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2009-10-12T15:50:00.000-07:00

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gt1987's blog is still pretty young and hasn't some significant post-count but you can be sure that you will be able to find there some very useful things in future.

gt1987 says that he is an "social media addict" who spend a lot of his time doing social media activity and learning new things about blogging and making money online. You can notice that he has some good social media experience by visiting his profiles on Digg or StumbleUpon.

Adobe Illustrator CS3 Basics Tutorial

2008-05-02T21:06:00.001-07:00

This tutorial will go over the basic aspects of Adobe Illustrator. Within the immediate viewing area of the user a list of buttons and features are available to use on your Adobe Illustrator document. I will be going over the basic uses of these features and how you can implement them.

The first Adobe Illustrator tutorial is the Selection Tool. The Selection Tool is used to select projects on the screen that you may be working on. Usually, a large amount of these can start to form when you are managing a project. You can move the files around to be easily viewed. However, there are limitations to this tool. Adobe has come up with two other Selection Tools that will solve these space issues.

The second Adobe Illustrator tutorials are bundled. They are related to the Selection Tool in terms of operation. They are the Direct Selection Tool and the Group Selection Tool. The Direct Selection Tool is used to reshape an object or image by using its anchor points. It can change the width and height of a segment of an object or change the way it shaped by moving anchor points in a certain direction. The Group Selection Tool allows you to select one object on the first click and if you select again it will target all of the objects that are within its field. This tool helps to organized all the objects so you can select them easily.

Next up is the Adobe Illustrator Magic Wand Tool. The Magic Wand Tool lets you select objects that are similar in stature. You can do this by just selecting one of the targets and the Magic Wand Tool will attach to the others that are similar. You can make the tool look for anything that you can think of within each object to connect the two.

The Lasso Tool is the next feature within Adobe Illustrator’s long list of incredible features. The Lasso Tool allows you to select objects by drawing around them. You don’t have to complete the connection all the way around the objects. Adobe Illustrator will make an educated guess of what you were thinking if you did not finish. Sometimes this is a better way than using the other tools to select objects.

The features listed next are within the Pen Tool family. Most of them are Point Tools that help you manipulate objects. The Pen Tool is probably the most important tool that Adobe Illustrator CS3 has to offer. Anchor Points are used to define the way an object is and can be shaped. You can make very artistic shapes with this single tool. Many professional swear by it. The Add Anchor Point Tool allows you to add anchor points to an existing object. This feature will change the shape of the object indefinitely. It gives you more choices in the way you will your object to look. The Delete Anchor Point Tool deletes any anchor points on an object. This will also drastically change the way the object looks when displayed. The Convert Anchor Point Tool helps you shape objects very cleanly and precisely, so that you can get the most accurate shapes and transformations when you use anchor points.

The Type Tool has a wide assortment of features. The Type Tool makes different types and formats to put them in. You are able to edit these however you like. The Area Type Tool allows you to open up paths that were once areas you could type in to edit it yourself. The Type on a Path Tool allows you to manipulate the path in which the text will take. You can often use it to type around an object. I am sure you have seen typing that is in a spiral shape. The Vertical Type Tool makes it possible for you to type vertically. It is just like what you saw when you watched the matrix. Except those weren’t real language characters. The Vertical Area Type Tool changes paths that were closed to vertical type. You are also given the freedom to edit the type as well. The Vertical Type on a Path Tool makes the path that you chose for the text write in a vertical fashion rather than making the text lay on the line as normal.

The next set of tools provides the user with the ability to make lines in all types of fashions. The Line Segment Tool lets you draw a simple straight line. The Arc Tool is pretty self-explanatory within itself. The Spiral Tool allows you to draw spiral shapes near perfectly and manipulate by using its preset anchor points. It can be a handy tool if you have a reason to make a spiral. The Rectangular Grid Tool allows you to make what looks like a spreadsheet. Like the Rectangular Grid Tool the Polar Grid Tool gives you the ability to make a grid; however, this grid is circular in shape. It is fully configurable using the anchor points.

The next tools are one of my favorites in of the Adobe CS3 Series. These tools are the shape tools. They allow me to make shapes easily and without much attention to detail. I have saved many hours of headache by resorting to these tools. The first one is the Rectangle Tool, which makes a box shape or a rectangle shape. You can manipulate the width and height of the box to your liking. The Rounded Rectangle Tool allows you to make the edges of the box like structure rounded for a more smooth feeling. If you look at my website you can see that I used them a lot. I believe it adds a bit of flavor to the website. Of course, I am always trying new things. When you check again you may find that my website looks totally different. The Ellipse Tool allows you to make seemingly perfect circles. If you have ever tried to freehand draw a perfect circle you know the headaches that I have gotten trying to do it myself. The Polygon Tool lets you make a six-sided object that is configurable for the user. The Star Tool does exactly what it says. It makes stars! The Flare Tool makes objects that look like they have blown up or if you saw a supernova in the sky. So you will see a circle with a lot of lines poking out of it and it will be bright in the center. It is a pretty cool effect to use in many situations.

The Paintbrush Tool is a very old tool in the Adobe and Macromedia line of products. In reality, it is probably one of the first features in the first paint program ever made. It is very simple to use and only does what it says. It paints like a brush in different sizes and tones.

The Pencil Tool like the Paintbrush Tool only does what it says it does. It writes like a pencil in different sizes and tones. The Smooth Tool allows you to straighten out kinks in your drawings by erasing extra anchor points that may be messing up the path that an object would regularly make. If you use the Path Eraser Tool you can erase part of an object by erasing part of its path. If you just erased an anchor point with the Delete Anchor Point tool the object would just reshape into another form; however, with the Path Eraser Tool the object will act like that section doesn’t exist anymore and it will seem as if somebody erased it with an actual eraser!

The Rotate Tool is a simple feature that allows you to rotate any object on the Adobe Illustrator field. Many another Adobe design products have this feature as well. I believe even Macromedia products had it as well. The Reflect Tool allows you to copy the reflection of an object and move it however you like.

The Scaling Tool makes an object increase or decrease in size along the x and y axis. The Shear Tool allows you move an object around on its x and y axis. Like if you set a point in the center of an object and spun the object around it like it was a compact disc. The Reshape Tool allows you to move certain anchor points while keeping the overall integrity of the object.

The Warp Tool allows you to shape objects with your freehand abilities by moving pixels around independently. The Twirl Tool makes an object perform a swirling motion within itself. The Pucker Tool makes it seem that the object is getting the air poked out of it. I would say it’s like the object is imploding on itself. You can do this by simply using the cursor around the edges of the object. The Bloat Tool increases the air in an object and makes it looks like it will explode. The Scallop Tool makes the object looks like it is becoming spiky in nature. If you have seen a blowfish before its transformation from skinny fish to prickly prey is a good interpretation of this. The Crystallize Tool does the same thing as the scallop tool, except it only does it too the outside of the object. The Wrinkle Tool makes an object look like it is wrinkled. You can easily see this if you are using a grid or a line that is straight in nature to start.

The Free Transform Tool is used if you want change the shape of an object freehand. It is pretty simple and it reminds me of a couple other features I have used.

The Symbol Sprayer Tool lies under the symbolism options section of Adobe Illustrator. It has a series of options that you can pick from. The Symbol Sprayer Tool places a series of objects on the screen. The Symbol Shifter Tool is able to move symbol objects around. The Symbol Scruncher Tool moves objects closer to each other or further apart as a group. The Symbol Sizer Tool is able to change the size of the symbol objects. The Symbol Spinner Tool is able to move the symbol object around in a circular fashion. The Symbol Stainer Tool is able to change the color of each individual symbol object. The Symbol Screener Tool gives the symbol object the additional effect of a change in opacity that you are able to control. The Symbol Styler Tool is able to change the style that the object is shown in.

The next sets of tools are graph tools. The Column Graph Tool is just like your standard graph, which has vertical graphs. The Stack Column Graph Tool is similar to the Column Graph Tool except the fact that it can show similarities in certain things by stacking the graphs upon each other. The Bar Graph Tool makes graphs that are horizontal in direction. The Stack Bar Graph Tool is like the other stacked graph except it is horizontal in position. The Line Graph Tool uses a simple line over a period of some type of measurement to show progress. The Area Graph Tool is similar to the Line Graph Tool except fills in the area below it until it reaches the outline of another calculation. The Scatter Graph Tool is a graph that only uses the dots to show pivotal changes in the graph at regular intervals. The Pie Graph Tool is a very popular graph. It is a circular graph that shows the different options in different colors. The Radar Graph Tool makes graphs that take different graph sets and puts them categories that are displayed in a circular fashion.

The Mesh Tool makes meshes and allows you to edit them accordingly.

The Gradient Tool allows you to fully customize the start and ending spots of each gradient that you use.

The Eyedropper Tool is able to take color from one area from an image or an object and apply it somewhere else. The Measure Tool is able to see the length between two objects.

The Blend Tool makes one object into a series of objects. It also makes it look like they are transforming into something else. It is a pretty cool feature that can have some uses with my website now that I think about it.

The Live Paint Bucket Tool is similar to the regular Paint Bucket. The difference is you can fill in areas with the memory from other similar areas.

The Live Paint Selection Tool lets you paint, but it also lets you fill in live areas that are grouped together. The different options are great for painting.

The Crop Area Tool simply lets you cut out and area of an object with fine detail. The Slice Tool allows you to cut images into different sections so they can be put back together on the web. This helps with web downloads most of the time. The Slice Selection Tool allows you to select the slices that you have cut for the web.

The Eraser Tool is exactly what it says it is. It erases everything that it touches. The Scissor Tool will make cuts in an image and allow you to pull that section out. Then you are able to do whatever with the new anchor points that it makes on the object and the cut segment of the object. The Knife Tool cuts object as if you cut them with a knife. Once you do this you are able to pull the objects apart and reform them.

The Hand Tool allows you to move the window that the objects are stored in with the Adobe Illustrator CS3 program. The Page Tool allows you to change how the printed version of the output looks by manipulating the viewing screen.

The Zoom Tool allows you to zoom in on objects within the program.

I hope that you have learned the basics of the Adobe Illustrator CS3 program with this short tutorial. In the near future, I will have picture illustrations of the uses of each option so that you will further grasp what you can do with the program. Of course, this is only a few of the things that you can possibly do with the program. It takes a lot of imagination and hard work to get your thoughts on paper. If you visit my webpage you will be able to see this tutorial with appropriate pictures added. Remember that you can be an Adobe Guru if you try!

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How to Make a Video Game in Seven Days –for Free

2008-05-02T21:05:00.001-07:00

There is plenty of free software and resources out there that will enable you to quickly make your own video game. All you need is a plan and some persistence. Here is the plan.

Today’s software for game making is fairly complete and you don’t need to be a programmer to learn how to use it. It is much like an automobile; you don’t need to know how to build one you just need to know how to drive. With a little bit of effort and some practice you can use the freely available software to make games that will unleash your creative potential.

Day 1: Gather up the necessary resources and get familiar with it

You will need a computer and if you are reading this article you probably already have that! You should also download the necessary game development software. There are two that I recommend. Either get the Genesis 3D game engine or the Reality Factory Game development software. Of the two I suggest the Reality Factory software but if you have a really old computer and are concerned about your ability to run software then get the Genesis 3d software. Both these programs are readily available and easy to find on the web. Just do a search engine check for keywords Genesis 3d or Reality Factory.

Install this software and run it. Tinker with it and get familiar with it. Experiment with all of the different screens and settings then go through the help files and tutorials. Get an initial understanding of what it will be like to make a video game with the software.

Day 2: Begin learning the software

Get a notebook and label it "My Video Game Making Reference Book" Locate a tutorial on the web for the software you have used. Don’t rush through this process. There are plenty of available tutorials for both of these programs. Take your time and go through the tutorials and take notes in your book. Keep a page for tips, keystrokes, and routines for getting things done.

Day 3: Take a break from the computer

Now that you have an idea of what the software is all about you can design your game on paper. First write down the concept and goals of your game. For example: Your game will be a game about how the player has been trapped in a dungeon and has to fight his or her way out to freedom. Or someone has been captured in a dungeon and the player has to break in and rescue him. For your first game keep the concept relatively simple. Something like you want your player to explore a dungeon, kill all the creatures, and find a treasure chest is perfectly good. Make it a small game with maybe ten to fifteen rooms and some outdoor areas. Sketch out every room and place in all the doors and major items like stairs, furniture, treasure chests and monsters.

Day 4: Build the empty shell of your game world

Crank up the computer and using the game software build just the buildings, rooms and structures of your game world. Do not yet populate it with furniture, doors, monsters or any other type of extra. Just build the structures of the world. Apply only basic textures to the surfaces in the world. Do not at this point worry about the colors, lights or textures of anything. You want to just build the grey shell of the world so you can text it and see if it works properly and if it is how you want it to be. After the world is built insert a character into it and walk around to see if it is as you planned it.

Day 5: Add the details to your game and make it look real

This is the day where you work on the look of your game. Go over all the structures and add textures, lighting, models, characters and all of the other accessories that will make it look right.

Right about now you might be thinking: "How do I do all that?" But the great thing about the software you are using is that models, characters, tables, chairs, doors, and lights are all pre-built and come in a library with the software. You can just click on them and place them right into the game.

Day 6: Have somebody play your game and give you feedback

Are your platers clear on the objectives of the game? Do they understand what it is all about? Do they have to ask questions? If anything is unclear to the player of if anything is difficult start up your software and modify the game.

Day 7: Complete the game

Add any extras like a splash screen that displays the name of your game or add sound effects. If you are ambitious you can create your own models or textures to give your game a unique look.

Making a video game is really not a hard process. If you have a plan and the discipline to put some time into learning the software you can have a small but complete game one week from today.

For more information, tutorials and information about making video games visit the author’s website at =>Make Video Games Resources and Tutorials

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Two Steps To Gain Free Website Traffic

2008-05-02T21:01:00.000-07:00

There are many ways to get free traffic to your website. I have tried most of them, and was disappointed with the results that I had. I have found only two guaranteed methods that have brought traffic to my website, and best of all they are "Free"!I can honestly tell you that if you follow these two steps that I am going to tell you about, you will start to receive traffic to your website. I guarantee it!

First of all, most of your traffic is going to come from Search Engines and Directories. (Mostly Google and Yahoo) The most important and by far the best way to get your website listed in Search Engines, is adding quality and relevant links to your website. This method is known as reciprocal links.

So how do you get reciprocal links? The easiest way is to do a search using your favorite search engine

[Google is best to start with) For example, let's say your website is about a home based business, and your key words for your site are "work from home", then what you want to do is go to http://www.google.com and type "work from home", "add your link", "work from home" or "link exchange". There will be many pages that come up in your search of websites that are willing to exchange links with you. When visiting these websites you will need to look for information on how to exchange links with these sites. Make sure before you request a link exchange, you place their link on your site first.

Why are reciprocal links important? Because link popularity is the method most Search Engines use in determining how high a website is ranked and what position it will be placed in.

The most well known Search Engines that use link popularity is Google. Others that use this method as well are: Altavista, Excite and Hotbot.

It will take alot of time and work in the beginning to get links added to your website, but it will be well worth it in the end. As you gain more links to your site, the Search Engines spider your web pages looking for other sites linking to yours.

The more sites these spiders find linking to your site the more popularity ranking your website gets. This will give you a higher ranking position when someone searches the web.

The second best way to bring free traffic to your website is writing articles. With a little work on a monthly basis, writing articles, you will be surprised by all the free traffic this will bring to your website.

When I was first given the advice that I should start writing articles to add to my own website as well as other websites, I thought this was something I couldn't do. I thought I did not know enough about anything to write an article. I soon found out that I could do this, and so can you. Anyone can write an article, because we all have knowledge of one thing or another.

All you really need to write an article is a subject to write about. Choose something you know enough about to write about it. Whether it be about how to "organize a home based business", or if you are a stay at home mom, you could write an article "tips for work at home moms".There are endless possiblities to what you could write about.

After you have written an article, you will want to write a few sentences about yourself [ this is known as a resource box). Make sure you have included your website address. To see an example of what a resource box is, look at the end of this article to see how I have done this.

Webmasters are always looking to publish articles. Why? Because it will help their Search Engine rankings by providing useful content on their website. When you submit your articles to other websites, this will be benefitial to you as well. How? When you have an article published on someone's site, a portion of their visitors will visit your site.Once you have submitted enough of your articles on the Internet, your traffic will dramitically increase and so will your Search Engine ranking. Make sure you add your articles to your own website because search engines love new content to a website.

I have found a few good sites that have tutorials on article writing. I have found them helpful to me, and you might also find them helpful for you.

Webmaster Stop - Articles, Tutorials, Links, Resources ...

http://www.webmasterstop.com/

Writing Tips, Tutorials:

Website Goodies - Website Resources, Articles, Tutorials and Tools

Once you have written an article, you will need to look for places to submit your articles. The best places to submit them are e-zines and websites. You can do a search in Google for home business submit article, e-zine directory. I have listed a few to get you started.

Submit Your Home Business Article ...

Work Home Business ...

Power HomeBiz ...

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3 Top Cartoon Drawing Tips For Beginners

2008-05-02T21:00:00.003-07:00

Cartooning is not about drawing it is about telling stories. Yes, even when you are drawing a single illustration you are telling a story. Cartooning is about expressing your thoughts. And it is your thoughts expressed beautifully through your cartoon characters that make you different from other average cartoon makers.

But as in every other field of life here also you must learn to walk first before you try running. To express your thoughts and ideas through your cartoon characters, you need to master the skill of cartoon drawing first. Then of course you can use your cartoon drawing skills to tell story to your liking.

To be skilled in cartoon drawing you have to face a learning curve. You just can’t decide to be a cartoonist then copy some popular cartoon figures and become an accomplished cartoonist who is rich and famous. If you are lucky and talented with keen sense of observation you may pickup one or two tricks by making copy of popular cartoon figures. But that is too inadequate to be of any use.

There are various ways that you can take to learn cartoon drawing --you can join cartooning school or take a home study course or follow a book of an expert cartoonist -- the bottom line is you have to follow the steps. Like you should first teach yourself drawing 3d shapes, then learn to stretch, squash those 3d shapes in your drawing. Next you need to practice things like drawing hands and head before moving on to motion and emotion and advanced things like that.

If it sounds like lot of work, you are right. But what you achieve at the end is worth working for. If you are smart however you can use the tips you are going to discover here to make the whole learning process fast and painless.

1. ==> Do not start with computers. I agree I run the risk of sounding backdated. But here I am not opposing usage of computer altogether, no sane person can do that. But for beginners there is no alternative to using paper and pencil.

There are various software that help you so much that you can go ahead even without learning how to draw a smooth line. This kind of over dependency on computers from the very beginning always backfires down the road.

2. ==> Nail the fact in your mind that construction of human, animal, cars and most of the things that that we see around us are complex 3d structures though we draw them on paper which is 2D. So when drawing you must mentally analyze your model in terms of 3d shapes like spheres and boxes and not in terms of 2d shapes like circles and rectangles.

Also when you draw something from paper (i.e. 2D), look for and find out the 3d shapes that make up the character.

3. ==> Most of the cartoon drawing or figure drawing tutorials always start with some basic 3d shapes and after a number of steps end up in a complete and beautiful figure. This technique is very effective in learning how we can draw complex figures starting with simple shapes. But what I am going to tell you will make your pace of learning even faster. It is in fact very simple way of using the same tutorial. Just a lot more effective.

What you need to do is start where the tutorial ends and go backward from there. See the completed figure and try to recognize the ingredient basic shapes. And compare your analysis with the exact shapes that are used in the tutorial.

This will give you a very through exercise in recognizing the basic shapes. And after some time you will be analyzing the real life around you like an expert. Just take your time and practice this technique, and see how fast it will improve your skill in cartoon drawing.

Cartoon drawing is pure fun both for professionals who earn their living through cartooning and hobbyists who draw cartoon only for personal pleasure. I do not know what you goal is but hope the tips here will be helpful for you. Never stop learning: there are a whole lot to learn and even more fun to have in the process. Happy journey!

Do you know what the beginners find most difficult in cartoon drawing? It is drawing the head and face. Check this simple

tutorial on head drawing and never be nervous again.

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Golf Swing Tutorial - Do You Need One?

2008-05-02T21:00:00.001-07:00

If you are looking to improve upon your golf swing, you may need a golf swing tutorial to help you do just that. Every golfer knows that the swing is important to being a great golfer and lowering your score. What everyone doesn't know is what you can do to help improve your swing. Many would-be golfers do not realize that while talent plays a big part in your skill, there are practical things you can do to improve your skill.

A golf swing tutorial can be just the thing you need to help you learn how to have the best golf swing possible. Many tutorials are now available on video or DVD and you can watch them at your own pace, pause and rewind as you need and get one-on-one assistance with improving your swing. These tutorials will show you how to take a beginning stance, where to place your feet, how to grip the club and much more. You can learn by watching a tutorial how you are supposed to stand and how your body should be positioned. You will also learn where to put your hands on the club and that you should hold the club with your fingers instead of with the palm of your hand as many people do. You can learn how to interlock your fingers, how to place your elbows and more.

Tutorials - especially visual ones- help much more than someone that is telling you what to do. You can see and understand for yourself how you are supposed to execute the swing- from beginning to end. The internet also has a wide selection of golf swing tutorial options for you to choose from. You can find written instructions, diagrams and even videos online as well as offline. Your local library might also have some options for you. You can use these tutorials to learn more about how you should stand, how to grip your clubs, what type of clubs to use and everything else to have a professional-quality golf swing.

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Enabling IIS 5.1 on Windows XP Pro Tutorial

2008-05-02T20:59:00.003-07:00

Enabling IIS 5.1

Windows XP Home Edition does not support IIS

1. You may need to put your Windows XP Pro CD into the PC.

2. Go to Control Panel, ‘Add Remove Programs’, then ‘Add/Remove Windows Components’. In the Windows Components window, place a check mark beside ‘Internet Information Services (IIS)’, then click next, then click finish.

3. During installation, Windows creates a directory at C:inetpubwwwroot and places a few files there. You can view the home page of your web browser by typing ‘http://localhost’ or ‘http://COMPUTER_NAME’ (where COMPUTER_NAME is the actual name of your computer) into the address bar of any web browser. If you haven’t placed any files in C:inetpubwwwroot, you should see some basic IIS information in the web browser at this address.

4. Your web server is now working. The console for IIS is located in Control Panel > Administration Tools (if you use Classic View; under ‘Performance and Maintenance’ if not).

The next steps are for adding a new virtual directory.

5. To add a new virtual directory, open the IIS management console (step 4), click the plus signs on the left until you see ‘Default Web Site’, then right-click on it and select ‘New > Virtual Directory’.

6. The Virtual Directory Creation Wizard is now on the screen. Click Next on the first screen. Type an Alias for your website. This will be the name you will type after http://localhost to view your website ( example: http://localhost/ALIAS ). Click Next.

