Submit button “inspired” to Macromedia Buttons

I like very much Macromedia buttons, and I wanted to have it one like these in my forms.

That's all... here it is

the style is

Bye.

Photoshop photo to pastel sketch action

Converting a photo into a pencil or pastel sketch is one of the most challenging task to automate with Photoshop.
Here it is an attempt.
Run the action on a photo and let me know what do you think about it.

Please give me feedback and send to my email any good result you achieve to let me insert them into examples page.

Before

After

Download the action and enjoy.

Photoshop Lomography Photo Action

I am always looking for nice effects to give to my photos.

The "Lomo" effect is one of them.

From Wikipedia: Lomography is a commercial trademark of Lomographische AG, Austria for products and services related to photography. The name is licensed from a former state-run optics company LOMO PLC in St. Petersburg, Russia. The 35 mm LOMO LC-A camera employed an unusual lens which produced large amounts of distortion at the edges of the image whilst keeping the center sharp, and was promoted by businessmen from Austria with international gallery shows.

Lomography emphasizes casual, snapshot photography. Accidents such as over-saturated colors, lens artifacts, and exposure defects are rehabilitated to produce swirly, abstract effects — a trait emphasized by practitioners. Others use the technique to document everyday life, because the small camera size and ability to shoot in low light encourages candid photography, photo reportage and photo vérité.

The lens effect (although perhaps not the philosophy) can be partially emulated in photo-editing programs, such as Gimp or Photoshop.

Why not creating an action that to automatically emulate Lomography? Here it is!!!

I divided the action into two parts: the first one with just saturation/brightness/contrast adjustments, and the second one with edge blurring.

Before

after saturation/brightness/contrast adjustments

final result

Download the action

If you use this action and are satisfied of the result, please tell me where to find your before/after photos to add them to my example page, and help me with your feedback.

This is a photo sent me by Tim Stet (www.timstet.nl) using my lomography action

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Photoshop photo to painting effect

A quite simple Photohsop action to give a painting effect to a photo with Photoshop.

Before

After

Download the action.

If you use this action and are satisfied of the result, please tell me where to find your before/after photos to add them to my example page.

Wordpress PHP Exec Plugin

When you need to execute php code inside a WP post you are in trouble. So was I, when I tried to do it.
But I found a plugin that saved my life, and my blog.
This plugin lets you execute dynamic PHP code in posts. It masks PHP code before balanceTags, and unmask them afterwards, so it should be safe to use PHP code that has literal HTML tags in it, for example: code which print out HTML.
Take a look at the plugin page and enjoy

Simple php calendar with any day offset

I am coding a quite huge calendar script for various works I have in progress.
The barebones of this calendar I have coded today represent a php function that returns a calendar into an html table of any month of any year (according to php limits) with any day offset.
This means your calendar could start on sunday, monday, tuesday and so on.
It's just the beginning but you can customize it with styles and other funny things.

Let's see the code. Read more

Finally a nice WP theme!!

I was about to give up, but finally I found a WP theme that fits my needs!!!
And it's easy to modify too!
I am talking about blog.txt, an elastic, two-column layout for WordPress 2.0+. It’s styled, but light with less than 300 lines of CSS. With its (somewhat) unique theme options, you can easily make blog.txt into something resembling a CMS.
Check it out at http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/blogtxt/.

Check cookies with php

Today, an interesting script to check cookies with php. I had to used it because a bad configuration on the server turned off cookie settings, and I have on my server various shopping cart using cookies.
You may get different results according to your register_globals settings.
Remember to reload the script to have the correct results as cookie variables become available on the next page you have declared them.

dafont.com – a big font collection

dafont.com is a wonderful site if you are looking for free fonts. At the time I am writing, there are more than 6,000 fonts and the list is growing every day.

http://www.dafont.com/

Fonts are archived by look, serif, category and so on. Very interesting the preview system where you can type a phrase and see it written with the font you want, up to 50 at time.

Javascript chronometer/stopwatch

I needed a javascript chronometer/stopwatch to be inserted in a project, and I didn't find anything on the web that fit my idea, so I created one almost from scratch, with all functions a chronometer should have, such as milliseconds measurement, start, stop, lap time and so on (well... that's all).

Time:
Lap:

Let's see the javascript Read more

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