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Photoshop/CSS Tutorial – How to Make a 3D Button that you Can Press!

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In this Photoshop slash CSS tutorial, I am going to show you how to make a 3D button that you can actually press down on when you hover over it (or when you actually click on it if you want).

This is actually a trick I used to use all the time while designing websites and it can really spice up your website.  (Why do I not use it on this blog?  Well, my blog has a ton of blog posts and it runs on 4 web servers, if I put too many graphics, it will come to a screeching halt and the site would be a lot slower even though it’s slow already.)

First, you will need to make a

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Photoshop Tutorial – How to Make a Simple 3D Button in 5 Minutes!

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I’ve been learning Photoshop for years (and I didn’t go to school or anything like that, just picked up things here and there) and I think I’ve gotten pretty good at it, not completely professional but I can make a 3D button in just a minute or so.

Anyways, it’s not that hard to do, let me show you how to make a very simple and basic 3D button in just 5 minutes of your time:

First, open up Photoshop. (duh!)

Next, hit Ctrl+N to create a new image. Make sure you start learning all the shortcuts in Photoshop, it will make your life easier.

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Photoshop DIY Tutorial: How to Draw Mountains

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Here’s a great Photoshop tutorial on how to draw some great graphical mountains. Love it:

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Photoshop CS5 Tutorial: How To Use The Content Aware Option

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A great new feature in Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the Content Aware Option. It’s pretty sweet. You can totally alter an image with almost no work. This feature will only get better as Adobe keeps adding too it, too. Check it out:

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How Cheat In Exams

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The exam season is almost upon us and sure enough, some students are going to be tempting to sneak a little bit of paper with some notes on, but if they are caught then it could affect their life in the long term.

Check this out, it is a modified coca cola label, where by using a scanner and a computer the small print has been changed to notes for the exam and all it looks like is that the student is taking drink into the exam room.

Of course, cheating is wrong and yet the student that came up with this idea deserves to get through with flying colours!

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Photoshop DIY – How to Make your Photos POP with De-Saturation!

MaximumPC, one of my favorite magazine reads, has a great online guide on how to make your photos “pop” with de-saturation Photoshop technique.  As an avid-photoshopper, this is certainly going into my Photoshop bookmarks along with the Top 10 Photoshop HOWTOs our blogger Tanya posted couple weeks back.

‘Saturation’ is a term used to describe the intensity of basic colors that make up an image.  As such, the lower the saturation of the image, the less

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Photoshop Tutorial: How to get perfect eyes

Make sure you’re trained for all the best photoshop jobs by working through this photoshop tutorial on how to tweak eyes so that they look the best they can. This is one of the better photoshop tutorials out there, so make sure you check it out.

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HowTo use key stock and a Dremel Multitool to cut your own keys

Key Cutting is usually left for the pros — or the fat guy at the hardware store who complains about having to work. But thanks to this key cutting ten step HOWTO, anyone can use a digital camera and Dremel Multitool. By using a Dremel to make your key copies from key stock, you can get around those tricky “Do not copy” keys. (If you don’t know, a Dremel is a popular type of rotary tool, often used as an engraving tool.)

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Photoshop DIY – How to Fake Depth of Field using Photoshop!

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For those of you lucky enough to own a DSLR camera, you probably are amazed at your photos with great focus and depth of field.  But others who are using regular point-and-shoot cameras, you can also “fake” depth-of-field manually by photoshopping it.

I won’t get into the details but WonderHowTo has a great tutorial on how to do this in 2 different ways.  (

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Top 10 Best Lomo Actions HOWTOs and Tutorials!

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When it comes to Photoshop, the possibilities are limitless. The beauty of Photoshop is that you don’t really need to spend thousands of dollars for photography schools as you can work some magic right at home.

My favorite Photoshop effect hands down is the “lomo effect” as images tend to reverberate with joy.  While purists may frown at replicatin

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