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May 26, 2008

Photoshop Tutorials from Digital Medianet Designer

Below are the 35 most recent Photoshop Tutorials from Digital Medianet Designer. These are very well written and will greatly help you become a better Photoshop user and web site designer. In addition, here are more of this site’s recent Photoshop, Graphics, and Web Design Tutorials: Tutorials 40-60, Tutorials 60-80, Tutorials 80-100, Tutorials 100-120, Tutorials 120-140, Tutorials 140-160, Tutorials 160-180, and Tutorials 180-200.

I could not find a search form on Digital Medianet Designer, so here is help for finding what you need. Google indexes 1220 Tutortials hosted by this site, just add to this search whatever keyword(s) you are looking for to get help with Photoshop and Web Design. For example, here are 84 Photoshop tutorials related to the word ‘brush’.


20 Most Recent Photoshop Tutorials at Digital Medianet Designer:

Working with Tone and exposure in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
By Chris Orwig. In this movie, host Chris Orwig discusses image tone. He works on an image of a rock that has a bit too much exposure. He looks at the histogram and adjusts the exposure via the exposure slider, and shows you how to use the numbers as well as clicking and dragging on the Histogram to bring back detail in the image.

Rating your images in Photoshop Lightroom
By Chris Orwig. In this movie, host Chris Orwig sets up his Lightroom workspace to rate his images. He goes throught the process, detailing what shortcut keys he pushes to set up his workspace, and then proceeds to look at his images. He then whittles his images down to just the ones that he wants to rate

Photographic workflow in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
By Chris Orwig. In this clip, Chris creates a photographic workflow in Lightroom. First order of business is to import images into Lightroom. He imports them via the shortcut from a Compact Flash card and copies them to a new location. He shows how to keep the file name and where to add your copyright. He then shows the import process.

Cropping in Photoshop Lightroom
By Chris Orwig. Adobe Systems has graciously provided some Lynda.com clips for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. These particular clips feature host Chris Orwig. In this movie, host Chris Orwig discusses cropping in Photoshop Lightroom. He starts by creating a custom 4×5 ratio image to show that you can crop using custom settings.

Working in the Photoshop Lightroom Details Menu
By Chris Orwig. In this movie, host Chris Orwig works in Photoshop Lightroom’s Detail Menu to sharpen and reduce noise from an image. Sharpening, he says, is pretty straightforward, as sharpening is increased, the detail of an image is sharper.

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Develop Module
By Chris Orwig. In this movie, host Chris Orwig does some tone work, contrast, and vignetting to an image. He shows how to access the Develop module and how to work with the various sliders to make adjustments to an image. He then works in the Lens Correction menu, where he brings in a vignette, and goes back and forth between the Lens Vignetting and Basic Menu quite often to show the results.

Color Calibration in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
By Chris Orwig. In this clip, Chris discusses camera calibration and using a specific profile for your particular camera. In addition to briefly going over some of the Camera Calibration sliders and showing what they can do to an image, he focuses mainly on the Chromoholics website, which can improve the accuracy of your images.

Adobe Photoshop CS3′s Photomerge tool
By Robert Jensen. What I want to discuss in my first tutorial is how you can do amazing things with your photography as long as you have the right tools. It doesn’t matter if you spent $150 on your camera gear, $1,500 or more, you can always expand on your equipment’s capabilities with a little ingenuity and some forethought.

Total Training for Microsoft WPF Essentials: IntelliSense
By Robby Ingebretsen. In this clip, host Robby Ingebretsen discusses the IntelliSense tool, which makes class value recommendations as you are typing inside of a tag. He shows the spacebar function which drops down possible attributes and he selects the background and color for this particular exercise. He then runs the app to see how it turns out.

Total Training for Microsoft WPF Essentials: Creating a new project
By Robby Ingebretsen. In this clip, host Robby Ingebretsen discusses the Solution Explorer, which showcases what is in the project. He covers the References panel and explains what the references are and what each of them do, such as Presentation Core, Presentation Framework, and Reach Framework. He also talks about the xaml files that are in the Solution Explorer and explains what XAML is.

