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I?m Still Alive
2007-10-03 14:07:00 I’m still here! If you care that is Yeah I know the collage tutorial isn’t my best (prob the worst lol), but the next few ones will be much better - I promise. I haven’t had much time because of an insane amount of work at University and one of my other sites is having ... More About: Alive
Make a Simple Image Collage with ? Layer Masks!
2007-09-23 19:21:00 In this tutorial we’ll be making a simple but nice image collage. We’ll be using Layer Masks to do this. Sure, there are other ways (such as feathering images) to make collages like what we’re about to do, but part of this tutorial’s purpose is to learn something about the Layer Mask By the end ... More About: Tutorials , Simple , Image , Make
Make a Sidescroller Game Scene
2007-09-14 13:07:00 A J7LABS PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL In this tutorial, we’re going to be making a scene that’s sort of like Super Mario. Except Super Mario won’t be in it. By the end of the tutorial, you might have something like this: More About: Tutorials , Game , Scene , Make , Roller
Make Meteorite Craters on Your Desk
2007-09-12 13:23:00 A J7LABS PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL A while ago on the train and I saw a large billboard advertisment that did a similar thing, which inspired me to do this tutorial. Can’t remember what it was an ad for. Anyway, in this tute we’re going to make meteorite craters on your desk! At the end of the tutorial ... More About: Tutorials , Make , Desk , Rate , Meteorite
Make a Simplistic Grundgy Minibanner in 45 seconds
2007-09-12 13:06:00 This is a very simple tutorial for beginners on how to make the grundgy effect around corners and edges. By the end of the tutorial, you will have this: More About: Tutorials , Make , Seconds
Create a Hyperspace Effect
2007-09-09 17:30:00 A J7LABS PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL Alright, let’s make that look when a spaceship enters warp speed (if you watch Star Trek) or hyperspace (if you like Star Wars) By the end of this brief tutorial, you will have achieved this effect: More About: Tutorials , Effect , Create , Hyper
Make a Filmstrip in Photoshop
2007-09-08 21:17:00 A J7LABS PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL We’re going to make a filmstrip in Photosho p , which will look like this at the end: More About: Tutorials , Make
Alien Organism Photoshop Tutorial
2007-09-06 15:02:00 Ok! Let’s create an alien organism. Haven’t you always wanted to do that? No? Ok. Anyway this tutorial is rated easy and you should have the final product done in a few minutes. This is what we will end up with Alright let’s get started Step 1. Make and new file, and give it these settings Step 2. Make ... More About: Tutorials , Tutorial , Photoshop , Alien , Photosho
Free Web Development Services Offer
2007-09-05 07:15:00 I’m currently offering free web design/development services. I cannot guarantee that I can take your job on, depending on the size and nature of it. In addition, I also can’t say how long I can keep this offer up for. If you head over to the about page you can see what knowledge I have and ... More About: Services , Web Development , Development , Free , Develop
Projectile Physics for Flash Ep. 1
2007-09-04 19:40:00 Link to video tutorial: http://www.j7labs.com/Tutorials /physics/p hysics.htm This is a video tutorial + Powerpoint presentation on how to animate a falling ball in Flash , using high school physics. This tutorial was adapted from Erik Thompson’s VPython physics tutorials with written permission. His site can be found at: http://vpython.erikthompson.com/ More About: Physics
Basic Isometric Pixel Art - Video Tutorial
2007-09-04 19:24:00 A short video tutorial teaching you the basics of isometric pixel art. In case you’ve forgotten what isometric is, or you don’t know, here’s a little diagram I just drew up. Just remember that objects in the isometric perspective do not shrink as they go out into the distance. If you have a box on ... More About: Video , Tutorials , Tutorial , Basic , Pixel
Video Tutorials Not Well Received. Why?
