Still now lots of people choose Microsoft PowerPoint to create a professional or educational presentation but you might don’t know that you can create something new, gorgeous, eye catching slides with it. I have Office 2007 installed and this tutorial is written for it so don’t know whether it works for Office 2003. [Read more →]

In an earlier article I published some unique design, gradient color navigation background images. All these are high resolutions and of .PNG format. But now I am going to show you the steps in Adobe Fireworks through which I have made these.

You can start here with some given design styles on which you are able to further perform some editing like color changing, gradient range changing  etc. You can split the gradient range into 3-4 layers to create a gradient combination of 2-3 different colors.

It also provides you to add some texture effects from a list of approx 100 textures samples. Check out the tutorial below in details…

How to Create the Navigation Image with Existing Designs:

1. First Adobe Fireworks should be installed in your PC. Now once you have opened the application, it will prompt you to select the file extension as PNG. Click on it.

2. It will pop-up a small window where you have to put the image height, width and background color. So enter the height, width that should match to your blog. If transparent background needed, check the “Transparent” option at below of “White”. Finally click on “OK”.

3. Now you should get the editor interface. Select the “Rectangle Tool” from left tool pane and holding a left click select the total area of the created space in step2. You should ofcourse select the entire white space.

4. Once the space is selected, click on any one “Design Styles” at right pane. It will show you the live preview and you can further set the color combinations to fit to your blog. If you don’t want to proceed anymore, save the image from “File>Save As..”, otherwise follow the steps below…

How to Further Set the Color Combinations:

5.  To change the colors or gradient range, click on the Color option at bottom pane. It will show you all the colors that the current image is containing. A small pop-up opens, you can see in the screenshot below there are three color pots from which the middle pot maintains the gradient range. So move it to set the gradient range as your choice.

The two terminal pots are holding the colors, so click on these to get your favorite colors from the newly appeared color pallete.

6. Once color is set, you can add some Texture effects by clicking the “Texture” labeled drop down box. You can choose it from approx 100 texture samples.

That’s all, now save it from “File>Save As..”

Hi guys!! if you are a web developer or theme designer, sometimes searching for a unique design, attractive looking navigation background images. Here I am providing you 15 such images in PNG format that you might get nowhere in the web. I made all the images high resolution so that you can further resize, crop to fit to your blog without loss of quality.

All the images are made in Adobe Fireworks. Wanna create such an images yourself ? Read this article How to Create a Beautiful, Gradient Color, Navigation Background Image in Adobe Fireworks. To download an image from here, just right click and choose “Save As” option.

Choose any one and place in the navigation section of your blog but don’t forget to let me know which one you selected.

There are so many tools in the web to create a favicon for your blog or website but most of them does not create a transparent background. But yesterday when I was just walking in the web met a web service, offers you to create a transparent background favicon.

First create the favicon image in popular image formats like PNG, GIF, JPEG etc. But the favicon  generally is of .ico extension.  So here is a need to convert it to .ico extension.

So simple to create, just logon to the site http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/ and upload the image from hard drive.

As you are seeing in the screenshot above, you are still able to add transparent or colorful background. It also provides you to further crop the image to fit to your choice. You can easily fill the background color by zooming it pixelwise.

Recommended Reading: How to Install Photoshop CS4 in USB Drive.

Hi guys, here we are going to discuss about a very tough job but can be done simply by a great software, called InstantMask. It’s about to remove the background of a photo. As you know that it can be done by Adobe-Photoshop but it required a lengthy procedure that is time consuming also.

InstantMask allows you to remove the background in just a single click. Check out the details procedure below.

Procedure to Remove a Photo Background:

1. Download the software from Clipping Path Studio.

2. Install the software and open application.

3. Click on “File” in toolbar and import your favorite picture.

4. Now pick the green colored pencil from toolbar and select the surrounding area of the picture which you want to extract.

5. Pick the red colored pencil and select an another region, just out side of the previously selected region.

6. Click on the magnifying glass looking button in toolbar. It will show you the output.

7. Save the modified output by clicking on the floppy signed button.

You can take a quick tour here to know more about it.

So why are you wasting time? Just download the software and remove the background of your favorite picture forever.