Learn The Basics of Color Focus Editing in Photoshop CS5

In This tutorial we will learn the basics of color focus editing or selective color, the post-processing technique where most of a photo is converted to black and white, but some parts are left in color to draw the viewer’s eye.

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Create Futuristic Berserker Scene using 3D Techniques

In this tutorial (I cant say Photoshop, because we will use not only this software) you will learn how to create futuristic Berserker scene. You will learn various 3D techniques in combination of the following programs: Poser8, Autodesk 3Ds Max, Cinema4D and Photoshop.

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Create Futuristic Berserker Scene using 3D Techniques

Colorful Candy 3D Text Effect in Photoshop and 3D Studio Max

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create colorful candy 3D text using Photoshop and 3D Studio Max, and how to incorporate a few other 3D elements into a final Photoshop artwork.

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Colorful Candy 3D Text Effect in Photoshop and 3D Studio Max

Create an Amazing Photo Collage from Simple Circles

In today tutorial you will learn how to create and awesome photo collage, you will learn how simple and effective u can create photo manipulation from simple shapes, such as circles.

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Create an Amazing Photo Collage from Simple Circles

Overprocessing Photos in Photoshop

Tools such as Photoshop and Lightroom have allowed photographers to manipulate images in ways once never imaginable. These innovations have lead to increase of photographers known for their “surreal” imagery or extreme processing.

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Brick Patterns

Here are 8 seamless brick patterns that are 1000 pixels wide with various heights. Included in the download is a .pat file which will work for Adobe Photoshop and a .png of each brick pattern that will work in Gimp. All of these pattens can be obtained individually in the seamless brick section as textures if you need them in higher resolutions!

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How to Create a Fantasy Banana Ship in Photoshop

One of the best things about Photoshop is that it allows us to create some pretty amazing images from some of the most surprising objects. Today, we will create a fantasy flying ship from a photo of a banana. Let’s get started!

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Create a Blackberry Torch Using Photoshop and Illustrator

In this tutorial, we will draw a highly realistic blackberry torch using Photoshop and Illustrator. We’ll use Photoshop for basic shapes and shading and Illustrator for more complex shapes.

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Create a Blackberry Torch Using Photoshop and Illustrator

Architecture and interior design organizations award professionals

Earning a postsecondary degree in architecture or interior design may lead prospective students to several professional benefits, including receiving national recognition for success in the industry. This type of acknowledgement could also lead future degree holders to better job opportunities or higher salaries

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Florida college adds construction, architecture engineering bachelor’s degrees to current curriculum

Careers in architecture and construction are growing in availability nationwide. Many schools are being approved to create relevant bachelor's programs in an effort to keep up with the high employment demand.

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Florida college adds construction, architecture engineering bachelor’s degrees to current curriculum

How NOT to clean your computer keyboard

Chances are, your computer keyboard is filthy, the keys a magnet for the dirt and oil on your fingertips, the crumbs from that afternoon snack you had at your desk, the gunk that floats through the air, whatever. Moreover, all of those little nooks and crannies are the perfect hiding place for dirt and grit. Given how dirty our hands and fingers can get during the course of an average day, it’s no surprise that researchers say computer keyboards can be a haven for bacteria

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Podcast: Effective Uses of Blogging & Social Media to Start Your Business

We’re living in some tough times. Those who are employed are concerned about their jobs, those who have lost them may be running out of time with benefits, and those who have decided to take the plunge to start their own business need to do it on a tiny budget. This morning, I had the pleasure of being on Victoria Finch’s live show, The Credit and Finance Show , on Blog Talk Radio.

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Podcast: Effective Uses of Blogging & Social Media to Start Your Business

Are You Sabotaging Your Business?

Many business owners struggle with sales and don’t know how to remedy the situation. After all, they are doing everything the experts say to do and more. Often, the problem lies in one of the following five sales mistakes

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Are You Sabotaging Your Business?

Logo Design Works wins 9 GDUSA awards

Cleveland, OH October 1, 2010 – American logo design company Logo Design Works has been given 9 American Graphic Design Awards for excellence in logo design from the prestigious industry association GDUSA .

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Logo Design Works wins 9 GDUSA awards

Adobe Advisories

Adobe released a security advisory for Flash Player yesterday: “There are reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild against Adobe Flash Player on Windows.” Flash Player will be patched the week of September 27, 2010. Flash technology is also embedded in Reader and Acrobat.

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Shaq is Wack

Online Gossip Magazine Radar Online is reporting that NBA star Shaquille O’Neal is facing a lawsuit accusing him of hacking , destroying evidence and indicating that he attempted to frame an employee by planting child pornography on his computer . According to the lawsuit, O’Neal also threw a personal computer in the lake behind his home. O’Neal (widely known by his nickname ‘Shaq’) is one of the most famous professional basketball players in the world and one of the wealthiest sport stars overall

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Shaq is Wack

1 Ad Service Compromised, 1 Country’s Users Annoyed

On September 19th and 20th, over 600 sites, mainly in Malaysia and Indonesia, were temporarily listed by Google as potentially harmful*. The roll call of sites affected include many of Malaysia’s major online media sites, including TheStar, Malaysiakini, Berita Harian and the Malaysian Insider

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1 Ad Service Compromised, 1 Country’s Users Annoyed

Get the Hackers on Your Side

Like it or not, Twitter is important . It is not only used for chit-chat, but it has turned out to be the fastest way to get eye-witness reports from people who are on location whenever something happens

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ZeuS Variants Targeting Mobile Banking

There’s an interesting Windows+mobile case today involving a ZeuS variant that steals mTANs , using a Symbian (.sis) or Blackberry (.jad) component. An mTAN is a mobile transaction authentication number, sent via SMS, and is used by some banks as a form of single use one-time password to authorize an online financial transaction.

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Patch for ASP.net Information Disclosure Vulnerability Released

Microsoft has released an out-of-band security bulletin (MS10-070), for the ASP.NET “information disclosure” vulnerability. The short version of the vulnerability is that exploiting it generates unintended error messages containing information that an attacker may be able to use to view or compromise data. According to the bulletin, any applications running on the ASP.net platform are vulnerable.

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