http://www.dezinerfolio.com A site dedicated to the Creative aspects of Design. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:16:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Wordpress 2.6 has just been released, and adds Wiki-like tracking of post edits, use of Gears for faster page rendering for admins, theme previews, and more... http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2008/07/16/wordpress-26/ Here are few pics from our recent nature photo shoot... [if you have missed them on our flickr footer] http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2008/07/16/another-nature-walk/   An amazing list of 70 Beauty-Retouching photoshop tutorials put together by Smashing Magazine. http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2008/07/16/beauty-retouching-tutorials/   Google has announced Lively - an avatar and online room/chat combination. http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2008/07/13/lively/ This tutorial shows a couple of simple techniques you can use to enhance your portraits. I will focus on retouching the skin, the eyes, and the teeth (whitening). To follow this tutorial, you must already know some Photoshop basics: working with layers, making simple selections, and using basic tools. If ... http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2008/06/27/portrait-retouching-for-beginners/ As you all know that we have been working on the next release of the gallery, but is just eating up a lot of time in development as we are trying to use AS3 and provide advanced skinning options. During this time we had to create a few helper classes to ... http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2008/06/25/stageutilas-simple-as3-class-to-align-objects/ A very simple clean dark design which will sure enrich your desktop. This wallpaper is inspired from one of the TWITTER wallpapers. The download file contains both Standard and Wide versions. [download#34#image] http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2008/06/24/dfwallpaper-v2/ Here are the 131 Web 2.0 Layer Styles for Fireworks 8 & CS3 [initial release contains 48 styles]. This set is based on our Ultimate Web 2.0 Layer Styles for Photoshop and is re-done for Fireworks by Akhtar Sheikha [download#33#image] http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2008/06/08/131-web-20-layer-styles-for-fireworks/ As a comfortable user of Photoshop you know about the advantage having your own set of backgrounds, patterns, brushes or you name it. Here is a little guide that shows you how to create your own "asphalt" ready for you to be used as background or pattern in your next ... http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2008/06/05/create-your-own-asphalt/ If you’re a Photoshop expert, you should probably spend your time reading the other posts in this blog, because this entry is dedicated to our clients and basically anyone who is not a professional in photography or design but would like to give their photos a better look, whether they ... http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2008/06/03/kick-your-photos-up-a-notch/