Total Training for Microsoft WPF Essentials: Getting Started with WPF Essentials
By Robby Ingebretsen. In this clip, host Robby Ingebretsen talks about some of the issues that will come in the series. He talks about WPF and about some of the fundamentals of XAML, and how it relates to WPF.

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: Toolbar
By Ric Kasnoff. In this video, host Ric Kasnoff covers all the tools that are found in the Photoshop Lightroom Toolbar. He shows the loupe view, the before and after view, Options, crop tool, red eye reduction, and the clone and healing tool.

Using Photo Story Platinum To Make Photo Slideshows For YouTube
By WIKI. Want to make a dynamic photo slideshow and put it on Youtube? Sure you can do that by means of many flash slideshow software. This guide explains how to do that with Wondershare Photo Story Platinum in a few simple steps without Flash skills.

Ideal for Mathematics Test Preparation Practice: Making Online Quizzes with Math Symbols
By WIKI. In the Internet times, most learners will prefer online courses and practices to expand their mathematics knowledge, so math symbols and equations in online quizzes would be an essential part for educators.

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: Develop Module
By Ric Kasnoff. In this video, host Ric Kasnoff covers Lightroom’s Develop module, where images are processed. In the clip, Rick covers the differences between Photoshop and Lightroom, and what you can do in Lightroom, enabling you to do a lot of what you used to do in Photoshop. He then covers some of the tools in the Develop Module.

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS3: PhotoMerge Part 3: Trouble areas
By Justin Seeley. In this clip, host Justin Seeley shows you how to get rid of the trouble areas after you’ve aligned your images in PhotoMerge. He shows how to get rid of the transparent areas above and below the merged image as well as the seams that appear in the image. He uses the crop tool to get rid of the transparent areas, and then uses the Auto Blend layers to perfectly blend the images together, removing the seams in the image.

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS3: PhotoMerge Part 2: Alignment
By Justin Seeley. In this clip, host Justin Seeley shows just how to stitch the images together using Photoshop’s PhotoMerge. He selects all the layers and opens them inside the PhotoMerge dialog box.

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS3: PhotoMerge
By Justin Seeley. In this clip, host Justin Seeley introduces PhotoMerge, which enables you to merge your photographs together. Justin shows how to use the PhotoMerge strip so you can load all the images that you want to merge, all at the click of a button.

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS3: Curves Command
By Justin Seeley. In this clip, host Justin Seeley introduces the Curves Command in Photoshop CS3. The Curves dialog has been updated in CS3 in that now you have a live updated preview of your histogram in the background.


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Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS3: Histogram panel
By Justin Seeley. In this clip, host Justin Seeley one of the important tools when working with RAW files, and that is the Histogram panel. He shows the location of the histogram panel as well.

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS3: Processing non-RAW files
By Justin Seeley. In this clip, host Justin Seeley discusses processing non-RAW files, such as JPEG and TIFF files using Adobe’s Camera RAW. He goes over such issues as tint and temperature, as well as exposure and recovery, showcasing how the sliders behave when working with a JPEG image.

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS3: Split Tones
By Justin Seeley. In this clip, host Justin Seeley discusses Split Tones, one of the great little effects inside color raw. With it you can add a little bit of color back into your image. Justin shows you how to do just this in the video. He explains that a Split Tone introduces color in the highlights and shadows of the image, creating a duo tone or cross tone type image.

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS3: Camera RAW Tone Curve
By Justin Seeley. In this clip, host Justin Seeley discusses the Camera RAW Tone Curve, which enables you to tweak the overall tonality of your image that you wouldn’t have been able to do before. He shows where to access the Tone Curve tool and shows how to makes adjustment to the curve via the sliders, so you get the live updated preview, as well as the live preview of the histogram.

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS3: Processing RAW files with Adobe Camera RAW
By Justin Seeley. In this clip, host Justin Seeley discusses how to process RAW files using Adobe’s Camera RAW 4. He opens Bridge and starts with filtering out everything that is not a Camera RAW file. He then launches Camera RAW and shows how to optimize and run your images through it.

