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Flash News - End Of August

by: GFXer August 28, 2008

Hello there dear GFXer readers,

Tonight there have been some big updates with GFXER tutorials. Have posted 3 brand new tutorials and they’re great. I’m proud to say that we now have 10 Photoshop tutorials in GFXER. That’s a small number, I know, but it’s a small archivement for me. I hope to post a lot till the end of August so we can increase this tuts number to 15.

Other news:

  • Donating button removed due to the lack of donations for 3 months,
  • WMS-NEWS.COM has been launched last week and I can say it’s going good.

Thank you for your time,
GFXER

PS. That’s all for now. Other short news like this shall be posted at the end of September.

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WMS-NEWS.COM is in Final Stages !

by: GFXer August 14, 2008

Well, I’m proud to announce the the latest project of GFXER is now in final stages. In a few days I shall be able to launch it.
WMS-NEWS.COM will be a news blog for webmasters. In this blog will be posted news related to webmasters: News related to search engines, domains, new web-hosts and many other things. My goal on WMS-NEWS is to make it a place which webmasters of all over the world will visit it daily to get latest news that is related to their job. I intend to make WMS-NEWS the best blog of its genre. I’m sure it will need a lot of work and I’m taking care of that.
Also, I’m looking for guest posters wich will be rewarded will free links in each page of WMS-NEWS. If you wanna join send an email to: contact@wms-news.com

That’s all for now.

I’ll keep you updated will latest news from WMS-NEWS.COM

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August 27, 2008

With adjustment layers the glass is always half full. You’d be crazy not to use them. Especially when you consider that they add almost no weight to the file size. Each adjustment layer is a simple instruction to move a slider, adjust a curve, or change a histogram. Because the adjustments are [...]

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August 27, 2008

Here are some tips that are equally applicable whatever kind of mask you are working on: a Quick Mask, alpha channel, or a layer mask

Ask yourself why. Be sure to ask yourself what you are making that mask for. Depending on your intent, it may not even be necessary to make a [...]

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August 27, 2008

In this next example we’ll see how painting in shades of gray allows you to introduce transparency effects: Darker grays conceal more, lighter grays reveal more of the layer. Or put another way, the closer you move towards black, the greater the masking effect; the closer you move towards white, the [...]

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July 24, 2008

Let’s take a look at layer mask conventions and terminology, beginning with a couple of housekeeping points:

The Background layerthat layer that most Photoshop images start out withdoesn’t support transparency and thus can’t support layer masks. It sounds worse than it is: to add a layer mask to a Background layer, take the [...]

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