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Final Product What You'll Be Creating In this tutorial, we will explain how to create a magma hot text effect using layer styles and textures in Photoshop. Let's get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.

Today we are going to look over the shoulders of quite a few professional designers. Using their original PSDs with open layers, we will be able to exactly reconstruct, what has been done and how. If you are like me, this way of learning by doing proves more effective than working through step-by-step tutorials. The following files come with lots of layers to be examined, as we are going to dissect a camera, a sports shoe, a cell phone and lots more. Have fun looking through the eyes of the most able Photoshop professionals. Before I forget: watch out for some layer-related Photoshop tips, I may have left for you throughout the collection…

In this tutorial, we will show you how to combine Photoshop with Filter Forge to create a glowing 3D text effect. We will begin by showing you how to create basic shapes in Photoshop, we'll then show you how to convert them to 3D, and finally how to add the final touches using Filter Forge and a few of Photoshop's basic features. Let's get started!

Scala is one of the most attractive programming languages out right now. There is a lot of hype around it and programmers world-wide are publicly recognizing it as the possible next big thing in programming. Here's why. Scala is all about functional programming in an object oriented context. It tries to take the best of both worlds and combine them into a highly efficient, intelligent, and relatively easy to understand language. Right now it is the leader in today's renaissance of functional programming languages.

Photoshop is a powerful tool for creating all sorts of imagery but it does have its limitations. While Photoshop does have some fantastic tools for creating 3D text, there are other applications that are often better suited for the job. That is why many illustrators use a combination of Photoshop and some other 3D application to help create 3D text. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Cinema 4D to create wooden 3D text and then how to use Photoshop to add the final touches. Let's get started!

One of the most important aspects of a front-end framework is how it handles navigation. In this part of Foundation for Beginners, we'll take a look at several forms of navigation, along with some JavaScript tools which add extra flourish. I'll also introduce you to another helpful tool which will help you to become a better Foundation developer.

Infographics have become a popular means of displaying information. It is a well known fact that the attention of viewers is attracted and held better through images than text, and people are more likely to digest the information in images. Road signs were probably among the first infographics; they needed to impart necessary information at a glance, and they have achieved that by using graphics and very large text, and that is the basis of modern infographics, which are becoming available for all trades, services, products and niches. Today we are bringing you a collection of online infographic tools, some tutorials, guides and articles on infographic creation and some beautiful free infographic elements and kits. All in all, you should be able to gather your data and create your masterpiece with the help of these resources.

In this video post I will guide you through the whole process of how to create a responsive WordPress site without you touching a single code. Well, at least for the first part. The first video focuses on how to setup a responsive WordPress site using Bluehost as your host, and along with it is a special discount for 1WD readers.

Tutorial Details Estimated Completion Time: 9 Minutes Difficulty: Beginner Apps Used: Adobe Photoshop CS6 Final Product What You'll Be Creating This entry is part 28 of 35 in the Shortcuts on Psdtuts Session " Previous Next " If you have been working with Photoshop for a while, chances are you've developed some custom settings that you prefer to work with.

6th May 2013 | Posted by Eko S. | No Comments You're excited- you've just had a great idea for a new blog, and you can't wait to get started. With all the specialized software, online tools, and design-based mobile apps available today, you'd think that pulling together a design project would be simple, right?

Whoops is a small library, available as a Composer package, that helps you handle errors and exceptions across your PHP projects. Out of the box, you get a sleek, intuitive and informative error page each time something goes pants-up in your application. Even better, under all that is a very straight-forward, but flexible, toolset for dealing with errors in a way that makes sense for whatever it is that you're doing. The library's main features are: Detailed and intuitive page for errors and exceptions Code view for all frames Focus on error/exception analysis through the use of custom, simple middle-ware/handlers Support for JSON and AJAX requests Included providers for Silex and Zend projects through the bundled providers, and included as part of the Laravel 4 core Clean, compact, and tested code-base, with no extra dependencies

Whenever I have to develop a specific and focused library like this, I like to start with the outcome of, how do I want this to work? So, we can begin by writing down some of the features that we'd like it to have: The ability to load different pages according to the URI Reading parameters from the URI (placeholders) Keeping the pages dynamic as per the Meteor standard That looks pretty good. Now after looking over these features, you may think they are pretty similar to a 'router' type of library and I agree. So, let's take a look at how our 'router' library would work in action:

PowerShell is Microsoft's task automation framework, consisting of a command-line shell, an integrated scripting environment (ISE), a scripting language built on .NET Framework, an API allowing you to host PowerShell in your .NET applications, and it is a distributed automation platform. PowerShell provides full access to COM and WMI, enabling you to perform tasks on both local and remote Windows systems. PowerShell is a new breed platform for automation, in that it solves administration and adaptability challenges by seamlessly integrating the .NET Framework. It's good for developers, administrators, testers and more. Based on .NET, the tool drives down costs, while providing developers and administrators a simple and enterprise-ready way to automate, measure and improve all of their processes.

Shell scripts are widely used in the UNIX world. They're excellent for speeding up repetitive tasks and simplifying complex execution logic. They can be as simple as a set of commands, or they can orchestrate complex tasks. In this tutorial, we'll learn more about the Bash scripting language by writing an example script step-by-step.

We're going to cover some incredibly practical, basic tips that you can apply in order to create your own cost-effective photo manipulations from scratch. Not everyone has access to professional photography studios, and today you'll learn how you can product high-end looking results on a very limited budget. This includes everything from correctly setting up a photo shoot, to moving into Photoshop and covering post-production essentials. You'll work with lighting, detail removal, color correction and photo manipulation.

Final Product What You'll Be Creating The new version of Photoshop is finally here! Adobe Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) was finally announced at the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles. In the keynote address, Adobe announced several new features including Camera Shake Reduction, Camera RAW improvements, Image Upsampling, Properties Panel Improvements, Behance Integration, Sync Settings, and many more useful features.

In the first part of this series I gave a quick overview of the popular CSS preprocessors LESS and SASS. I also shared a few of the frameworks in which they are used. I plan on taking a deeper dive into LESS and talking about the parts of the language I use most often. I also plan on showing you how to get started using it with CodeKit. Let's dig in!