Background Masking Techniques in Photoshop p ...

The Extract Technique
As with the Background Eraser technique, it’s a smart idea to set the source for the History Brush early in …

Background Masking Techniques in Photoshop p ...

The Background Eraser Technique

The Background Eraser Tool (again, hold down the Eraser tool to access this option) is meant to be use …

Background Masking Techniques in Photoshop p ...

The Magic Eraser Technique

The Magic Eraser tool (hold down the Eraser icon in the toolbar to access it) allows you to erase pixels th …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 2 ...

Building the User Registration Page
To post messages, a user must have an active account. In this section, you will build the page that …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 2 ...

Configuring E-mail Settings
Forum users will receive several automatic e-mail messages:

Account activation e-mail
Welcome message af …

Fade Images in Photoshop Using Layer Masks

The Basic Fade
First, let’s look at creating a basic fade effect that will result in an image like this:
Open your original photo …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 2 ...

Setting Up User Authentication
In the following sections of this tutorial, you will use ImpAKT to build a user authentication system fo …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 2 ...

In Part 1 of this tutorial, we taught you how to pull information from a database in order to set up a forum front end and how to style …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 1 ...

Controlling Output with Conditional Regions
What happens if you click a topic that contains no messages? Take a look at Figure 41—it& …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 1 ...

Displaying Profile Photos
Here is how you want to display the user information: user name followed by a thumbnail of the user’s p …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 1 ...

Displaying Messages
The topic messages will be displayed in the view_message.php page. The page layout is already created using

tags …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 1 ...

Styling Your Forum with CSS
In this section you will use the unified CSS panel in Dreamweaver 8 to style the links in your forum.
Here …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 1 ...

Displaying the Forum Topics
The forum home page displays all topic titles and descriptions. Beside these values, which are extracted fr …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 1 ...

Setting Up Your Database
The forum is completely dynamic. It stores and extracts all information from a database. A typical forum is ba …

How to define a site in Dreamweaver

How to define a site in Dreamweaver
In order for Macromedia Dreamweaver to keep track of links between web pages and dependent files, …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 1 ...

Defining Your Site
Before you build the forum, you need to set up your site in Dreamweaver. For a quick site setup, take a look at this …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 1 ...

What Is ImpAKT?
ImpAKT is a Dreamweaver extension that offers a collection of wizards and server behaviors that will help you set up a …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 1 ...

Setting Up the Development Framework
First you have to set up your application server environment and install Dreamweaver 8 and ImpAKT. …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 1 ...

Planning the Forum
In this tutorial, you will use Dreamweaver 8 and ImpAKT to build a forum application which will allow users to:

Vie …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 1 ...

Forums (message boards) are a great way to share ideas, debate on current issues, or offer technical assistance to your clients. A foru …