Kiran Upadhyay

Need a new  Photoshop  brush? Before you go out and try to scour the Internet for some decent brush sets to work with, have you considered simply learning how to make Photoshop brushes yourself? Forget about all the hassle of searching for and downloading brushes from the Web. With Photoshop, it’s a breeze to create your very own so that you can use a unique and a little bit more of a personal brush tip to whatever you are working on. Let’s get right to it and find out how to easily make your own Photoshop brushes. Make Your Selection To get started, we’ll need an image to make the custom brush out of. It’s up to you as to if you’d like to use the entire image or just a specific part of it. Just use a selection tool like the Lasso or Magic Wand to select an area of the image you want for the brush. Otherwise, simply use any of the Marquee tools and drag around to make the selection. Color and Size Limitations Keep in mind that if there’s color in the image, the brush tip image w

First of all, if you don’t have a personal website, you should. You may say that you don’t have the know-how or the design skills, but that is not an excuse anymore. You can now create a professional looking Flash website for free with  Wix.com . Wix is a free, Flash website builder that allows you to create a flash website easily through a drag and drop environment. Today, I am going to show you how easy it is to create a professional-looking Flash website for free.  PhotoCapture 360 - Now Create Your Own 3-d Animated Gif and Flash Files for Use on Your Website in Just Minutes Creating an Account First of all, you have to create an account, and it’s pretty straight forward. Just click on the big yellow Start Now button and enter your details. Once you have successfully created your account, it’s time to creating your first website. Creating Your First Website Let’s begin creating your first website with this flash website builder. As you can see in the image, I have already cre

The internet is not your library and if you thought a ton of books was an overwhelming amount of information, think again. The internet doesn’t contain just a few dozen or hundred relevant sources, no, it contains millions or billions or even more. To make things worse, there is no friendly and intelligent librarian to help you sort through all this information. It’s only you and a stupid search engine. You better act smart. The challenge when searching online is to find only relevant information or – in other words – avoid irrelevant results on Google search. In this article I will show you 6 ways to reduce these false hits, so that you get better overall search results. Surprisingly, the most effective way to reduce irrelevant results on Google search, may be not to use Google’s search engine in the first place. Read on to understand why. 1. Use Multiple Keywords Use multiple keywords to receive more specific results on your first  s earch  e ngine  r esults  p age (SERP). 2.

There’s an old adage that you cannot have enough disk space. It’s true, but a much cheaper option to purchasing more is to make more sense of the space you already have. Windows doesn’t make that terribly easy, though. While you can get a decent view of the clutter in a single folder, expanding the view to cover more ground isn’t easy. It’s not a new problem though, and there are plenty of tools around that will help you to visualize disk usage so that you can get organized. We’ve covered some of these before. Karl reviewed a very geeky tool called  Space Sniffer  for Windows, Beth ran a giveaway of  DaisyDisk  for the Mac, and David talked us through using  TreeSize , again for Windows. Damien even had a set of six option for  Linux . I want to tell you about another Windows tool. A simple little application that can visualize disk usage called  Scanner . For a long time my favourite tool for finding more room on a drive has been  Scanner , by Steffen Gerlach. It hasn’t been upd

Over the past ten years of the digital photography revolution, digital camera memory cards have become increasingly more affordable and larger. They are the film of digital photography, but thankfully a lot less expensive. So what is the least you should know about digital camera memory cards? Here are my recommendations. 1. Types of Cards There are three broad and popular types of memory cards for digital cameras:  CompactFlash (CS), Secure Digital (SD), and SmartMedia (SM). There are other variations of these cards, but the important thing to know, of course, is which type of card your digital camera uses. For consumer cameras, only one type of card can be used, while a few of the top of the line professional DSLR cameras might allow for using both Compact and SM cards at the same time. It’s probably best to stick to reputable memory card makers, which include Sandisk, Fuji, Lexa, Delkin, Viking, and Kingston. 2. Memory Capacity Since most digital cameras on the market today sta

In the past, you had to be very patient as a digital photographer . If you wanted to catch something spectacular you had to carry your camera with you everywhere until you saw something special. To capture a sunrise you had to get up at the crack of dawn. Models had to spend hours in the makeup room and studios had to be well lit. Everything I just mentioned changed instantly with the invention of Photoshop . Photoshop has changed the history of digital photography . Nowadays, when you look at an amazing photo or image your first impression is still “wow” but your immediate second thought is “that has to be photoshopped”. When you think of the history of Photoshop and everything Photoshop did to change the game, it’s pretty insane. In this article, I’m going to cover some of the ways how Photoshop has changed digital photography forever. How We See The World The most significant effect Photoshop has had on us is how we see our world. Digital artists and manipulators know how to tak

Take a moment and think about all of the sensitive data kept on your computer.  Account passwords, addresses, phone numbers, access to bank accounts and other financial services, and maybe even your social security number.  Almost every aspect of your identity is kept on this little machine.  Now imagine you want a new one.  So, you go out and buy a shiny new laptop.  What do you do with the old one?  Just toss it, right? Wrong!  If you just throw out your old computer, all of that personal information is still available to any tech-savvy thief.  Merely deleting a file in the traditional fashion will not truly “delete” it.  With a few techniques, a file sent to the recycle bin and emptied can be recovered if the deletion was recent enough. So how can you erase a hard drive completely?  Well, there a few techniques that anyone can employ to protect their identity. Disclaimer : Please keep in mind that the following software and techniques will ERASE your hard drive and you will not