Posted by Emanuele Feronato on 07/30/06 in Photoshop
Here it is an action I used to get something like a nova explosion.
You will never get same results twice.
Download the action and enjoy. It creates a new document.
Give me feeback if you like it (well, even if you dislike it… but you won’t be published)
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Posted by Emanuele Feronato on 07/30/06 in Photoshop
From Wikipedia: Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). Critic Louis Leroy inadvertently coined the term in a satiric review published in [...]
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Posted by Emanuele Feronato on 07/29/06 in Javascript
I found this very very interesting script by Adomas Paltanavičius to determine if you are using mousewheel.
It returns a delta value, +1 or -1, according to scroll direction.
Scroll mouse wheel to see delta here.
I am publishing it here, and very soon I will start to use it to code games, form handlers, and so on.
Meanwhile, [...]
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Posted by Emanuele Feronato on 07/28/06 in Photoshop
Again, I am focusing about vignette/sketch creation wiht photoshop.
This action works well only on images with high contrast, and the final effect is quite good, in my opinion.
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After
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Download the action and enjoy... leave me feedback and send me your artworks to be published on the site.
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Posted by Emanuele Feronato on 07/27/06 in Php
Very simple and useful code, but hard to find in the internet.
You may need it when you code an user authentication script and want to prevent the user to hack it with ascii injection.
I will use regular expressions because it is the quickest way, and we want to be quick (almost) everytime...
PLAIN TEXT
PHP:
<?php
$string_to_be_stripped = "Hi, [...]
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Posted by Emanuele Feronato on 07/23/06 in Css, Javascript, Tutorials
How many times you had to choose your country in a form, with a old, simple popup?
Time to change the way you choose your country (or anything else) with a bit of Css and Javascript.
I am showing the example in a iframe not to mess with WordPress styles.
As you can see, when you move the [...]
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Posted by Emanuele Feronato on 07/18/06 in Photoshop
I think normal "sepia" effect is too used in Photoshop, so I tried to enhance the effect and I produced an action that works quite well (in my opinion).
Just run on a photo, as usual.
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Download the action and give me feeback, with some photo you retouched too.
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