ColorWasher 2.04 ColorWasher is a plugin for correcting the colors, contrast, exposure and saturation of 8bit and 16bit photos. It is a Photoshop-compatible plugin which can be used in many graphics applications, e.g. Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, PhotoImpact, Photo-Paint, Fireworks, IrfanView, under Windows as well as MacOS X. It also runs natively in Photoshop CS3 and CS4 on Intel-Macs and works in the 64bit version of Photoshop CS4 under Windows Vista64. Overview ColorWasher [...]

There are plenty of open source applications that can help you tremendously as a web designer. Open source projects are great not only because of their price tag (free), but also because of the passionate community that typically forms around them. In these economic times, it’s often a worthwhile endeavor to see places where you can conserve, and open source alternatives are a good place to start looking. In this article, you’ll find 30 exceptionally [...]

Create Your Own Realistic View Stamp In this lesson I will show you how to create your own realistic stamp, which you may use further in your design. First of all, we need to create a new document with the size of canvas 500×300 pixels, white background. Then we need to find some texture for the paper. We can do this by searching via Google Images. Open it and locate at the canvas as you [...]

In traditional JavaScript coding, if you want to get any information from a database or a file on the server, or send user information to a server, you will have to make an HTML form and GET or POST data to the server. The user will have to click the “Submit” button to send/get the information, wait for the server to respond, and then a new page will load with the results. Because the server [...]

Creating Drawing Effect on the Photo I tried to experiment with photo and mix it with black lines to simulate drawing. Would you know how to make it? Ok, then read this tutorial. Let’s start by finding the picture of beautiful girl with hairdressing. Open up the picture and desaturate it in the beginning with Image > Adjustments > Desaturate or press Ctrl+Shift+U. After that increase the contrast with Image > Adjustments > Levels: See [...]

Make a Collage Using Mosaic Effect Here I’ll show you how to make a collage, using mosaic effect. Ok, start with creating a new document sized 500×500 pixels and use the Paint Bucket Tool to fill canvas area with color of #355b00. After that create a new layer and apply the Elliptical Marquee Tool to make a sphere selection as on a picture below, then fill this selected area with color of #97f501 Remove selection [...]