Turn your everyday photos into something that looks like it was taken by a semi-pro. This four-step tutorial is fun because it doesn’t require hard work and the final outcome never disappoint! Lets start!
STEP 1
Once you’ve picked your photo, Duplicate the layer.

STEP 2
With the duplicated layer selected, go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. This [...]

Having a small staff and enormous amounts of work everything we can do to speed up tasks we take advantage of. We are asked all the time to create html forms for sites, its the only way to get users information, from RSVP’s to request information. Recreating forms is time consuming especially since most feed [...]

Today I was working on adding the Wayne State University Twitter feed to our website. It’s not a terribly difficult task since Twitter has some auto-generated code (javascript and HTML) for adding your public time line to a website. We, however, wanted more. Twitter’s auto-generated code offers a pretty basic setup, no frills at all. [...]

It’s been pretty busy around here lately so I haven’t had much of a chance to write a blog post. Among other things, I’ve been working with Help Center Live, a live chat web application. The live chat application will hopefully find its way onto the Registrar’s site which is getting a new look [...]

Yesterday I was asked to give a presentation at Refresh Detroit, a group of web developers/designers/usability professionals from the Detroit area. Below is the presentation.
Outline
We were tasked with the redesign of the Library and Information Science Program Web site. I started out with a general overview of our department then moved into showing the old [...]

As web developers we are always testing and re-testing our work in the latest browsers. As the release for Firefox 3 becomes imminent it is crucial to test everything while still being able to work since FF3 is not out of beta yet.
We have compiled a step by step guide to running both Firefox 2 [...]