Non-Destructive Extract

We prepare the image in Extract by using the Edge Highlighter tool to identify the edge and then filling the subject area with the Fill tool.
Clicking the Preview button gives us a good look at what Extract will do...

How Not to Be Ripped Off by Your Website Designer

As web designer my self, I have had the unfortunate luck of speaking to too many of my clients who have been ripped off by a web design somewhere along the line. Whether it be that the designer never really finished the website...

How to Create a Favicon for Your Web Site

One of the simplest things you can do to give your site 'identity' and to make it stand out from other sites is to use a favicon (favourite icon). They are the little logos that go next to the website listing in your favourites folder, and pop up in other places...

Jumping Jack-O-Lantern - Tweening an Animation

One of the more advanced techniques available for animating GIFs in ImageReady is tweening. Derived (more or less) from "in between," the term refers to the automatic generation of frames for your animation. You create the first and last frames and let ImageReady do the work in the middle...

Halloween is Even Closer - Basic Animation with Slimy Type

In the previous column, we created some slimy text on a wall. Now let's have some fun and make that slime drip down the wall in an animated GIF, using Photoshop and ImageReady. The Gif file will be suitable for playback on your favorite Halloween Web site, or for use as in an animated Halloween...

Halloween is Coming

With Halloween right around the corner, it's time to start dressing things up. And nothing quite says "Happy Halloween" like some slimy letters sliding down the wall. In this installment, we'll create the slimy text and next time we'll make it drip down a wall in an animated GIF...

Color Theory - Some Basic Primer

Achromatic schemes are made up of Black and Whites and the various range of neutral grays they produce. You can give achromatics a temperature by adding a small touch of another color...

Business Header and Navigation

1) Make a new document. I used 600x120 for this tutorial. Leave the background white for the time being.
2) Make a New Layer. Grab the Rectangular Marque Tool and make a thin selection at the top from the left to the right:...

How to Add a Soundfile in Your HTML File With the Sound Embed Tag

You can add your own background music to your HTML page by adding the sound embed tag to it. The EMBED tag is the most common way of adding sound to a Web page. The sound embed tag is supported by both browsers, and PC and Mac platforms...

Object Movement Relative to Mouse