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How to Crop A Repeating Stripe Pattern

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You are wasting bandwidth if you save a repeating stripe pattern at its full size because you can actually make it repeat itself using its smaller part. In the long run, you can save a lot of bandwidth. In this tutorial, I am using Photoshop to crop a repeating stripe pattern. Let’s start with fixed-height repeating stripe pattern.

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Posted on 9 December 2009 • 0 comment

11 Halftone Brushes for Photoshop

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I used to be a polka dot lover but recently I fell in love with halftone pattern. I realised that I need some halftone brushes for my future theme design, so I started to search for them. After hours of searching, I’ve come out with this : a compilation of some really great halftone brushes, and most importantly, they are free.

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Posted on 8 July 2009 • 1 comment

23 Free & Great Comic Fonts for Cartoon-like Design

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To create a comic or cartoon-like design, you would need comic fonts. Different fonts have different uses in comics, some were used in dialogue, some in sound effect, etc.

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Posted on 7 July 2009 • 0 comment

How To Fix Unclickable Links When You Use PNG as Background Image in MSIE

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You must have applied filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader to the css and found that the links became unclickable. In fact the solution was found…

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Posted on 6 July 2009 • 10 comments

Preload Multiple Images using CSS for Smooth & Instant Rollover Effect

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To improve your website’s design or user experience, you might need to preload some images for smooth hover or rollover. Instead of using javascript to preload the images, we can do that using CSS.

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Posted on 30 June 2009 • 4 comments

Creating a Simple Flash-like Floor Tile using Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will share with you guys my way to create a Flash-like floor tile using Adobe Photoshop.

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Posted on 13 June 2009 • 1 comment

Create a Fancy Search Box using CSS

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Nowadays, most websites come with a search box to improve surfing experience. To make your website looks good, beside having a nice looking theme, you would need a fancy search box to replace the classic ones.

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Posted on 8 June 2009 • 12 comments