Let us say that you get a picture with someone’s portrait and you want to make it look better than it is at the moment. What can you do? The answer is “A lot of things!” There are just some examples. For starters, you can always apply lipstick in Adobe Photoshop CS3. Then, if you feel that you have mastered photoshop transitions and background cutting, you can always learn how to mask hair so that the impact will be minimum. We recommend that you take a close look at the skin and facial enhancing in photoshop tutorial presented HERE. It is quite good and you might learn a lot of things that you did not know till now.
Do you have a picture in which you did not have make-up and would like to add it? It is possible thanks to Photoshop. Learn how to do this HERE. Now let us think that the picture you want ro modify contains some face cleanups needed. If you want to clean the face with the use of Photoshop you can learn how to do this HERE. You can also whiten teeth and eyes and even removing acne.
Adobe Photoshop trully is a great software program. There are basically hundreds of tutorials available on the Internet but this one is something I think a lot of people are not aware of. Here is one that teaches you exactly how to add snowfall to images with the use of Photoshop. It can be a really interesting think that you have not done before. I am quite sure that you will enjoy working on some pictures by using this. Continue reading →
Contrary to what you might believe, CSS Backgrounds are far more powerful than you might imagine. Also, a lot of people that think they know CSS will not know of a lot of facts that will be mentioned below. With this in mind, let us take a look at the most common properties you will want to set for elements in CSS.
CSS Background Color
If you read the previous lessons in our CSS Tutorial course you will know how to add the CSS elements mentioned in this entire article. This is why we will basically work most with examples. In order to set a background color for any element you can add something similar to this: Continue reading →
A lot of us have a real problem with having pictures with red eyes. Sometimes we end up with doing a lot of work in order to remove this part of the picture. What you might not be aware of is that there is a very easy tool in Adobe Photoshop that is especially designed for this. Here is a very quick tutorial that teaches you how to remove red eyes in pictures by using Adobe Photoshop. (Video after the break)
Lately we have been faced with the appearance of a lot of torrent sites. With this in mind we have to analyze the subject because torrents can easily contain viruses and false information that can harm computers. It is not rare that we saw new releases being downloadable from torrent sites and the archive was infected with trojans, spyware and a lot of nasty computer destroying malware software or simply bad programs. Always remember that you should always look at the comments of the users so that you know if there are any problems with the torrent you are going to download. Also, you should only use torrent sites that you can trust and that have been around for a long time. We also need to consider the fact that the number of users a torrent site has is also important combined with traffic. Since we are talking about torrent sites, here are the torrent sites that we recommend: Continue reading →
Let us think about the easy way to play the full videos that you ended up saving as IMG or ISO files or that you received in this format. You might already know that ISO is basically a DVD or CD image that has the extension .iso. Just like all image formats an ISO file comes with the full content of your disc. This basically means every single bit of data that is there. You are usually using tools like the all popular Daemon Tools in order to mount them in a virtual CD/DVD Rom or you can even directly burn the files on a DVD-CD. In most cases an ISO file will be utilized in order to replicate any existing disc and then transfer it to any other location or burn it. Sometimes you can play full videos that were exported as ISO files directly, without needing to burn the image or even mount it. Continue reading →
Placing text over images is easy and can be done with the use of different techniques. Out of all that are possible, here is the most effective one. We are talking about CSS Position Property. Let us now think about a random image, let us say “image.jpg”. We will need to have a container, an image and text in 3 different div elements. The code would look like this: Continue reading →
You might have heard of OGG files or even had OGG files on your computer. You should know that OGG is actually an open and free standard container format that is currently maintained by Xiph.ORG Foundation. It is not created in connection with any software patent and aims to deliver efficient streaming, while being mostly used in AUDIO files. In most cases you will see that OGG is utilized to describe an audio format (Ogg Vorbis). In the past we have seen the .ogg file format used for everything that was distributed through OGG but since 2007 .ogg is only utilized for Vorbis.
Nowadays it is very easy to play .ogg files. A lot of multimedia software have taken up necessary codecs to play such files. We even have portable media players that are capable of playing them. Let us se the most popular available on different operating systems. Continue reading →
If you encounter an .mkv file format you might find it difficult to play. We are basically talking about a Matroska extension. Matroska is a container format that is open source. It is a good alternative to the very popular MP4 and AVI file formats. To make it even better, there are even some areas that shows why mkv is better. In any case, let us see how you can play mkv files through this simple tutorial
In most cases the individual that downloads an MKV file will use any video player that they have installed to try and play it. It is needless to say that this does not usually work as you would not be here if it did. We have a lot of software that is capable of playing this file format but not all of them have the decoders you will require. We are talking about a container file system. This basically means that there are some streams that are contained in the file. If you do not have the good decoder you will not be able to play them.
All MKV files include an audio stream and a video stream. They are compressed and this is done with the use of an encoder. It you want to play the streams you will have to get a codec. A codec is simply a Continue reading →
What happens when you press delete on your computer by mistake and an important file is no more? In most cases you immediately go to Recycle Bin and hop it is there. The good news is that there is a huge change your file will be there. The bad news is that it is not and you can not restore it. It is so easy to make one crucial mistake and end up with an important file deleted.
Now the trick is that you can recover a deleted file, even if it is not in your Recycle Bin. Windows has a filing system that will not directly delete that file. It will simply declares the space occupied as ready to be overwritten. It will take some time till that file will actually disappear. Unfortunately, if you are not fast enough the space will be overwritten and your file will be lost.
As soon as you noticed that you deleted one file you should not have, you need to stop using the computer. Do not continue browsing the Internet or even scanning your computer with Picassa for photos. The more things you do with your PC, the bigger the chance to lose the file. Now the best solution possible would be to be able to use another personal computer. You can download special software to undelete deleted files. After you get such a program you can install it and follow the directions to recover the lost files. There are a lot of programs that can help you, all you need to do is Google search them. There are even many that are freeware.
Did you ever want to learn information about an IP address and you did not know how to do that? Now there is one simple resource you can use in Reveal IP. Based on the provider of the IP address you will learn the hostnam, country, Region/State and City of any IP you want to check.
Now this is an useful free resource that you will surely love. There is even an IP widget that can be put on your website if you want to take advantage of that.
