Posts Tagged with ‘Tutorials’

Taking Website Screenshots Using Screengrab!

I used to take screenshots of websites with Print Screen and then in Photoshop crop the part that I wanted to keep, but I always figured that there had to be a better way. So after I installed Firefox 3 I went looking for good extensions and I came upon Screengrab! created by Andy Mutton. This excellent Firefox extension lets you take a screenshot of a selected portion of the page, what is visible on the screen, or the whole page scrolled down all the way to the bottom. This last option is fantastic when you need a screenshot of the entire page, which might be several screenfuls all the way to the footer, and there is no cutting and pasting involved. The extension automatically removes all of the browser chrome from the image so you will not see the navigation bar and tabs at the top or the scrollbar to the right. You have the option of either saving the screenshots as PNG or JPG images, or copy the image to the Clipboard so that you can paste it in your favorite image editing application.

Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create Denim Texture

Here is a tutorial with a few steps on how to create the denim texture that you would find on your favorite pair of jeans. The tutorial was created using Photoshop CS3 but I would guess that older versions of Photoshop can be used. Since some of the filters I used are of a random nature, you might have to adjust the settings somewhat to get the desired result. Furthermore, if you prefer darker or lighter denim or want your denim saturated with blue you might want to make changes to the Gradient Map. The font used in the above image is Kingthings Xstitch.