7. Now you must enter the directory path. Click ‘Browse’ and browse to the appropriate folder location for your new website’s files. This location will most likely be C:inetpubwwwrootALIAS. Click next.

8. On the last screen you will see security information. If you are not worried about implementing security, check all of the boxes. If you want to run ASP scripts, select the first two. Click next.

9. Your virtual directory is set up. You can view it by typing http://localhost/ALIAS into the web browser’s address bar.

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CCNP Certification BCMSN Exam Tutorial - Defending Against MAC Address Flooding

2008-05-02T20:59:00.001-07:00

Network attacks take many forms, and it's important to know how the potential security issues with ARP, DHCP, and MAC addresses. They're innocent looking enough, but each of these common network protocols and addresses can be turned against us. Today, we'll talk about what MAC Address Flooding is, how it can be used against our network, and the best defense against this attack.

A MAC Address Flooding attack is an attempt by a network intruder to overwhelm the switch memory reserved for maintenance of the MAC address table. The intruder generates a large number of frames with different source MAC addresses - all of them invalid. As the switch's MAC address table capabilities are exhausted, valid entries cannot be made - and this results in those valid frames being broadcast instead of unicast.

This has two side effects, both unpleasant:

As mentioned, the MAC address table fills to capacity, preventing legitimate entries from being made.

The large number of unnecessary frame flooding quickly consumes bandwidth as well as overall switch resources.

The best defense against MAC Address Flooding is a good offense, and in this case, that offense consists of port-based authentication and port security. By making sure our host devices are indeed who we think they are and authenticating them before they join our network, we reduce the potential for an intruder to unleash a MAC Address Flooding attack on our network. The key isn't to fight the intruder once they're in our network - the key is to keep them out in the first place!

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Cisco CCENT - CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial - What Are Broadcast Storms?

2008-05-02T20:58:00.001-07:00

The Cisco CCENT exam demands that you master the fundamentals of networking, and it doesn’t get much more fundamental than broadcasts! Every network has them, and every network administrator needs to be aware of what broadcasts are and their potential impact on network performance.

When a device on a network generates a message, it’s one of three types – a unicast, a multicast, or a broadcast. A unicast is a message intended for one other host; a multicast is intended for a group of hosts; a broadcast is intended for every host that can possibly receive it – and that’s where the trouble can begin.

Why? Because not every other host needs or wants to receive that message, and if “Host A” should not receive broadcasts sent by “Host B”, we should configure the network accordingly. Everything we do on a network has a cost in performance, and if a host is regularly processing messages that it doesn’t need, that will result in a decline in that host’s performance. That decline may be slight, but if the host in question is receiving many unnecessary broadcasts, the decline in performance may be significant. Worse, the impact to our network as a whole may be significant as well.

Broadcasts tend to result in more broadcasts, and if hosts on the network continue to answers broadcasts with broadcasts, we end up with a broadcast storm. Broadcast storms start small, but just like a snowball, they can end up being very big – so big that normal network operations are compromised and/or prevented!

Don’t let the threat of a broadcast storm make you nervous about broadcasts, though. Broadcasts are part of a network’s normal operation, and we’ve got quite a few methods available to prevent these storms. We’ll discuss those in a future Cisco CCENT exam tutorial!

Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933, is the owner of The Bryant Advantage, home of free Cisco CCENT Certification and CCNA Certification Exam tutorials, The Ultimate CCNA Study Package, and Ultimate CCNP Study Packages.

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Cisco CCNA-CCNP Certification Exam Tutorial: EIGRP And Split Horizon

2008-05-02T20:57:00.000-07:00

EIGRP is a major topic for your CCNA and CCNP studies, and one basic skill you’ll need to pass your Cisco certification exams is to identify situations where you need to enable or disable split horizon. EIGRP commands tend to be a little different than those used with other protocols, so let’s take a look at how EIGRP and split horizon interoperate.

R1 is our hub router, with R2 and R3 as the spokes. There are no subinterfaces, and each router is advertising a single loopback network using its router number for each octet. R1 will see both R2 and R3’s loopback network, but the spokes will not have a route to the other spoke’s loopback. “show ip route eigrp” verifies this.

R1#show ip route eigrp

2.0.0.0/32 is subnetted, 1 subnets

D 2.2.2.2 [90/2297856] via 172.12.123.2, 00:03:29, Serial0

3.0.0.0/32 is subnetted, 1 subnets

D 3.3.3.3 [90/2297856] via 172.12.123.3, 00:03:29, Serial0

R2#show ip route eigrp

1.0.0.0/32 is subnetted, 1 subnets

D 1.1.1.1 [90/2297856] via 172.12.123.1, 00:05:20, Serial0

R3#show ip route eigrp

1.0.0.0/32 is subnetted, 1 subnets

D 1.1.1.1 [90/2297856] via 172.12.123.1, 00:07:54, Serial0

EIGRP runs split horizon by default, making it impossible for R1 to forward an advertisement to R2 regarding R3’s loopback. Likewise, R1 cannot advertise R2’s loopback address to R3. We could configure two subinterfaces on R1 to resolve this issue, but here we’re going to disable split horizon instead.

R1(config)#int serial0

R1(config-if)#no ip split-horizon ?

eigrp Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)

R1(config-if)#no ip split-horizon eigrp ?

<1-65535> Autonomous system number

R1(config-if)#no ip split-horizon eigrp 100

04:10:02: %DUAL-5-NBRCHANGE: IP-EIGRP 100: Neighbor 172.12.123.2 (Serial0) is down: split horizon changed

04:10:02: %DUAL-5-NBRCHANGE: IP-EIGRP 100: Neighbor 172.12.123.3 (Serial0) is down: split horizon changed

04:10:25: %DUAL-5-NBRCHANGE: IP-EIGRP 100: Neighbor 172.12.123.2 (Serial0) is up: new adjacency

04:10:37: %DUAL-5-NBRCHANGE: IP-EIGRP 100: Neighbor 172.12.123.3 (Serial0) is up: new adjacency

Note that disabling split horizon resulted in the EIGRP adjacencies being torn down. They came back up 20 – 35 seconds after being torn down according to the timestamps, but that’s a good detail to keep in mind!

The routing tables of each spoke should now show the loopback network configured on the remote spoke.

R2#show ip route eigrp

1.0.0.0/32 is subnetted, 1 subnets

D 1.1.1.1 [90/2297856] via 172.12.123.1, 00:00:02, Serial0

3.0.0.0/32 is subnetted, 1 subnets

D 3.3.3.3 [90/2809856] via 172.12.123.1, 00:00:02, Serial0

R3#show ip route eigrp

1.0.0.0/32 is subnetted, 1 subnets

D 1.1.1.1 [90/2297856] via 172.12.123.1, 00:00:02, Serial0

2.0.0.0/32 is subnetted, 1 subnets

D 2.2.2.2 [90/2809856] via 172.12.123.1, 00:00:02, Serial0

Be careful when disabling split horizon. In this scenario, R1 can and will advertise routes out Serial0 that were learned about on that interface in the first place, and that’s not always desirable. Split horizon is enabled by default for a reason, so be careful when disabling it!

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Explode Your Affiliate Commissions, Traffic & Mailing List in 5 Easy Steps

2008-05-02T20:56:00.002-07:00

If you're looking to successfully promote your affiliate products and avoid shooting yourself in the foot and derailing your marketing efforts read on...

Do you know what the number one way to promote any product or service online is? No, it's not creating big, splashy product launches or flooding blogs and forums with thinly disguised marketing ads that might get you banned for spamming.

Article writing has long been highly touted as the SIMPLEST and BEST way to promote your products on the Internet. It is an easy, proven method for driving targeted visitors to your pages or blogs. Sales are much easier to make when your visitors arrive on your sales pages already wanting your affiliate products or services.

Most tutorials and "How To Market Online" ebooks have the same, somewhat vague advice on how to market with articles submitted to directories and ezines. Sure, they all tell you to write an article of 300-500 words, stressing the benefits of using the latest widget or joining some membership community. They also tell you to include a tantalizing offer to capture the reader's curiosity and to submit your article to as many article directories as you can.

That's all accurate advice and pretty standard across the Web, but, since most people haven't got a clue about how to use their articles to generate REAL INTEREST in their affiliate products, it's pretty much incomplete or useless advice.

Think about it.. . why did you write your article in the first place? Regardless of how beautiful your actual prose is, your ONLY reason for writing articles is to send targeted traffic to your offers. That means you have to attract interest and create enough curiosity to make your readers click on your link that sends them to your landing page or sales page. If your article doesn't do that, your marketing efforts will not generate income for you.

To complete the article marketing process, here's five simple steps you can use to get the job done for you.

#1... Focus!

Select the product or service you want to promote and sign up as an affiliate. This will get you an affiliate ID that you will include in all links to the product you are promoting. That affiliate ID lets the company know who gets the commissions when customers you send through your efforts buy their product or services.

For your first venture, stick with ONE product or service. Don't join everything that comes your way. You will become too scattered to be an effective marketer. What you are doing here, in the first step of this plan, is selecting your affiliate product to market with your articles.

Don't complicate it. Before you can create a simple and powerful marketing plan, you have to know WHAT you are specifically marketing. Most successful marketers advise using the product or service before you start marketing it and that's very good advice.

How can you tell your readers all about the benefits of using your product if you've never used it yourself? Your short article has to reflect YOUR OWN PASSION about the product to stimulate clicks on your links.

#2... Plan Your Strategy!

This sounds more difficult than it really is. When you're writing your marketing article, you focus your content on creating and building up your desired response from the reader. That response would be clicking on your link to get MORE information or a better solution to a problem they might have. Initially, you give them enough good quality information to make them want more.

Here's an example. Let's say you are marketing "Forever Shining" car wax.

Your title would be something like, "How To Keep Your Car Looking Brand New For Years" or "5 Easy Steps To Increase Your Car's Value."

Your article would list several important benefits of just waxing your car like a gleaming finish that also protects from bird droppings, keeping your car paint from fading with sun exposure, keeping that brand new look or, it only needs to be applied once a month. Include a tip or two for each benefit you list. Your ONLY purpose here is to provide good content and tips to make the reader's task easier.

Then, you drop the bomb: "If you want to wax your car ONCE A YEAR, instead of once a month, and still get superior protection, Check This Out!"

Your affiliate link to your sales page would be behind the "Check This Out." So, if you are sending your customer directly to the product's main sales page, they go wrapped in your affiliate ID. If you are sending them to your own sales page, make sure that any link on that page has your affiliate ID behind it.

See how that works? It's simple, but powerful. Your article on the benefits and tips to make car waxing easier is useful information your reader can implement immediately. The simple money-maker for you is your very strong, unspoken, enticement to be able to spend weekends fishing or watching sports on TV, rather than waxing their car in their garage.

#3... Use Tips And Tutorials To Your Advantage!

Internet surfers are universally looking for the same two things:

* INFORMATION they need for their own knowledge or to complete a project, like "Why do I need renter's insurance?" or "How do I make a macrame plant hanger?" for example.

* SOLUTIONS to everyday problems they have, like "How do I get my teenager to clean up her room?" or "Why do my roses die before they actually bloom?"

It's not brain surgery. Your task is to uncover the need and provide information to ease that need or steps to solve the problem in your articles. Don't forget the strong statement that leads them to even more information or much better solutions.

Your article titles have a great influence on starting that curiosity twitch in your readers that leads to clicks on your links.

QUESTIONS are powerful titles that encourage readers to click on your article to find out the answer. Here's a couple of examples. Fill in the blanks to suit your purposes.

"Want To ____________ Your _____________?" or

"Do You Know How to ___________?"

The title on this article is: "Explode Your Affiliate Commissions, Traffic & Mailing List in 5 Easy Steps"

It could just as easily have been: "Do You Know The 5 Simple Steps to Increase Your Income?" or any other version of that statement.

NUMBERED LISTS are a second very good option for titles. People like "To Do Lists" and follow your link to see what the ___ steps are.

"10 Amazing Ways To Reduce Your ________ " or

"Double Your Online Income With 6 Simple Tricks Of The Trade"

STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIALS are always welcomed by your readers who want to learn how to do or accomplish something by themselves. Your tutorials have several powerful benefits for your marketing plan that the other two options mentioned do not have.

* eMail delivery is simple and can be set up with an autoresponder so each step is delivered on a specific schedule without your intervention. Each step is delivered on a different day, usually a few days or a week apart.

* Increased marketing possibilities for each step that will keep your message and products in front of your readers, increasing chances for purchases. If your tutorial is full of good content and easy-to-follow directions, you will create a credibility factor with your readers that will develop loyalty to your projects. Money can't buy that!

* List-building is much easier with a good tutorial. Encourage reader feedback; get them involved to build a sense of "belonging." With each email tutorial step, ask for opinions about the subject or questions or just comments. If that doesn't suit your style, send an occasional extra email to your list and ask for their input. You could get several good topics for more tutorials. If you don't create a responsive, loyal list, you do not have a market, which equals no sales.

All you have to do here, or with any of these three tried-and-true methods, is decide what result you want from your article, provide the content to accomplish that result and publish it.

It really is as simple as it sounds. Visit article directories and read some articles that interest you. Develop an outline of the strategies used by those authors and you have your own template.

#4... Light Their Fire!

A very simple process to determine both the content and the flow of your article, keeping in mind the result you want when someone reads it, is to use the old outline technique you hated in school.

Make a list of the main points you want to include in your article. Don't be too critical here, just list them as they pop into your head...just the two or three-word points. When you finish doing that, arrange the points in some logical order to accomplish your marketing purpose, which is creating a desire to want more information and to click on the link to your sales page.

Once your list of points is arranged to suit your purpose, start expanding on each one, writing one or two short paragraphs or several sentences for each one. Make sure you are providing outstanding, quality content and not just fluff or filler content.

If your points motivate your readers to want more from you or challenge their old ways of thinking, you just created a customer. The secret here is to give them enough to create curiosity, generate questions they want answered and jump start their passion for the subject you are writing about.

Sounds like a lot for a short article to accomplish, doesn't it? It isn't. Successful Internet Marketers are doing it all day long and they don't waste time on methods that don't work.

#5... Wrap It Up And Set It Free!

There are five critical finishing touches that, if not completed before you publish your article, will result in you shooting yourself in the foot and derailing your marketing efforts. If you remember, I mentioned this at the beginning of this post.

First, REREAD YOUR ARTICLE with a critical eye. Answer these questions while you read it:

1. Is the information provided really useful?

2. Is it easy to understand and not peppered with confusing "insider" jargon?

3. Does it deliver the message to your readers that you wanted to deliver?

4. Does it make your reader want to know more?

Before moving on to the next step, read your article out loud and listen for awkward phrasing and poor grammar. Fix any you find before moving on.

Next, CHECK OUT YOUR RESOURCE BOX and make sure the information there really promotes your offer. You wrote this article to promote your affiliate product and your final message to your readers, your resource box, has to put the icing on it and motivate a click on the link to your sales page. It's why you wrote the article in the first place.

If you are not sure what to put in there, visit the article directories once again and you will notice that most of the resources boxes are essentially the same. Don't be afraid to copy success!

The last task you need to finish before sending your article off to do the work it was designed to do is one last PROOFING FOR ERRORS of any sort. Don't do this yourself. You are no longer objective and your tendency will be to read what you want it to say, rather than what it actually does say.

Ask a friend or relative to do it for you and listen to what they tell you. They will be reading it like your potential readers will. You don't want to make a bad impression with something as easily corrected as misspelled words or bad grammar.

You ready? Let's get it published and working for you.

Send a copy to your favorite list of publishers. Don't have a list? Google for some and you will probably be overwhelmed. Submit it to article directories...the more the better. Just be sure you read their individual submission guidelines and take them seriously before you do it. You don't want your article declined because of something easy to fix, like not having Every Word In Your Title Start With A Capital Letter.

If you have a newsletter or blog, don't forget to publish it yourself. You'd be surprised how many new authors forget to do this. You can even email it to your list if you think they would be interested in the valuable content you just created. Your task from now on is: Market! Market! Market!

Finally, if you haven't skipped any of the tips and techniques listed above, your efforts should start producing sales for you when your article gets published. Take a deep breath and relax for a moment. You have researched, organized, written and published your first marketing article. You have a working template you can use over and over.

Know what comes next?

Do it again!

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Cisco CCENT - CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial - Logging Synchronous And Exec-Timeout Commands

2008-05-02T20:56:00.001-07:00

Throughout my CCENT and CCNA exam tutorials, you'll notice these two curious commands on the console port:

line con 0

exec-timeout 0 0

logging synchronous

I've been recommending these commands for years to CCNA and CCNP candidates putting their own home labs together, but they can come in handy on the job as well. Let's take these commands one at a time, starting with the logging synchronous command.

When the router wants you to know something, it wants you to know right now. If the router sends a message to the console while you're entering a config, by default the router will interrupt your work to show you that message.

In the following example, I opened a Serial interface, which will always result in at least two messages relating to the physical and logical state of the interface. I started typing a sentence immediately after I opened the interface to show you what happens. I've bolded the sentence I was entering.

R1(config)#int s0

R1(config-if)#no shut

R1(config-if)#^Z

R1#so here i am

4d04h: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by consoletyp

4d04h: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Serial0, changed state to uping and

4d04h: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Serial0, changed state to upi've been interrupted quite badly!

4d04h: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Serial0, changed state to down

This may seen trivial, but when you have a long command entry interrupted by a console message, you'll wonder how to prevent that from happening. (After you stop yelling at the router, that is.) By configuring the logging synchronous command on the console port, you're telling the router to hold such messages until it detects no input from the keyboard and no other output from the router, such as a show command's output.

R1(config)#line console 0

R1(config-line)#logging ?

synchronous Synchronized message output

The second command I always enter on the console port of a home lab router or switch is exec-timeout 0 0. This disables the default inactivity timeout of 5 minutes and 0 seconds. If you want to change that timer rather than disabling it, the first number represents the number of minutes in the inactivity timer and the second number is the number of seconds.

R1(config)#line con 0

R1(config-line)#exec-timeout ?

<0-35791> Timeout in minutes

R1(config-line)#exec-timeout 0 ?

<0-2147483> Timeout in seconds

R1(config-line)#exec-timeout 0 0 (disables the inactivity timer)

This command can also be configured on the VTY lines to set or disable the inactivity timer for Telnet and SSH users. Here, we'll set the VTY line inactivity timer to 10 minutes.

R1(config)#line vty 0 4

R1(config-line)#exec-timeout ?

<0-35791> Timeout in minutes

R1(config-line)#exec-timeout 0 ?

<0-2147483> Timeout in seconds

R1(config-line)#exec-timeout 10 ?

<0-2147483> Timeout in seconds

R1(config-line)#exec-timeout 10 0

Some network admins hate these commands, and I personally don't like to disable my router's Telnet and SSH inactivity timers. They're great commands for your present or future home lab, and I also recommend you know them for your CCENT and CCNA exams!

Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933, is the owner of The Bryant Advantage, home of free Cisco CCNP, BSCI, and BCMSN training and CCNA 640-802 tutorials, The Ultimate CCNA Study Package, and Ultimate CCNP Study Packages. You can also visit his blog, which is updated several times daily with new Cisco certification articles, free tutorials, and daily CCNA / CCNP exam questions! For a FREE copy of his latest e-books, "How To Pass The CCNA" and "How To Pass The CCNP", just visit the website! You can also get FREE CCNA and CCNP exam questions every day!

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Tutorial - Erase Background

2008-04-28T10:00:00.001-07:00

This tutorial will go over a simple tool that is capable of erasing backgrounds. It is not the most complete tool, but it is very smart if you do it correctly. My tutorial will show you how it can be correctly used to make areas of your photos disappear. From there you will be able to do whatever you want with the space! As you know I am doing this in Adobe Photoshop CS3 if you see any difference in your version of Adobe Photoshop. Let's begin the tutorial.

You will want to start by opening up the image you want to work with. The one below is my truck and boat just after a fishing trip. It sure was fun!

Image #1

Now you will select the Quick Selection Tool. This tool is like the magic wand but not as automatic. It lets you take sections at a time by dragging. It basically works on a color redundancy equation to guess what an object is.

Image #2

As you can see that I have selected the area that I want to erase the background in. Now you can do the same with your image.

Image #3

Now you can select the Background Eraser Tool to begin the process of erasing the background.

Image #4

From the picture below you can see that I drag the icon around in the area that that I marked off. What you don't know is that I pulled the cursor over the area that wasn't marked off as well. The background eraser tool only works within the confined areas that you give it. If you select an area inside an image, it will only be able to erase the background in that area. That is why it is such a cool feature.

Image #5

Now you can see that I have pretty much completely erased the whole area. It would have been a lot easier if I had increased the cursor size though. You can do this by going to the top of the program when the Background Eraser Tool is selected and changing the brush size from the default 13 to something higher.

Image #6

Now we can go about filling in the area with something else. The area will still be outlined during this process. I am going to just fill in the background with a color just to show you it is possible. You can add any kind of image in that section of you please. To fill in the area just navigate to Edit/Fill.

Image #7

Now you will select a color for the background.

Image #8

Now you will change the blending mode if you desire or the opacity of the color you are filling the area with.

Image #9

Now you have the finished project.

Image #10

This tutorial is fairly easy, but many people are not aware of this great tool. So took a little time to make a demonstration and post it as a tutorial for your enjoyment. Hopefully, it will be easier to find than it is right now. Of course this tool is great for other things as well. I will let your imagination run wild with those thoughts though. If you want to see this tutorial with pictures attached please go to Photoshop Background Eraser Tool. This website has a variety of personally made Adobe product tutorials for your everyday needs.

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Learn Photoshop CS3

2008-04-28T09:59:00.001-07:00

This tutorial will go over the use of the Gradient Tool in Adobe Photoshop CS3. This is a short and focused tutorial on the capabilities of the gradient tool. Many different things can be constructed from such simple features. Many new web 2.0 buttons, headers and images are using finely tuned gradients to give off a smooth effect.

I personally like this look and feel, and will be developing it into some of my new tutorials. If you are looking for a more defined tutorial on how to use this feature, you can check out of the links to the side or a webpage from the resource site link. Also there is the full package of teaching tutorials that you will find summarized at the end of this tutorial. Enough of the idle talk lets continue with the tutorial.

Let's start by opening up Adobe Photoshop CS Extended and making a document of a large square shape (500 pixels x 500 pixels). Then you can select the Gradient Tool.

Now drag a line from the top left portion to the bottom right portion like shown in the image below.

Now you will see what happens with the color patterns from blue to brown. You can see the color pattern at the top left of the program. That is the way it is shown for a gradient.

Now select that gradient box and you will see the default option within it. There are a variety of pre-made color patterns.

Let's take a look at one in use. Pick the transparent rainbow.

Now drag a line from the top right to the bottom left.

Now you will get an opposing gradient image from another corner of the document. You could do with different layers and make all kinds of cool contrasting stuff.

