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If you want to create DVD menus yourself with professional quality, Adobe Photoshop is a great tool to consider. Despite its steep learning curve, there are plenty of high-quality free tutorials on the net to help you started in the right direction.

Photoshop is also great for creating web graphics to present your project on the Internet. During the course of development of this website, I accumulated a bit number of links to Photoshop resources and tutorials.

After having more than a few hundred links, I decided to place them into a small database so I can search for a tutorial based upon certain keywords. Many of these links expire unexpectedly, so I then wrote an automated server script to check for the validity of these resources on a daily basis so dead links can be removed from the database.

I have acquired a lot of Photoshop techniques from these tutorials. How to make your slighlty tilted image absolutely horizontal. How to insert images into text. How to use the channel and mask correctly. How to use the transformation tools to create reflection of perspective 3D, etc. These tutorials really help me with the deployment of server-side graphic application, so I am sure they will be beneficial to all of us.

With the help of MySQL, this database is available so that you can now do a quick search for the tutorials you may need. The database is updated nightly so check back often for fresh contents. The following categories are presently available.

  Category # of Tutorials
1General Effects1048
2Photographic Effects1495
3Text Effects839
4Drawing1155
5Backgrounds & Textures319
6Basic Navigation804
7General Design654
8Buttons & Interface193
9Website Layout184
10Animation & Script50
11Web Images & Graphics159
12Photography & Editing820
133D Effects136
14Color Application234
15Brushes43
16Filters128

There are many excellent and free software packages that can produce 2D and 3D graphics with quality that is comparable or better than their commercial equivalence. While deploying the Linux-based Fedora Core opearting system on this server, I decided to add graphic capability to the web server by integrating ImageMagick, Gimp, PovRay, and Yafray. These are are the open source equivalent of Photoshop and major 3D software.

You can use the following resources to generate both 2D and 3D graphics with high-quality commercial typefaces for your menu or logo design with web interface simplicity. This service is free. Enjoy!

Add impact to your web pages and presentations, optimized for top on-screen quality with true 3D text logo design.
You can generate this seamless geometric pattern at any display resolution without losing image details or clarity.
This plasma effect is a computer- based visual effect that uses cycles of changing colors to give the illusion of hot gas movement.
The effect traces the outline of each character of a text string to generate an embellishment contour having the outer and inner border.
This effect displays the surface of the text with a stylish weave-like criss-crossed pattern.
This text effect creates types in their shiny metallic chrome appearance. You can add a color hue to the standard black and white chrome.
This text effect creates types in their shiny metallic gold appearance. You can specify different gold patterns with dark brown spot reflections.
There are twenty variations from the basic fire color pattern. These variations include blue and magenta tints designed to blend well to your graphics.
This simple but popular Flash effect is commonly known as the cross-dissolve transition effect in traditional digital video and film.
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