Recently Popular Tutorials for September 1st, 2006
Sep 1
PHP Thumbnailer Class
A PHP Class for manipulating images. It features the ability to scale by percentage, width, height, and to create a square crop of an image. Unlike other image manipulation classes, this one allows multiple manipulations of an image, with the ability to save it multiple times, and display the image without saving. This is useful for [...]
Sep 1
Achieving Amazing Easing Effects in Flash
In previous versions of Flash, motion tweening was a difficult and time-consuming way to give animations realistic motion effects. The Ease In/Ease Out feature was helpful but its limitations became apparent when you applied it to complex animations because you had to create a lot of frame-by-frame shape and motion tweening to mimic something that [...]
Sep 1
Radial Gradients - Conforming gradients to the edges of an...
In Illustrator CS2, standard radial gradient fills won't automatically follow the edges of an object. They'll generally be circular and clipped by the bounding box of the object, rather than conformed to the object itself. However, with oval-shaped objects, there's a little trick to get the gradient to follow the edges of the object, rather [...]
Sep 1
Photoshop Painting Techniques: Hair and Fur
In the olden days, there weren't any really great ways to create hair and fur effects. But Photoshop 7 will allow you to design your hair strand by strand and generate a highly complex effect with little effort.