Now lets get a fresh document and select the Linear Gradient located at the top of the screen as shown in the image below.

Now drag a line from the left to the right.

Now you will get a linear gradient with the transparent rainbow. The transparent rainbow is nothing more than a few blending changes. You blur the rain colors and then you set the opacity to about 50% and there you go.

Let's make another clean document and select the Angle Gradient.

Select the option Foreground to Background, which will take your personally made background and foreground colors and make an angled gradient with them. You can do this with any of the gradients.

Now drag a line from left to right.

Now you will have an angled gradient. My gradient is from blue to white so it looks like it takes up only half the screen. You can make yours look like whatever you want.

Now make a new document and select the Reflected Gradient.

Drag a line from the bottom left to the top right.

Now you will see the image below.

Now select the Diamond Gradient from the top. I am sorry for not having the proper caption for this. Now select the black and white color option.

Now drag a line from the top left to the bottom right.

Now you will have an odd looking diamond speared gradient object. I probably should have demonstrated this in another color pattern.

The rest of the options are pretty self-explanatory. Next to the gradient types are the modes you can run them in. I kept it on normal for simplicity sake. They are shown below.

The gradient is a great tool that has many useful possibilities. It has been used since digital graphic editing started and it will continue on with these brilliant programs. Nothing catches the eye more than a well used gradient in an image. It mimics the changing faces of the sky that we see everyday. Some people would state that they have never seen anything more beautiful than a colorful sky. I believe they may be on to something. I hope this tutorial has taught you a few features that Adobe Photoshop CS3 has to offer with gradients.

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Cisco CCNP BCMSN 642-812 Certification Exam Tutorial - DHCP Snooping

2008-04-28T09:58:00.000-07:00

An important part of passing the Cisco CCNP BCMSN exam and protecting your network from intruders is to recognize that even everyday protocols and services can work against us once that intruder is in our network.

It may be hard to believe, but something as innocent as DHCP can actually lead to trouble for your network. When a host sends out a DHCPDiscovery packet, it listens for DHCPOffer packets - and accepts the first Offer it gets!

Part of that DHCPOffer is the address to which the host should set its default gateway. What if a DHCP server that does not belong on our network - a rogue DHCP server - is placed on that subnet? If that host uses the DHCPOffer from the rogue server, the host could end up using the rogue server as its default gateway or DNS server!

We can prevent this with DHCP Snooping. DHCP Snooping classifies interfaces as either trusted or untrusted.

DHCP messages received on trusted interfaces will be permitted to pass through the switch, but DHCP messages received on untrusted interface result in the interface itself being placed into err-disabled state.

By default, the switch considers all ports untrusted - which means we better remember to configure the switch to trust some ports when we enable DHCP Snooping!

First, we need to enable DHCP Snooping on the entire switch:

SW1(config)#ip dhcp snooping

To enable DHCP Snooping for a particular VLAN, use the ip dhcp snooping command.

SW1(config)#ip dhcp snooping vlan 4

Ports can then be configured as trusted with the ip dhcp snooping trust command.

SW1(config-if)#ip dhcp snooping trust

There are other options available with DHCP Snooping, and we’ll look at some of those in a future tutorial. DHCP Snooping is an important topic for your CCNP BCMSN exam, and it’s just as important in real-world networks - so get familiar with it for both the exam room and the network room!

Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933, is the owner of The Bryant Advantage, home of free CCNP exam and CCNA Certification tutorials, The Ultimate CCNA Study Package, and Ultimate CCNP Study Packages.

You can also visit his blog, which is updated several times daily with new Cisco certification articles, free tutorials, and daily CCNA / CCNP exam questions! Details are on the website.

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Microsoft Vista Certification Tutorial - An Introduction To Windows Defender

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You don't have to be working on a Microsoft Windows Vista certification to know about the security problems that past versions of Windows have encountered. As a result, Microsoft is paying special attention to security with Vista, and one of the new features Vista features is Windows Defender.

What exactly are we defending against with Defender? Spyware. Spyware programs range from annoying (one pop-up banner after another) to downright destructive (capturing your computer's keystrokes). Windows Defender is designed to operate much like an antivirus program in that Defender will detect the offending spyware and then quarantine or delete the spyware.

Defender gives you this protection in two ways. First, by prompting you for a "yes/no" answer when you're about to knowingly or unknowingly have a program installed on your computer. Defender will also scan your computer to look for known spyware programs and will do so once daily by default. Naturally, this can be changed to suit your needs, and you can also define which files should and should not be scanned.

Defender's Software Explorer feature shows you the programs that are currently running on your computer, as well as which ones will run automatically when you reboot. Software Explorer is very helpful in spotting potential spyware programs, since this feature will indicate whether the program will start when Windows starts, whether the program actually shipped with the OS, whether it's been analyzed as a potential threat, and whether the program has been digitally signed by the publisher.

What if the file isn't spyware? You can tell Defender to "always allow" that particular file. The options for treating potential spyware are "remove", "quarantine", "ignore", and "always allow". You can changes these options for any particular file at any time.

The first line of defense against spyware is the end user, but none of us are perfect! Windows Defender is definitely a step forward in the fight against spyware - and in future Microsoft Vista certification tutorials, we'll take a look at other Vista security features.

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CCNP Certification BCMSN Exam Tutorial - Defending Against MAC Address Flooding

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This has two side effects, both unpleasant:

As mentioned, the MAC address table fills to capacity, preventing legitimate entries from being made.

The large number of unnecessary frame flooding quickly consumes bandwidth as well as overall switch resources.

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You can also visit his blog, which is updated several times daily with new Cisco certification articles, free tutorials, and daily CCNA / CCNP exam questions! Details are on the website.

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Cisco CCENT - CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial - Crossover, Straightthrough, and Rollover Cables

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To pass the Cisco CCENT and CCNA certification exams, you have to know what cable type is appropriate for a given situation. It's also a good idea to know this for working in real-world production networks as well! After all, if we have the wrong cable, we don't have a network!

This is particularly true of the following scenario, where we have:

A laptop connected to a switch (Cable 3)

Two switches connected to each other (Cable 2)

A PC connected to a switch (Cable 1)

This is a very basic and common topology, but we've got three different cable types in there! Working from top to bottom, let's take a look at the different cables we'll need to make this work.

For Cable 1, we need a straightthrough cable. A straightthrough cable is used to connect a PC to a switch or hub. In a straightthrough cable, the wire connected to Pin 1 on one side is connected to Pin 1 on the other, the wire connected to Pin 2 on one side is connected to Pin 2 on the other, and so forth.

It's very common to connect two switches to allow them to send data over that connection, and the connection between two switches is called a trunk. You'll learn all about the particulars of trunking in your CCNA studies, but the first thing we have to do is make sure we have the correct cable!

To allow two switches to communicate with each other, a special cable type is needed. Regular straight-through cables will not allow two switches to form a trunk.

What we need is a crossover cable. The wire connected to Pin 1 on one side will no longer be connected to Pin 1 on the other, as it was in a straight-through cable.Four wires will "cross over" in a crossover cable:

Local Pin 1 crosses over to Remote Pin 3

Local Pin 2 crosses over to Remote Pin 6

Local Pin 3 crosses over to Remote Pin 1

Local Pin 6 crosses over to Remote Pin 2

Two cables down, one to go! To connect that laptop directly to a switch, we've got to be careful of two things:

Using the right cable
Connecting the right cable to the right port on the switch. The cable we need is a rollover cable. All eight wires in the cable will "roll over" to another pin at the remote end, with the wire on Pin 1 at one end rolling over to Pin 8 at the other end, the wire on Pin 2 at one end rolling over to Pin 7 at the remote end, and so forth.

You may also need an adapter for your rollover cable, since one end of the cable is a DB-9 connector, and few if any of today's laptops have such a port. You probably do have USB ports on your laptop, and you can get an adapter that allows you to connect a rollover cable to your laptop's USB port from just about any cable dealer.

As for the connection to the switch, you need to make sure you connect the RJ-45 connector on the other end of the rollover cable to the Console port of the switch.

With the proper combination of rollover, straightthrough, and crossover cables, you're on your way to total network connectivity - and on the way to passing your Cisco CCENT and CCNA exams, too!

Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933, is the owner of The Bryant Advantage, home of free Cisco CCNP, BSCI, ONT, ISCW, and BCMSN exam and CCNA tutorials, The Ultimate CCNA Study Package, and Ultimate CCNP Study Packages. You can also visit his blog, which is updated several times daily with new Cisco certification articles, free tutorials, and daily CCNA / CCNP exam questions! For a FREE copy of his latest e-books, "How To Pass The CCNA" and "How To Pass The CCNP", just visit the website! You can also get FREE CCNA and CCNP exam questions every day!

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Link Exchange Tips, Link Exchange Trick & Tutorials

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With so many bleeding edge marketing and promotion methods coming into practice these days, it's easy to forget the basics - this tutorial will assist you in developing a link exchange campaign that will get noticed. A few good manners go a long, long way - an old concept but very applicable to modern Internet marketing and web site promotion strategies. Website Promotion?

When you first launch your site, the chances are that traffic will not start flowing immediately, and perhaps never - it's not just how your site looks or operates that will ensure it's success or failure. According to numerous sources I've come across during my research, the average web site only receives around 3 unique visitors a day!

So how do you get well above this average? A lot of begging and pleading to begin with! Many web masters and site owners leave a lot to be desired in their approaches to marketing and promoting their sites -especially in terms of reciprocal link exchanges.

Web masters are busy people

Don't expect an answer straight away and harass the site owner with countless follow up emails. Leave it for at least 2 weeks before second contact and ensure that the second note is equally as polite as the first. Read the site

Ensure you take a good look over the site you wish to link to you, be familiar with it's content and mention some of the content in your request for a reciprocal link exchange. Identify the common theme between the sites. If the site has a "Submit your URL" page, ensure that you use it and read the guidelines for submission carefully.

to prevent "Link Abuse", we have some basic linking rules:

1. We will keep an active link to your site alive as long as a link to Beer on the Wall is active on your site (we monitor links regularly)

2. We will only link to the same domain that is linked to us.

3. We must be able to find our link from your Home Page with minimal difficulty.

4. We do not support "Link Farms" or sites that have an excessive number of external links on the same page.

5. We do not link to offensive, illegal, or pornographic web sites.

6. If any of our graphics are used, they should be uploaded to YOUR server and not linked to ours.

7. You should have your own domain - we normally do not link to free sites like geocities, angelfire, aol, etc.

8. Please do not request a link until you have placed a link to Beer on the Wall on your site and it is available for review.

Some Tips to Link exchange

inbound links can improve your rankings in the search engines by raising your link popularity or doing link exchange, increasing your website traffic, and providing a valuable resource for your website customers and visitors. Here are some link exchange tips to get you started:

1. link with websites that will bring you targeted traffic. Targeted traffic means visitors and that will be interested in your products or services.

2. your link title should be brief and free of long sentences.

3. Try to keep your link description brief (aim for 200 characters or less).

4. Do not capitalize all letters in your link title or description.

5. Do not give the webmaster a deadline on when they should reciprocate. Webmasters are very busy people and it may take from 1 to 60 days or more. Be patient and in the long run you will receive more quality link partners!

6. Never remove a link partner from your site once they have agreed to exchange links with you and placed your link on their site.

7. Do not request link exchanges from sites that are unrelated to your website. For example, if you have a candle website, don't exchange links with a pharmaceutical website. This will not benefit your customers or visitors and the search engines may penalize your website for this.

8. Let the webmaster know that you have indeed visited their site and explain to them why a reciprocal link exchange with your website would be beneficial.

9. Be sure that your link pages are search engine friendly. Link pages are easier indexed if they have no more than 25 links per page.

10. Complete your website before requesting reciprocal link exchanges. Most webmasters will not link to a site where most of the pages are "under construction".

11. Do not give misleading information in your link exchange request. Most webmasters are not going to believe it and your request will most likely be ignored. For example, don't claim that your site receives 100,000 unique visitors a day unless your site really receives that many.

12. It is best to categorize your link partners. For example, you might want to have a home and garden page, a home improvement page, a candles page, etc. This is a much better way or organizing your links for both your visitors and your link partners. If you just have one huge page of links in no order, most webmasters will not approve your link exchange request.

13. Make sure your links page is linked and visible from your home page.

14. If your site is family friendly, do not add link partners that offer services or products that are not family friendly.

15. Be aware of free-for-all link programs and link farms. These are sites that basically offer nothing but unrelated links and end up collecting and sharing your email address, which results in a lot of unwanted SPAM in your inbox.

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Photoshop CS2 Tutorials for Beginners

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Photoshop CS2 tutorials will play a big role on how far you can go with your Photoshop installed in your computer. This will enable you to maximize the different features of the program and benefit from it.

Photoshop CS2 Upgrade

The basic Photoshop program has an upgrade now in the Photoshop CS2. With this at hand there are a number of things that you can now do. It now comes with neat features that make artworks more enjoyable in the computer.

Here are some of the features that you can now enjoy from the Photoshop CS2 version.

• Adobe Bridge

It is now easier to view and manipulate your various photographs and artworks through the Adobe Bridge.

• Remove Red-Eye Instantly

The older Photoshop version would take some time before a red-eye is removed. With Photoshop CS2, this task can be done more easily.

• Spot Healing Brush

The Spot Healing Brush in Photoshop CS2 will allow you to get rid of imperfections. With just the click of a mouse, your spot will definitely get a good repair.

• Accurate Printing

Photoshop CS2 tutorial can let you explore the improved workflow of printing with the program. You can easily learn how to configure the printer for more accurate colors in the output.

• Font Viewing

Fonts can now be previewed as to how they would actually appear from the drop-down menu. Now, you do not have to keep on clicking until you find the right one.

Photoshop CS2 Tutorials

Buying the Photoshop program and enjoying its features would be fairly easy. However, it is a completely different matter to be able to learn the many ways of operating the program to create illustrations and graphics.

Thus, it is best to explore the many options for Photoshop CS2 tutorials. Here are some of your options to learn the basics of the program.

1. Online Photoshop CS2 Tutorial

Buying your own Photoshop CS2 program will give you access to the online tutorial. It will also give you venue to ask your questions and get some tips on how to properly use the program.

2. Utilizing the Demo Version

Most of the Photoshop CS2 tutorials on the Web are provided for a fee. However, there are options for you to get a demo version of such tutorials.

You can get this demo version free of charge. This version will only include a few chapters of lessons. This will give you a good preview of how well the tutorial will go. You can evaluate its features before purchasing the full version.

3. Purchase the CD

Photoshop CS2 tutorials can also be accessed by purchasing the CD. You can get this for less than $100 and you can explore everything you need to learn about Photoshop CS2.

4. Download a PDF File

There are also PDF files available on the Web that you can download. This can provide you the foundations of Photoshop CS2 that you need to learn.

5. Video Tutorials

You can also explore the internet for sites that offer Photoshop CS2 video tutorials. If you are completely clueless about Photoshop CS2, then the video will be able to guide you in every step of the way.

Conclusion

The Photoshop CS2 tutorial is a good option for you to maximize the use of your program. With skills you can gather from here, you can surely go a long way with your artworks and creativity.

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Traffic Generation Tutorials - Article 1 of 10 Bi Weekly Articles

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This Article is #1 of 10 articles dealing with successful TRAF- FIC GENERATION CREATION METHODS to build a large subscriber base for your site or email discussion list, and while you may think you've seen this title before, it's highly doubtful that you've seen the subject matter treated in such an IN DEPTH Manner

Most other sites when dealing with TRAFFIC GENERATION CREATION METHODS, and I include the "Internet Guru" sites in this, will tell you, "Create an email discussion list. The list should be related to your web site's subject. Place your ad on all posts and it will remind people to visit your site." and that will be all you get. You have to figure out the "how" yourself. The instructions you received were almost an exact copy of what I have in my comments

Here, you will not have to figure it all out

OK. Let's get on with it. Just what is an email discussion list? Adam Boettiger of www.email911.com says "Email discussion lists are the most powerful, educational online resources that you will ever encounter. They can provide you with immediate, free access to the collective knowledge, wisdom and experience of thousands of people".

So? What is an email discussion list in reality? He, Adam Boettiger, goes on to say "Discussion lists are Knowledge Exchanges".

OK I'll go along with that, but how do you create a successful Email Discussion List, group or what ever?

To start, you need to look at TWO factors.They are 1) Strategies and 2) Tactics.

A STRATEGY is your "business plan" to achieve what you want from your goals, and TACTICS are "things" you employ to keep your strategy on track and in the "fast lane"

Here's How to create a marketing strategy that's better than your competition's in five simple steps This is the basic concept as used by Proctor & Gamble. I'm sure you've heard of them and it looks deceptively simple

Compile an exhaustive list of the facts about your proposed group.
Extract your pertinent facts from your exhaustive list of facts.
What possibly Profitable Opportunities are presented in the extracted facts?
Create a Short-term strategy from the extracted facts.
Create a Long-term strategy from your exhaustive list of the facts.

That's it! It really is it! It's ALL you need to start with, as the guts of the project you have in mind will naturally follow on if you first follow these 5 steps.

Now let's look at it in more detail.

The first stage is all about research. You want to find out everything you can about your email discussion product and potential market. Start out on the 'net with a search tool such as webferret and feed your web ferret keywords and key phrases on the subject of your interest, look up figures, resource information, study guides, credible - NOT Incredible - reports, and have a completely open mind while you keep looking for any thing else that could possibly be of interest, and which will help you more concisely determine your short and long term goals .

Next, get out and communicate with existing and potential clients and sound them out on your concept. This means getting craftily involved and participating in sereral other email discussion groups which are similiar in content to what you're thinking about.

Get as much information as you possibly can. While you are doing this, take notes on the things you find out. Don't be tempted to stop too soon. More formal research tools like surveys can be used later if you have the money and time.

Stage two is about going over your information and extracting those facts that are most pertinent. I usually find there are just a few which are of immediate and key importance.

Here's what you're looking for.

What are the really key issues that you can base your marketing strategy on?

Is there some special piece of legislation coming up that is particularly relevant?

Is there a niche that no one else is exploiting? (If there is GRAB IT!!!)

Is there something unique about your email discussion product that customers will want more from you that from your competition? Or better still, is there some "modification" you can make to make it that way? Remember, there's nothing new under the sun!

When you have your pertinent facts you need to list all the possibly profit making opportunities you have. This is the creative part. Marketing planning is all about thinking about your potential markets and how to reach them and sell to them. So think about each of your possibly potential markets and how you can contact them. Possibly, you will isolate them into various groups such as Group #1 consists of a small number of highly profitable customers and Group #2 large number of low value customers.

Think about which markets are most profitable for the least effort.

You also need to consider how to reach them - some markets, for example top business people, can be very hard to reach via an email discussion list so what alternatives can you apply and how quickly you can start to communicate with them.

Rank your possibly profitable opportunities by RETURN Potential profitability.

Now take the top five possibly profitable opportunities and put them into your short-term strategy, the next two-three years. From these you will create your TACTICS to help you define and Identify your target market and your Marketing Tactics,

Your long-term strategy is what you have left over from your exhaustive list of the facts.

Also, remember that while you are implementing your strategy your market will be changing, make sure you set up information flow channels that keep you in touch with the market. Is a large competitor suddenly going all out for a niche market you had set your heart on? If so, keep researching as you're bound to find a "wrinkle" he hasn't covered or hasn't even thought of..

Why I like this particular system.... IT WORKS!

This strategic marketing system is as used by Proctor and Gamble one of the world's largest companies. It's worked for them. And I like it best because it's simple and can be applied to any size of business of project, and it works for ME. So, it should work for YOU! .

Also REMEMBER THAT when it comes to marketing tactics planning everyone naturally wants to dive in at the creative stage (step three). Hence most people ask themselves the question, "how can we sell this product?" and then set about brainstorming a few ideas with colleagues, family and friends.

This is normal, and you may be surprised to learn that it's also what a lot of very large companies do too. The problem is that you end up avoiding the whole raft of ideas you get when you research properly. The other thing is fact most of your compet- itors also will not be researching - they'll be doing it on the fly, which gives you a big competitive advantage, and you will have a powerful and effective success technique.

Announcing Your List. Announce your new list, once completed by

Posting the information to appropriate announcement lists and sites.
Listing the site with every search engine possible.
Getting involved into communication that is of interest to both parties, via email, with every related subject or non-compet itive site you can find, then announcing your site to those.

Sending announcements via email to those people who are potential subscribers by joining appropriate opt-in lists such as http//NEW-LIST.com/ Make extensive use of your web ferret from http//www.ferretsoft.com/ using search terms such as email discussion lists, tips, ezines, newsletters, marketing e-zines, list owners, paying sponsors, sponsorships, mailing lists, promotions, nettiquette, subscriptions, increasing subscribers, majordomo, listserv etc. Sending announcements via email to websites of people in new target markets but be sure to avoid spamming.

Create your email discussion list around the profiles of people found in your research. Your list should be open to discussion on all topics related to your list's proposed products, or ser- vices. For some technical lists, you may need to narrow the focus to specific subjects within a given industry. It may be beneficial to operate two or three narrowly focused lists in- stead of one broad list.

Always include a brief "signature" in your emails giving your name and title, address and phone, email address, and URL (Uniform Resource Locator or website address) on each piece mailed. An appropriate, brief, and effective, slogan should be used as well. Some mailing list servers (programs) allow auto- matic posting of the listowner's signature at the bottom of each letter received, before it is sent out to list members

Many other techniques can be used. For example, some sites offer prizes or other incentives to visitors who will register. Others use carefully placed banner ads on related commercial sites to draw new prospects. You are limited only by netiquette, (See here for Top 10 Most Important Rules of Email Netiquette) by your understanding of 'net tools, and by your imagination.

These are the basic - and some not-so-basic - tactics for a suc- cessful 'net marketing email discussion list . Properly used, they make the difference between a "dog" and a successful email discussion list and marketing website. The best approach is to start with only these simple procedures, then grow into more ad- vanced techniques as you learn.

The essential difference between a "dog" and a successful email discussion list and marketing website is that the latter is more than just the site; it's a coordinated, purpose-driven (strategy) set of activities (tactics) that reach out into the net market- ing world to produce results. The physical site with its inform- ation and promotional materials is simply a part of this overall engine. Without a complete strategy and clearly stated tactics, the website will generate low volumes of inquiries and results and will fail to meet expectations. But, as in any other market, clearly defined goals and activities allow you to control its destiny, reaching out to bring in new business and grow.

High Tech, with all the bells and whistles, isn't the smartest way to go. Remember that your conveying information, You're NOT looking to show off all the latest multi-media techniques UNLESS you're a multi-media discussion list

http//www.cgispy.com has a FREE Forum System allows you to have a public page where people can post and view messages in spec- ific categories. As an admin you can customize the look, change text, add images, edit messages and make your board more inter active. You can have up to 10 categories, display 50 messages at a time per category. There are many other "pre-built" offerings on the net, and it's just a matter of finding the one that suits you. And it's a recommended way to get started for a newbie and then you again grow into more advanced techniques as you learn.

