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Paper Burn Effect - Photoshop Tricks
2009-04-18 03:45:00
This Tutorial will teach about how to make a paper burn effect in photoshop. This is a simple tutorial which use a simple trick in photoshop by modifying the Inner glow option in Blending Options. Step 1] Create a new Layer with a Black Background, since Black color will give you the burn effect. Step 2] Open any Paper image. If not available simply use white color background. Step 3] Select the Paper Image Layer and Erase some part of it using Eraser tool. So that the Result will look some thing similar to that of the below image. Step 4] Now Apply Inner Glow Effect to the Paper Image Layer. The inner glow effect options will be some thing like ., Step 5] Thats it ! Paper burn effect is done and the final image will look like , To Read more Photoshop tutorial Click Here . Dont forget to subscribe to our feed to get more Photoshop updates.
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We reached 1000 Subscribers
2009-04-17 03:19:00
Rockstartemplate.com reached another milestone of having 1000 readers. The main reason why people subscribing our site is because of some quality posts. In a poll created last month , we found that people subscribe mainly to know about latest template designs available in the web , so we will make sure that we will come up with some nice template designs in near future. Thanks for all Readers who subscribed to our news Feed. Also Thanks for those who are going to subscribe from now..:) Subscribe to our feed : http://rockstartemplate.com/feed See Also : We Reached 500 Feed Readers 10 Tips to increase your Feed Count

Bluestar Car Template - CSS Template
2009-04-13 19:06:00
BlueStar Template is a free CSS Template from Rockstartemplate.com. This CSS Theme has been released for FREE under the Creative Commons license. You can use this template for any type of personal or commercial use ,  but with a link back to our website in any ways. This Css template can be modified very easily and can be used to promote your site. I hope you like this theme. Features of Bluestar Template : W3C standards compliant. Easily Editable. Light weighted. Professional Image Design. We used only DIV [ Yeppiee ....!! ] [ NO Tables or frames ...:) ] High Clarity Images. Ofcourse it is Free . Screenshot : Preview of this Template :  CLICK HERE Download This Template : CLICK HERE For more CSS Templates visit : http://rockstartemplate.com/css-templates .

Zoom Effect For Text - Photoshop
2009-04-13 14:07:00
This Tutorial will help you to create a motion Zoom effect for Text using Adobe Photoshop . The end result will look like the zoom effect taken from camera.Follow the below steps to get a Zoom effect in photo shop. 1. SELECT ANY TEXT : In our example we have taken the text as “PHOTOSHOP”. 2. APPLY FILTER-> DISTORT -> POLOR COORDINATES -> POLOR TO RECTANGLE : Apply the Polar Filter to the selected Text. Before Applying Filter , photoshop will ask whether to rasterize the layer or not. Say yes to rasterize and apply the filter. 3. IMAGE -> ROTATE CANVAS CCW : Rotate the image to CCW 90 degree , so that the zoom effect will match perfectly. 4.APPLY FILTER -> STYLIZE -> WIND : Apply this filter from RIGHT TO LEFT 2 times . Also apply from LEFT TO RIGHT for about 2 times. 5. AGAIN FILTER -> DISTORT-> POLAR COORDINATES -> RECTANGLE TO POLAR : You have to redo the same thing done in step 2. 6. Finally create a new layer and apply any gradient and also...
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Photoshop Tutorial - Creating a 3D ball
2009-03-30 18:09:00
This is the Photoshop tutorial to create a 3D ball . Follow the given steps to create a 3D ball. 1. At first open a new Document with size 5* 5 pixel. Create a Circle in that layer and fill any color [white is preferred] . 2. Goto EDIT and click Define Pattern. Give a new name to the pattern and save it . 3. Now create a new Layer of size 800*600 pixel. 4. Create a new layer and fill a pattern that you saved before. For this use Shift+F5 and select your saved pattern. 5. Turn off the background layer for more visibility. 6.Select Inner Shadow and set the MODE as MULTIPLY and select a Black color. 7.Create another copy and Change the options in Inner shadow as ANGLE = -36 SPREAD = 50 DISTANCE - 30 CHOKE - 40 8. Hey 3D Ball is ready now !! To read more Photoshop tutorials , visit http://rockstartemplate.com/photoshop
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Face Pencil Art / Sketch
2009-02-15 06:18:00
Hello people , looking for Face Art ? you are at the right place. You can use this Face  art for your 3-D works or for practicing face arts or you can replace colors and use them in your web pages. Click on the images to Enlarge
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Natural Photography
2009-02-07 13:20:00
We came with another collection of natural photography. This is  the collection of some awesome photography taken from different part of the world , capturing the real world beauties.
