Photoshop Tutorial : Creating Flaming Text

This tutorial will guide you in creating a flaming text effect in Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop may be a very powerful software program used by design professionals around the world, but this photoshop tutorial is designed for anyone with a basic knowledge of the program. The first time you use this photoshop tutorial, it should take you around twenty minutes to create your flaming text from start to finish, but that time may vary depending on your skill level in Photoshop. After completing this photoshop tutorial, you will hopefully have learned something new about the amazing software that is Adobe Photoshop.

This tutorial was designed around Adobe Photoshop CS2, so if you are running a different version of Photoshop on your computer, some of the images below may not be the same ones that you see.
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Photoshop Tutorial : CREATE A DIGITAL FIRE

Word from author "This is one of the more creative use of filters I have run across. The effect itself may be more frivolous than useful, but this technique does show off how experimenting with Photoshop’s different filters can produce some interesting results."
This photoshop tutorial is about to make fire with standard efect photoshop bundle. With only 4 steps technique you can create your own fire effect like pro. This photoshop tutorial is easy to follow even with beginner.

The basic steps of this technique has been floating around the Internet and on different online services for a couple years. The first version of this technique I remember reading was a small text file titled “Sal’s Flaming Text Effect.” Since then the basic steps have been covered in a variety of different places.
This issue starts with the step-by-step procedure for creating the basic flaming effect. Then we add a technique to allow you to lay your flames over another background image. Finally you can combine several layers to create the example at the bottom of the page.

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Flash Game Tutorial : Make A Hidden Objects

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a hidden objects game in Flash 8. An example of this type of game is the ‘Garden Critters’ game that is located in the Game Design section of the Flash Classroom gallery.
If you’ve got to this point, why not learn more about game design and how to enhance your game with a customized mouse or sound by completing the following Flash Classroom Tutorials.

In this type of game, the user has to locate objects that have been hidden in an environment. The level of complexity of the game will depend on the level of detail the
creator has gone to when developing the environment and hiding the objects within that environment. The ‘Garden Critters’ game has been designed for an early childhood audience and therefore most of the critters are easy to find.


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Image processing with Gimp: Part 3

Image processing with Gimp: Part 3 "PICTURE PERFECT" by Simon Budig. Word from author "Let’s conduct an experiment: Try filling in a new image in black, create an ellipse and use the fill tool to colour it white. At first glance you’ll see that a perfectly clear egg on a black border has been created. On closer inspection however, a couple of things don’t look quite right. You’ll notice that the border between the two images is not a hard edge where black and white meet. In fact it is a muddy concoction of shades of grey."

By taking a closer look with the magnifying glass tool, you’ll see that the fill tool has filled beyond the selected area and that the inside of the egg is not consistently shaded (Figure 1, the marching ants are coloured for clarity’s sake). But how has this happened?
Gimp pixel selection is not just a simple on or off proposition. It is possible to select the saturation level for each pixel — the higher the saturation, the brighter the colour. When using the selection tool to select a gradated area of colour, you’ll discover that the whole of the area doesn’t appear to be selected. The marching ants only surround an area of colour with a 50% or more saturation level, although the whole of the area is in fact selected. The ellipse tool employs saturation options when using Anti-aliasing, which means the edges of the finished image don’t look so serrated.
The idea of only half selecting pixels seems a bit odd at first, but is very important when reprocessing photos. You will find an image of me on the coverdisc (simon.png), and we’ll use this to take a look (you can of course use a picture of your own).


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Making a Blog

Like wikis, blogs have become very popular in the past few years, and people continue to use them for a variety of purposes. They are essentially online journals that display entries in reverse chronological order. Also like wikis, there are dozens of organizations that allow users to create blogs for free and store them on their servers. This tutorial will use the Blogger tool to create a post (blog entry).

Remember, this tutorial is basic and meant to get you started. Don’t be afraid to go further.
1. Go to the site https://www.blogger.com/start . If you have a Google account, simply sign in with it. Otherwise, click on the Create a Blog button and follow the directions (this will enable you to make a Google account, which you can then use to sign into Blogger).
2. After signing in...

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