Why should you start an email discussion list? Here's the Top 7 Reasons To Run An Email List For Yourself Or Your Business as authored by Christopher M. Knight Multi-Million Dollar Business Builder Strategist @ http//www.christopher-knight.com/.

1.To Sell Advertising Mailing lists usually attract a very nar- row demographic, which when coupled with big lists, becomes at- tractive to sponsors to advertise in. You can do this in Ezines (Email news-letters) or Email Discussion Lists.

2.To Support Your Product Discussion lists can be a great way to get your existing installed client base to support each other and reduce yourinternal support costs, and add value to your customers.

3.For Your Hobbies If you've got a passion about a particular hobby, adiscussion list is a great way to pull together like minded friends allover the globe who have similar interests.

4.To Create A Virtual Fan Club For yourself, your product, your brandname. You can do this via announcement lists or discussion lists, to keepothers who love you, informed on the latest events.

5.To Announce New Products/Services There is no more powerful way for less money, than an Email announcement list, to keep your clients and prospects informed on new information about your business that could benefit them. Most list services are under $49 a month.

6.PR/Investor Relations/Board Lists Create an announcement list for folks who want to receive copies of new Press Releases about you, or Investor news if you're public or soon to be. You can also create a privatediscussion list for your board of directors to communicate on company issues.

7.For Your Dealers, Resellers, Associates, Affiliates, Etc Pull together those that help you build your business, via private and 'Exclusive'discussion or announcement lists for these folks.

You might also want to check out Christopher M. Knights' Email List Strategies which include Top 7 Reasons Why Discussion List Advertising Works, Top 7 Rules Of Email List Advertising Success Top 7 Reasons To Run An Email List For Yourself Or Your Business Top 7 Suggestions For Those Who Coach Others Via Email,Top 7 Strategies To Make Money Via Email,Top 7 Autoresponders Your Business WebSite Should Have, Top 7 Techniques To Increase The Perceived Value Of Your Ezine, Top 7 Tips To Grow Your Email Newsletter (Ezine) Subscription Base, Top 7 Ways To Use Email To Build Your Business, Top 7 Things To Include In Your Companies Ezine (Email Newsletter)

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Linux Command Tutorials - Opening a Linux Terminal - Console to Run Linux Commands - Tutorial Help

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To run Linux commands, you need to get to the Linux command line prompt.

To get to the Linux command line prompt from a Linux desktop, you open a terminal emulation window.

Linux Tips: You can also go to a virtual terminal and run Linux commands. But when you are a new Linux user, a terminal emulation window is easier to work with.

Linux Terminal Emulation Windows

When you open a terminal emulation window, you get a "window" on the desktop. A terminal emulation window can be moved around on the desktop and resized to be made larger or smaller. And you can even have multiple terminal emulation windows open at the same time!

This window shows the Linux command line prompt, at which you can run Linux commands (by typing in commands and pressing Enter). After running a Linux command, this window also shows the output of the command (very important).

Linux Tips: Linux commands are the best way to do Linux system administration. Running Linux commands gives you lots of practical, hands-on Linux training.

Methods of Opening a Linux Terminal Emulation Window (a.k.a. Terminal or Console)

There are over 130 Linux distributions (versions)!

The method of opening a terminal emulation window on your Linux desktop is dependant on the Linux distribution (version) you are using and the Linux desktop you are using. Two popular Linux desktops are the GNOME desktop and the KDE desktop.

To open a terminal emulation window, boot your Linux system to a desktop and then:

look for an icon on the desktop that looks like a computer screen and click on it

right-click on the desktop and look for a menu item with the words "Linux terminal", "Linux console", or similar

search the menus on the desktop for the words "Linux terminal", "Linux console", or similar, and select the menu item

Linux Concepts and Terms:

A terminal emulation window is also referred to as a "Linux terminal" or "Linux console".

Linux commands are sometimes referred to as "Linux terminal commands" and "Linux console commands".

The Linux command line prompt is sometimes referred to as the CLI for "command line interface".

Once you have a terminal emulation window open, you will see a Linux command line prompt, which looks similar to this ]$ and the prompt may look different on your system.

For example, the prompt may look like this ]# or something else similar.

Linux Tips: In our Linux command examples, we are using ]$ to represent the prompt. You don't type in the prompt, you type in the command at the right of the prompt and then press the Enter key to run the command.

Examples of Opening a Terminal Emulation Window in Several Popular Linux Distributions

Ubuntu Linux / Red Hat Linux / Fedora Linux with the GNOME desktop:

select the Applications Menu ; select Accessories ; select Terminal.

Debian Linux with the GNOME desktop: right-click on the desktop and select Terminal.

SUSE Linux with the KDE desktop: click on the "Konsole" icon on the desktop (that looks like a computer screen).

What would it be like if you could watch a clearly narrated Linux video tutorial showing several methods of opening a Linux "terminal" / "console" and working at the Linux command line, in several Linux distributions.

To actually see the steps being done and have them clearly described to you in a very pleasant and sometimes even humorous manner.

How useful would it be if you could pause the Linux video and then easily try these methods yourself - well, now you can!

You can watch Free Sample I Learn Linux Video Tutorials at http://www.iLearnLinux.com and get over the steep Linux learning curve.

You need to learn Linux the easy way to get that new job, qualify for that next promotion, earn a hefty raise, get Linux certification, or keep your current job because your company is trying to save on software licensing fees (eza). Watch, do, and learn!

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VoIP Tutorials On Three Ways To Make a VoIP Call

2008-04-28T09:52:00.002-07:00

Still confused on how you can make a phone call with VoIP? Don’t fret though, as with all new technology, not many people are aware of the many different ways they can make VoIP calls. With VoIP, there are actually three ways to make a call.

Analog Telephone Adaptor or ATA

The ATA is one of the most common methods for VoIP right now. With the ATA, you just need to hook up your regular telephone to your Internet connection or your computer. The ATA will convert your analog signals from your telephone into digital data, which will then be transmitted over the Internet.

This is the method that Vonage employs, and AT&T’s CallVantage will be using. The ATA is provided at no cost with their services. It’s easy to use and anyone can do it. All you have to do is to take the cable from your phone and plug it into the ATA instead of the usual wall socket and you’re ready to go. You might have to install the software into your computer, but this depends on your computer, where you live and the type of Internet connection that you have.

IP Telephones

IP phones look just like your regular phones. However, these IP phones use an RJ-45 Ethernet connection instead of the usual RJ-11 phone connectors. This means that they are connected directly to your router and the necessary software and hardware are all in place for you to handle your IP calls. Keep a look out for all the Wi-Fi IP phones that will be introduced soon, which will enable you to make calls from any of the many Wi-Fi spots. This also means that you can take your IP phone with you whenever you travel, go to any Wi-Fi stop in any Internet café, hotel or other location, and you can call home, wherever that may be.

PC To PC

This is the easiest way to use VoIP. Not only are the long distance calls free, many companies are offering software for you to utilize VoIP technology at no charge or at very minimal costs. All you would need for VoIP are the software, a microphone, speakers, a soundcard and a broadband or cable DSL Internet connection and ta-daa, your relatives sound like they’re in the next room. And the best part is, with the exception of your regular monthly ISP fee, the computer-to-computer calls are free of charge, no matter where you call!

And you know what? You’ve probably even used VoIP while making a long distance call recently without even realizing it. Today, many of the telephone companies are already utilizing VoIP technology to ease their own bandwidth. It’s really all a simple matter of routing all the calls through a circuit switch into an IP gateway. Once the calls are received on the other side of the gateway, they are decompressed, reassembled and rerouted to a local circuit switch.

Juzaily Ramli discusses on all things VoIP at his site including benefits of VoIP and mobile VoIP. Feel free to visit his site and discover how much everyone can benefit from this revolutionary technology at VoIP Tutorial.

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Softimage Tutorials

2008-04-28T09:52:00.001-07:00

Have you ever wondered if you would be a good candidate to enter a career that involves digitally modeling 3D images and characters? Or, are you contemplating changing careers? Perhaps you have an art background or a design degree or even a Master's degree in Fine Arts, or even Art History, and want to enter the world of creativity. Even if you don't have those degrees or the background, you know you have artistic ability and are extremely interested in 3D modeling. It could be that your dreams to work for Pixar or Disney are not that far-fetched.

Continuing on your quest, you did some research and looked at all the 3D modeling/creation/animation software available and found that SoftImage 3D software would be your digital tool of choice. However, then you felt a bit overwhelmed at the thought of learning how to use that tool. It looked quite complicated to you. Then, you realized that you need some help to get a kick start with Softimage. Never fear! You can realize all your dreams and desires about being a 3D artist or 3D animator (or both!) because you know that with the help of Softimage Tutorials, you are just a few steps away from mastering all there is to know about Softimage.

The great thing about this area is that there are many communities out there that are happy and very willing to help you out. There are also various tutorials that are so well done; all you have to do is follow them and let your brain and knowledge get filled with all the most important information you'll ever need to become an expert in Softimage.

In the very beginning, you will find the basics in Softimage and you'll receive an orientation to the layout of the software and you will learn all about key functions, keyboard shortcuts, drop-down lists and keyboard mapping. Once equipped with this initial knowledge you are well on your way to learning more and more things about how to create 3D art and images.

Following more Softimage Tutorials the next logical step would be to learn about 3D modeling. Like with all learning, you start out easy then get more intricate. You might begin with modeling a cube, sphere or pyramid, then move on to buildings, vehicles and equipment. After that you might delve into the animate world of dogs, cats, birds, insects and such and then master more complex moving creatures like man or jellyfish!

Other subjects then to master would be creating textures and learning the physics of lighting and their effects. You might also like to learn about direct shading effects and rendering options. These Softimage Tutorials are priceless as here you'll learn how to make images that seem extraordinarily realistic.

The next step along the way would most likely lead to animation and the art of animating 3D models. You will be taught how to animate faces to create real expressions that you may not even be able to distinguish from a video of a moving face! However, before you begin working on human bodies, one of the best things you can do is first take a Softimage Tutorial on the human skeleton. This is a tutorial you will not regret taking especially if you later get into creating many human characters regularly. In fact, it will still help you with other animals as well because you'll be able to see how creatures move and you will surely be able to apply some of the same principles of one type of being to another.

Everything explained here is just the tip of the iceberg and you will have so many other softimage tutorials that will help you shape your own abilities. Your options are seemingly endless. Say you'd like to create an "explosion" effect. No problem; you will most definitely be able to learn that easily with the help of a Softimage Tutorial. Maybe you'd like to make a rubbery, blubber man and really make him look and move as if he really exists. Again, you can learn all of that with the many Softimage Tutorials. In any case, all you have to do is have some ability, have some desire to learn, be able to have a bit of fun and be persistent with your endeavors. You'll become such an expert yourself you might want to create royalty free 3d models or to pay back and thank the community by offering your own tutorials that will be just as helpful to newbies as were the tutorials you took when you started out. From there, the sky is the limit.

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Linux Command Tutorials - Using the info Command to Get Help with a Linux Command or Linux Concept

2008-04-28T09:51:00.000-07:00

As part of your Linux training, it is vital that you clearly understand Linux concepts, like: how to boot Linux, the Linux file system, and how to create a Linux user.

Another part of your Linux training needs to involve learning how to use Linux commands. This is because Linux commands - and not Linux GUI utilities - are by far and away the best way to do Linux administration tasks.

Fortunately, Linux has a command named info that allows you to see "info pages" on a Linux concept or Linux command.

Linux Tips: Some Linux distributions (versions) come with lots of info pages installed (over 500) on all kinds of Linux concepts and commands. However, others only have a few info pages. Experiment with your system to see how much Linux "info" you can find!

This Linux command tutorial shows you examples of how to run the Linux info command.

All of the Linux command examples (hands-on labs) shown below have been designed to work with all Linux distributions (versions).

So, if you run the Linux commands shown below yourself, you'll have a mini Linux command tutorial - a great way to get Linux training and lean how to use Linux.

Linux Info Command Tutorial

Some info pages have a Menu of items to choose from and others don't.

For example, the info page for the mkdir (make directory) command is just a single info "page" and doesn't have a Menu. You just read the information on the screen and scroll down as you're reading.

However, some info pages, like the info page for the grep command, do have a menu.

Using the Linux Info Command - To Get Info on a Linux Command

Run the following Linux command as an example of running the info command to get info on the mkdir command.

]$ info mkdir

This is a single page of info on the mkdir command. Press Page Down until you get to the bottom of the page and then press "q" (without the quotation marks) to quit.

Now run the following Linux command to get info the grep command.

]$ info grep

After running the above command, some Linux distributions will display the man page for the grep command rather than the info page.

If you see "File: grep.info" at the top left of the screen, then you are looking at the info page and not the man page. The ".info" in "grep.info" indicates that you are looking at an info page, and the info page for grep has a Menu and multiple pages rather than just a single page.

Linux Tips: To get info on a different command, just replace "grep" in the command above with the name of the Linux command you need to learn.

Using the Info Command to Get Linux Command Examples

Linux Tips: You will be able to do the following steps if you are looking at the info page for grep (which has a Menu and multiple pages), rather than the man page, which is just a single page.

To see examples of using the grep command, move your cursor to the left of the Menu item: "Usage: Examples" and press Enter.

Linux Tips: Linux command examples are rare in free Linux documentation. If you need to learn a Linux command, use the info command and see if there are any examples shown for the command.

One of the most useful things about the info command is that it sometimes shows examples of Linux commands. However, it can be a bit tricky to navigate the info pages if there are multiple pages. Also, Linux concepts and commands are often described in a very technical manner (in Linux "geek-speak").

Beyond This "Linux Commands Tutorials" Article

Here are some other important things to learn about the info command and info pages: how to navigate (move around from page to page) in the info pages that have menus, and how to use the info command to find out more info on a Linux concept.

Another way to get Linux training is to use Linux video tutorials. When you watch a Linux video, you can see everything you need on how to use a Linux command or how to understand a Linux concept. You can also pause a Linux video whenever you need to, and watch it as many times as you like!

You can watch Free Sample I Learn Linux Video Tutorials at http://www.iLearnLinux.com and get over the steep Linux learning curve.

Clyde Boom, Linux Expert Trainer with 20+ Years of Training Successes. Explains intricate technical matters in an easy-to- understand, non-technical manner, with tens of thousands of software and hardware learners into masters.

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Linux Training Materials Help - 5 Benefits of Using Linux Video Tutorials to Learn Linux Commands

2008-04-25T19:10:00.002-07:00

As part of your Linux training, you need to learn how to use Linux commands to do Linux administration.

New Linux users often find it difficult to learn how to use Linux commands by using Linux books or other Linux documentation.

Linux video tutorials have recently changed all this - and at last provide a source of easy Linux training materials!

5 Benefits of Using Linux Video Tutorials to Learn Linux Commands

1. You get to actually see a Linux command being run - every step of the way.

The great thing about watching a Linux video tutorial to learn how to use a Linux command is that you can see exactly how everything is done. You can see how to run the command - step-by-step.

Linux Tips: If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a Linux video tutorial is worth 300,000 words a minute! - at five frames (pictures) per second.

2. You hear the reason for running the Linux command as well as the description of running the command.

Along with seeing the Linux video, you also hear how everything is done. In a nice, calm and relaxed manner. This is real easy Linux training.

3. You can pause a Linux video tutorial whenever you need more time.

Whenever you need to think about something you've just seen and heard, you can just click on the pause button and the Linux video tutorial pauses for as long as you need!

You may want to pause the Linux video because something appears on the screen that you need more time to absorb - or you may need more time to read the output of a Linux command that was just run.

4. You get to see the "full" output of the Linux command.

This is an often overlooked, but extremely important part of learning Linux commands.

The output of a Linux command can be quite long and detailed - far too long to show in a Linux book. But the output of a Linux command is another key item to learn from.

Linux Tips: When you're reading a Linux book, you rarely see the output of a Linux command. And if some output is shown, it's usually just a short bit of the output. Partly because of the amount of space required to show the output and partly because it would take more time to clearly show you the output.

5. You get to learn from someone with Linux training experience.

And if the video tutorials you are watching are written by an experienced Linux trainer (hint, hint), then you know you'll learn how to use Linux commands easily!

You can watch Free Sample I Learn Linux Video Tutorials at http://www.iLearnLinux.com and get over the steep Linux learning curve.

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Internet Tutorials Are The Teachers Of The Future

2008-04-25T19:10:00.001-07:00

I know some people don’t even believe that the Internet or World Wide Web exists. They think that it is an abstract concept and that if asked to show it to someone they would fail miserably. Well, whether or not it exists I think that the collective consciousness of humanity is evolving everyday because of the sharing of ideas on the strange boxes called computers and the electronic network that connects them.

Every time I go on the Internet these days I am surprised by some new function that it has for our lives. My most recent discovery has been on-line tutorials. Tutorials are websites that have been created to help novices and amateurs alike learn more in their areas of specific interest. Just about any aspect of life seems to have tutorial sites dedicated to it that will teach you want you want to know. Of course some knowledge can cost you money but you’d be pleasantly surprised to see how much information you can get for free.

For example, I am interested in learning about how to play the guitar. You should see how many sites are out there, just look up guitar+tutorials on your search engine (E.g.: Google). There’s all sorts of great help from how to change your strings, hold a plectrum properly, and tuning, to learning complex chord scale systems and finger tapping on your electric guitar.

There are often diagrams, photographs, and intensive explanations relating to everything you ever wanted to know. Some sites have video and audio to help drive the lessons home. Life really has changed. In the past you had to get lessons from a teacher, drive to and from their house or music school, pay high tuition fees, and buy books on chords and songs. Everything is downloadable these days, and a lot of it is free.

Web designers could also probably learn a few things from these guitar tutorial sites. The ways the guitar teachings are expressed are often quite extensive but done so in a very simplistic manner. It’s a real one, two, three approach starting with verbal explanations of exercises, followed by diagrams, and then finally with audio and visual representations. It is an extremely thorough way of teaching without ever having to meet anyone in person.

However, a strange phenomenon is the fact that if the site is good, the visitor does feel a connection to the personality of the creator. Making the site individual is a major factor in both achieving success and touching a personal chord (no pun intended) with people. Many of the sites have means in which you can get direct contact with the site owner thus creating an opportunity for real personal interaction and tuition. Check out some of these sites:

www.alanhorvath.com/tutorials
www.ezfolk.com/guitar/Tutorials/tutorials.html
www.learnthat.com/courses/fun/guitar/
www.8j.net/~lwind/guitar.html
www.tutorgig.com/t/Guitar

Get connected to the teachers of the future. Find a tutorial that helps you to follow your dreams.

Jesse S. Somer
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Somer is a writer and guitarist learning about how to learn more through the Internet.

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C++ Tutorials: 3, Program Flow (If, Else, While, For)

2008-04-25T19:09:00.001-07:00

Program Flow is what you think it is. How the program will flow. As you know the compiler will just go down the code. Program flow is what you use to make it run a certain thing a few times, do something based on a variable, etc... There are some basic comands to program flow. The first two are loops: While and For. When you want something to loop for an amount of times based on a variable, use while. If you know how many times you want something to run, use for. If and else statements are pretty self explanable. Dont be afraid, I will go over all the syntaxes and how to do everything!

The For Loophttp://www.syschat.com Use a for loop when you know how many times you want something to run. For example, we want to have an application that counts from 0 to 50 and count by fives. To do this we would need a for loop. Here is how you do it:

for(DEFINE VARIABLE; WHEN IT SHOULD STOP; How much you count every time the program runs){

Code you want to run. } Ok, so with our 0-50 program, we would do the following:

for(int x = 0; x < x="x+5){

cout<<

If we wanted to count by ones, we would make the last statement x++.

While Loops
When you want to have something run multiple times, but you dont know how many, use a while loop. For example, we have a program that will ask if you want to exit and keep running until you type 'y'. Making a while loop is pretty simple:

while(case)
{
code...
}

How to write a case: Most are pretty easy, for example: x>8 However, they can get tricky: her is a list of operators to use:

Eqaul: ==
And: &&
Or: ||
Greater than or equal to: >=
Not Equal to: !=

The program that we are going to make checks if the user is writing a 'y'? So the case is going to be: While(exit!='y')

Full Code:

char exit = 'n';

while(exit=='n')

{

cout<<"Do you want to Exit (y/n)?";

cin>>exit;

}

If Statements
If you want something to run if something has a certain value, you can use an if statement. To do that, you type: if(case){code;}. If you want something to run that does not fit into that if case, you can use an else statement. To do that, you just write else{ code; } The example I am going to show you will ask someones age and say if they are old enough to drive or not:

int age;

cout<<"Age: ";

cin>>age;

if(age >=16){

cout<<"You are old enough";

}

else{

cout<<"You have "<<16-age<<">

}

cin>>age;

Go out and make a program!
I have thought up a good challenge for you that will use all the topics I have covered on this lesson: Try to make a program that will draw a box based on user input. If the user types more than 60, they have to pick a smaller number. Hint: You can put a for loop inside a for loop, and you are going to need to make the user type x, which is also going to be the y value because it is a square. If you need help, dont be afraid to ask, I can tell you how to do it or a hint if you want

Chris Silop - http://www.syschat.com, Computer Forum

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How To Play A Guitar - The Advantages Of Downloading Video Tutorials To Your PC

2008-04-25T19:08:00.001-07:00

Are you intrigued by the internet advertisements that you see for learning how to play a guitar that you can download to your PC! If you have always wanted to learn to play the guitar, but didn't know where to turn for help, programs such as guitar learning software that you can get online can be just what you are looking for. Just what advantages can you expect from downloading guitar software to your home PC?

1. A Patient, Always Available Guitar Tutor.

When you are trying to learn a new skill, like how to play acoustic guitar, it's easy to get frustrated. Tempers can get out of control and both student and teacher can be tempted to give up. If you learn to play guitar via lessons on your PC, you can replay those guitar instructions repeatedly any time of the night or day, without a single angry word.

2. A Type Of Study That Sensibly Builds One Guitar Lesson On The Last One.

If you teach yourself from books or websites, you will probably try new techniques in an illogical sequence. You'll be flying by the seat of your pants, making an effort to learn scales or riffs before you have mastered a G chord yet! Not to worry, It won't make that much difference as long as you don't give up, however a well-designed sequence of lessons will make learning guitar much easier.

3. Play Along To Pre-Recorded Backing Tracks.

If you're learning jazz, rock, or country style guitar, there's no substitute for playing along with more seasoned players. Sometimes experienced guitarists get impatient with inexperienced players who are playing with them. Using guitar pro software, you can play along with recorded tracks, and no one will say a word if you get it wrong!

4. Download Your Lessons To Your Desktop.

You can find some fantastic guitar tutoring at a variety of websites. There are lessons in detail and song tablature instructions widely available online. (Guitar tabs,if you're not familiar with the term, are diagrams you can use for learning your favorite song.) The only thing is, later, you might have trouble finding just where that site or lesson was. When you download guitar software,to your computer you can always find the lessons right there on your computer desktop or start bar.

