Photoshop: Add a Realistic Rainbow to Your Photograph 1

Posted March 7 '09

Rainbow Colors The rainbow spectrum is commonly known as the Newton mnemonic, Roy G. Biv, which stands for red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. In a primary rainbow, which is the type we typically see, the spectrum begins on the outer edge, meaning the outermost ring is red and the innermost ring is violet. If your intention is realism, this is...

Galleries: 24 Beautiful Nature Scene Landscape Desktop Wallpapers

Posted February 17 '09

Here is a gallery of some of my favorite landscape works from DeviantArt. Not every piece I wanted to share was available as a high resolution wallpaper, so this gallery is distilled. But I was able to dig up 24 of these gorgeous high definition photos for your enjoyment. All beautiful works and all over 1000 pixels wide. How to download these: Click a thumbnail below...

CSS & HTML: Minimal Style Lightweight Drop Shadow For Images

Posted February 1 '09

While a simple traditional border helps a picture gain page presence, a drop shadow takes it up a notch by providing it with a more artistic interest, and can easily be achieved using CSS without the use of additional graphics. Minimalistic Drop Shadow As demonstrated to the right, we just need to give the picture a border and specify the styling of the 4 sides individually...

Photoshop: Colorize a Black & White Photograph Image

Posted January 30 '09

Original photo by Alex Patru. The above colorization took about an hour to complete with very basic Photoshop coloring methods. You can certainly achieve even more interesting results by putting more time into yours. The Mechanical Aspect Of Colorizing While there is no automatic way to achieve a result that matches the quality and detail you see above...

CSS & HTML: Graphic Menus w/ Flickerless Image Swapping

Posted January 27 '09

Today, we're going to learn how to create a purely CSS mouseover image swap in a menu, involving graphic backgrounds and plain anchor text, as demonstrated at the top of my Citrux Blogger template. Eliminating the Flicker Now if you've ever used a menu that features a rollover image swap, you've probably noticed the annoying flicker that occurs...