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Using the Quick Selection tool in PhotoShop

When your just starting out in photoshop just selecting things in photoshop can be very hard to figure out. But thats what here for so lets just start off small and introduce you to one tool at a time. This time we are going to look at the Quick Selection Tool.

How to add Facebook chat to iChat

Facebook has its own chat at the bottom of all the pages that you visit when your logged into their site. This is really handy when you want to talk to a person quickly. But what if you dont wanna keep a window or tab open for Facebook to chat? You can set up iChat [...]

Installing Admob into your iPhone apps

When I was trying to install ads in to one of my iPhone apps it was pretty hard to try and do, but I finally got it so I thought I would share with you guys how I did it. You can do it two ways; programmatically or through Interface Builder. I did this through [...]

Methods, and instances in Objective-C. (Part 2)

In our last objective-c tutorial we tackled the @interface section; this tutorial we are going to tackle the @implementation section. This part of the a program is where you tell the complier what we wrote in the @interface section mean. (To see the whole tutorial on that click here.) For example in our @interface section [...]

Review: Echofon For Mac

Here is another  client, but its just not you ‘usual’ Twitter client. This one is like Tweetie, very simple clean and cut. Echofon does not take up much screen space which is a huge factor in my book. Something like tweetdeck that will take up your whole screen isnt something I am really fond of. I [...]

Making “googly” eyes

When creating that crazy looking vector image of a dog, cat, or even a person you will always need a pair of eyes to make the animal look good. I mean that is where we look first anyways right? So in this tutorial I am going to show you how to make a googly looking [...]

Making a shooting star using the blend tool

The blend tool can be used to make some great little effects, you can use it to create shooting stars or just make some abstract line designs with it. Today we are going to keep it simple and make a shooting star, start off by creating a new web document. Make sure the document is in pixels. Now [...]

Making a guitar pick

Sometimes in illustrator you cant always use the pen tool to create things easily. Like for instance a guitar pick, it can be made with the pen tool but it also can be made by using one of the warp tools. So lets start, create a new document name it what ever you would like [...]