Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 3: Associating Messages to a Thread

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Associating Messages to a Thread
At this point you can add messages in any topic you want by logging in and clicking the Post message l …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 3: Creating the Form That Enables Users to Post Messages

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Creating the Form That Enables Users to Post Messages
To allow users to post a message, you need to create an insert form that takes us …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 3: Creating the Link for Posting Messages

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Creating the Link for Posting Messages
First, create the link to the page for posting messages. Follow these steps:

Open the view_mess …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 3: Posting Messages

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 3 ...

In Part 2 of this tutorial, we taught you how to add user authentication to the forum. In this part, you will learn how to build the pa …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 2: Hiding Content with Conditional Regions

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Hiding Content with Conditional Regions
To control what links are displayed when users are logged in and what to display when they are …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 2: Creating the Logout Link

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Creating the Logout Link
Although an automatic logout takes place when the session expires or the browser window is closed, you must ad …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 2: Building the Login Page

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Building the Login Page
The layout of the login page is already created. You only have to apply the Login Form Wizard:

Open the login. …

Copying Layer Styles in Photoshop

Copying Layer Styles in Photoshop

I just learned a new trick!!
I’ll explain my “old way” of doing things first.
Let’s say you have a layer in Photoshop a …

Making silhouettes in Photoshop

Making silhouettes in Photoshop

This brief tutorial will go over how to trace and “cut out” an object in Photoshop and create a black silhouette, a la iPod ads.
Le …

Photoshop’s Luminosity Mode

Photoshop’s Luminosity Mode

Photoshop says this about the Luminosity Mode: Creates a result color with the hue and saturation of the base color and the luminance o …

Color Blend Mode in Photoshop

Color Blend Mode in Photoshop

The Color Blend Mode in Photoshop takes the “grey levels” of the base color and colors them with the blend color: Color Blend Mode: …

Saturation Blend Mode in Photoshop

Saturation Blend Mode in Photoshop

We’re in the home stretch of the Photoshop Blending Modes series (good heavens, that means I have to come up with more topics to …

Hue Blending Mode in Photoshop

Hue Blending Mode in Photoshop

The Hue Blend mode is pretty straightforward: Hue Mode: Creates a result color with the luminance and saturation of the base color and …

Vivid Light Blending Mode

Vivid Light Blending Mode

Photoshop’s describes Vivid Light blending mode as combining the effects of Color Dodge and Color Burn modes like this: Vivid Lig …

Color Dodge Blend Mode

Color Dodge Blend Mode

You may have caught on by now that Photoshop has “opposite” blend modes: Darken vs. Lighten, Multiply vs. Screen, and Color or Line …

Feel the Color Burn

Feel the Color Burn

Again, let’s start with the Photoshop description of Color Burn: Color Burn: Looks at the color information in each channel and d …

Colorize Black and White Photos

Colorize Black and White Photos

I’ll start with this gorgeous black and white photo:

First, I’ll color the hair. I add a new layer above the photo, set it …

Photoshop’s Linear Light

Photoshop’s Linear Light

The Linear Light blending mode is a combination of Linear Burn and Linear Dodge—but similar to Vivid Light, the combination gives sli …

Multiply Mode in Photoshop

Multiply Mode in Photoshop

Well, the answer actually depends on the value (lightness/darkness) of the red and green used, when you’re dealing with Multiply …

Darken and Lighten Blending Modes

Darken and Lighten Blending Modes

Here are two images that I’m going to blend together. I purposefully made them two different colors, and also made sure that the …