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XSHOCK | blog: Photoshop
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Photoshop Quick Tip: Show/edit layer mask. Photoshop Quick Tip: Duplicate layer with keystrokes. Photoshop Quick Tip: Stay at the 100%. Photoshop Quick Tip: Smart Objects and Layer Masks. Expanding Photoshop with Magnifier. Photoshop Quick Tip: Move Tool. Photoshop Quick Tip: Connecting Vector Shapes. Photoshop Quick Tip: Selections. 171; Previous articles. Is the journal and resource-depot of the german graphic designer Matthias Schuetz. The mainpage is XSHOCK.de. Valid XHTML 1.0. Valid CSS 2.1.
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XSHOCK | blog: Disclaimer
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This blog contains links which lead to other sites. Any use you make of the information provided on this sites, or any site or service linked to by this sites, is at your own risk. XSHOCK. Blogxshock.de) takes no responsibility for such other sites. Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Is the journal and resource-depot of the german graphic designer Matthias Schuetz. The mainpage is XSHOCK.de. Which represents the personal portfolio and digital playground of Matthias.
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XSHOCK | blog: News
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New idea: random previous articles. I’ve integrated a new element on my blog: the random article. Photoshop, Flash and Tools. Because those articles are kind of ageless. So there will always be an article containing tricks and resources. I’ve designed a new RSS. For this blog which I wanted to be three dimensional. And this is the result. I’ve thrown up some vectors in Adobe Illustrator CS3. And used the “3D Extrude and Bevel”-effect. For the three dimensional transformation. Download PNG [.png]. Tweaks ...
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XSHOCK | blog: Cursors
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If you want to spice up your Windows-cursor you may want to use one of my cursors below. I've created some greyscale cursors in three states: normal, background loading and hourglass. Simply download the cursor you want and copy the CUR/ANI-files into your ‘C: Windows Cursors’-folder. Open the control panel. And go to ‘Mouse’-settings. There, click on the ‘cursor’-tab. And click ‘Browse.’. In order to change the cursor of your choice. If you like round forms and a. Fresh angle, you might like this one.
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XSHOCK | blog: A small Wallpaper-Guide
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As I’m currently working on a new masterpiece, I thought you might be interested in a small guide for creating and designing desktop wallpapers. The guide is very basic and contains quite a few tips which shall help you to get a better look at wallpaper design. It’s kind of a checklist I’m always following when creating a new piece, so here are the facts:. Have a clean vision of your artwork in your mind (how it shall look like). In Photoshop: work in greyscale (colors will follow). Take a deeper look at...
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XSHOCK | blog: Adobe
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Adobe CS4 Trials available. Short and nice: the CS4 trials are finally available for download. Go get one to get an impression of the new creative suite. Adobe: CS4 Broadcast and new features. Don’t forget to watch the special CS4 web broadcast. Which starts today (September, 23rd) at 11am. Also check out John Nack's CS4 feature blog post. Where he names some more details. Of the upcoming Photoshop CS4. There are some nice features, especially that Layer masks will finally stay linked to Smart Objects.
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XSHOCK | blog: Tools
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Graphics / Vector software. Programmers, occasional graphic designers or beginners may want to use free. Or open source) graphics software which can do some basic operations. So you could need an application to retouch a photo, to create a vector icon or to design a graphic. There are many free tools out there which have those features and much more. I’ve crawled the web for some nice applications and I found many fresh graphics tools which are quite awesome. Out there which let you save your font as TTF.
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XSHOCK | blog: Tricks
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HTML: "To Top"-link made perfect. In order to optimize the usability of your web project you may use the famous “To top”-link. A link at the bottom (or at the end of an article) of your page that scrolls to the very top. Of the website. To the very top? Usually, the top link jumps to the anchor position but this can’t be placed at the very top. TargetChooser: Option-Tooltip for HTML-links. Recently, there was an article on SmashingMagazine. Target= blank) is that I’m having internal. This helps a lot whe...
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XSHOCK | blog: Layouts
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Below you’ll find readymade (X)HTML/CSS-layouts. Which can be used for any purpose. The layouts contain clean code and have been successfully tested on Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Opera 9 and Safari 3. They can be viewed online but you can also download them as a .ZIP-file. The .ZIP-file contains the HTML. File and also a single CSS. File which can be used as an external resource-link. Xshock css layout 07. Full browser-width / three columns /. Fixed column-height / vertical menu.