Archive for the Web Design category
Photoshop Wrap background Tutorial
by Khaled on April 15th, 2008
Another old Photoshop tutorial picked up from the kyscorp archives again. This is just to show you how to create some special background effect with Photoshop. Of course once you see how the background was done you can change it and make some tweaks all along the tutorial modifying any step to obtain what you exactly need. It is an old tutorial that was created for Adobe Photoshop 7 but you can of course use Photoshop CS, CS2 or CS3. More old tutorials will be posted soon…
Win a Copy of Adobe CS3 Web Premium!
by Khaled on April 12th, 2008
Yes, this is not a joke! All you need to do is to Write an article for SitePoint And you can Win A Copy Of Adobe CS3 Web Premium! So by just just by submitting an article about Adobe Flex or AIR you’re eligible to receive an amazing gift that is considered as The ultimate graphics package for web designers and developers: The Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium.( USD $1,599) and start “redefining the extraordinary in web design and development”. As you may know the package includes the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver and many other tools that are regarded as industry standards for creating web designs and web graphics.
Rusted Engine Photoshop Tutorial
by Khaled on April 7th, 2008
Yet another old Photoshop tutorial already posted on Kyscorp. This one is called: Rusted engine. During this tutorial you will learn some basic photo manipulation techniques in Adobe Photoshop. You can use those techniques in so many different ways to create different effects especially related to texturing with Photoshop.
It is an old tutorial that was created for Adobe Photoshop 7 but you can of course use Photoshop CS, CS2 or CS3. More old tutorials will be posted soon…
Photoshop Metal Interface Tutorial
by Khaled on April 7th, 2008
Another old Adobe Photoshop tutorial from Kyscorp old archives. I’ll be reposting most of those. This is not a text effect tutorial but it is a simple Photoshop tutorial for beginners that will show you how to use the dodge and burn tools in Photoshop to create a metal-like interface. Quite easy to learn with good results at the end. It is an old tutorial that was created for Adobe Photoshop 7 but you can of course use Photoshop CS, CS2 or CS3. More old tutorials will be posted soon…
Photoshop Twirl Neon Text Effect
by Khaled on April 7th, 2008
So back to posting the old Photoshop tutorials that used to exist on Kyscorp. Many of you emailed me asking for those especially the ones related to Text effects. So I am just starting with this one: Photoshop Twirl Neon Text Effect. It is an old tutorial that was created for Adobe Photoshop 7 but you can of course use Photoshop CS, CS2 or CS3. More old tutorials will be posted soon…
Adobe Photoshop Express Beta: now Online for free!
by Khaled on March 28th, 2008
Adobe Photoshop Express Beta is now officially launched. It is free but only available for the US users at least for now. I believe some other countries should follow up soon. Photoshop Express is a light version of Photoshop that’s based on Flash 9 web application. You won’t be able to use layers, make heavy changes and manipulations or even use text and text options but it is pretty simple to use Photoshop Express to crop, resize, sketch, saturate or change the colors of your Image (Hue).
With your Free online Photoshop Version you will have 2GB of free disk space storage and a Flickr-like admin to go with it. Moreover you can and it synchronize it with your Facebook, MySpace or Picasa accounts to change any of your photos and when you save those tweaks via the Photoshop interface they show up directly in your Facebook or Myspace. As for the synchronization with Flickr it is being devoloped and will be happening soon. Same for adding other languages and of course countries as I’ve mentioned it before. So now soon we will see everyone having his own light Photoshop reachable online! and probably soon Photoshop Express will be a lot more powerful than what it is now…. Only time will tell. If you are based in the US go get your Adobe Photoshop Express Beta! all you need is to sign up for a free account! For the other just wait for your country to be listed!
Continue to the Adobe Press release:
I am not a fan of EPS files!
by Khaled on March 24th, 2008
I usually work on both Mac OS and Windows but sometimes when I’m on the move I frequently take my windows laptop with me and if a client hands me a Flash USB key containing an .EPS file saved on a Mac OS and that has a preview embedded in it, I’ll be unable to open/see it right then unless we have a Mac nearby! And this really wastes a lot of time … and time is money. This is due to the fact that EPS saved on a MAC OS contains data format for the preview which is not compatible with Windows…
The EPS format was originally developed by Adobe. It was intended to be used as a vector format, and not raster. It is, again, platform independent and can’t be displayed on a screen if you don’t have “Display PostScript”. EPS can be opened with Vector programs (i.e. Adobe Illustrator, FreeHand, InkScape…) and most of the times it can be also opened with Photoshop but the latter will rasterize your vectors.
On the contrary to the common belief, EPS files are not meant to be rendered by a PostScript printer on paper. They were developed to be encapsulated/embedded in another file. So EPS files aren’t PS files!
So and because of all the waste of time and headaches that I witnessed while dealing with EPS I’m not a big fan of EPS!
I’ve had cases where an embedded EPS file shows up when I open it in the Illustrator but it won’t print and that was due to the fact that the EPS file had a high-resolution TIF embedded in it!
So I just want to ask, if you’re not going to encapsulate the graphic you’re saving as an EPS in another file why not save it as a native AI files? Or a PDF? Or if you don’t need it to be in a vector format why not just save as a PSD?