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20 Beautiful Header Banner Design
2009-01-29 08:25:00
Would you like to add a image to your blog Header ? We provide here 20 beautiful header background images. You can choose your own banner and use it in your blog. In new Blogger Layout , you can easily add the Header to your blog template. If you are not satisfied with your existing header image , find your favorite one here. [ Click on the Images to enlarge ] 1] Creative Banner Design s : 2] Green Background Banner Designs : 3] Fantasy Header Designs : 4] Blue Background Header Designs : 5] Black Banner Designs :
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10 Character Designs at its best
2009-01-28 05:34:00
Here is the list of Character designs for you. Character designs is a art of creating Characters for Games , Cartoons , Movies and more. ” A character is any person, persona, identity, or entity who exists in a work of art ” says wiki. Character design animation take the animation to the next level. you can read about 20 tips to keep in mind while creating a Character design here.
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50 Amazing IceLand Photographs
2009-01-24 11:36:00
Today we came with a Natural and landscape images from Iceland , a geologically young land in North Atlantic ocean. Go for a virtual tour in Iceland. Here you can find some cool photography taken in Iceland. The variations in the climate makes Iceland a dream country.
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30 Beautiful Logo Designs free Download
2009-01-20 12:03:00
Here we come with 30 customizable free logo designs. You can use the Below logos for your website logo or as favicons. Choose a Logo that fits your company and business requirements and use them right away. Start finding a right Logo for your website.  Just right click and download the images.
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Design your dream Wordpress Theme and win $3500
2009-01-11 11:51:00
Hello Wordpress Theme Design ers , there is a good news for you. ColorLabs Project is hosting a new contest for Wordpress template designers. All you have to do is to create a awesome high quality Wordpress theme and get home 3500 dollars.This is going to be a Grand Contest for all fellow designers . Everyone should show something special in designing and the best one would be rewarded. How to enter ? First design a overview of the template in jpg or png format before Feb 14 and submit . From this 12 themes will be selected by color labs theme. Selected designers have to submit the complete code with PSD file to compete in final round to win the grand prize. You can create your dream wordpress theme from three categories ,  General Blog/Lifestream and Photo/ Video blog or Business Blog/Portfolio or Newspaper/Magazine. Best Designers from each category will receive 1000 dollars each. Also the best of 3 categories will get additional 500 dollars. That sounds great !! Design your entr...
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Google’s New Favicon
2009-01-10 04:41:00
Its another favicon change by web giant Google. Last update of google Favicon was done last May, 2008. This time the favicon is colorful unlike last time it is gradient. The new favicon with the letter ‘g’ surrounded by colors red, yellow, green, and blue. Google’s New Favicon : This is the new icon you will find whenever you visit Google homepage or whenever you see google bookmarks. This Google Favicon designed by creating a contest by Google.  André Resende, a computer science UG student at the University of Campinas designed it as : His favicon was modified slightly to form a new google favicon. Every time you visit google from now , this new favicon will greet you to their homepage.

