70 Beauty Retouching Photoshop Tutorials
Adobe Photoshop is one tool which is used by almost every designer, photographer to enhance the images, to add more effects.
One of the best applications of this tool is in Image Retouching.
Smashing Magazine has given an awesome collection of around 70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop techniques collated. These were an eye-opener for me, as it lead me to know some nice usage of different Photoshop Tools.
Check them out...
Using Tween Class in Flash AS3
Using Tween Class, we can animate, fade or move any specific movieclip to animate over a specified period of time.
import fl.transitions.Tween; import fl.transitions.easing.*; var myTweenX:Tween=new Tween(_mc,"x",Elastic.easeOut,36,260,3,true);
We can use different Easing mechanisms to perform this animation. We have following differnet Easing methods:
- Back : the animation will go beyond the end position before bouncing back into it
- Bounce: the animation will bounce back a few steps when it reaches the end position before settling at it
- Elastic: a mixture of Bounce and Back effects combined
- None: no special tweening, the object movement will not speed up along the path
- Regular: the animation will gradually increase or decrease in speed as specified by the easing method
- Strong: a more emphasised Regular effect
Best CSS Practices
Anybody who wants to design a website should have a hang on what CSS is and how it works. We can say CSS is the backbone of any website now.
You can make your site a better one if you use CSS efficently and effectively.
As i was getting to learn CSS, i came across a very useful post from WebDesignerDepot about 10 Best CSS Practices to improve your code.
This would be really helpful to all who wants to be a good Web Designer.
25 Nice Flash Website Templates
Now a days most of the websites are being shifted to Adobe Flash, Owing to its rich experince and look & feel.
Recently i came across a post at FlashUser.net which has some 25 awesome Flash Website Templates.
Go ahead and try out those templates.
Make your website Flashy 
Skinning Flex/AIR Components
Skinning is like changin the look of the components. To skin Flex components, we can use either Bitmaps or swfs or programmatically we can skin.
In this post we will be looking into skinning Flex Components graphically i.e. using Bitmap images and using SWFs. Using skins we can define the whole appearance, different states of the components.
For example, we will see skinning a button now. We can give whole new look to different states of button like down, up, over etc.
Simple yet Effective Technique in Photoshop
Hope you all know Adobe Photoshop very well. This tutorial is only for beginners for Photoshop.
We are going to discuss about a very very simple technique in photo-editing using Photoshop. We are oing to learn using Hue/Saturation in Photoshop. This is very effective if you want to change the color of any part of an image.
Using Hue/Saturation, we are going to change the color of retina of an eye. Once we are done with it, you will know how effective this option is in Photoshop.
Working with Sound in AS 3.0
In this post, we are going to look at handling, playing and dealing with Sound in Adobe Flash AS3.
The simplest way to play any local mp3 sound is that you need to make a URLRequest to the mp3 file and pass it to Sound object.
var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("sample.mp3");
var mySound:Sound = new Sound(req);
mySound.play();
Checking the loading of the Sound
Sound class can dispatch events like ProgressEvent.PROGRESS and Event.COMPLETE to check the loading process of a Sound File. Using ProgressEvent.PROGRESS event, we can keep track of how much of the Sound Data is being loaded and how much sound has been played.
16 Great Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials
People looking to make some really nice Lightning effects using Photoshop?
Apart from Lightning effects, we have much more in store like design of Windows Vista Styled Wallpapers.
I found such a collections at Designshard.
Goahead and enjoy designing....
Some Cool Photoshop Brushes…
Adobe Photoshop as you all know, is the tool every Graphic and Web designer will use all over the globe.
Recenlty i came across a site, where you we can get lots and lots of great Photoshop Brushes.
Just goto Photoshop Brushes and download some cool brushes.
Happy designing...