Monday, 17 November 2008
It has been a big week for tutocity with our last 2 tutorials making the home page of www.good-tutorials.com and one of our designs was featured on deviantart. We hope to continue our recent success with our next group of tutorials that will be releasing soon.

We are currently working on setting up a comment module for our tutorials so that we can start getting some feedback from you guys!
 
Full Photoshop Website Design
Author: Scott Webb
Type: Photoshop
Difficulty:Medium
Description: In this tutorial we will be going through a full photoshop design of a portfolio type website.

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NOTE: To be able to complete this tutorial your should have a basic knowledge of photoshop and where to find its tools.

Step 1: Open up a new photoshop document 1000 pixels wide and 700 pixels high. Fill the background layer with black.

Now select the image you would like to use for the design. Im going to use a free stock image which can be found here. Open up your image with photoshop and drag it into your doucument. Call your image layer "Photo" and resize the picture untill it is about 850 pixels wide. Move the image so that it is placed in the center of your doument and about 90 pixels from the top.



Step 2: Now we are going to place a 8 pixel border around the photo. Create a new layer and call it "Border". Now select the "Photo" layer in the layers palette and then go Select > Load Selection. Just use the default settings and then click OK. You should now have a selection around the edge of your photo.

With the selection still active go to Select > Modify > Expand. Expand the selection by 8 pixels then click OK. Switch back to the "Border" layer and fill the selection with white. Move the "Border" layer below your "Photo" layer and you should now have a 8 pixel border around you picture.

Now select the "Rectangular marquee tool" and square off the corners of the "Border" layer just by filling them with white.



Step 2: Now double click on the "Border" layer to bring up the layer style. Click on "Gradient Overlay" and copy the settings below.





Your image should now look something like below.




 

Useful Sites

I have been building a list of useful websites to share on my blogs. The first site Melbourne Secrets is a blog about hidden secrets in Melbourne. About Melbourne is a blog all about great Melbourne Busineses. Thats Melbourne covers the same sort of concept but from a different angle. Melbourne Review is a website blog doing reviews on different Melbourne businesses.

Guide to Melbourne is a guide site about Melbourne Businesses, while best of Melbourne is all about the best businesses Melbourne has to offer. There are many businesses in Melbourne and top of melbourne picks out the best of the bunch. With all these things going on its hard to keep track of whats on in Melbourne.

Our last blog we setup is all about Melbourne, This site covers all topics about Melbourne.

Name: Flash Website
Type: Flash
Description: In this tutorial we will show you the basics of creating a flash based website with minimal code.
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