5. More Options Than Just "How To Play Guitar".

You can find special effects software, as well as guitar recording software that can be downloaded to your PC. When you've been learning how to play a guitar for a while, you'll want more than just lessons. Downloadable video lessons can offer the best of all worlds.

To Learn How To Play Acoustic Guitar and get the very best out of your fingers, visit:

Guitar Software

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Reasons Why People Offer Free Photo Shop CS2 Tutorials

2008-04-25T18:37:00.000-07:00

We all know how hard life is today. Because of the expenses that each person faces during the day, we all feel the weight of the cost of living. This is the reason why we tend to be a bit wary when people approach us offering free products. Probably the first thing that enters your mind when someone approaches you with an offer of free Photo Shop CS2 tutorials is the question of "what's the catch?"

There are actually many reasons why people offer free Photo Shop CS2 tutorials. One of these reasons is the fact that free Photo Shop CS2 tutorials create product awareness. Let's say that you are someone who has never heard of a program called Adobe Photo Shop CS2. When someone approaches you with an offer of free Photo Shop CS2 tutorials, your reaction would be curiosity. What exactly is this program and what could it do for you?

Since you are now aware of the product's existence and capabilities, it would follow that you would want the product. As you can see, free Photo Shop CS2 tutorials can be just another form of advertising, benefiting both the consumer and the producer.

It also makes the program more user-friendly. People judge the quality of a tool by how easy it is to use. Although Photo Shop CS2 is capable of many things, people still need to know how to use it properly in order to want it. By offering free Photo Shop CS2 tutorials, a company increases the number of people who know how to use the program. This means that the demand for the program will greatly increase. As you can see, this also benefits the producer.

Some free Photo Shop CS2 tutorials are offered in order to discover various bugs with a program. People who make tutorials often expect the program to behave in a certain manner. When what is written on the tutorial does not reflect what happens in the program, software developers can go back and either make changes in the tutorial or correct the program itself.

Some people offer free Photo Shop CS2 tutorials on order to show people the full capacity of the program. So many new techniques for editing images have been developed because of the program. People who are able to find new ways of using the different tools found in Photo Shop CS2 share the knowledge with other people. This way, the full potential of the program is explored.

There are also those people who offer free Photo Shop CS2 tutorials just because they think that it will bring them prestige. Put yourself in this situation: you have just discovered a whole new way to remove pet-eyes from your pictures without having to paint over the eye. What would you do? Of course, the first thing that you would think about would be to tell someone. In a sense, you would be giving out free Photo Shop CS2 tutorials not just because you want to share information but also because you want to get credit for that technique.

That's why in different websites today you can find as much as ten different tutorials for the same program.

Now that you understand the benefits that free Photo Shop CS2 tutorials have for those who give them, you might find it a bit easier to accept the help being offered.

Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For a free photo shop tutorial and or to purchase a video photo shop tutorial checkout his website.

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The Effects of Tutorials in Photoshop

2008-04-25T18:30:00.000-07:00

You've heard of the numerous tutorials in Photoshop available as online lessons and through CDs and have probably wondered if they are as effective as they promise. After all, you don’t want to waste your time and money on a method of learning that will not have any benefits for you in the end. But can you effectively learn Photoshop through tutorials as well as you would in a classroom setting? Here, we examine the pros and cons:

Practical reasons for using Photoshop tutorials
Let's face it: taking classes in Photoshop are more expensive than online and video tutorials. You will be paying not just for the instructor's fees but also for the facilities and use of equipment. However, you will be exposed to an environment where you have direct and immediate access to an instructor. Any questions or confusions you may have regarding a particular topic or instruction are easily resolved.

Independence
With tutorials, you work on your own. This is an effective method of learning for you if you get distracted by other people easily or if you're shy. Tutorials cater to the different learning styles of users and learning is achieved depending on their willingness and on the effort they put in.

Convenience
Another reason why tutorials are more attractive is because of its convenience, which attracts many people who want to learn Photoshop to the various online programs available. These are usually the people who can work well by themselves, have access to the Web and have reasonable computer skills. Tutorials also allow them to work anywhere, any time, at their own pace. If they want to skip some lessons, advance to another topic or spend more time on a particular subject, they can.

And now the question: what are the effects of Photoshop tutorials?
Photoshop is not just about learning how to use special tools, producing digital art and using special effects. It is also about understanding how these functions work separately so it is easier to use them in combination to create an integrated picture.

That is why online tutorials such as Adobe.com, CBTCafe.com and PhotoshopCafe.com offer tutorials on the basics of Photoshop. Even video tutorials have sessions that introduce the program in its basic instructions. Learners are encouraged to know what Photoshop can do so they develop enough understanding to actually make it work. After all, users don’t just memorize a series of steps in order to produce a certain effect. They must be able to use the instructions to create an entirely different work.

Granted that you have the background and skills required for the software (knowledge of terminologies, basic computer skills), tutorials should be enough to teach you the basic and intermediate knowledge you need for learning the software. And you don’t have to stop there. There are thousands of tutorials you can access online, most of which were developed by some of the industry's well-respected professionals. With so many resources available for your use, you need only to tap into them to learn everything you need to know.

But tutorials alone will not turn you into an expert. Even the best Photoshop artists didn’t get there by just knowing what to do. They had to work on hundreds of projects that range from the simple to the complicated in order to work with Photoshop confidently.

Photoshop tutorials are effective if you have the inclination, interest and resources. After all, tutorials are just a method of learning and have been used for many years to teach people a wide variety of subjects from technical know-how to academics. It is what you do with what you know that will spell the big difference.

Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For a free photo shop tutorial and or to purchase a video photo shop tutorial checkout his website.

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Where To Find Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

2008-04-25T18:27:00.004-07:00

When it comes to image editing, Photoshop is the reigning market leader. Once you've tried how it works or seen what it does, you'll understand why. Originally intended for editing paper-based print images, it has become the standard with which web-based images are created and is also the most popular program used by professionals to edit their digital photos.

If you've always wanted to learn about Photoshop, here are some websites that offer web tutorials. Whether you're a beginner or an expert-to-be, you'll find some valuable tools to enhance your skills and use your Photoshop program to the fullest.

Psworkshop.net
This is one of the best Photoshop tutorial search engines on the web. Whatever Photoshop technique, trick or special effects you're looking for, you'll find this site will be a huge help. Just click on the 'how-to' tutorials on the navigation bar to find the specific trick you're looking for.

You can search for the tutorial of your choice by clicking on the categories: Basic, Color, Photos/Scanning, Text Effects, etc. You can also access their 'Top Ten' list of the most popular Photoshop tutorials which lists the most recent and most in-demand tricks you'll want to learn.

PhotoshopRoadMap.com
This site features more than 1,000 Photoshop tutorials online. For text effects, enhancements and displacements maps, you'll learn everything you need to know. Learn more than 100 tricks in tweaking textures and backgrounds and using special effects to enhance or alter photos and images. If you prefer tutorials through videos, the site also features Photoshop training DVDs and CDs.

80Four.com
80Four features free Photoshop tutorials categorized by subject. Each tutorial also includes a step-by-step guide to make performing the tutorial easier and effective. Some nifty tricks to learn: classic text effects like eroded, ice and stencil texts. Create more special effects with many layering, texture and light effects.

EyesOnDesign.com
Another site that features free online tutorials. If you've always wanted to create your own text effects like the ones that appeared in the Matrix movie, this site will teach you how. Learn to use patterns, curves, gradients and texture to change your own images and photos or download Photoshop files from the site to work on. You can even join the site's design forum and exchange info and tips with fellow Photoshop users.

MyJanee.com
This site lists some of the most complete Photoshop tutorials on the internet. It features original Photoshop lessons, an art challenge and a very good collection of edited images in their gallery. You'll find the tutorials on this site user-friendly and lessons are straightforward, thanks to its site owner, who has co-written 4 books on Photoshop and writes for the columns of two Photoshop publications.

PhotoshopLab.com
This is a newcomer in the Photoshop tutorial universe, but there are lots to learn to kick your Photoshop skills one notch. Tutorials include: using smart objects, half-sketch effect, half-tones, using tools and layers, adding masks and filters and other classics such as photo aging, adding facial hair and using brushes for stencil effects. If you've always wondered how those nifty Nip/Tuck tricks were done, this site will teach how to be your very own virtual cosmetic surgeon.

PhotoshopTutorial.net
The site has more than 600 tutorials online. For beginners to more experienced graphic designers, this site has some very helpful basic and advanced techniques. The categories are easy to navigate and you'll find the tips easy to find. Categories include tutorials in basics, texts, digital arts, special effects, layouts and web graphics.

Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For a free photo shop tutorial and or to purchase a video photo shop tutorial checkout his website.

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Free Online Resources for Photoshop Tutorials

2008-04-25T18:27:00.003-07:00

Photoshopping is more than just a neologism. It has become an industry all on its own. From doctored pictures to special effects to stunning works of art, Photoshop has let itself be known and while there have been many imitators, Photoshop remains the premier image editing software trusted by millions. If you want to get into the action, learn Photoshop using free tutorials online. Here's how:

Free online tutorials Go to the main men themselves at Adobe.com. Photoshop is one of Adobe's most recognizable and popular products other than Adobe Acrobat. This is also the site you should go to if you want to learn more about the features and functions offered with every Photoshop version. Every time a new version comes out, Adobe.com not only publishes valuable information about it, they also update their tutorials page.

Simply go to this page and find the tutorials appropriate for your particular Photoshop version. This is a veritable fiesta of free Photoshop tutorials, offered buffet-style. Simply pick which ones interest you and start learning. However, if you've never used Photoshop before, take advantage of the free tutorials and spend some time with the basics. You'll be glad you did, especially later when you'll be taking up the more advanced lessons.

Adobe.com has enough free Photoshop tutorials to keep you busy, but there are other sites you can check out for other tricks. Check out Tutorialized.com. This is a site that provides free tutorials for every sort of lesson you've been dreaming about. They have nearly 6,000 free Photoshop tutorials that will let you in on the secrets to creating spectacular digital art and amazing special effects.

You can click on any of the 19 categories to choose what you want to learn or check out the newest offerings recommended on the site. You can also get in touch with other Photoshop users through the site by joining the discussion forum. If there is a Photoshop problem you can't seem to solve, you can ask any of the users online or post a message to get an answer to your inquiry.

Another site worth checking is IntelligentEdu.com. If you have a specific Photoshop tutorial in mind, try using this site, a free training blog for various software such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Flash and other Adobe Macromedia applications. It's also a great resource page for books on various computer subjects.

Go to SketchPad.net. The free tutorials are outlined on the page, allowing you to choose from the most basic features to the most advanced. Learn about paths, custom textures, layers and effects in simple and clear instructions. You can also jump forward to the free photo-retouching tutorials or learn the vector principle through their tutorials on the special Photoshop project.

Another site that offers great Photoshop tutorials for free is PhotoshopTutorials.com. This is actually a directory that offers a listing of quality Photoshop lessons, although there are some really great sample tutorials you can try from the site, courtesy of other sites such as NewTutorials.com, Depiction.Net and PhotoshopLab.com. Simply click on the link to Adobe Photoshop Tutorials to access the page or start with the featured tutorials immediately. You might want to explore a little bit, though because the site has a lot to offer.

Looking for free Photoshop tutorials are not that difficult because there are literally tens of thousands you can use online, not to mention the dozens of tutorials offered through CDs and DVDs. If you want to learn Photoshop, start now and check out the sites. The earlier you learn, the faster you'll be able to use Photoshop with confidence.

Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For a free photo shop tutorial and or to purchase a video photo shop tutorial checkout his website.

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Your Resource for Free Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

2008-04-25T18:27:00.001-07:00

So you have a copy of the Adobe Photoshop software and still don’t know how to use it? Don't worry. There are plenty of resources you can use online that will turn you into an expert in a few weeks. Here's your guide to the free Adobe Photoshop tutorials online:

Adobe

We recommend you go to the guys who made this software possible. If there are people who could teach you how to use Adobe Photoshop, it's the group who created it. Click on the 'tutorials' page to access the lessons and simply pick which ones interest you best.

Absolute Cross

This site offers free Adobe Photoshop tutorials, all neatly categorized in 6 groups: tools & basics, text effects, interfaces/layout, special effects, photos and textures. If there's one particular lesson you want to access, simply click on the category and find it there.

N-Sane Art

Want to learn every Adobe Photoshop tutorial in under 20 steps? Go to this site. The free tutorials are extremely easy to follow and will prove helpful no matter what level of Photoshop experience you have.

There are only 4 categories but everything you need is right here – from the basics to the layout to the texts to the all-important effects. Learn to create standard fare like water drops, 3D spikey balls and solar surfaces then advance to making organic raw flesh, mutant amoeba and electric plasma gel. The art is insane, as the name suggests and the tutorials are priceless.

Photoshop Tutorial

This site's database is filled with more than 600 Adobe Photoshop tutorials you can access for free. Because of the number of lessons, the site offers the tutorials through 7 categories. Simply click on which category you need to learn from and begin. New to Photoshop? We suggest going through the basics first and then learn digital art and special effects. Want to learn some photoshopping secrets? Click on the miscellaneous tutorials link and find your poison.

Good-Tutorials

More experienced Photoshop users know this site as Photoshop Design. It became Good-Tutorials.com in 2003. These days, it boasts the largest collection of Photoshop tutorials on the internet. The vast resources will have you using Adobe Photoshop with ease and they're easy to access by category. Click on 'Basics' if you're an absolute beginner or go directly to 'Effects' if you can't wait.

Photoshop Lab

This is one of the newer sites but it doesn’t lack in Photoshop offerings. Pick out which free tutorial you like best, click on the link and find out how the experts do it. Learn smart objects, layer comps, halftone, aging, using brushes and many more.

myJanee

This site features more than 70 original Adobe Photoshop tutorials, all free. Get more inspiration from the wide selection of finished works in the gallery. Got a project you're proud of? Enter the Art Challenge where visitors vote for the best entries. You can also get in touch with other Photoshop users through the site's forum. Ask questions, post messages or if you've learned enough, answer inquiries.

Blue Sfear

Want effects? Lots of effects? This site will give it to you. Basically an online community populated by Photoshop fans, this site has grown tremendously over a short period. It has now about 200 Adobe Photoshop tutorials online, all for free. You'll find a few basic tweaking stuff but most of the tutorials here are not for the weak of heart – abstract designs, fire effects, lightning, smoke, image alterations, interfacing, etc. You'll like the fact that most of the lessons come with actual photos and screen captures, all of which you can use for reference later when it's your turn.

Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For a free photo shop tutorial and or to purchase a video photo shop tutorial checkout his website.

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Finding Amazing Adobe Photoshop CS Tutorials

2008-04-25T18:26:00.001-07:00

The Adobe Photoshop is simply amazing. If the adjective describing the digital imaging manipulation software is very upbeat and exciting, could you imagine how you could appropriately describe the latest versions of the computer program, dubbed as the Adobe Photoshop CS.

CS in Adobe Photoshop CS stands for 'Creative Suite', which is the umbrella brand to which Adobe Systems Inc now wishes to identify its Photoshop products. Because Adobe Photoshop CS is the most modern version of the Photoshop, expect that there are more in-stored for you in the software.

Nowadays, many companies all around the world require job applicants to be at least knowledgeable of basic computer applications, including the sophisticated and complicated Adobe Photoshop CS. Many adept computer users nowadays, unfortunately, are not familiar with the software.

There are reasons why average people would not opt to learn how to use the software. One, it has always been assumed that Adobe Photoshop is only for photographers. Second, not all people could easily afford to buy the software. And lastly, people do not realize the advantage and use Adobe Photoshop can do to them.

But because industries are starting to make people realize how it is advisable that they learn the use of the program, many computer users are swooning to take crash courses to learn the functions of the software. If you are among those who are not yet knowledgeable about the use of the Adobe Photoshop CS, then, move up and start seeking tutorials.

Seeking and choosing Adobe Photoshop CS tutorials

For starters, there are approachable computer centers in communities that offer crash courses about many computer programs, including the Adobe Photoshop CS. If you have time and resources, it would not hurt enrolling in such sessions.

Usually, classroom set-up tutorials last for about a couple of sessions. During the classes, you would be taught the basic applications and functions of the software. The mode of instruction is demonstrative and interactive, so if you have queries, you could easily raise your hand.

There are also one-on-one tutorials for such services. Others find this set up more accommodating and comfortable. The instructor could really focus on you. Usually, such set-ups are a bit more expensive.

If the personal and interactive sessions are not convenient for you, there are other means. For one, there are many self-help books published and distributed through the bookstores that would tutor you on how to use the Adobe Photoshop CS on procedural narrative formats.

If the printed books are not convenient, there are online and downloadable versions. Such e-books, as they are called nowadays, can be accessed online within minutes.

If you would need the instruction mode to be more on the demonstrative side, there are downloadable videos that would instruct you on how to use Adobe Photoshop CS more effectively. Such videos would show you how to start the program, how to navigate and how the buttons and keys would work.

In choosing the tutorial sessions or instructions to enroll in or purchase, take note that there are classifications for beginners and for advanced users. Logically, simple uses and functions are tackled on the introductory category for beginners.

For those who could manage to use the earlier Photoshop versions, but are not very comfortable with the CS types, there are tutorials specifically for advanced learners.

Take your pick now.

Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For a free photo shop tutorial and or to purchase a video photo shop tutorial checkout his website.

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Making the Most out of a Photo Shop Video Tutorial - What Can it Offer?

2008-04-25T18:25:00.002-07:00

In today’s world of computers, it would seem so impossible if you have not even heard of Adobe Photo Shop. It hails among the most important programs of today, being the leading photo-processing and graphics software in the market. Learning how to use this program is already a prerequisite for anyone who wants to venture into digital visual arts. It is therefore not surprising why there are tons of photo shop tutorials out there. People really want to learn how to use the program. But among tutorials, the best type for learning is probably the photo shop video tutorial.

In all fairness to other types of photo shop tutorials, normal photo shop instructional resources are indeed very useful. They teach people a wide range ways to use photo shop to their advantage. However, most of these usual tutorial versions can be hard to follow since they only tell people what to do, but not necessarily show them how to do it. When such is the case, it would really be helpful to see what is being taught. This is normally something that people taking photo shop classes can enjoy, but now even people at home can learn photo shop and see how it is down with the help of a photo shop video tutorial.

What a Photo Shop Video Tutorial Can Teach You

There are many specific types of photo shop video tutorials available, some very specialized while others very simple. However, they have a common goal of making you understand the capabilities of photo shop better and make use of them for your own projects. Some photo shop video tutorials teach basic stuff about the program. This type of tutorial instructs users in making themselves familiar with software – its regular menus, common tools and basic functionalities.

There are also photo shop video tutorials that teach more specific functions of the program. Some specifically teach the color enhancing and manipulation capabilities of photo shop that help adjust the tints or hues of photos. There are also photo shop video tutorials that teach users how to scan pictures for optimum quality. While other tutorials instruct the various ways of editing pictures to make them even more interesting than they already are. These tutorials are very useful for photographers, both digital and film users.

Other photo shop video tutorials teach more advanced functionalities of the program. There are tutorials that teach how to make effects out text, making them even more interesting and very catchy. Others show how to make special effects out of images to make them even more appealing, exciting, or fascinating to viewers. There are some that how to come up with textures that make pictures pop out into real life. These tutorials are very useful for the more advanced graphics designers and visual artists.

Where to Look for Photo Shop Video Tutorials

There are many places to look for photo shop video tutorials. Most software stores have them on stock together with video tutorials for other software. Tutorials can also be found online through various instructional websites sites that offer those who want to learn how to use the program. The good thing about them is that they can easily be reached via the Internet and some of them are even for free.

Here are some websites that offer photo shop video tutorials:

http://video-tutes.com/packages/PSDesign1.php

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials.html

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Photoshop/1

http://www.photoshop-tutorials-4-you.com/

Learning photo shop is now very easy thanks to video tutorials.

Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For a free photo shop tutorial and or to purchase a video photo shop tutorial checkout his website.

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Using Online Tutorials to Learn Adobe Photoshop

2008-04-25T18:25:00.001-07:00

Adobe Photoshop has set the industry standard for photo and image editing. In fact, its popularity is such that it has become a full-blown industry in itself. In terms of ease of use and editing possibilities, Adobe Photoshop is hard to beat. And it's quite easy to learn even for beginners, especially those who have never in their life tried an image editing software before. There are literally thousands of tutorials online and on DVDs that can teach anyone the magic tricks of Photoshop.

If you're quite capable of navigating yourself using a program, your Adobe Photoshop installer has everything you need. Provided of course you know what you're looking for and what the terms mean, you will find the 'help' function very helpful. However, if you do not know the difference between crop and cut, you'll need to turn to other resources.

Head off to Adobe.com to find out more about Photoshop. There are plenty of info you can access from the site courtesy of their in-house experts. You'll find thousands of featured tutorials online, although if you're a beginner, you might want to take it slow and go to the 'Basic' tricks first before getting your hands on the more advanced techniques.

Adobe Photoshop is very easy to learn but you should first understand how it works and what exactly it can do so you'll have realistic expectations. Don’t worry, though. Adobe Photoshop can create lots of magic and it won't disappoint. Once you've learned the basics, you can move on to the intermediate and advanced techniques.

If you prefer textual tutorials, you can use the articles on Creativepro.com. This site lists some of the best Adobe Photoshop techniques you'll find very useful. Included in the list are tutorials on the use of adjustment layers, aging of metal textures, using Camera Raw, using brush and patch, color replacement using Photoshop CS and even the all-important technique of restoring damaged photographs.

Whether you're an Adobe Photoshop newbie or pro, you will find a lot of tips and tricks at PSDesigns.com. This site lets you penetrate deeper and understand what goes on when you use different tools and devices. In fact, their tutorials are categorized based on technique. Included are background or knockout tricks, type, shape and pen techniques, pattern techniques, web and graphic design techniques.

One of our recommended sites is Photoshopsupport.com. This is a one-stop shop for online and video Adobe Photoshop tutorials. Everything you need to know about Adobe Photoshop is right here. There are free tutorials you can access online, including v.9 or CS2 tutorials.

Photoshopsupport.com also hosts free tutorials from Photoshop experts. Most recently, they have hosted tutorials by CreativeBits' Ivan Raszl. It features some of the most popular and creative techniques including removing red eye, creating textures like diamond-plated metal and brushed aluminum, making water drops and integrating photographs with uneven surfaces.

Some tips are as simple as changing colored photos to black and white and creating water drops – stuff you'll find handy later on. You can even access the Photoshop Tips & Tricks series volumes 1 to 6 on the site. And you don’t have to be a grown-up to learn Photoshop either. The site has links exclusively for kids.

There are a lot of freebies onsite, including brushes, fonts, textures, plugins, photos and actions. If you prefer to download Photoshop video tutorials, there are also free video clips available.