10 Must have Web design Softwares for Web designer
2009-01-03 13:15:00
To be a better designer , every one should know the right tools to design the web page . Design ing the web pages is not a tough task , unless you use the right tools to design them . Here we reviewed some of the useful web design tools . 1] Adobe Photoshop CS : Photoshop is a essential image-editing tool for graphics professionals. Photoshop CS is a part of Adobe Creative Suite family which is the leader in bitmap editing market tool. Photoshop is an industry standard for graphics professionals. The new Photoshop CS4 has some additional features like Wrap 2D images around 3D shapes , painting directly on 3D models , higher Printing quality , ray-tracing rendering and much more. There are 4 different products of Photoshop , Photoshop Elements , Photoshop Express beta , Photoshop LightRoom and Photoshop CS4 . Try Photoshop [ 30 day trial ] 2] Adobe DreamWeaver : DreamWeaver is a Web developing application from Macromedia , now owned by Adobe . It supports web technologies such as C...
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Happy New Year 2009
2009-01-01 05:00:00
Hearty greetings from rockstartemplate.com this new year to all . We are Celebrating this new year with a new Google Toolbar Page rank updation . However this is only a toolbar update . The page rank of each blog will be updated daily by Google . This new year we are looking forward to blog more valuable content and generate some decent earnings from this blog . I wish our readers wishes comes true in this year . New Logos of Google : Yahoo : Orkut : New Year ’s Day is every man’s new birthday. Happy New Year !!!
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ART in Buildings
2008-12-26 04:14:00
This is the photographs of building exteriors filled with excellent Art skills . The visual display of these buildings are excellent and made by expert Architects . A Good architect can bring life in building exteriors . These type of Art designs are very much eye catchy in this modern era .
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Collection of Creative Photographs
2008-12-25 10:41:00
Yet another collection of  creative Photographs . Creativity is the process of discovering something you did not start out with .The below photographs pretends to look like a real photographs . Enjoy the Creativity .
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Night Photography
2008-12-24 13:30:00
Night Photography is a real treat to watch . Light is the key factor in Night Photography . The Picture will be nice only if we use proper Lighting’s . Digital camera should have adjustments and special techniques to avoid blurry, underexposed photographs .  Here you can find phonographs taken in night . Click on the Images to enlarge .
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Scary Pictures
2008-12-16 16:09:00
Found some interesting pictures around the net about Scary pictures . Its a creative creation of devils Pictures . See the below pictures if you are courage enough ,lol , just kidding . Click on the image to enlarge .

Creative Photographs
2008-12-14 10:48:00
Another Collection of Creative Photographs found around the Web . Creative Photographs are treat to watch and we all wonder how the designers work on this kind of images . The courage to take risks and persistence are the key characteristics of the creative person . Here are some of creative Photographs. [ Click on the Images to Enlarge ] [Gallery=5] For More Creative Photographs , Creative FoodArt and Creativity at Hands .

Contest Winner
2008-12-03 14:33:00
we conducted a Email contest last month and now we came up with the results . The List of email subscribers are selected from october 20 till november 30th . There are more than 450 entries . The Winner is Mr. Rajesh [rajesh.mech] . Congo rajesh , check your mail . Screenshot taken during selecting random winner : We will return with another cool contest , so stay tuned . To keep track of contests in this site , Subscribe me .
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Social Bookmark Site Icon Full collection Pictures Images
2008-11-23 03:37:00
Ultimate and Full Collection of Social Bookmark sites all in one place . Social bookmarking sites help webmasters in increasing their sites Traffic and Back links . It is very important to place social bookmarking sites below every post , so that the readers of that post will share that post with their friends . ...
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How to Add a Search Bar in wordpress blog
2008-11-19 07:11:00
How to Add a Search Bar in wordpress blog ? The answer is here . This code will be helpful for theme developers and for those who like to add search to their wordpress blog . Follow the below steps and your Blog search will be ready in 5 minutes . 1] Create a New PHP file named ” searchform.php “ 2] Add the following code : <form method=”get” <div><input type=”text” size=”18″ value=” ” name=”s” <input type=”submit” </div> </form> 3] Save the above code in searchform.php , and upload it to your Theme Folder . 4] Now include , <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/searchform.php’); ?> ,  where ever you like in your theme . Preview :
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High Quality Nature Art Photography
2008-11-18 07:28:00
Extremely high quality Art Photography about the Nature . Art is intended to convey an idea or a concept to the perceiver . Nature Art Photography can be only be designed by finest artists of Photography . A work of an Art is considered more important than the Finished product . Here you can see some of the finest Nature Art photography designed by Web Photographers .
