Pointing Finger Icon
Posted 5 July, 2007 in Free Icons
A Glassy shiny glossy web 2.0 hand pointing at what ever is interesting. See more similar icons on the web 2.0 icons page.
Sorry it is pointing left if you needed one pointing right. I will see if I can’t do another when I have time.
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Web 2.0 Speech Bubble and Button
Posted 4 July, 2007 in Free Icons
 
I have added another speech bubble to the list of web 2.0 icons. A slight variation on others.
Also I have added a new blue button to the Free Buttons Page.
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Posted 3 July, 2007 in Tutorials
Blending two images using stripes can be a rather cool way of blending images. The achieve the above image follow the steps laid out below. This tutorial is for Photoshop.
1. Get two images. I have used Superman and Spiderman.
2. Create a new layer for image 1. In this case, Superman and create a gradient fill from top to bottom, from back to white using the Gradient tool set to Linear Gradient.
3. Filter > Distort > Wave. Set Generators to 999. Wavelength Min and Max to 4. Scale 100%. Type: Square. Repeat Edge Pixels. You should get the following:
4. Now set the Layer Style Blend Mode… Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options. Set Blend Mode to Multiply.
5. Using the Magic Wand Tool with settings Tolerance 1, no Anti-aliased and no Contiguous, select one of the black stripes. This should select all the black stripes.
6. Now Shift+Ctrl+i to invert the selection and press Shift+Ctrl+c to copy the image. This should copy everything other than the black stripes.
7. Now paste it over the Spiderman image!
Finished.
As a bonus feature, you might want to save the stripes mask as it is very useful to have around for other images.
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Posted 3 July, 2007 in Free Icons
Apple.com do a very nice selection of screensavers and most importantly, ICONS! See the links page for more.
HONESTY BOX Help support this site - Thanks!Patterns & Tiles
Posted 3 July, 2007 in Free Graphics
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I have just started a new section on Patterns and tiles for use with Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, Gimp etc.
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Posted 1 July, 2007 in Free Icons
Here is another home icon or house icon. I know they are always in demnad. See more on the web 2.0 icons page.
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Posted 1 July, 2007 in Flash
Some Flash Action Script…Â
If you ever need to get the instance or parent name of a movie clip you can give the parent movie clip a variable in the first frame such as:
RetName = “sample1″;
Then you can call it at any time using the following method:
InstanceName = movieclip.RetName;
movieclip being the child.
I needed to do this recently for a flash game and only just worked this out.
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