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS3: Using Bridge’s slideshow mode
By Justin Seeley. In this clip, host Justin Seeley covers Bridge’s Slideshow mode to create a dynamic way to analyze your images. He shows how to avoid the auto transition feature as well as how to zoom in and out in your images, all at full screen, to get a closeup preview of your images.

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS3: Using Bridge to analyze photographs
By Justin Seeley. In this clip, host Justin Seeley gives examples of how to analyze photographs using Adobe Bridge. He covers the new loupe tool that enables you to magnify objects, shows you how to access it, and shows you where the center of the loop tool is.

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS3: Adobe’s Digital Negative
By Justin Seeley. In this clip, host Justin Seeley discusses Adobe’s DNG or Digital Negative specification, and how Adobe is trying to unify the RAW format with DNG. He launches the Adobe DNG PDF, enabling you to follow along as he tells you the advantages of working in the DNG format.

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS3: Adobe Bridge Workspaces
By Justin Seeley. In this clip, host Justin Seeley discusses the pre-built workspaces that ship with Adobe Bridge CS3. He shows how to access the workspaces (1,2, 3 in the bottom right corner), as well as familiarizing the keyboard shortcuts so you can move quickly between workspaces. He then goes over the various workspaces and discusses the pros and cons of each.

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS3: Organizing with Bridge
By Justin Seeley. In this clip, host Justin Seeley shows how to set up some preferences by opening up the general preferences dialog to make some changes. Want to adjust the overall tonality of the user interfeace itself? You can do so in the General Preferences dialog by adjusting the brightness and image backdrop of Bridge.

Perfectionist’s PowerPoint Tip: How to E-mail Your PowerPoint Presentations to Others Perfectly
By WIKI. It’s so easy and too easy to make mistakes. You may need to know more about multiple ways to email your PowerPoint presentations, in the right version to play, with background music or movies included, and without any hassles. Here’s how.

Webpage Set with Photoshop Elements 6
By Kelley Kuhlman. Creating basic HTML web pages with elements and images can be fairly quick and easy. This tutorial is a quick basic method to create some elements for an HTML web page. It includes a background, navigation tabs and a frame.

Embed PowerPoint slide show to Web page
By WIKI. Embed PowerPoint Slide Show into Your Web Pages (MySpace, GeoCities, Facebook, etc) Embed PowerPoint Slide Shows on Blog (Blogger/BlogSpot, WorldPress, etc) How to Email a Big Size PowerPoint Presentation How to Insert Your Flash Movie to Blog

Creating a Valentine’s heart card in Photoshop Elements 6
By Kelley. Kuhlman Valentine’s Day is such a great time for cards and small gifts. I love to make cards with small gifts or as small gifts. In the next few weeks I will attempt to do three, this is the first.

Paint a Heart In Photoshop Elements 6
By Kelley Kuhlman. This is a tutorial for beginning painters who own Photoshop Elements 6 and a digital tablet. The tutorial will cover some of the tools found in Photoshop Elements 6, including Color Mode, Creating and saving a color palette, adding brushes, and simple painting.

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    PHP Essentials Online Book

    Here is Techtopia’s well written online book, PHP Essentials. This comprehensive online PHP book will show and teach you all the aspects and topics of PHP that you need to know for developing compelling web pages and web sites. It will help both new PHP programmers get up-to-speed with PHP, and also those who need a refresher with any of the topics presented.

    PHP Essentials gives a high level overview of how PHP works and why it is so useful to web developers. It then teaches each PHP topic in detail, from the basics of the scripting language through to object oriented programming, file and filesystem handling and MySQL and SQLite database access. Also, it provides chapters that show how to work with HTML based forms and maintain state using cookies and PHP sessions. All PHP topics are accompanied by real world examples that are intended to bring PHP theory to life.


