Category: Tutorials

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How to Create a Pastel Photo Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an amazing pastel photo effect in Adobe Photoshop. I will explain everything in so much detail that anyone can create it, even those who have just opened Photoshop for the first time.  The effect shown above is the one I will show… Continue reading How to Create a Pastel Photo Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop

Resize and Manipulate Images in PHP (With Examples)

In my previous tutorial, we discussed basic image manipulation using the PHP GD library. In that tutorial, I gave a brief introduction to the library and showed you how to load images from a file or create them from scratch in PHP. After that, we learned how to crop, rotate, scale and flip an image… Continue reading Resize and Manipulate Images in PHP (With Examples)

How to Upload a File in PHP (With Example)

In this article, I’ll explain the basics of file upload in PHP. Firstly, we’ll go through the PHP configuration options that need to be in place for successful file uploads. Following that, we’ll develop a real-world example of how to upload a file.  Configure PHP Settings There are a couple of PHP configuration settings that… Continue reading How to Upload a File in PHP (With Example)

How to Formulate an Email Design and Development Strategy

In this tutorial I’ll explain how to focus your efforts on the email clients and webmail clients being used by your target audience. Note: this tutorial is part of a whole week’s worth of email content on Tuts+ Web Design–check out the Mastering HTML Email learning guide for more! 1. Understand the Importance of a Strategy Your target… Continue reading How to Formulate an Email Design and Development Strategy

Your Guide to InDesign’s New Rival

Adobe InDesign has long been the market leader in publishing software. But rival layout design programs are starting to make waves in the market, with Affinity Publisher being the latest to offer a competitive alternative to InDesign. If you’re a seasoned print designer or are looking to dip a toe into publishing design, you’ll want… Continue reading Your Guide to InDesign’s New Rival

How to use the wind blast effect in Adobe Photoshop

Feel like firing up Adobe Photoshop and creating something cool? Let’s leave boring posters behind and work with the wind blast effect to come up with a neoclassical-style poster template. Ready? Let’s go! What you’ll learn How to set up guides in Photoshop How to crop an image using Layer Masks in Photoshop… Continue reading How to use the wind blast effect in Adobe Photoshop

5 Photoshop Effects for Mind-Blowing Web Graphics

Utilizing the right images on your website can make a huge impact. Images can get your message across in a way that words alone cannot. It’s one of the most surefire methods to stand out from the crowd. To get the most out of your images, you’ll want to use a professional-grade tool like Adobe… Continue reading 5 Photoshop Effects for Mind-Blowing Web Graphics

How to Create a Glowing, Fireflies Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating Have you ever caught fireflies on a warm summer night? When I was a kid we used to call them “lightning bugs.” I was always fascinated by how they would shine and glow against the sky, and loved releasing them back into the night. So in this tutorial, I’ll show you… Continue reading How to Create a Glowing, Fireflies Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

8 New Ways to Refactor Your Code With Swift 4

Swift is one of the fastest-growing languages in history, due to its elegance, simplicity, and “safety by design”. In fact, Swift’s official mantra is “to make programming simple things easy, and difficult things possible”. In this post, you’ll learn how to use Swift to its fullest by refactoring your code. While a lot of the… Continue reading 8 New Ways to Refactor Your Code With Swift 4

Site Accessibility: Getting Started With ARIA

What You’ll Be Creating Using standard HTML alone, modern web apps can lock out users with accessibility needs.  HTML is the predominant markup language online, being used by nearly 83% of existing websites. While there have been some changes in the 25 years since its creation, even newer iterations, such as HTML5 and AMP, leave… Continue reading Site Accessibility: Getting Started With ARIA

How to Draw a Ball

What You’ll Be Creating Drawing a ball may sound like something very simple, yet if you try it, you may discover that there are certain rules that must be followed. You need to know them if you want to draw a perfect ball!  In this tutorial, I will show you how to draw a soccer… Continue reading How to Draw a Ball

So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos

When you’re selling a theme, its demo is your sales pitch. If the demo falls short in some way, it’s doing a disservice to the theme and will lead to a loss of sales. If your theme includes hundreds of features, but buyers can’t see them in action, you may as well have no features… Continue reading So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos

The Zone of Infinite Creative Possibilities

Ideation is the third component in our Design Thinking process, as seen in the Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design’s proposal which we’ve discussed in our previous articles: Image source: Interaction Design Foundation How Did We Arrive at the Ideate Stage?  During the Empathize stage: you approach the user and gather data needed to define the challenge… Continue reading The Zone of Infinite Creative Possibilities

20+ Best Classic Typewriter Fonts With Old (Vintage) Machine Styles

Pay homage to the past with beautiful typography. Check out this selection of premium typewriter fonts. 20+ Best Classic Typewriter Fonts Remember typewriters? Punching each keystroke required a level of effort many young creatives will never witness. And now you can celebrate your favorite vintage styles with high-quality typewriter fonts. Today, we bring you another… Continue reading 20+ Best Classic Typewriter Fonts With Old (Vintage) Machine Styles

Understand Arrays in PHP

* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;} In this post, you’ll learn the basics of arrays in PHP. You’ll learn how to create an array and how to use associative and multidimensional arrays, and you’ll see lots of examples of arrays in action. What Is an Array? In PHP, an array is a data… Continue reading Understand Arrays in PHP

Get Started With Pusher: Using Presence Channels

In this series, we’ve been learning about Channels from Pusher, a platform that allows you to give your users the seamless real-time experience they want. Presence channels build on the security provided by private channels, but they add the benefit of knowing which users are subscribed and connected to that channel. The best part is how… Continue reading Get Started With Pusher: Using Presence Channels

How to Draw Angel Wings

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial I will show you how to draw wings on the back of a human, creating an angel. Angels, though seen as spiritual rather than material, are pictured as winged humans. But wings are not simply an appendix growing out of the shoulder blades—they’re specialized arms. So a typical… Continue reading How to Draw Angel Wings

How to Remove a Person From a Photo in Adobe Photoshop

Is there a certain detail ruining your perfect shot? Some photos are easy to recreate, while others need additional editing. Removing objects in Photoshop is quite easy. Today we’ll show you how to remove people from a nature landscape photo in Photoshop. This Adobe Photoshop tutorial will explain the five easy steps you’ll need to… Continue reading How to Remove a Person From a Photo in Adobe Photoshop

Manipulating Images in PHP Using GD

The internet would be pretty dull without images. However, maintaining and manipulating hundreds or thousands of images for your web site can be a headache. As your site design changes, you might need to modify all your images—for example, you might need to convert all your images to grayscale or resize them to 50% of… Continue reading Manipulating Images in PHP Using GD

Testing Components in React Using Jest and Enzyme

This is the second part of the series on Testing Components in React. If you have prior experience with Jest, you can skip ahead and use the GitHub code as a starting point.  In the previous article, we covered the basic principles and ideas behind test-driven development. We also set up the environment and the tools… Continue reading Testing Components in React Using Jest and Enzyme