2007-09-04 18:14:00 So far, the video tutorials have not been very well received. I did a bit of research on video tutorials and presentation, and this is what I came across: http://www.pixel2life.com/publish/tutoria ls/… A very critical and useful article on what people do wrong when making video tutorials! Certainly, I have made many of those mistakes. My tutes all got ... More About: Video , Tutorials , Well
Make a Person Icon in Photoshop
2007-09-01 10:52:00 Here’s a video tutorial on how to create a person icon in Photoshop . It’s a pretty short one at about 9 minutes long. If you find my tutorials useful, please leave a comment! Otherwise I’ll be spending hours pumping away at tutorials, and not know if they’re useful or not. PS. The ... More About: Icon , Tutorials , Make , Person
Sweet AJAX Resources
2007-09-01 06:52:00 Back in 2001, the closest thing to AJAX was dHTML (dynamic HTML). Neither AJAX or DHTML are technologies unto themselves, but a combination of technologies. AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML. However, the XML part of AJAX isn’t always present. PHP and mySQL are also very important technologies that make up AJAX. The ... More About: Resources , Sweet , Ajax
Making a Simple Button with Photoshop
2007-08-29 20:36:00 This button is like the MSN Hotmail login button except larger and with a little picture inside. Great for beginners. Intermediate users might think I go way too slow. Link to the tutorial (video): http://www.j7labs.com/Tutorials /button/bu tton.htm More About: Photoshop , Button , Simple , Makin
Brain Training Game - New Feature Under Test
2007-08-28 09:51:00 The Mental Arithmetic game of the Mindflex module was heavily bugged. The game would never terminate. Anyway, it should be fixed. Also, I’m testing a feature where you can compare your score with the rest of the world, depending on age. So give that a test! http://www.j7labs.com/Mindflex/mindflex.h tml More About: Flash , Games , Training , Feature , Game
Flash Animation Tips
2007-08-27 17:30:00 Here are some Flash animation tips that I made. Hope you find them useful. There’s a lot of weapon/blood stuff as you can see :P It was originally aimed at people who wanted to make action flash movies but in any case you’ll learn something. http://www.j7labs.com/Tutorials /flashmati on/flashmation.html More About: Animation , Tips , Flash Animation
How Fast Is Your Brain?
2007-08-27 15:08:00 Mindflex is a game developed in Flash to train your brain. Exercises include Arithmetic, Mental Arithmetic and Decision Making. Since this is still in early stages of development, I would very much like some feedback from you! Thanks PLAY More About: Games , Fast , Brain
Freebies: Some Weapon Vector Graphics for Your Project
2007-08-25 23:56:00 Perhaps you’ll find some use with these weapon graphics in your Flash games or animations. Tip: You can set the tint for each movieclip in the file to a solid color so you get the silhouette effect. You got your F-16’s, Mp5s, AK47’s, Apache helicopters. What more could you want for you Flash game…or animation. Download More About: Graphics , Resources , Freebies , Project
Bouncing Ball Animation - 20min Video Tutorial
2007-08-25 23:24:00 LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: BEGINNERS! This is a video tutorial on how to make a bouncing ball in Flash. You will learn: Very simple animation concepts How to work with the timeline in Flash Layer Guides Tweening Pencil Tool I apologize if I was a bit clumsy while recording - I’m still new to this so I was a bit nervous! This was ... More About: Video , Animation , Tutorials , Tutorial , Ball
Drawing an iPod in Flash - 30min Video Tutorial
2007-08-25 23:13:00 digg_url = \'http://www.j7labs.com?p=/7\'; LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: BEGINNERS! So, if you are already advanced in Flash the pace might be a little slow for you. This is a video tutorial on how to make an iPod Nano in Adobe Flash. I’m using Flash MX 2004, and older version of Flash, but don’t worry - if you’re ... More About: Video , Tutorials , Tutorial , Ipod
Image Resizer
2007-08-25 22:02:00 j7Image Resize r (BETA) is a small online tool for you to resize images, round corners, make B/W images and rotate images. You can upload image files of types GIF, JPG or PNG. The output will always be a JPG file.A batch upload version is coming. Also, I would like to turn this into a Wordpress plugin ... More About: Games , Image Resizer
A Journey of 1000 Miles
2007-08-22 15:44:00 A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. More About: Journey , Miles |
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