Graphic & Animation

Comprehesive View of Photoshop Elements 5

This book is an effort to provide, in about 400 pages, as much of a comprehensive view of a wildly feature-rich program as we can. There’s a lot to Elements, and we try to offer you as much as possible within our limited amount of space. We begged for more pages, but alas, our publisher… »

Slideshow with Windows Movie Maker

Taking photos with a digital camera couldn’t be easier; simply point and click to capture that magic moment. Thanks to a scanner it’s also exceptionally easy to expand your digital collection by scanning the photos taken on your film-based camera so you can store them on your PC. But what about when it comes to… »

Making GIF Image

Use Graphics Interchange Format–GIF–files when you are adding images to a web page because they load onto the page quickly and they don’t take up too much file space. A GIF file can be animated and is not as grainy as a JPEG file. Make a GIF image for your web based clip art and… »

Using the Scanner and Camera Wizard in Windows XP

The Scanner and Camera Wizard in Windows XP allows you to scan in old photos or other documents to make them digital. Scanning is simple, and once you make files digital, you can e-mail them or share them with others in a variety of ways. Just place whatever you’d like to scan on your scanner’s… »

How to Edit a Picture Using Windows XP’s Paint

Although the Windows XP version of Paint is usually used to create simple drawings, you can also use it to edit picture files. In Paint, you can crop your pictures, edit their colors, draw objects on them, or add text to them. If you use XP, just follow these steps to edit your pictures in… »

Web 2.0 Style’s Logo by Photoshop

Here is an extensive tutorial on how you can create a great looking web 2.0 logo. Open Adobe Photoshop and create a new file (file>new): 4500×4000 pixels at 300dpi is a nice resolution to choose if you want your logo to be printable. It will be nice to choose this resolution also for this tutorial… »

Making Wood Texture in Photoshop

So you need some convincing wood textures for your 3D models, or for your Photoshop project? This tutorial is to show you how to make great wood textures using the tools Photoshop has to offer. Keep up with the steps using the screenshots provided.
1. Open up a new document [CTRL + N] and create a… »

Making A Banner Advertisement in Photoshop

One of the best ways to advertise online is to make banner ads. We’re going to show you how to create fantastic animated banner ads using Adobe Imageready and Adobe Photoshop. In this example we decided to make a banner ad for our very own Mouse Tamer software.
1. First, switch to Photoshop and make a… »