    Table of Contents of PHP Essentials:

    1. About PHP Essentials
      • Intended Audience
    2. The History of PHP
      • The Creation of PHP
      • PHP 3 Hits the Big Time
      • PHP 4 – Optimization, Scalabilty and More
      • PHP 5 – Object Orientation, Error Handling and XML
      • How Popular is PHP?
    3. An Overview of PHP
      • What Exactly is PHP?
      • How Does PHP Work?
      • Why is PHP so Useful?
      • Summary
    4. Creating a Simple PHP Script
      • The PHP Code Delimiters
      • Testing the PHP Installation
      • Emdedding PHP into an HTML File
      • Embedding HTML into a PHP Script
      • Summary
    5. Commenting PHP Code
      • PHP Single Line Comments
      • PHP Multi-line Comments
      • Summary
    6. An Introduction to PHP Variables
      • Naming and Creating a Variable in PHP
      • Assigning a Value to a PHP Variable
      • Accessing PHP Variable Values
      • Changing the Type of a PHP Variable
      • Checking Whether a Variable is Set
    7. Understanding PHP Variable Types
      • The PHP Integer Variable Type
      • The PHP Float Variable Type
      • The PHP Boolean Variable Type
      • The PHP String Variable
      • Extracting and Writing String Fragments
      • Creating PHP heredoc Strings
    8. PHP Constants
      • Defining a PHP Constant
      • Checking if a PHP Constant is Defined
      • Using a Variable as a Constant Name
      • Predefined PHP Constants
      • PHP Script and Environment Related Constants
      • PHP Mathematical Constants
    9. PHP Operators
      • PHP Assignment Operators
      • PHP Arithmetic Operators
      • PHP Comparison Operators
      • PHP Logical Operators
      • PHP Increment and Decrement Operators
      • PHP String Concatenation Operator
      • Concatenation of Numbers and Strings in PHP
      • PHP Execution Operator – Executing Server Side Commands
    10. PHP Flow Control and Looping
      • PHP Conditional Statements
      • The PHP if Statement
      • The PHP if … else Statements
      • PHP Looping Statements
      • PHP for loops
      • PHP while loops
      • PHP do … while loops
      • PHP switch Statements
      • Breaking a Loop
      • Breaking Out of Nested Loops
      • Skipping Statements in Current Loop Iteration
    11. PHP Functions
      • What is a PHP Function?
      • How to Write a PHP Function
      • Returning a Value from a PHP Function
      • Passing Parameters to a PHP Function
      • Calling PHP Functions
      • Passing Parameters By Reference
      • Returning Values By Reference
      • Functions and Variable Scope
    12. PHP Arrays
      • How to Create a PHP Array
      • Accessing Elements in a PHP Array
      • Creating an Associative Array
      • Accessing Elements of an Associative Array
      • Accessing Elements in a Multidimensional PHP Array
      • Using PHP Array Pointers
      • Changing, Adding and Removing PHP Array Elements
      • Looping through PHP Array Elements
      • Replacing Sections of an Array
      • Sorting a PHP Array
      • Sorting Associative Arrays
      • Getting Information About PHP Arrays & other Array Functions
      • Summary
    13. Working with Strings and Text in PHP
      • Changing the Case of a PHP String
      • Converting to and from ASCII Values
      • Printing Formatted Strings in PHP
      • PHP printf formatting specifiers
      • Finding the Length of a PHP String
      • Converting a String into a PHP Array
      • Removing Leading and Trailing Whitespace from a PHP String
      • Comparing Strings in PHP
      • String Comparison Functions Return Value
      • Accessing and Modifiying Characters in String
      • Searching for Characters and Substrings in a PHP String
      • Extracting and Replacing Substrings in PHP
      • Replacing All Instances of a Word in a PHP String
    14. PHP, Filesystems and File I/O
      • Opening and Creating Files in PHP
      • Closing Files in PHP
      • Writing to a File using PHP
      • Reading From a File using PHP
      • Checking Whether a File Exists
      • Moving, Copying and Deleting Files with PHP
      • Accessing File Attributes
      • PHP Output Buffering
    15. Working with Directories in PHP
      • Creating Directories in PHP
      • Deleting a Directory
      • Finding and Changing the Current Working Directory
      • Listing Files in a Directory
    16. An Overview of HTML Forms
      • Creating HTML Forms
      • HTML Text Object
      • HTML TextArea Object
      • The HTML Button Object
      • HTML Check Boxes
      • HTML Radio Buttons
      • HTML Drop-down / Select Object
      • HTML Password Object
      • Summary
    17. PHP and HTML Forms
      • Creating the Form
      • Processing Form Data Using PHP
      • Processing Multiple Selections with PHP
    18. PHP and Cookies – Creating, Reading and Writing
      • The Difference Between Cookies and PHP Sessions
      • The Structure of a Cookie
      • Cookie Name / Value Pair
      • Cookie Expiration Setting
      • Cookie path Setting
      • Cookie domain Setting
      • Cookie Security Setting
      • Creating a Cookie in PHP
      • Reading a Cookie in PHP
      • Deleting a Cookie
    19. Understanding PHP Sessions
      • What is a PHP Session?
      • Creating a PHP Session
      • Creating and Reading PHP Session Variables
      • Writing PHP Session Data to a File
      • Reading a Saved PHP Session
    20. PHP Object Oriented Programming
      • What is an Object?
      • What is a Class?
      • How is an Object Created from a Class?
      • What is sub-classing?
      • Defining a PHP Class
      • PHP Class Constructors and Destructors
      • Creating Members in a PHP Class
      • Defining and Calling Methods
      • Subclassing in PHP
      • PHP Object Serialization
      • Getting Information about a PHP Object
    21. Using PHP with MySQL
      • Creating a MySQL User Account
      • Creating and Select MySQL Database
      • Creating a MySQL Database Table
      • Inserting Data into a MySQL Database Table
      • Connecting with PHP to a MySQL Server
      • Selecting Records from a MySQL Database Using PHP
      • Adding Records to MySQL Database using PHP
      • Modifying and Deleting MySQL Records using PHP
      • Using PHP to get Information about a MySQL Database
      • Summary
    22. PHP and SQLite
      • Creating an SQLite Database with PHP
      • Using PHP to Add Records to an SQLite Database
      • Using PHP to Select Records from an SQLite Database

