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By russell, September 4, 2009 4:16 pm

Adobe has its own Photoshop tutorials that run the gamut of instruction.
You can find Photoshop tutorials on the Adobe site on abstracts, automation, animation, the basics of using Photoshop, buttons and brushes, using color effectively, digital art, drawing, creating desired effects with drawing or photos, retouching photos, photography in general, scripting, textual effects, Photoshop patterns and textures, graphics for the Web, and layouts for the Web.
One of the most basic of Photoshop tutorials is a complete explanation of all you’ll find on the Photoshop toolbar.
You’ll learn lessons that include the use of the marquee tools. There are several: the elliptical, the single row, the single column and the rectangular.
The rectangular and elliptical marquee tools lets you expand or reduce an area that is shaped as the tools indicate. You can use a tool to size one row or one column with the appropriate marquee tool.
These basics will be taught in this Photoshop tutorial, along with the use of the move tool which lets you create movement of a layer, the lasso tool which lets you capture a specific area, and the magnetic lasso tools, which lets you change the location of images with varying colors.
The polygonal lasso tool, in contrast, will go from point to point in a straight line or lines. You’ll even learn how to use a magic want with Adobe Photoshop tutorials. This magic want tool lets you click inside a one color area and move only that area.
The Photoshop crop tool, part of this tutorial, lets you delete parts of a photo.
Wit h this Photoshop tutorial you’ll learn other basic tools such as the spot healing tool, the healing brush tool, the red eye tool, the patch tool, the brush tool, the pencil tool, and the color replacement tool.
With the clone stamp tool, you’ll learn how to use Photoshop to copy only parts of a particular image, while the pattern stamp tool will teach you how to take an image and brush a pattern on to it.
The Photoshop tutorial will teach you the mechanics of history brush tool use, how it is used to undo what you’ve created by simply brushing over the image you’ve altered and taking it back to the image it was before.
It has an even more advance use, though, in that, you can actually undo the image change in only the specific parts from which you wish to remove your latest alteration.
The art history brush, another tool taught in Photoshop tutorials, is much the same as the history brush except that it also lets you style at the same time.
Photoshop tutorials teach three eraser tools – the standard eraser, the background eraser and the magic eraser tool. With the first you can do just as its name suggests – erase part of the image you’ve created with Photoshop.
With the background version you can erase only the image background, while the magic eraser which lets you make even more varied choices of what to eliminate from the image.

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By russell, August 8, 2009 5:30 pm

How to Learn HTML
Steps
1. HTML reads left to right. First, you have to understand tags. Tags are placed at the beginning of whatever you want to change. If you wanted to make a word bold, you’d put a tag at the beginning of the word, and at the end.
2. Tags begin with a less-than sign: . What goes inside the is the tag. Learning HTML is learning the tag to perform whatever you want to do. Usually, the tag at the end has a / before the greater sign. For example: Hello
- Every tag should begin with an opening and closing tag. If a tag only does not specifically use a closing tag [such as or , which will you see below], then the tag should end with a slash inside of the tag. Thus, the previous tags would be written as and , respectively.
- The tag for a paragraph is .
- The tag for bold is or .
- The tag for italics is or .
- In HTML, the tag must be placed around the code.
- The tag for a break (skip in the line, hitting to hitting “enter” on the keyboard) is .
- The tag is always around the text.
3. By now, you can write HTML using tags. But what if you want more? Here’s some more codes:
To insert images:
To resize images: (size is adjustable)
Linking images:
4. There are many websites that explain HTML more in-depth. Some good sites are Funky-Chickens.com and
HtmlCodeTutorial.com.
5.Every HTML page start with and end with . It will tell the server that it is a html page. Within the tag, the page consist of head and body section. The head section allows us to specify the title. The body section is the content of the html page.
6. Now that we have tags down, let’s see what we can make with the knowledge:
My Title Goes Here
I like to write a lot of HTML!
Tags are so much fun. You can do it, too!
Tips
If you’re getting serious with HTML, buy Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage. It teaches you codes and all. Both of them are WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor. Their functions is very similar to word processor. It will be easy to get started with the 2 softwares. If you don’t wish to spend money on the html software, there are some free html editors for you to test out. One of them is Nvu, WYSIWYG editor, this software is very similar to Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage.
Things You’ll Need
A word processor, such as Microsoft Word, Notepad or BBEdit.