If you have Photoshop v.10, you can access the CS3 resource center through this site. You can even download a trial version of public beta CS3 through Adobe Labs for free. The site alone has all the tutorials you'll need to sharpen your Adobe Photoshop trick armada and you can even do more using links to other tutorial sites.

Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For a free photo shop tutorial and or to purchase a video photo shop tutorial checkout his website.

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Adobe Photoshop Image and Editing Power

2008-04-25T17:39:00.000-07:00

Adobe Photoshop CS2 promises a lot of image editing power and in the right hands, it can transform any photo into virtually anything you want it to appear. Photoshop CS2 is Adobe's Photoshop v. 9.0, which was released in 2005. CS stands for Creative Suite and CS2 marks the 2nd version since the re-branding of Adobe's products. The software features a more intelligent transform tool, a better replacement tool and multiple layer selection. Some of the best tools in this version were only available as plug-ins in older versions.

If you want to learn Photoshop CS2, use the many resources that are available online. You'll find the best CS2 tutorials here, all for free. Here are some sites you can start with:

Adobe.com
Start with the experts. After all, they did create Photoshop CS2 and you'll find a lot of background information on this version from this site. And they're giving it away for free. Go to the tutorials page and look for the link to CS2 (there are links to other Photoshop versions like 7.0 and CS3). There are thousands of tutorials on this site. Simply pick which ones you need to start you on CS2.

You can also check out Photoshop.Support.com, a technical support and advice site. Every free CS tutorial you'll find here is the work of CS2 experts. The tutorials page lists some of the most comprehensive tutorial sessions, enough to make any burgeoning CGI artist feel like a pro.

Access the index on Photoshop CS2 tips by Jennifer Apple to find how to work with layers and type. If you think everything you need to learn about these features are covered by v. 7.0, think again. There's plenty more and this page will show you.

Graphic-Design.com
Want to learn feathering, displace maps and pixelsmithing? Go to this site. The free CS2 tutorials are taught using no-nonsense approach and the instructions are easy to understand and follow. There are several specific tutorials on the homepage you can click to but if you want to learn step 1, go to the tutorials link. You'll find some very valuable lessons on CS2 from there.

Lombergar.com
This site is maintained by an award-winning artist and Photoshop user so you can be sure the free tutorials are well-written and taught. You can access the video tutorials featured on the site, although you'll need the latest version of QuickTime player to view them. Each video tutorial is 15 minutes long but it will cover everything you need to know about a particular CS2 lesson. Learn how to fake long exposures, create fake fog and real-looking rain, and many more. You can also access more of the author's video tutorials from the site.

RussellBrown.com
Another site to access free CS2 video tutorials is this site. The friendly tone should set you at ease and as the amiable Dr. Brown will assure you, learning CS2 should be fun. Simply scroll down the page to find the specific CS2 tutorial you need. All video tutorials can be accessed using QuickTime, so make sure you have downloaded your own version.

The free Photoshop tutorials are worth your time so you will need some patience when you're trying to download them from the site, especially if you have slow connection. You might also want to switch a Firefox or Safari browser if you're short on patience. All tutorials are provided for free courtesy of Brown and Adobe Systems.

Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For a free photo shop tutorial and or to purchase a video photo shop tutorial checkout his website.

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Use Free Photoshop Tutorials to Become a Master in Photography

2008-04-25T17:06:00.000-07:00

People who work with digital photographs are probably masters in the art of using Photoshop. And when I say art I mean that, from normal photos, they can obtain really artistic photos, with all flaws corrected, with the right color saturation and all kinds of marvelous effects.

But we are all asking ourselves, how these people can transform a photo into a work of art? The answer is quite simple: they have learned all their tricks by using books and free and Photoshop tutorials. But it's a lot easier to use tutorials when you want to learn something new, because you no longer have to consult different books and ask your friends until you get your questions answered. These free Photoshop tutorials are made in such a way that everyone can understand how the software works.

These free Photoshop tutorials can be found on the internet divided into different categories in oredr for you to find them easier and faster: the basics category, the photography tutorials, and the texturing category and only for Photoshop fans the special FX and the web designing tutorials. On other websites you can find free Photoshop tutorials classified by the version of the program so you can pick up a whole set of tutorials made especially for the Photoshop version you use. Only for Photoshop fans tutorials that are great for multimedia pros, video, film, graphic and web-designers.

If you search the internet and type free Photoshop tutorials you will be surprised to see how many tutorials for this great software are out there. Basic Photoshop tutorials are for those people who do not know a lot about how to use Photoshop. They can easily learn from these free Photoshop tutorials how to change the color of the hair, how to remove red eyes, retouch pictures, learn the essentials of layers, get a quick overview in what concerns the gradient tool and many more.

Those people who own a website can also use photoshop tutorials. In some more advanced tutorials you can learn how to make a hosting server with Photoshop, create website navigation bars, create professional introduction pages and make media site content boxes easily. These are only a few examples of what free Photoshop tutorials can teach you. There are also a lot more options and tutorials for you to choose from, and they are not limited only for Photoshop fans, they are available for everyone.

You can find hundreds of photoshop tutorials on the internet, but if you really want to learn something you should stick to a few basic tutorials and then rush for the more advanced ones that are reserved only to the Photoshop fans. Step by step you will learn all the tricks this great software offers you.

Free Photoshop tutorials are a great opportunity that no one should miss. Learning something new and fun for free is not something to refuse every day. Maybe you will not become the director of an imposing magazine by learning how to use Photoshop, but at least you could have a great photo album to share with your friends.

If you are looking for a large variety of free photoshop tutorials made only for photoshop fans please visit http://www.psfanatic.com

Your Friendly Guide to Photo Shop Tutorials

2008-04-23T18:27:00.001-07:00

Adobe photo shop is absolutely one of the most important, useful, popular programs in the world today. It is the leading software for graphics design and photography. Because of this, knowing how to use photo shop is considered a requirement these days if you want to venture in the field of visual arts. This is also why there are hundreds of photo shop tutorials that have been released catering to different needs and to different facets of this remarkable program.

With so many choices it can indeed be so confusing to choose the right photo shop tutorial for you. Perhaps knowing what kinds of tutorials out there can help you decide for yourself what would fit you depending on your needs. You may also take multiple photo shop tutorials to cover different areas of interest, you may find things useful in one type of tutorial even if your main concern is something else. Here are some of the general types of photo shop tutorials you would be able to find in many of the photo shop resources everywhere.

1. Basic Tutorials – these are photo shop tutorials for the unengaged. If you are not really familiar with photo shop and you would just want to learn how to work your way around the software then you would greatly benefit from basic tutorials. A basic tutorial should teach you what tools there are in photo shop and the capabilities you would be endowed by using them. Some basic tutorials also provide you with some useful advanced lessons that can come in handy some time in the future.

2. Color Tutorials – obviously, these tutorials teach you all about colors and how to manipulate them in photo shop. This is very useful if you want to create certain effects by changing hues and tints or turning photos into black and white. A lot of digital photographers make use of this to enhance their photos.

3. Photo Editing and Scanning – this is again a photographer’s realm, both for amateurs and professionals. Such tutorials can help you know how to rehash pictures you have taken to make them better (or worse if you want to play pranks on your friends). These tutorials also instruct you how to best scan your paper photos so that they would turn out well when they become digitized.

4. Text Effects – Photo shop allows you to do a lot with texts, this can be helpful in creating ads and teasers. These tutorials can help you make the most of text, incorporating them into pictures or just adorning them as the main focus of the graphics.

5. Effects Tutorial – these tutorials would teach you how to come up with impressive effects that can make your graphics astonishing. You would be amazed at how much photo shop can do and this would indeed be very useful if you want to go beyond showing off pictures.

6. Backgrounds and Textures – another great thing about photo shop is that it can make pictures appear even more lifelike by playing on different visual textures. These tutorials teach you how to make wonderful visual surfaces that can be quite appealing for viewers.

There are many other types of photo shop tutorials and they can definitely help you take advantage of this powerful software. Try them out for yourself and see how much you can do with the photo shop.

Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For a free photo shop tutorial and or to purchase a video photo shop tutorial checkout his website.

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Learning Adobe Photoshop is Easy with Tutorials

2008-04-23T18:26:00.001-07:00

So you want to learn Adobe Photoshop. Whether you need it for business, pleasure or to make your photography hobby more tolerable, you'll find a lot of uses for Adobe Photoshop. It is still the premier graphics editing software and has made its mark in print, TV, the internet and even in films. There are plenty of resources you can use: books, magazines, CDs and even online tutorials. It's up to you which one is the most convenient.

Using Adobe Photoshop tutorials

There are two ways you can use Adobe Photoshop tutorials: through step-by-step lessons or leap-frog, buffet style sessions. Which one you choose depends on your aptitude, patience and immediate needs. Say for example, you need to learn how to watermark within 24 hours, you cannot realistically go through the introduction and basics just so you could get to the appropriate lesson. There are Photoshop tutorials that can teach you exactly that, and only that.

However, if you have the time, choose the step-by-step process. It might take you some time to get to the more advanced part, but you'll thank yourself later for making the effort. If you're a little impatient and want to learn tricks right now, no one's stopping you. Here's how to get started:

Go to the main source.

Adobe.com has a page that's dedicated to Photoshop tutorials. There are thousands of tutorials to choose from and for a beginner, it can get a little overwhelming so best head for the 'Basics' first. The site lets you learn what Photoshop can do, walks you through the terms and the menus and then shows you which tools are used for what purpose.

Other sites

CBTcafe.com has a textual tutorial on Photoshop that makes understanding the tools and their functions a lot easier. Check out that tutorial and learn how tools work exactly.

Another site is EyesOnDesign.net. The homepage features a no-frills list of Photoshop tutorials with thumbnails of the results. Learn warping, color tricks, texture and background manipulation and a lot more. You'll love the fact that the site is arranged neatly and there are very few ads that clutter the corners. Makes it easier for you to concentrate on the tutorials and nowhere else.

SoftwareTrainingTutorials.com is a site you'd want to check out if you're looking for Adobe Photoshop lessons in DVDs and CDs. But there are plenty of free tutorials on this site, most of them on video. Get started with the free lessons on the basic functions and operation of Photoshop and advance on tools, selection, masks. Learn layers, vector tools and effects, all online. Tutorials are graduated and you'll learn in increments. If you absorb lessons fast, you should be able to use Adobe Photoshop with ease within one or two weeks' time.

Hidden features

With every Photoshop version released, expect to find more than what you get from the box. Software contains many tweaks and tricks that are usually not found in the most comprehensive instruction manuals. These hidden features can be subtle or plain obvious but you'll find them extremely helpful later when you're pressed for time or if there's a particular editing job that stumps you.

A site that lets you in on the little secrets is CreativeMac.com. The hidden features on this site are for Photoshop 7.0 users but there are lots of tips you can use for higher versions. You'll find the article a good reference later.

Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For a free photo shop tutorial and or to purchase a video photo shop tutorial checkout his website.

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Advantages of CS2 Photo Shop Tutorials

2008-04-23T18:25:00.001-07:00

CS2 photo shop tutorials can be very tedious. Sometimes you may find yourself confronted with one too many CS2 photo shop tutorials, and you may feel like it is too much of an effort and you'd rather do away it. However, if confronted with the advantages that CS2 photo shop tutorials can provide, you will find that it is really worth all the effort, time and energy investing upon. CS photo shop tutorials can be free or paid, and there are various mediums by which it is being carried out. You have the option of video tutorials, reading materials and direct demonstration, but all these collectively provide a host of benefits that you will not find elsewhere. You can also customize your CS2 photo shop training topics without any hassles.

Value for Money (or sometimes no money is needed at all!)
CS2 photo shop tutorials are reasonably priced considering that you will get the very much-needed information to enable you to maximize your use of Adobe CS2. CS2 can be very difficult to get used to, and for minimal fees, you will find yourself easily getting comfortable with the software through the well-divided categories of the CS2 photo shop tutorials.CS2 photo shop tutorials are usually made in such a way that makes up for gradual and complete learning.

No Stone Remains Unturned
When you are engaged in a CS2 photo shop tutorial, you will almost always be assured of mastery. No details will be left out or missed. If you do self-study CS2, you may gain the skills needed but you may find yourself missing out on other important details, commands, shortcuts and concepts. Finishing a CS2 photo shop tutorial ensures that you get to learn everything there is to learn from CS2.

Affiliations and Extra Resources
Being under a CS2 photo shop tutorial enables you to meet other people with the same interest. You will find clubs, exposure to other related pursuits that can enhance your learning of CS2 photo shop. Studying the software on your own does not provide this kind of coverage. You will find that you are at an advantage more when you are able to interact with other CS2 users and exchange experiences with them. Extra resources are also available within a community of CS2 aficionados, especially if they are under the same CS2 photo shop tutorial module.

Tips and Tricks from Peers and Experts
There are some things that make experts good at the field they choose. When you take a CS2 photo shop tutorial, you can definitely expect tips and tricks not easily available to you when you are experimenting on CS2 photo shop on your own. Experts have somehow gained a good command of the software and they are able to give out more details ordinary CS2 user would not have otherwise thought.

Latest updates are within Easy Reach
There is no better place to learn about CS2 updates more than under the subscription of a CS2 photo shop tutorial, especially those which are supported and recommended by Adobe itself. Latest updates will easily be disseminated at your inbox and people who are making software which is related to your CS2 experience will most likely be able to market and give the word to those who are involved in the CS2 photo shop tutorials.

Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For a free photo shop tutorial and or to purchase a video photo shop tutorial checkout his website.

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What You Should Learn from CS2 Photo Shop Tutorials

2008-04-23T18:24:00.002-07:00

Adobe CS2 Photo Shop is one of the world's leading image manipulation software. This is probably because of the fact that it has so many capabilities. However, the only way to fully exploit those capabilities is by learning about them. Because of this, a lot of people are getting all sorts of CS2 Photo Shop tutorials. What can you learn from such tutorials?

Well, the primary purpose of the program is to edit images for paper printing. This means that you should expect to learn how to edit your pictures. CS2 Photo Shop tutorials will help you make your pictures look spectacular for printing. The basic thing that the CS2 Photo Shop tutorial will teach you is, of course, how to take the picture from your camera and print it out yourself. This is the main advantage of digital photography. Thus, CS2 Photo Shop tutorials will help you gain independence from film developers.

CS2 Photo Shop tutorials will also teach you how to manipulate your photographs in between the capturing and the printing process. We all know that many things can affect a picture's quality. From the lighting to the focus, a lot of factors can affect the way that a picture turns out. With Photo Shop, you are able to adjust these factors and make the picture turn out the way that you want it to. Of course, you need a CS2 Photo Shop tutorial to do this properly.

Of course, people know that, today, actually printing out pictures is quite unnecessary if you want to share them. This is why the CS2 Photo Shop tutorial will help you learn how to edit your files so that sharing them on the internet would be easier and more exciting.

One of the main advantages of the CS2 Photo Shop over other versions is the fact that it is integrated with the other programs on Adobe's Creative Suite. This means that a great CS2 Photo Shop tutorial will help you take this integration and use it for your needs. A great CS2 Photo Shop tutorial will help you use the program as a part of the whole suite. This means that you will be armed with the knowledge necessary to incorporate the elements of animation, sound, and the internet into your Photo Shop session.

A great CS2 Photo Shop tutorial will teach you these basics. However, if you are looking for more than just the basics, then you should know that there are CS2 Photo Shop tutorials which will be able to show you how to use existing photographs and how to turn them into your personal work of art.

There are also CS2 Photo Shop tutorials which will teach you just how to use the program in order to make money. This is because knowing how to use CS2 Photo Shop is actually a great skill to have. People will come to you to have their pictures edited and you could charge them for your expertise.

These are just some of the things that you will be able to learn and acquire from a great CS2 Photo Shop tutorial. Of course, the knowledge does not end here. Different tutorials offer to teach you about different aspects of the program and it will always be up to you to choose which aspects you want to learn about.

Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For a free photo shop tutorial and or to purchase a video photo shop tutorial checkout his website.

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Day Trading Tutorials Will Help You Succeed

2008-04-23T18:24:00.001-07:00

A good brokerage firm will always warn you that day trading is a very risky business. Even if you are an experienced player, it is still extremely difficult to break even in this game, let alone make a profit. This is why day trading tutorials can be of great benefit to everyone, whether you are just a beginner or an old hand.

Day trading involves the buying and selling of stocks at such a rapid pace that ownership of certain stocks can change hands every few minutes, or even seconds. The idea is to buy them low and sell them high, amid a highly unpredictable market.

To participate in day trading you will need to have $25,000 up-front, so this is not a game for those who are struggling financially. Many people have compared day trading to gambling, but unlike gambling, it is not purely a game of chance. Of course, nothing is 100% guaranteed, but there is more opportunity to increase the odds in your favor, once you know how.

So, what are the major risks involved in day trading? Well, there is really only one risk - losing money - and a lot of traders often lose it in big amounts, simply because they have not taken the time to learn how to become a successful day trader, and they rely too much on chance.

This is where day trading tutorials come in handy. These tutorials teach people how to become a successful day trader by showing them how to avoid huge risks and minimize their losses. Armed with the proper knowledge, you can become one of the 20% of day traders that actually make a profit on a regular basis. This statistic, alone, should be enough to motivate you to undertake some day trading tutorials.

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Free Online Video Tutorials -- Learning Has Never Been Easier

2008-04-23T18:23:00.001-07:00

Have you ever wanted to turn your photos into exciting and professional looking pictures but ran into one or all of the following problems:

i. You do not have professional equipment.

ii. You do not know how to use complicated programs like Adobe Photoshop.

iii. You can not afford to pay for a professional photo shoot.

Rest assured times are changing! Even newbie users can learn to produce professional quality graphics using Adobe Photoshop. This has been made possible thanks to the availability of free online video tutorials. Newbie users who try studying Photoshop from an 6 inch thick manual know that it can seem overwhelming, and in most cases give up.

"I know from my personal experience that you can spend a whole month trying to get a desired effect but produce terrible results" says Leon Borg a Photoshop newbie. A general fault many novice Photoshop users make is that they try to learn everything there is to know about Photoshop from the manual or some over priced book as opposed to learning for free by following video tutorials and carrying out specific tasks.

In one of the many online video tutorials available, They demonstrate such things as Changing Eye Color and or Removing Red Eye. Online video tutorials like these demonstrate how easy it is to create professional images in under 5 minutes.

"When a novice starts with a online video tutorial tailored for a specific task such as Changing Eye Color or Removing Red Eye, not only does the user build confidence by producing a desired result, which gives a sense of achievement, but he or she is also saving time and money, that can be better spent on or with their loved ones, as well as learning about useful Photoshop tools and techniques that will that will give them the necessary tools for creating more professional looking images further down the track."

Ricky Rodriguez is a free lance writer who writes about education and technological advances and how they help improve our lives today. Video tutorials mentioned in this article were found at http://www.luv2help.com

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AntiSpyware Tutorials - Automatic Removal MBS Account Manager

2008-04-23T18:22:00.004-07:00

Malicious software is never a good thing to have on your computer. MBS Account Manager is potentially unwanted as apart from constantly displaying demands for money for it's services, attempts to install further unwanted components using ActiveX. MBS Account Manager will display a bill as a pop-up, when the bill is ignored, the popups become more frequent. Below you will find all the things you need to remove MBS Account Manager from your PC.

A HijackThis log will show two running processes and a Startup entry similar to one of these:

O4 - HKLM..Run: [mbssm32] C:WINDOWSsystem32mbssm32.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [mbssm32] C:WINDOWSsystem32smvalid.exe

1. Download the Brute Force Uninstaller to your desktop.

Right click the BFU folder on your desktop, and choose Extract All. Click Next and then in the box to choose where to extract the files to, Click Browse. Click on the + sign next to My Computer. Click Next, and Uncheck the Show Extracted Files box and then click Finish.

2. Download the MicroBill Removal script. Save it in the same folder you made earlier (BFU). Then, please go to Start > My Computer and navigate to the BFU folder. Start the Brute Force Uninstaller by double-clicking BFU.exe

3. Behind the scriptline to execute field click the folder icon and select mbs.bfu. Press Execute and let the program do its job. (You ought to see a progress bar if you did this correctly.) Wait for the complete script execution box to pop up and press OK. Press exit to terminate the BFU program.

4. Restart your computer.

I hope this was helpful in restoring your computer back the way it was.

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Benefits of Online Currency Trading Tutorials

2008-04-23T18:22:00.003-07:00

Due to rapid advances in technology and the ever-changing economic scenarios all over the world, keeping a tab on the dips and escalations of currency rates is essential. Besides, the profit one makes from currency trading depends on the vital decisions taken. Each decision made while being a part of the foreign currency trading market could be profitable or a reason for instant loss. All decisions made depend on the reliability of the information they are based on. You need to have reliable information that could affect the foreign exchange market as soon as possible.

Today, you not only lose and gain on currency trading but also end up becoming either very wealthy or you join the ranks of all the losing traders. Since the Forex market is open for trading 24 hours a day and 5 days a week, a trader can access his or her forex trading account at any given time. Besides, the speed of currency transactions is one of the most impressive advancements. You can conduct foreign currency trading in seconds with the help of traditional forex broker.

Advantages of Online Currency Trading Tutorials

Online Currency Trading Tutorials teach you the basics, and give you additional knowledge if you have been in the game for quite some time. Don't forget, the Forex market is considerably complicated and mastering it could take time. In the past, it was impossible to get someone who would offer any sort of tutoring or training in Forex as trading was restricted only to large businesses and corporations. Today, with the Internet boom, individual traders are swarming towards currency trading, thus leading to a huge rise in the number of tutorials and courses available.

Training sessions could be conducted in a classroom or over the Internet, depending on an individual's preference and location. Since classroom learning is different because of the involvement of traveling great distances, you can opt for the ‘learn at home' courses. A person learning through the online currency tutorial can study at his or her own pace. However, they are devoid of the explanation and discussions with the teacher. Some online currency trading tutorials have a money-back guarantee if the individual does not like the course. Individuals should stay away from courses that guarantee profit. Moreover, since it is difficult to distinguish between the fraudulent and authentic courses, every course ought to be treated with skepticism.

When trading forex, the trader sometimes needs to make very quick decisions when analyzing the market. A forex tutorial may not be able to teach that. It may be able to teach an individual the principles of currency trading and turn a person into an efficient forex trader, but practical application of the knowledge acquired, and incorporating it in daily trading is something that is achieved only through classroom teaching. Opting for online currency trading tutorials improves speed and decision making ability. In addition, one can also follow the changes in the rates and ascertain when to enter and exit a given trade transaction. If an individual takes time to learn and understand how the forex trading business works, it would be easy for him or her to make the high probability decisions for successful trading. There are also many Forex signal service providers who provide traders information about what trades to take, what price to enter a trade and the recommended take profit and stop loss targets.

