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Facebook has shipped a prototype implementation of the emerging OAuth WRAP specification on FriendFeed. The company says any developers working with RESTful APIs will want to check it out. Facebook’s David Recordon says: While Facebook Connect and our APIs do…

We’ll be altering a photo of a beautiful woman walking in a wind, into an ethereal ghost haunting the grounds. This is a very easy tutorial, that once you learn how to do it, it will only take you a…

We’ve all been out driving around and come across some random wildlife somewhere, but what if it was actually a famous animal, that walked and talked? Learn how to create an entire scene from several images, and bring Yogi and…

We’re going to make a really easy set of flash cards. Flash, flash cards. This would be great for anyone who wants to maybe make something interactive for kids to learn from, or a frame-by-frame click through cartoon or comic…

It’s a simple fact that not every developer in the world will become rich and famous.  Still, the same thing can be said about folks in every profession, and a great example’s just been set for developers.  Tapulous is apparently…

Pictaculous goes to the reversed way to find you a perfect color palette. You submit an image file and it comes up with a color palette. You can also download the Adobe Swatch file to be used by the Adobe…

In an effort to improve developer productivity and simplify Oracle Database development, Oracle has introduced Oracle SQL Developer Release 2.1, the latest release of its database development and migration tool. Oracle SQL Developer Release 2.1 offers two new features, PL/SQL…

What a year it has been for Photoshop, with a multitude of new, fresh and original tutorials, a wide array of useful Actions, textures for, well, every possible texture you can think off. Resources are seemingly endless. What we have…

If you have an adjustment layer and you’ve spent some time painting on the layer mask, the last thing you want to do is start all over again if you decide you should have used a different adjustment layer. Instead,…

We know that trends keep changing. For fashion, what is haute today is not so haute tomorrow! The concept of advertising also keeps changing and the same applies to web design as well! The way a website is presented evolves…

Christmas Photoshop Tutorials Christmas is a great time for designers to explore new techniques and come up with some festive compositions. I’ve hand selected 20 great tutorials to help you push your creative talents this season. Learn how to create…

Welcome to the 16th volume of “Creativity Fine-Tuning: Best of PSD Vault Flickr Group”, which is a showcase I run regularly here on psdvault.com... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and…

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As this is my last post of the year, I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very merry Christmas. It’s been an incredible year, what started as a simple website for me and a friend, has…

That is, “don’t use black for shadows over colored backgrounds.” At every step of my design education I was taught this. For example, when adding a drop shadow as a layer style in Photoshop, don’t just pick a black or…

Photoshop offers lots of tools for automating selections, but two stand out from the pack: The first, Refine Edge, lets you modify your selection using five different parameters and preview the results in five different ways. Use coupon code UGANN09…

At MAX 2009, producer Jon Landau talked about the creation of the new hit movie Avatar. In this Adove TV segment he explains how Photoshop, InDesign, Lightroom, After Effects, Premier, and Connect, were all used in the creation of the…

In Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta Preview, professional photographer Chris Orwig explains and explores Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 beta software for Macintosh and Windows, detailing the workflow and presentation upgrades. Chris shows how to use the enhanced import options and take…

GemBox Software has launched GemBox.Ppc, an AdWords C# component, which adds advanced features on top of the existing Google AdWords API. “Automating Google AdWords and integrating AdWords data with enterprise systems is the new IT trend,” says GemBox. “Vendors want…

Enter any store this time of year, and you’re almost sure to be assaulted by the sights and sounds of crying children and angry adults.  Appropriately enough, then, Facebook’s issued a reminder to developers to behave themselves. Facebook’s going to…

Intrinsyc, a provider of software solutions for mobile devices, said its Device Development Solutions group helped with the systems integration of the Barnes & Noble nook eBook reader. Intrinsyc provided both proprietary software and engineering services to build the Android…

Here’s a quick way to select multiple layers of the same kind—meaning multiple shape layers, type layers, or adjustment layers. Just click on one of the layers, and then from the Select menu, choose Similar Layers.

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a candy cane like text effect with the help of some simple Photoshop techniques.Quick Nav:TutorialDownload the PSD (Source Files)Materials Needed:Candice typefaceCandy Pattern (optional)Step 1: Some words about the fontDownload the typeface…

Today we are interviewing an amazing artist, known as BossLogic, he has an amazing style full of vibrant colours and emotions. So let yourself immerge into this world where the only rule is to feel, as BossLogic said in the…

If you want to make your Photoshop creation different, try Photoshop Brushes. Do you want to polish techniques using Brush? This collection will tell you how to create various effects with brushes. Do you have no time to find suitable…