage from the outside. (I needed a picture for insurance anyway.)
Within minutes, we were in front of my computer and viewing images of our garage with all of the candidate doors. With a click of the mouse, we could switch between wood and aluminum, mocha and cayenne, and overpriced versus exorbitant.? So what magic allowed this to happen? The magic of Photoshop of course. I put the scan of each potential door on an individual layer in Photoshop.? Think a Photoshop layer as being a plastic sheet you can draw on (digitally speaking). Then I made a layer with my garage picture, erasing the existing, sickly door. When I erased the door, that area became transparent. So, one at a time, I had Photoshop display the garage door layer over each of the candidate door layers (after sizing them to just fit the opening). The result was very realistic and helped us to a quick decision. By the way, we went with the wood, cayenne, and exorbitant.
How often do we run across similar decisions where, if we could better visualize the outcome, our choice would be easy? Well around my house, it is pretty often. Planning a new photo wall? How many photos should you have? How should they be arranged? How about frame style? Photoshop can make quick work of of all of this. Take a picture of the frame or frames you like and another of the wall. Then gather up your favorite digital images. In Photoshop, you can paste one of those images into the frame in a frame image. Then you can paste the framed image onto the wall image. Then add more framed images to the wall, changing sizes and arrangement to suit your taste. You can even add perspective to your photo wall to see how it would look from? an angle (using the Vanishing Point filter). With Photoshop, you can see it all before the first nail pierces drywall.
The possibilities are endless. Do you want to redo some landscape? Take a digital camera to your local nursery and snap photos of all of the plants that might work. Then come home and digitally plant them in a image of your garden, all in Photoshop of course. (No watering required!) How about a new built-in bookcase? How many shelves and what kind of spacing? Take a picture of the planned location but include a ruler or something with a known dimension. Now you can use Photoshop to draw in your shelves, changing spacing and so forth, and then take measurements off the winning design (with the ruler as a guide). Take another picture of some books. (You have some, right? After all, you are building bookshelves…) Use this book image to fill up your shelves. (Yes it will look like you have twenty copies of War and Peace but you get the idea.) Check it all out and get it right before you even pull out a sawhorse.
So is Photoshop a home appliance? Well, maybe not. Maybe I should have titled this “Photoshop – A Marriage Counselor?”
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Simple step-by-step mahjog tutorial on how to create a web site banner and logo in Photoshop. The sample .psd and completed website are also included.
A banner or a header is a graphic that is found at the top of a web site which usually displays the company name and the logo. It is often the first thing a mahjog person sees when they open the website. The blending of colors should be attractive, informative, comfortable for the eye and help to convince the viewer to stay on your site.
Let’s start with our banner. Here we have a mahjog general banner and the colors used are soothing to the eyes. It can be used for a fashion and beauty banner or a personal mahjog or holiday banner as well.
Rollovers are another mahjog favorite. We try to use rollovers whenever possible – they are extremely simple and add a bit of class to a web site. If you don’t want to use too many images that will result in a slower load time make sure mahjog you use text rollovers (Our menu on the right is an example of simple text rollovers). Examples of rollover images we have designed mahjog can be seen in Business
If you have sub menus or complex navigation systems, use DHTML. They look neat and are again very simple to use. Many sites offer free DHTML scripts for menus, navigation systems, tip boxes and more. They give you detailed instructions on how to use these scripts so it is really very easy to install.
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Facebook unveils new batch update features
Maybe Facebook is the use of summer doldrums , and perhaps a sign that it really is listening to his users .
Anyhow, the social networking giant continues to develop updates to its arsenal of features, this time even announcing a few new ones.
Facebook latest update includes new tools for the Notes, an improved user interface for photos, and access to its reorganization of privacy controls via mobile devices. Also new: a tool that allows you to ask questions to the beta community Facebook.
Many of these changes are a step in the right direction to improve and simplify its most popular tools. Heres what you need to know and what you can expect these updates.
New: Facebook Questions qives answers Looking for a new book to read? If you see The Social Network? These are the kinds of questions, Facebook wants to help solve its new tool in beta questions facebook.
Heres how it works: To ask a question to the community(including friends and their friends Facebook Facebook), click on Ask a Question at the top of the homepage. Youll also be able to add photos or survey. After sending the request(or if you decide to answer someones question), it will be public and visible to anyone on the Internet.
Other features include tagging, so the questions are classified and easily searchable, and also a search function that lets you examine the other questions on the topic that interests you. Another cool feature: on button, which will inform you at any time someone submits a new response.
This tool is available only to selected individuals. Facebook announced no questions will be publicly available.
New: privacy, Facebook goes mobile When Facebook announced last inspection privacy in May, only users who have access to their settings from your computer. Facebook change this by announcing that everyone can access and change their Facebook privacy controls any browser-enabled mobile phone.
To do this, visit m.facebook.com / privacy or by visiting the Settings page and click the Change next to the word Privacy Settings. Here you can select who can see the content you post, adjust settings and read the Guide to privacy granular Facebook.
Update: text editor that makes Facebook notes easier to use Facebook Comments there are some use to start discussions were adjacent tool. Edition of the old notes, save for later projects and arrange them as you want has never been easy. Until now.
Last week, Facebook introduced a new text editor. This function has the keys to the text bold, italic or underline, as well as buttons numbered, bulleted lists, and style of indented quotes. Together they must try to get rid of the HTML code.
Facebook also added features marking Facebook Pages. In addition to marking your friends, you can tag the stars, interests, activities and non-profit organizations that are like. Also new: an improved interface with the menu on the left, which displays links to the note, a note about yourself and your projects.
Update: Facebook gets a makeover pictures simple, but far better to change his Facebook Picture function which is on the heels similar changes made recently Google changes the way you view photos.
For this update, Facebook displays only 20 images per page. Browsing thick photo albums required to flip a few pages to see the whole album. Now, navigation is simpler albums.
When viewing the album, the additional thumbnails will automatically fill in as you scroll down the page no more clicking the Next several times to this album, however, you can see up to 200 pictures on one page . Facebook is also the larger thumbnail, making it easier to browse for the image.
Kristin Burnham includes Consumer Technology, SaaS, social networking and Web 2.0 for CIO.com. Follow Kristin on Twitter @kmburnham . Follow all on Twitter CIO.com @CIOonline . E-mail Kristin at kburnham@cio.com.
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