Although online currency trading tutorials may not be able to teach you all the intricacies of the trade, it can help you in making decisions quickly and with greater success rate. The trick of the trade, as they say, is all about how one employs the knowledge for making maximum profits.

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"Learn Spanish" Tutorials Are Not The Only Resource

2008-04-23T18:22:00.001-07:00

This article is not about learning Spanish, but about how to learn Spanish. Learning any new language can be a daunting task. Indeed, with over 500,000 words to learn and their corresponding meanings, we have our work certainly cut out for us. But there are ways to make the road ahead less bumpy.

It is important to think about how you will structure your Spanish learning program. Thinking ahead can pay off if we assess the following consideration.

Motivation is one of the most important considerations. In other words the reason behind our decision to apply ourselves for a minimum of 6 months and maybe even more before we are at least a little fluent. Spanish is a very expressive language. It is quite different to English. If you are going to commit to learning Spanish using tutorials, you may as well do it properly and purchase some quality instructional resources.

The point I am making is that whatever reason you started out wanting to learn Spanish, it more than likely wont be strong enough to sustain you over the long term, unless you are a very disciplined type of person that always finishes what they started. If you lose your motivation, you may give up just before you started to really get a grasp on the language.

So my advice is to develop a new motivation as you go. Namely, you need a pay off, some sort of reward that will sustain you during the study program. What I have found is that after a few hours of study learning new words, the most enjoyable thing is to log on to one of the many Spanish speaking communities online and socialize in Spanish.

At first it will only be a small reward, but as you get to meet people and put into practice the words you have newly learned, it can be an excellent accompaniment to your Spanish tutorials. I find after a while, I began to really look forward to joining my Spanish speaking friends at the conclusion of my study sessions every night. This type of motivation creation is necessary to sustain you until you become fairly fluent.

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Improve Your Credit With Free Credit And Collections Management Tutorials

2008-04-23T18:20:00.001-07:00

Have you ever wondered just how important your credit score is to your financial decision making process? When you consider that your score will determine whether you will get that new car or house that you have had your eye on for some time it's no wonder many people share the same thoughts. The fact is , that even small credit problems can cause you to be turned down for a loan now and a few years later. It is important for you to know what your credit score is, and if it's not very high then you need to learn how to improve it.

There are a lot of things that can negatively affect your credit: unpaid credit card bills, and even an unpaid traffic fine can give you a negative mark at the credit bureau. A short list of other things that could hold your credit back would be: having a loan go into default, having a loan being sent to collections, filing for bankruptcy, home foreclosure, and maxing out your credit cards.

Ignoring your credit card bills, or not paying your bills at all, is probably the worst thing you can do to your credit score and this is one reason you need credit and collections management tutorials. A late payment is much better than no payment at all. Lenders are looking for people who have a history of paying their financial obligations.

If you're getting annoying phone calls from third party collectors then this is probably not the right time for applying for credit. When a debt is in the hands of a collection agency, it means that the original lender has given up collecting payment from you and decided to hire someone to do it for them. These days home foreclosure has become a big problem.

Many lenders are sympathetic to having problems of making your mortgage payments or having your home in foreclosure; however, this does not mean that you will have an easy time getting another mortgage loan. Instead of filing for bankruptcy, or going through a home foreclosure, you might try to see a consumer credit counsellor and get these management tutorials to help you.

If your credit is poor, don't give up. Instead go see your lender and ask them to help you make a plan to improve your credit score. Many people who have a very poor credit rating have been helped to the point of obtaining loans and mortgage much faster than they ever thought possible just by making a credit repair plan with their lender.

Some people who have been turned down have found that their score was just below the limit and were able to make very small changes to obtain a loan by getting credit and collections management tutorials.

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How to Make Money with Adobe Photoshop

2008-04-23T18:19:00.000-07:00

You probably already know that Adobe Photoshop is great for making your digital and online pictures look more professional. But do you know how to make money with photoshop? Learn how to use photoshop to make a profit.

Any photoshop tutorial will tell you how to edit your images, how to add attractive framing and borders, and how

to work with layers and masks to give your images that perfect professional look. What standard tutorials don’t tell you is that you can actually use photoshop to generate some personal income. How to make money with photoshop is one of the best-kept secrets that adobe photoshop tutorials won’t teach you.

Have you ever heard of a photoshop freelancer? Once you hear about freelancing with photoshop once, you’ll start to notice references and resources for photoshop freelancers all over the web. Not mentioned in photoshop tips and tutorials, many photoshop freelancers have learned how to make money with photoshop – and now you can, too.

Graphic design is one of the hottest new trends in the online market. As web site competition heats up, everyone is looking for their own personalized graphics and logos for web pages, and this is how photoshop freelancers make their money. Because there is a huge demand for unique, stylized graphics and logos, adobe photoshop has suddenly become a viable money-making tool for those interested in doing a little freelancing. Logo design is very much in need by corporations and companies looking to personalize their web pages and set themselves apart from other businesses and web sites. Graphics that look great online are very much in need, and photoshop is the perfect tool for create logos that businesses will love.

A photoshop freelancer can find plenty of work on the web, where very few people know the ins and outs of graphic design. Even those who know how to use photoshop often don’t know how to use photoshop to its full potential despite the amount of tutorials they may take. Someone who can create unique logos and images using photoshop can find a new career path open to them by using their skills to become a photoshop freelancer. This can be a highly lucrative choice in today’s highly modernized world, where so much is happening in the online world. Adobe photoshop is not only great for improving your digital images, but can also open a new door in your freelancing career. Graphic designers, and those who know how to use photoshop well, are always highly in demand.

It’s an aspect of using photoshop that tutorials won’t teach you, no matter how many adobe photoshop tutorials you may take. But now that you’ve heard about freelancing with photoshop, you’ll find much more information on the Internet than you ever knew existed about this exciting career path. Photoshop, an easy software package to use, can turn anyone into a photoshop freelancer and experienced graphic designer. Though it may not be mentioned in photoshop tips, it is one aspect of adobe photoshop that some freelancers have learned to use to the fullest advantage.

It doesn’t end with logo design, either. Photoshop freelancers may be called upon to polish web site images or pictures taken by digital camera. Many businesses

like to post real pictures on their web sites, and the services of a photoshop freelancer can be used to make those pictures look great. The skills of a photoshop freelancer are needed all over the web, and you’ll find many opportunities to put your photoshop skills to good use.

Freelancing can be your key to self employment, and you’ll find that you can turn a quick profit by doing a little photoshop freelancing. When your skills can be used by many businesses and web sites on the Internet, why not share your knowledge and benefit a little from your photoshop expertise? Working for yourself can be a very enjoyable and financially beneficial experience, and all you need is a working knowledge of adobe photoshop to get your foot in the door of this career path.

You’ll find many resources for photoshop freelancers on the web. Everything from adobe photoshop tutorials and tips, to discussion pages, chat rooms, and forums are available to help you perfect your photoshop skills.

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How to Use Linux Video Tutorials From CD in Linux to Get Linux Training

2008-04-22T12:58:00.001-07:00

Linux video tutorials show you step-by-step how to use Linux. They are an excellent, easy and fast way to get started at learning Linux.

Getting Linux Running - So You Can Learn How to Use Linux!

Get Linux and start the Linux OS (operating system) on your computer system. This will get you to the Linux desktop, where you can: run Linux software programs and open a terminal emulation window.

Linux Tips: To get Linux running, you can: boot with a Linux live cd (very fast and easy), use a free Linux player program to run Linux in Windows (also fast and relatively easy), install Linux on a Windows system (more complicated and time consuming) or install Linux on a new system (a good way to go!).

From the Linux desktop, open a terminal emulation window, so you can go to the Linux command line prompt and run Linux commands.

Linux Tips: To open a terminal emulation window from the Linux desktop, to run Linux commands: click on the "Terminal" icon (that looks like a computer screen) - or right-click on the desktop and select "Linux Terminal" or "Linux Console" (or similar) - or look through the menus and select "Linux Terminal" or "Linux Console" (or similar).

Running Linux Video Tutorials from CD in Linux

Now put in the CD that contains the Linux video tutorials. This causes a CD icon to appear on your Linux desktop. Double-click on the CD icon to "open" it and then double-click on the index.html file that appears. This will run your browser and display the list of Linux video tutorials.

To watch a Linux video, you just click on the name of the video tutorial, such as "How to Run Linux in Windows", or "Running Linux from a Live CD / DVD", or "How to Use Linux Commands" - and the tutorial runs in the browser (in Linux).

So, now you have a Linux video running in your browser and you also have a terminal emulation window open so you can run Linux commands.

Learning Linux with Video Tutorials to Get Real Practical Experience Yourself!

Now here's the best part about using Linux video tutorials to get Linux training.

Not only do you get to watch the Linux videos so you can see and hear how to use Linux, but you also get to "follow along" as the videos are playing, to use a Linux desktop to run Linux software programs and most importantly - you can watch and try Linux commands!

Just start a Linux video, such as "How to Run the Linux find Command" and watch a bit of how to run the command - step-by-step. Then click on the pause button.

Hold down the Alt key (at the left of the spacebar on your keyboard) and press the Tab key to go to the Linux terminal emulation window (where you get to the Linux command line prompt to run Linux commands).

Now try the Linux command you have just seen - and experiment a bit!

Then hold down Alt and press Tab and go to the Linux video window. Now watch a bit more of the Linux video and learn some more options of the command.

Then press Alt+Tab again to go to the Linux command line prompt in the Linux window and try the new Linux command options. And so on.

An easy and excellent way to get real, practical Linux training!

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Day Trading Tutorials The Basics

2008-04-22T12:57:00.002-07:00

Jumping in up to your neck isn't wise.
Day trading has become such a big hit recently that a number of get rich quick merchants have already jumped headfirst in to the bandwagon quite often up to there necks or, at the very least, have shown real interest in doing so.

However most of them, soon find that trading stocks and bonds at such a frantic pace sure isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Why is this?
It's really just plain obvious
Simply it's because they haven't got a clue on what is needed and so they will never learn how to become a successful day trader.

It's just plain obvious that a lot of them certainly would have benefited from having gone through some day trading tutorials first to improve their performance on the market.

You see day trading is a highly complicated business fraught with many hazards; both beginners and experienced traders alike need to possess some knowledge of the process to successfully avoid the many traps and pitfalls involved

How on earth Do You Start?
Do you know the answers.
Shown below are a few questions that every day trader, regardless of experience, should know the answers to.

Understanding and having a solid grasp of the very basics of day trading will not only help them survive, but it will also make their day trading experience much more worthwhile and prosperous.

What is day trading?
How does it work?
Day trading, like other many forms of trading, involves the buying and selling in financial markets such as stocks, stock options, futures, and currencies.

Like most deals made in the market, the end goal is to make a profit from the differences, however slight, from the start of trading and the prices at the end of the trading day.

However unlike most market transactions, day traders wrap up all there deals in one single trading day, in an attempt to profit off of market uncertainty.

Most days, there are many major or minor changes in the value of certain financial markets throughout the trading day as a result of the state of market conditions.

What is it they do?
What Day traders do is try to take advantage of these highs and lows by buying into these markets, holding on to them sometimes for seconds, minutes or even hours at a time, and then selling them for a hefty profit just at the right time.

If they manage to pull off the right trade, at the right time they will often earn a very sizable profit.

Whats The Downside?
What can help?
Should the trade turn out to be a bust later on,, they could easily stand to lose a great deal of money as well.

Since day trading is such a high-risk, high-reward venture, some traders look to day trading tutorials to better aid their chances of success.

Day traders normally have no interest in long-term investments and, for the most part, don't keep their positions open past the close of a trading day.

They do this because there is a great chance that the value of the markets they invested in will change dramatically between the end of one trading day and the start of another.

And Now What...
Get a free day trading mini course.
We've reached the end of the first part of this guide. So far, not much has been said about day trading tutorials, but stay with us. We're just dipping our toes in at the moment.

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Day Trading Tutorials - Some Facts To Consider

2008-04-22T12:57:00.001-07:00

Day trading has always been acknowledged by many as being as risky as gambling. Is this a bad rap, or is it really true? You cannot deny that trading and gambling involve great monetary rewards. Gambling has from the beginning of time been based on pure chance. Day trading to be successful on the other hand, has always involved skill and a good amount of knowledge to go along with a certain amount of luck. More and more day traders have been seeking day trading tutorials lately so that more skill and knowledge can be gained to increase their chances of success.

Traders are quite aware that they cannot rely on fate to decide their chances of winning at day trading. A good comparison to day trading would be a game of cards, not a game of roulette, slots, or other forms of gambling that are pure games of chance. Good luck has its place in bridge and poker. It comes into play in the cards one is dealt, something a player has no control over. However, the victor of the game is always decided by how the cards are played, not what is dealt. That is where knowledge and skill come into play.

The following are thirteen things you should know about day trading. These pointers should give you a good background, and supply you with important information about day trading and the importance of day trading tutorials before you make your first or next trade.

1) Learning to be a day trader means knowing the ins and out of the activity and what exactly is day trading.

Day trading involves the buying and selling of securities, or financial instruments such as stocks, their options, future contracts, foreign currencies, all within the same day they are bought. One is looking to take advantage of high market volatility or activity. The goal obviously is to profit from such activity. The actual doing it can seem strange and confusing to the uninformed and novice trader. Once one gets experienced, all the pieces of the puzzle fall into place.

2) Once the initial trade is filled and in the account, day traders will hold that position looking for an opportune time during the day to cash out of the position and realize an acceptable profit for their trouble. This opportune time may come in only seconds, minutes, or perhaps in hours.

Day traders never look to hold their positions for the long term. Their goal is to get out as soon as possible based on how they are doing with the position. Their ally is wild fluctuations during the day or strong developing trends in their holdings so that they can seek out potential profits in multiple short term positions or investments. Day traders will close out these positions during the day regardless of the positions profitability. This means, even at a loss, if necessary, they will go to a blank balance sheet at the end of the day. They can then look forward to a night of not having to worry about what will happen overnight to their positions when the markets open in the morning.

I realize it is way too early to see the importance of day trading tutorials, but you will if you keep reading this series of articles.

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Where to Locate Adobe Photoshop Media

2008-04-22T12:56:00.003-07:00

One article is far too short to describe all the complexities of Photoshop – whole books have been written that barely scratch the surface. If you want to learn more, the best thing to do is to find some good Photoshop tutorial websites, and work from there. Here’s a selection of some of the best.

First off, there’s Adobe’s own Photoshop tips website, which you can find at adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop. The selection of tutorials here is not that wide, however, and the writing style can often be a little dry.

A good resource for basic, starter tutorials is psworkshop.net. While the site lacks more advanced material, it has quite in-depth explanations of each tool and what it can do.

For fans of About.com, you can find material on Photoshop at graphicssoft.about.com and graphicdesign.about.com. The advantage of about.com is that all the material on a particular sub-site is written by the same expert (they call them About.com Guides), giving it a consistent tone and quality.

If you want new tutorials all the time, good-tutorials.com is a good place to go, with hundreds of Photoshop tutorials being added every day. They are well-categorised and easily searchable. Once you get good enough, you can even submit tutorials here yourself, and other members will vote on them – the ones with the most votes get featured on the main page.

A good way to find links to the very best tutorials out there on the web is to use Google and tell it exactly what you want, but that doesn’t always turn up any results. Another option that is rapidly becoming more popular is to use link-tagging services such as Yahoo!’s del.icio.us. Going to del.icio.us/popular/photoshop will show you which links are currently the most popular across the whole web for photoshop. It works for anything else, too – just replace the word Photoshop with whatever you’re looking for.

John Gibb is the owner of Adobe Photoshop resources , For more information on Adobe Photoshop check out http://www.adobe-photoshop-resources2k.info

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What You Always Wanted To Know About Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

2008-04-22T12:56:00.001-07:00

Help is at hand these easy to follow Adobe Photoshop Tutorials are all you need, forget the books, just sit back and watch as a expert shows you right on your own computer, no software to install, no manuals to read, no technical mumbo jumbo, all the movies use the Photoshop interface you actually watch the author working on your computer, he explains what he is doing in a clear manner, and you can stop the movies at any time and rewind to any point and watch it again, you just can't go wrong.

Text

Some of the tutorials included are for creating 3D text, animate lightening, making an Aurora Borealis effect, colorizing photos, creating Faux 3D Objects, making an infusion, manipulating images in Photoshop, and more. These Adobe Photoshop tutorials are categorized into the following topics, Basic tips and shortcuts, Issues dealing with color and color manipulation, Photo editing and Scanning tips, Text effects, Special effects, Textures and backgrounds, Interface design, Learning the Photoshop tools, and other tutorials. Most of these Adobe Photoshop tutorials are related to special effects, text effects, web graphics & buttons, avatars such as how to create web backgrounds, how to make borders, how to create a beveled corner effect, and more.

Image

Learn how to create images that look good and download fast, topics covered in these tutorials include: Web safe colors, Slicing images and exporting the HTML, creating buttons and a lot more. Creating images for the web is the topic for this series of Photoshop tutorials. These Adobe Photoshop Tutorials look at image correction from the photographers point of view and provide a excellent resource for beginners and experts alike. From just adding a bevel to a image for the web to creating a special effect on a photograph for print, these Adobe Photoshop tutorials show you have to work with various filters, masks and techniques to create amazing images.

Graphics

If you intend to create graphics for the web, then these Adobe Photoshop tutorials will show you all you need to know. Most of these Adobe Photoshop tutorials are related to special effects, text effects, web graphics & buttons, avatars such as how to create web backgrounds, how to make borders, how to create a beveled corner effect, and more. And with categories like: Web Graphics, Digital Art, and Special Effects you’re almost sure to find the tutorial you’re looking for. This list of helpful step-by-step tutorials is sure to help you on your way to becoming the graphics designer you always thought you could be.

Tutorial

Over 300 Adobe Photoshop tutorials that are suitable for beginner, intermediate and advanced users. All aspects in these Adobe Photoshop tutorials are covered, which include: setting up a new document, program settings, color management, working with layers, re-touching tips and tricks, using channels and masks, making selections. Each of the Training CDs walks you through Photoshop using video tutorials, you just sit there and watch the expert. As well as the new additions these Adobe Photoshop Tutorials also cover the fundamental points of this program, such as Tools, opening a new document, using layers, working with channels, making selections, keyboard shortcuts, masking, filters, third party plug ins, and much more.

Conclusion

Thanks to the World Wide Web Adobe Photoshop tutorials are now easier to find, a lot cheaper and in most cases they are even available for free.

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Blogging Tutorials - 3 Steps To Mastering The Basics On Blogging

2008-04-22T12:55:00.000-07:00

Believe that you will succeed. Believe it firmly, and you will then do what is necessary to bring success about -Dale Carnegie

I have known this to be true and the real basis to this entire article is so that you first set your mindset right. Starting a blog can be very simple if you just believe that technicalities are only part of your learning curves.

Step 1: Choose The Best Platform To Blog

Firstly, there are many different platforms you can use to blog. You can choose between Wordpress, Blogger or Typepad. Though Blogger is popular some prefer to use Typepad or Wordpress because of the control that you can have over it.

Blogger can be really easy to use indeed and could even get you a good amount of exposure but you will run the risk of Google shutting your blog down at a glance. That is if you make a 'small mistake' by violating their TOS (terms of service).

Step 2: Setting Up Your Blog Properly

Either way you will have to choose Blogger or Wordpress but in both cases it would be the best that you obtain your own domain name for your blog. Having your website address to your blog look like this "xyz.blogspot.com" is not as good as "www.xyz.com".

It will only cost you around $10 a year for a domain name and having that domain name point to your blog is easy if you hire the right people on elance.com or scriptlance.com. If you prefer to do it manually, there are many other blogging tutorials to help you do this online.

Step 3: Start Blogging Away Like A Superstar

There's a story which you should also know. Here in Singapore there is a 19-year old girl who gets like 4 figures a month just telling a story about herself. What she eats, does and plays in her free time.

One day, because of the amount of exposure among her fans or blog readers she gets noticed by the local press and they decide to pay her in exchange to represent their publication. Well, it worked out pretty neat indeed.

Truth About Blogging To Success

Whether you are following blogging tutorials to set up your own business or personal blog you have tons of choices. Your real success depends on how well you blog about your topic and attract loyal readers.

About The Author:

This article is the property of http://www.Simple-Riches.com - you may freely publish it on a website as long as it is not modified in any way. It must include the author bylines; all hyperlinks and URLs must be made or remain active.

Vern How has been earning online since 2006. He is an Internet marketer who believes in giving back by helping others.

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WHM And Cpanel Tutorials

2008-04-22T12:54:00.002-07:00

Do you own a dedicated server with WHM panel? Then here's a simple tutorial on how to setup a primary and a secondary nameserver without all the tech mumbo jumbo. They can be used for your main domain or for any other account is created on your dedicated server.

How nameservers work, why they are so important and why you need them? You need a good knowledge of the Domain Name System (DNS) to answer these questions. I will not go into any details about DNS here. I will assume that you are already aware of the importance of them. Your ISP should have provided you with at least two of them to work with. But you want to setup your own.

In order to fully understand this tutorial, you will need at least a basic knowledge of WHM control panel and knowledge of how a web server works. You should have already setup an account in your WHM control panel for your main domain. Let's say your main domain is mydomain.com and you have created an account in your server for this domain. I recommend having two free IP addresses that you will use (one for each). If you don't have free IP addresses for use, then request them from your ISP. Then, you can add them to your account through your WHM control panel. In the "IP Functions" settings click on "Add a New IP Address". You don't need to have free IP addresses although it's recommended.

Now, lets see how you can setup two nameservers, a primary and a secondary, using dedicated IP addresses for each one of them. Your new ones will be used to setup new accounts, they will also support your main domain as well and will have the following names:

Primary: ns1.mydomain.com
Secondary: ns2.mydomain.com

The ones you will use will have different names depending on your main domain and how you want to name them. For example if your domain name is anotherdomain.com your nameservers could have the following names:

Primary: dns1.anotherdomain.com
Secondary: dns2.anotherdomain.com

You can do this in two ways. In this article I will describe the really automatic way, where you will not feel what's happening and why.

Login to your WHM control panel. In the "Server Configuration" settings click on "Basic cPanel/WHM setup". An interface will appear on the right with various settings you can mess with. Scroll down a little bit and you will see the settings for the "Primary Nameserver" and the "Secondary Nameserver". In the edit box for the Primary Nameserver type ns1.mydomain.com then click on the "assign IP Address" button. A new window will popup.

The system will search for the availability of IP addresses and hopefully it will assign an IP address to yours. A message will appear saying that an IP address was assigned. Close the popup window then click on "Add an A entry for this nameserver". This will add a DNS zone. The system will search for your main domain, the name of your nameserver and its IP address and then will prompt you to confirm the action. Click on the "Add the entry" button.

Alright, now your Primary should be ready for use. To make sure the system has done everything right, go to the "Networking Setup" settings and click on "Nameserver IPs" link. On the right you can see a list with the Assigned IPs. You should see the entry ns1.mydomain.com listed there along with its IP address. Note down the IP address please.

