Archive for September, 2007
Playboy Cover Girl evolution via Photoshop
These kind of videos have been circulating on the web for some time now. It all started with Dove Evolution, the transformation of a normal, slightly wrinkled girl into a “perfect face” for an advertising campaign.
For those who aren’t already convinced by the power of Photoshop here’s another one :
If you can’t see this video click here.
Free PHP Top Sites Script
Ever wanted to start your very own “top sites” website ? Well now you can do that very easy actually with Aardvark TopSites PHP script. If you still don’t know what I am talking about you can check the demo here.
Here’s a list of features this script offers :
- Most important : It’s free
- Members ranks can be shown on their button.
- New: Stat Buttons, allowing you to customize your buttons and display all kinds of stats on them
- 6 different ranking methods
- New: Rank daily, weekly, or monthly
- Customizable categories
- Fully customizeable skins: make your topsites look however you want!
- Member login and lost password retrieval
- Multiple languages : Arabic, Bosnian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
- Ad breaks
- Visitors can rate and review members
- Advanced stats and graphs
You may download the script here.
MariGold - Free Wordpress Theme
Free, standard compliant (XHTML and CSS) Wordpress theme designed by ThemePack.
Windows Media Player 11 Button - How did they do it
To begin this tutorial, I simply created a few rectangles with different shades of blue.
Now select the “Elipse Tool” and draw a circle as I have done below with 121212 as your foreground color. Hold in the shift key to draw a perfect circle.
Now that you have your circle, you can now right click on the layer in the Layers Palette and select, “Blending Options…“. Now click on “Stroke“. Use the settings below :
You should now have the following :
Select the “Elipse Tool” again and draw another circle this time using 0023a4 as your foreground color. Hold in the shift key to draw a perfect circle.
Select the “Elipse Tool” again and draw yet another circle this time using White as your foreground color. This circle need not be perfect.
Next we will need to move the bottom anchor point. To do this, select the “Direct Selection Tool” and select the anchor point on the bottom. Now, using the up arrow key on your keyboard, move that anchor point as I have done below. Then turn the “Fill” down to 28%.
Note : The direct selection tool is : 
Now “Ctrl” click the blue circle layer to create a selection around it and grab the “Brush Tool” with the diameter at 50% and the hardness at 17%. Create a new layer, change the blending mode to “Color Dodge” and change the color to 70e2ff. Now click only once toward the bottom of the selection as I have illustrated below. Deselect and go to next step.
Select the “Rounded Rectangle Tool” set at 100 pixels, with the color d4d9e0, and draw the shape illustrated below.
Now that you have your shape, you can now right click on the layer in the Layers Palette and select, “Blending Options…“. Now click on “Outer Glow“. Use the settings below :
The results. I then duplicated the gray shape and moved to the appropriate space. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
Tutorial by Empire Design.
The Hobbit - Free Website Template
Free website template designed by Arcsin. This template has a certain feel of “old story” and magic to it and is HTML and CSS standard compliant.
