GET IN TOUCHA burnt edge is a favorite effect for many people, especially those that are interested in vintage, rustic or western designs. Creating this effect in Photoshop is actually much easier than you might think.
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WordPress Wednesday – Using the Display Widgets Plugin to Customize your Sidebar Content
WordPress templates allow us to put content in our sidebars that will display on every page, so that this information can remain front and center for our visitors. This is pretty handy, as any good marketer knows that repetition is key, so we want our visitors to have multiple opportunities
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WordPress Wednesday – How to Set Up A Feedburner Feed on Your Site
One of the great things about WordPress is the ability it gives us to connect with our audience and provide them the information they want with a few simple clicks. People want the information they need quickly and easily and the less time they have to spend looking for it,
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Three Reasons I Sometimes Use CorelDraw Graphics Suite Instead of Adobe Creative Suite
Ask any web or graphic design professional and they’ll tell you that the software of choice for graphics and photo editing is Adobe products. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator have been the standard for many, many years, but despite that, there are still a few things that are lacking in Adobe
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WordPress Wednesday – Using the Fontific Plugin to Add Style to Your Website
As a web designer, one of the things that has frustrated me over the years is the limitation in using different fonts on websites. There are only a handful of fonts that are considered “web safe” and honestly, using those repeatedly can get a little boring. In the past, designers
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WordPress Wednesday – Using the Custom Menu Feature in WordPress
While many themes have their own built in menu features, combining those with the custom menu feature in WordPress makes it much easier to create the menu that you want for your site. The WordPress menu features allow for simple drag and drop placement of menu & sub-menu items, as
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WordPress Wednesday – How to Manually Install a Plugin
Every now and again it is necessary to manually install a plugin for WordPress, instead of going through the automatic process that is provided in the plugin dashboard. Especially if you are looking for a particular plugin by name, WordPress will not always find the exact one you’re interested in,
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Cool Photoshop Creations
This is a guest post by author Warren Kings. If you’re stuck in a creative slump it’s worth checking out the mad-skills of other artists for some inspiration. There’s nothing like a challenge to set off a bright idea – it may just be the thing you need to get
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Optimizing Your Images for the Web
I’m sure you’ve experienced it too, you log on to a website and the images v – e – r – y s – l – o – w – l – y appear on the page. You wait, tapping your finger, as they scroll into view, almost one line
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Using @FontFace to Spice Up Your Website!
In this day and age, you wouldn’t think there would be much in the way of limitations when it comes to building a website, right? Up until recently, that wasn’t the case, at least not where fonts for your website are concerned. Pretty much, there are just a handful of
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Creating and Editing Custom Website Templates in Dreamweaver CS4
Using templates is an easy & smart way to maintain any website. They allow you to make changes to the site’s structure and main elements and apply them to all pages that are based on that template, saving valuable time and frustration in updating pages individually. When creating a template
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Create a Pencil Sketch Effect in Photoshop CS4
Pencil sketch effects are easy to achieve and a great way to use a photo for a logo, combine it with other artwork, or numerous other applications. When choosing your photo, I would recommend choosing something that is already on a white background, or one where the background is not
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