This Airbrush and Touch-Up tutorial covers one of my favorite Photoshop tools; the Heal tool. We are about to demonstrate the power of the healing brush using a photo of an old cracked statue, but you can gain the same effect on a human face, covering spots, blemishes, lines and wrinkles.

Often under used, it is one of the most powerful tools available to you in Photoshop and has been getting better and better with every new Photoshop release. Not only is it extraordinarily powerful, its extremely simple to use (as you are about to find out).

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This tutorial shows you how to create amazing photography lighting effects using a maglite torch and your camera.

I’m about to show you one of the simplest – but most fun techniques for creating amazing photographic effect.

There isn’t even any need for computer editing!

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Recently, I was dealing with a large dataset in ASP.NET.  I was using the GridView control to display the data to the user.  The user was required to scroll down the page and using pagination links to view all of the data.  Paging events are triggered as PostBack’s and if you are using the smart navigation features of ASP.NET, this causes some serious user experience issues.  Here’s how to fix it.

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Another tutorial request, this time for an iPhone style icon!

This simple tutorial covers the basics of using Photoshop CS4 to create lighting effects to give your graphics depth and shine.

We’ll also show you how to use your new iPhone icon in your iPhone application project.

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This tutorial was requested by blog reader Matt – who wanted to create the effect of an exploding planet which didn’t look like a cartoon. We’ll show you how to go from a photo of some cracked ground, to a planetary fireball.

This tutorial will make use of Photoshop CS4’s clever polar coordinates tool, combined with a distortion technique explored over at tutorialwiz.com – but with our own tweaks here and there.

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I was recently trying to create a sine wave frequency sweep audio sample file to test out a digital signal processing (DSP) filter I was trying to write.  Using Audacity, you can create plug-ins to achieve all sorts of cool effects.  After a little experimentation I came up with the following code:

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If you receive the following error when trying to install a CPAN module using Mac OS X Leopard and Perl 5.8.8:

No rule to make target `/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/config.h', needed by `Makefile'.

..then salvation is at hand.

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I recently has a scenario where I had an array of hashes. Each hash represented a row of data for a table and I wanted to sort the whole array by the value of one element of the hash. As you’d expect, Perl has a very nice answer to the problem.

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This tutorial will take us back to basics using some of the simplest yet most effective Photoshop CS3 tools available to us. The Burn, Dodge and Sponge tools.

Using these tools, we will turn an otherwise dull image into something far more beautiful.

Although they are examples of ‘destructive’ Photoshoping, when dealing with small areas of images, especially photos, it is far easier and more effective to ‘paint in’ these effects rather than using masks to create similar results. Continue reading »

So, you’re a Perl programmer developing a CGI web application, chances are you’re going to make some mistakes and need to debug your code. By default, when a Perl program fails to compile or encounters a runtime error you will see your servers default HTTP 500 error message.

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