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    May 27, 2008

    Download Links for Office eBooks

    Here are three sites that provide download links for Office eBooks covering all of the Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Visio, and Project. These computer ebooks are located at download sites like rapidshare.com. On rapidshare.com, you need to click on the ‘Free’ button, and then click on the ‘Download via…’ button (you may need to enter a 3-4 character code). On other download sites you may need to click on the ‘Request ticket’ link.

    1) FreeBookSpot links to several Office eBooks in its Microsoft Office category.  Some ebooks on this site have two or three download links. The link(s) to download each ebook are under the Download Instructions heading on each ebook’s description page.

    2) Here is Computerebook.net‘s Office category. To download an ebook from this site, you need to first click on the link under the ‘Server’ column on the ebook’s description page, then on the next page click on the ‘Download eBook’ link. Some of these links are not working.

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    Download Links for Flash eBooks

    Here are download links for Flash eBooks at Computerebook.net. To download an ebook from this site, you need to first click on the link under the ‘Server’ column on the ebook’s description page, then on the next page click on the ‘Download eBook’ link. Some of these links are not working. These computer ebooks are located at download sites like rapidshare.com. On rapidshare.com, you need to click on the ‘Free’ button, and then click on the ‘Download via…’ button (you may need to enter a 3-4 character code). On other download sites you may need to click on the ‘Request ticket’ link.

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    May 29, 2008

    Techtopia’s HTML Tutorials

    Here are Techtopia’s HTML Tutorials. These will help you write HTML web pages using important tags and features, such as Anchors, Links, Embedded Objects, Forms, Images, Lists, Scripts, Sounds, and Tables. Also included is a good tutorial on Cascading Style  Sheets (CSS).


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