Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

I thought I would start posting a few Paint Shop Pro resources. Here are a few tutorial sites that I have found that offer tutorials for version 9 of Paint Shop Pro: Pixel2Life.com – an extensive list of categorized links to Paint Shop Pro tutorials. This site also offers tutorials on numerous subjects related to web design. I really liked [...]

I’m very torn right now. My first web site, Robin’s Paint Shop Pro Resources @ putertutor.net has fallen into a state of disrepair. The content is dated, links are broken, and the design needs a major overhaul. Over the last couple of months I’ve toyed with the idea of updating and overhauling, but I haven’t really had the time or [...]

Let’s try this tutorial A Fireworks Quickie – Using Text as a Mask today in class @ 2:30 p.m.. Be sure to have a photo available to work with. Here are my results: StyleGala has an interesting article, No more CSS Hacks, on using PHP detect browsers and serve CSS accordingly. A Few Tips On Estimating Web Projects may be [...]

A few hints on using the Clone Stamp tool in Photoshop to remove objects from photos. Open the image that you want to work with. You can practice with this image of a church with a telephone pole and lots of other objects: removeobjectsmall.jpg Rotate the Image by 90 degrees counter clockwise. Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CCW. Set [...]

Workshop Prep: Please create a folder called f2o in your PM directory (drive F:\) using Windows Explorer. Move the photo gallery that you would like to upload into the f2o folder. For our workshop today I thought I would post a few resources on removing objects from photos: Removing a person or object from a photo – This technique uses [...]

To continue our Photoshop theme I thought it would be fun to create a Web Photo Gallery in Photoshop. For our practice session you can use the photos that we worked with yesterday during the “Heal Thy Self” lecture or I have a folder of cute doggie images you can use at J:\webclass\galleryoriginals. Here are sample two sample galleries Gallery [...]

Modular stylesheets at Content with Style is an article about grouping related styles into separate stylesheets. A CSS Framework illustrates the basic steps to creating a reusable CSS framework that can be used on different project. I know that some of you really enjoy Photoshop, so I thought you might like to enter some of the Photoshop contests at Worth1000.com. [...]

I mentioned a few of programs today during our workshop. Gimp is a free image editor Irfanview is a free image viewer that can be used to convert and optimize images The Adobe Studio Exchange has all kinds of free Photoshop actions, filters, brushes, and other goodies. Photofiltre is also a free image editor I personally use BreezeBrowser to view [...]

So I was actually reading the “entire” article that I posted for you earlier, Simple Design Tips for Non-Designers, and I came across cool technique that Garrett, the same author, demonstrates in Need a color palette? Just pixelate. You can use Photoshop to create a complimentary color palette from your favorite photo using the Mosaic Filter (Filters > Pixelate > [...]

On Friday we will use my basic photo editing in Photoshop as an outline for our workshop. You may want to print the tutorial and download and save the images associated with the tutorial before Friday. I also have some basic scanning directions for HP and Epson scanners for today’s lecture. Special Note: In order to use the scanner in [...]