Then, go to "DNS functions" settings and click on "Edit DNS Zone". You should see the entry ns1.mydomain.com listed on the list box on the right. Select the entry from the list box then click on the "Edit" button. The settings for the DNS zone will appear. Scroll down a little bit. Last check just to be sure everything is fine. You will need to check if the same IP address that was assigned by the system exists in the DNS zone. Look for the line:

Domain: ns1.mydomain.com
TTL: 14400
Record Type: A

You will see an IP address on the right of the Record Type. If it's the same IP address that was mentioned in the Assigned Nameservers IPs on "Networking Setup" then everything is fine.

Your Primary nameserver should be ready for use now. Do the same for the Secondary one. After you are done go to "DNS Functions" and click on "Perform a DNS Cleanup". A confirmation message will appear. Click on the "Proceed" button. After the cleanup is finished click on "Synchronize DNS Records". On the settings that will appear on the right click on the "Sync All" button. Now you should be good to go.

When you set up new accounts on your dedicated server, your new nameservers will be the default ones. In order to use them for your main domain name or for any other domain name you must point your domain name(s) to your new ones. For this you should probably visit the website of the company who registered your domain name(s) for you and change the settings to:

ns1.mydomain.com
ns2.mydomain.com

Important: Before you change your domain's nameservers you should wait until their creation and setup information reaches every part of the web. This usually takes from 24-48 hours from the time you set up the nameservers. I recommend waiting a full day before pointing any domain name to them. For the purpose of this tutorial I used fake names for the nameservers (e.g. ns1.mydomain.com). You should replace those fake names with the real ones you will use (e.g. if your domain is anotherdomain.com you could use the name ns1.anotherdomain.com or dns1.anotherdomain.com for your primary nameserver).

Mary Markell is a webmaster of DigitalStarProducts Human Edited Digital Products Marketplace. You can visit her marketplace to browse through the products or contact her at webmaster@digitalstarproducts.com.

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Learn Photoshop With Movie Tutorials

2008-04-22T12:54:00.001-07:00

Adobe Photoshop is a powerful image editing tool, the standard in the industry. It is widely considered to be the best program for the purpose, beating out a number of competitors. Photoshop comes with a wide array of versatile and useful features. Unfortunately, these very features can be confusing and bewildering to the new user. Attempting to learn to use this tool from the manual can be difficult and frustrating. Manuals are usually written as reference for users who already have an idea of what they are doing, rather than for beginners. Even books on the subject seem dense and hard to understand. There may be many features in your copy of Photoshop that you don’t yet know how to use, because of the difficulty of learning this complicated program on your own.

To harness the potential of Photoshop in your image editing, consider making use of movie tutorials. This type of tutorial allows you to see how a given feature is used or effect is accomplished in real time, as the action is performed. You can even stop the video to go try it out in your own copy of Photoshop. Because of the ability to stop, rewind, and replay scenes in video tutorials, you can use them as a constant reference. If you do not have time or money to attend classes and seminars, video tutorials can be a great help in learning to use your copy of Photoshop.

Some video tutorials are available for free, others require some payment for the effort that has gone into them. These latter type are more likely to be professional. The saying goes that you get what you pay for, and this is still the case with Photoshop tutorials. However, even the free type of tutorial can be useful. They are readily available online, and can be used to find out if you like the video style of tutorial before you buy more professional video instructions. These tutorials may be offered in one of two ways. They can either be purchased individually, or a user who is learning Photoshop may purchase a membership in a site that offers tutorials.

Membership in a video tutorial site brings you the widest variety of professional video tutorials to help you learn how to maximize the features in your copy of Photoshop. Some topics which may be covered are how to remove red eye from your photos, cropping your photo to a more attractive size, and removing unwanted objects from the photograph. Video tutorials can also be found to help you remove damage and make recent photographs appear to be antique. Video tutorials allow you to learn how to use the many features of Photoshop easily. Compared to bulky, confusing manuals, these short movies are the best choice when it comes to learning this versatile program.

Sue Mercer is a professional photographer and studio owner, she is an expert at Photoshop and teaches in video tutorial style at her website http://www.photoshopsolutions.com Samples of her work can also be viewed at http://www.mercerphotography.com

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SEO Copywriting Tutorials Tips

2008-04-22T12:53:00.001-07:00

There is nothing like writing content for a relevant search phrase or term and displaying that on your website. However, SEO copywriting while ensuring that you get targeted search audience and high ranking on search engines comes with its own problems.

SEO copywriting works very well for terms that not very competitive. The moment is comes to competitive search terms, there are many websites fighting for high ranking for the same terms. Competitive search terms like casino, sex, insurance, and health are the most fought over. It would be practically impossible to get a high ranking for these terms as there are thousand, if not millions, of websites for same search terms.

It has been seen that not all websites are made for SEO copywriting. There are many websites on the Internet that do not have enough text on their web pages and the website owners will not add more content just for gaining a high search engine ranking. Then there are sites where you cannot add SEO copywritten text as it would spoil the design of the site.

We should not forget the associated cost with SEO copywriting. Hiring a professional SEO copywriter is not cheap and if your website has many web pages, it can be an extremely expensive affair. Spending money of SEO copywriting makes sense if it can assure you of a top ten ranking in a search engine. However, there might be another website optimizing itself for the same search term as your website and it could result in you falling out of the top ten ranking. This means that you would need to hire a professional SEO copywriter all over again and the entire process would have to restart.

On one hand SEO copywriting has its benefits and on the other it also has its problems. It depends from which angle you look.

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Tutorials in Digital Photography

2008-04-22T12:52:00.002-07:00

Michael loved taking pictures with the camera. This person started out using the 35mm. Model first that didn’t have any accessories such as the zoom lens.

It was only after saving up enough money working at the local bar that this individual can afford to buy a camera just as good like those used by the professionals. There were not that many models anymore where the user has to reload the roll of film.

The old ways have been replaced with digital cameras where the images are saved into the memory card that can be uploaded into the computer.

Michael thought that this is great since there won’t be additional costs anymore in having film developed. Since there was a computer at home, the digital camera can be hooked up and burned to a CD or developed using the printer.

After looking around, this person decided to get the Sony digital camera. This had 8.1 pixel graphics and was friendly. Each unit came with a manual, CD and charger.

Each time a customer makes a purchase, a short tutorial is given so the person will have an idea how to use it before leaving the shop.

It was hard to remember everything the clerk said at the store. When Michael got home, the manual and the digital camera were examined to be able to know every part of this new toy.

The CD that came with the unit was installed into the computer. This gave Michael also an online tutorial of how to use the camera, how to upload and have the pictures developed in the printer.

It didn’t take long to learn everything so that the digital camera can be brought out and used to take pictures. A friend at work who bought a similar item advised Michael to get some trial shots.

Since the images can be deleted from the memory, many pictures can be taken and reviewed. Those that are good were saved in the computer, which was sometimes used as the background in the desktop.

The digital camera is easy to use. The individual can learn using the tutorial features in the CD or learn more about this by logging into the manufacturer’s website.

The innovations in these small devices change every few months rather than years. This means the pixel graphics will improve making the model bought obsolete. The individual can upgrade the digital camera or choose to buy a new one later on.

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Cpanel Tutorials - How To Avoid Spam Using SpamAssasin

2008-04-22T12:52:00.001-07:00

If you are a webmaster and own a web server with a cpanel control panel then here's how to fight spam coming in all of your mail accounts. The feature is called SpamAssasin and its included in the latest versions of cpanel.

First of all you have to determine whether your cpanel version includes this feature or not. Login to your account and click 'Mail'. If you see a clickable option named 'SpamAssasin' then you're alright. Now let's see how it works.

Click on the 'SpamAssasin' link. You will be presented with a window where you can check the status of the software and configure it. On top you can see if it's enabled or not. If you see a message saying: 'SpamAssasin is currently: Disabled' then you need to enable the feature in order to block spam.

A little lower you will see a button called 'Enable SpamAssasin'. Click on it and wait for your system to set up the software automatically. A new page opens where details are presented to you and a message on the bottom informing you that SpamAssasin has been enabled for your account. Click the 'Go back' link to return to the main options.

Now, that you've got the software enabled the subject of all email messages that are marked as spam will include a prefix to help you understand that those messages have been identified as spam. For example if an unsolicited email message has the subject 'Hello this is a spam message please open it' then it will be detected and a prefix will be added. The subject will be transformed to something like this: '****_SPAM_****Hello this is a spam message please open it'. That way, when you open your mailbox to check your emails, you will know which messages have been identified as spam and delete them.

There's also an option to delete all the messages identified as spam and never deliver them to your account. Above the 'Enable SpamAssasin' button there's this phrase: 'To simply have the server DELETE and NOT deliver emails that are tagged as spam by SpamAssassin, click here now'. By clicking on this link you instruct the software to delete all messages that it identifies as spam. I do not recommend doing this immediately though. First, enable SpamAssasin and see what type of email messages you get, are identified as spam. If you receive tons of spam like me you will notice that the majority of spam messages are filtered successfully.

Another, alternative way to block all email messages marked as spam by SpamAssasin is with Email Filtering. Click on the 'Home' button in the upper right corner and click on 'Mail' again. Then click on 'Email filtering'. Here you can add filters to avoid certain email messages from arriving at your inbox. How the filters work is out of the scope of this article but click on 'Add filter' and you will be presented with the options to add a filter for the incoming email messages.

There are two drop down boxes and an edit box with which you specify the types of filters you want to add. There's also an edit box where you can specify the destination of the email that will be filtered. On the first drop down box choose 'SpamAssasin Spam Header' and on the second drop down box choose 'begins with', then on the filter edit box enter the word "Yes" without the quotes. Lastly, on the destination edit box enter the word "Discard" without the quotes. Then click on 'Activate' to enable the filter. What you've done is that you added a filter which allows SpamAssasin to filter all email messages that are marked as spam and discard them.

If you want to go even further you can try to configure the software yourself. We are supposed to be in the 'Email Filtering' section. Click on the 'Home' button in the upper right corner and click on 'Mail' again. Then click on the 'SpamAssasin' link. There's a button called 'Configure SpamAssasin', you will see it. Click on it and you will be presented with the main configuration. I will not go into details about the configuration but you can visit this website to learn more.

If you receive a lot of unsolicited email then SpamAssasin can help you get rid of most of them. It uses sophisticated algorithms to identify spam emails and mark them appropriately using patterns and scores. If it helped me then it can probably help you!

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Photoshop Tutorials - How To Print Images With Photoshop

2008-04-22T12:51:00.003-07:00

If you use Photoshop then you must be aware of its fine printing capabilities. People create images with Photoshop mostly for web design or printing purposes. Let's discuss how you can print an image through the interface the right way.

When printing through Photoshop there's one thing you need to be aware of, the dots per inch (dpi). This refers to how many dots per inch of paper, your printer can print. If you want a clearer image then you want more dots per inch because the more dots a printer can print in an inch piece of paper the better. Printers are clarified according to the dots per inch they print. A printer which prints more dots per inch is generally better and more expensive.

The most commonly used dpi value for image printing is 300 dpi. Meaning that the printer will print 300 dots per inch of paper. That is, if your printer can actually print in that resolution which is very likely, unless you own a really old printer.

You can set the dpi of an image through the Photoshop menu:

Image > Image Size.. > Resolution

In the Resolution input box enter the value you want for your image. Your version of Photoshop might not mention dots per inch but pixels per inch, which is the same thing.

Now let's talk about the quality of ink for your image. This depends on your printer type. Inkjet printers for example can be cheap and they use jets of ink that they spray on paper. Ink quality is medium. Dye printers are more expensive than Inkjet printers and use a system to melt dots of dye that can generate over 16 million of colors. Ink quality is medium to high. Laser printers are very popular these days and they print in good quality. Ink quality is high. Last but not least there are the Thermal Wax printers that use blocks of wax that melt on the paper.

Now let's say you want to print an image through Photoshop. Before doing anything else go to:

File > Print with Preview

A dialog opens. Through that dialog you can set all kinds of properties for your image. For example you can define the position of the image on the piece of paper. You can specify the space you want to be left blank from top or bottom or you can let Photoshop center the image by ticking the "Center Image" check box.

Then you can define the scale of the image, it's height and width. I use the "Scale to Fit Media" check box a lot, since it lets Photoshop automatically adjust the printable size of the image.

Depending on your image you might want to print on portrait or landscape. You can change that through the "Page Setup..." button on the right of the dialog. A new dialog will appear that also allows you to choose the type and the size of paper you will use for printing.

Well, that's about it. All you have to do now is click the "Print..." button. Depending on your printer, a dialog will appear that will let you customize printer properties. For example you might want to print three copies of the image or tell the printer to use more or less ink. It's really easy to print images through Photoshop. I use this software all the time mostly for the "Scale to Fit Media" check box I mentioned above.

If you are eager for more Photoshop and would like to master it, go grab this Photoshop Video Learning System that will show you step by step how to use Photoshop like a pro. The authors of the system claim that they can teach you everything about this popular software in two hours only! There's also a free report that explains how their learning system works. Check it out.

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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

2008-04-22T12:51:00.001-07:00

A person who wants to establish a home business can take stock of the knowledge and skills he already has and then take inspiration from existing resources. If he has talent in computer-aided design and photo manipulation then he can establish a home based business using adobe photoshop.

If a person already has basic knowledge on lay outing and photo manipulation but needs to upgrade or improve his skills then he can choose from the many adobe photoshop tutorials that are available in the net. These tutorials are guaranteed to add to the skills already possessed by a person.

Adobe photoshop is a very good design and manipulation tool and it is being used by graphic designers all over the world. Looking at the software and the toolbox can be daunting because it looks so complicated but with practice and lots of tips any person interested in design can make money with Adobe photoshop tutorials.

A person who decides to establish a photography business has to learn adobe photoshop if he wants to be competitive in the market. Gone are the days when people are just content with plain photographs. Today the demand has been taken a notch higher by special effects as a result of the adobe photoshop program.

Photo studios do not just develop photos anymore but there is a value added service for a certain price. A person who wants to look photo perfect can now get perfect photos with adobe photoshop. He can even tweak his photos at home by availing of adobe photoshop tutorials.

Learning photoshop can be complicated at first but with patience, determination and lots of time spent in the computer a person can become an expert in photoshop in due time. A lot of benefits can come from learning adobe photoshop including self satisfaction, a new hobby and even a new home business.

A person can start learning photoshop by observing graphic designers at work. This can however be tricky because graphic designers are already experts in photoshop and they work fast. A budding designer will have a hard time catching up with the speed of an expert in adobe photoshop.

But once he gets a general idea of what to do with the program he can take a look at different adobe photoshop tutorials. Some tutorials can be downloaded for free. Just click on the program from your computer and try manipulating the program.

A person has to start with some photographs which he wants to enhance or manipulate using adobe photoshop. With Adobe photoshops photographs can be made to look older, look new or even printed with special effects.

A person who is really interested to learn adobe photoshop will be able to do some easy manipulation in a matter of minutes. Adobe photoshop tutorials are presented in such a way as to make any person with zero knowledge on photoshop learn from it.

Do not be so ambitious as to want to learn the more complex designs already because you will just be frustrated. Take it one step at a time and take the time to know and be familiar with the different Photoshop tools. Each tool has its own purpose and they will help a lot in creating good designs and photos.

A person can also read books about photoshop but reading books alone will be for naught. A person has to personally experience how it is to use the program and experiment with the tools of photoshop.

A video tutorial of adobe photoshop would be better for a beginner because he can actually see what he has to do and can immediately apply it to his design. Constant practice will enable a person to learn basic photoshop and then the more complex design tips later on.

Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For a free photo shop tutorial and or to purchase a video photo shop tutorial checkout his website.

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Learn Photoshop Like A Pro Through Photoshop Tutorials

2008-04-22T12:45:00.000-07:00

At the dawn of computer generation, image editing was made more efficient and remarkable by various photo editing software. But when people talk about the world leader in digital image editing, Adobe Photoshop takes center stage.

Photoshop is, above all else, a superior image editing tool, one that will always be remembered best as the software that forever changed the way the world looks. In many ways, Photoshop has become almost indistinguishable from photo or image editing. And as technology advances, it has become one of the most proficient tools in creating web-based images.

For all of their bells and whistles, however, Photoshop still serves best when used with Photoshop tutorials. Many people are familiar with Photoshop but not all of them are fully capable of managing the tricks and tips of the program. Hence, Photoshop tutorials can facilitate the full use of the software for better image editing.

There are so many websites that offer Photoshop tutorials nowadays. The best thing about Photoshop tutorials is that people can access them for free. Hence, they can learn many things about photo editing and other services needed to enhance the images.

When it comes to Photoshop tutorials, there are so many factors to consider in order to get the lessons you need to know. Some may go for the advanced tutorials while others may find basic Photoshop tutorials beneficial. If you really want to learn the basic tips and tricks in Photoshop, you may find these Photoshop tutorials useful:

1. Photographic effects

With the help of digital cameras, photographers nowadays can really make wonders on their images. However, with the help of Photoshop, they can truly create a new perception of the world. Professionals know how to do their thing but ordinary people cannot. Hence, with the help of Photoshop tutorials, they can create different photographic effects in their images the way the experts do.

2. Lighting

With light, you can create different moods in the picture. Through the use of lenses, flares, and other lighting effects, images may appear surreal, romantic, or morbid. Photoshop tutorials can teach you the basic tips in creating different lighting effects to achieve the mood that you want.

3. Touch ups

This is the most basic section of Photoshop tutorials. In fact, this is what Photoshop is all about. People would want to enhance their pictures. If the camera may not seem to do the tricks, Photoshop can fix it. All you have to learn is to identify the basic steps in doing touch ups. With Photoshop tutorials on touch ups you can even make an old picture look new or arrange some flaws and make it more appealing.

4. Image presentation

Photoshop tutorials can give your picture a good lift from the ordinary. You can make two people appear together in the picture even if they were taken separately. Photoshop tutorials will teach you various means of presenting your picture — totally different from the way you have captured the moment. You can mix and match, combine and contrast, or simply create a new background without having to take a new shot. You just need to learn the basic Photoshop tutorials on image presentations.

So if your books and magazines cannot tell you more than what you need to know about image editing, hook yourself to the Internet and learn the different image editing tips and tricks through Photoshop tutorials.

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Tutorial: Adobe Photoshop v Adobe Illustrator

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What are the differences between adobe photoshop and adobe illustrator? Produced by the same company, there are some that say the difference between the two programs is small. In actuality, adobe illustrator takes some key elements of adobe photoshop to the next level and beyond.

Abobe photoshop is a very popular program used by digital photographers around the world. The abundance of

photoshop tips and tutorials make this a very easy program to learn and to use. Photoshop can be used to take any existing image and give it a professional, polished looked. Borders can be added and pictures tweaked to look better than any digital camera could make possible. Almost anything you can imagine doing to a picture is capable when using adobe photoshop.

Abobe illustrator is a different program entirely. Illustrator is a vector-based drawing program that allows you to create your own unique graphics. Adobe illustrator graphics can be used in print, online, in video, and even on your cell phone. Want to create your own background for your cell phone? It’s possible when you have adobe illustrator, and something that can’t be done with photoshop alone.

Both programs are vastly talked about on the web. You will find a huge array of photoshop tutorials and illustrator tutorials, illustrator and photoshop tips. Forums, chat rooms, and discussion groups that focus on both programs are also abundant on the web. Once you start looking, you’ll find more and more information on adobe photoshop and adobe illustrator.

While photoshop does have some photoshop drawing and vector art tools, the tools are nothing compared to what is available on adobe illustrator. With a vast array of templates that can help you get started and a number of different drawing tools, you can create your own unique graphics and artwork using adobe illustrator. You can create unique graphics with photoshop, but you must start with a base image and your tools are limited in comparison to adobe illustrator. For the serious graphic designer, adobe illustrator is the best program to use. However, if your drawing needs are small, photoshop will probably work just as well.

Photoshop tutorials do not extensively cover photoshop drawing, and you’ll have to look for some photoshop drawing specific tutorials to find truly useful information. Photoshop tips pages mention little regarding photoshop drawing and vector art tools. However, to make your digital images look perfect adobe photoshop is the perfect tool for you. Once you learn how to use photoshop to make your images perfect, you won’t be able to stop yourself from “fixing” every digital image that you use.

Adobe illustrator is a different program. Where photoshop helps you create a unique look using existing images, illustrator helps you create your own brand-new images. In graphic design, adobe illustrator may be one of the best and easier tools you can use. The software is user friendly and tutorials to help you use illustrator better are all over the Internet. Whatever you need to learn about adobe illustrator, there’s a tutorial for that.

There’s no reason you cannot work with both adobe photoshop and adobe

illustrator to create brand new images or polish existing ones. The two programs have some basic, shared components, so by mastering one you will already have a working knowledge of using the other. To make your images as stunning as possible or to create graphics that no one else has seen before, you can use both adobe photoshop and illustrator. There is no reason to pick between the two and use only one program if you have uses for both. Because the two programs and their uses are so different, it’s probably preferable to use both adobe programs for your digital photography and image creations.

In their own unique ways, adobe photoshop and adobe illustrator and great additions to your existing software. Each program has vast uses for the digital photographer and graphic designer, and you’ll find that both are equally useful when it comes to creating the best and most sophisticated images. Tutorials, photoshop tips, and adobe illustrator information that you’ll find online make using these programs quick and easy. The more you use these adobe programs, the more you’ll want to use them. Who knows what you’ll create next?

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Tutorials: Make Your Blog Posts More Interesting

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When you blog, you are posting information to the web. Some things like gaming and movies interest some people, while TV shows and movies interest another group of people. When you write these posts, they are either interesting or dull. Your readers need 'juicy' stuff. In-depth reviews, tutorials and how-to's, and even discussion regarding controversial issues.

A really big thing on a blog is tutorials. Whether they be Photoshop tutorials, cooking tutorials or even cheat codes for a popular game a tutorial always serves as a great post on your blog. All over the world people search for a guide to accomplish something. Why not be the answer to their search?

One thing I see in the blogging world are blogs with opinions. That meaning that the authors of a blog post post their personal opinions on the web for everyone to read. Religion, politics, and news are all big these days.

Something often overlooked (but has been mentioned on a few blogs I subscribe to) is guest blogging. Basically, guest posting is when other bloggers come to your blog and post new, and fresh ideas. It gives a certain subject another point of view by other people, and it attracts much more readers.

Ever heard of Vlogging? That is blogging and video blogging put together. What it is exactly is when you post a video on your blog. It has been a new trend rapidly growing over the last few months, and I think it is a great idea. It gives you a much better and clearer way to present your information, as well as a better connection between you and your readers.

What I listed above are only a few ideas to make a great post in your blog. There are many more great ways to make your blog posts more interesting. All it takes is a little thinking and Technorati.

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Tutorials in Digital Photography

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