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We Reached 500 Feed count !
2008-11-17 16:56:00
Rockstartemplate.com reached a milestone of 500 Rss and Email Subscribers . We already celebrated our 150th subscription milestone recently . I provided few tips to increase feed count , see it . Check our periodic increase in Feed count . October - November : 500 - 150 = 350 Subscribers … !!
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Wordpress 2.7 Beta 2 released with exciting Features
2008-11-12 14:12:00
Wordpress 2.7 Beta 2 version is out for Wordpress bloggers . Wordpress comes up with a exciting new look and lot more features . With new Dashboard Designs , Contextual Access Tabs , new menu schemes , Quick press [Post from Dashboard itself.. ] and Wordpress statistics , Wordpress attracted the bloggers to the core . For people hearing new about wordpress 2.7 see the screenshots below . Whats new in 2.7 beta 2 : These are the fixes from Beta1 version described in the blog . The Upload button didn’t always show. Fixed. JS on the Dashboard broke for blogs with no comments, causing several UI elements to “freeze”. Fixed. Recent Drafts Dashboard module didn’t show correct times. Fixed. Various Autosave fixes. Redirect after deleting a page from the editor went back to the deleted page. Fixed. Fixed loading of translations for default TinyMCE plugins. Added avatars to the edit users list. Added some missing translations. Fixed some validation errors. Fixed some PHP wa...
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MyBook Blogger Template - 2 column web2.0 notebook personal blog
2008-11-12 12:23:00
Rockstar template comes up with a new blogger template . The name of the Template is “MyBook Blog ger Template” . It is designed keeping personal bloggers in mind . This template looks like your personal note book . The features of this template comes below , Features : Notebook Like Look Default Search Box Web2.0 Enabled Attractive Design SEO Enabled Compatible to all Browsers Screenshots : How Comment box look like ?? PREVIEW THE TEMPLATE | DOWNLOAD THE TEMPLATE Comment here about this template or if you have any queries or any error in the xml file . If you find this post interesting , then why not subscribe to our feed .
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Creative Food ART
2008-11-04 12:38:00
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. It says all about Creativity . Photoshop is an excellent tool for designers to prove their own creativity . There are lots of funny Photoshop pictures designers available . Think left and think right and think low and think high . Oh , the thinks you can think up if only you try . The following pictures are extreme creative work done by Photoshop designers . [Gallery=3]
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Contest - Do you Have Luck - get 50$ then
2008-10-31 05:54:00
Rockstartemplate comes up with a new contest for email subscribers . It is purely based on your luck or you can also say it is bases on Randomness . Participating in this contest is very much easy . I Invite everyone to participate in this contest which will run for 1 month . How to Enter : All you have to do is just, Subscribe to my Email Newsletter below and activate it from your email . Stumble this post . Email Subscription : Enter your email address: How Winners are Selected : Winners are selected based on the site ,  http://www.random.org/lists/ , this site will select 1 winner randomly from all the given lists . Emails registered from Nov 1 - Nov 30 will be taken and from that 1 winner will be selected . Prizes : 1 Winner Will get 50 USD , through Paypal Account . Other Notes : Only Active Emails are consider for draw . You can Subscribe any number Emails , as the draw is based only on Emails and not on the Persons . Selected winner will be intimated through hi...
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Animal Photography Redefined
2008-10-29 05:09:00
Photography is an well known art of expressing or process of producing images of objects . Now a days we switched to digital photography , which takes the photography to the next level . There are different kind of photography , and one among them is the Animal Photography , which is one the toughest in the categories . I would like to share some of animal digital photography ,designed by web digital photographers . Click on the images to Enlarge. [Gallery=2] If you find this post interesting , why not subscribe to my feeds ,
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