Tips and tricks
![]() Do you know the small refrigerator magnets? Here is the e-version made in PSP. Make a rectangle, fill with light grey/white gradient, apply dark shadows to the right and down, and light shadows up and left, apply letters (font Times New Roman) and your magnets is done! |
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| Fonts | |||
| http://www.scrapvillage http://www.letteringdelights http://www.1001freefonts http://www.fontfreak.com http://www.larabiefonts http://www.acidfonts
The small .gifs applause" and
"kudos". |
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| Icons
With the program "Microangelo 98", which is found on this page http://www.impactsoft.com you can make your own icons. Here are some I made:
Mig selv Svenning Minus In Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 you can associate an icon with your webpage, so when others saves your webpage in their folder, the icon will appear on their list. The same icon appears when you pull the webpage to your desktop. See how it is done here: http://www.iconarchive.com |
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| Change the
garbage bin icon on your desktop
Here are some icons I have found on the
web, remember to change them into .ico filer before
using them. |
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| Hotbar
for Internet Explorer
Tired of the Internet Explorer look, change your skin on this side: http://www.hotbar.com/ Here is a skin from Great Barrier Reef. |
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| Outlook Express stationary scripts | |||
| Svens Lettermans stationary The final postcard can be found here [click for example] |
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| Plug-ins to PSP | |||
| Blade
Pro and Presets
for Blade Pro Simple filters Greg's Factory Output, vol I and II Unplugged filters Eye Candy 3.1 Demo Eye Candy 4000 Demo |
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| Smileys
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| Sigtags
"E-mail sig tags" are small personal signatures, which can be added in e-mails, if you use Outlook Express. They can contain pictures, text, animations and links. The sig-tag contains two parts, a picture and a .html file, which is placed in the same folder on your computer. "E-mail sig tags" can be made with FrontPage, but you can also make them with WordPad, which most people have on their computer. To show the sig-tags Outlook Express
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Besides pictures you can attach text, address, a quote etc. etc. |
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![]() Having trouble remembering stuff, download the Sticky note program here: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description.asp?fid=5487 |
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Make red/white string like this in PSP: 1. Make a pattern with red/white
vertical stripes and save it. 3. Chose pattern in the style palette,
and chose your pattern with the vertical stripes and as foreground and
"no fill" as background 4. The settings for the pattern should be scale 30, angle 315
6. Chose the pen tool (the little pen)
with the following settings, 7. Convert to raster layer. Make the
string slightly irregular by using the plug-in Eye Candy 3.1 7. Chose the area outside the string
with the magic wand tool. Make a shadow with the following settings,
vertical offset 2, 8. Add another layer (keep the
selection) and ad a new shadow with the following settings 9. Chose layers, merge all. 10. Your string should now look like this:
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| See how to make the magnetic poetry moveable on your webpage http://javascript.internet.com/css/drag-and-drop.html. Try to move the poetry or the post-it note with your mouse. | |||
| Make your links
be red (look at this page), on mouse-over. Use this CSS code:
<style>a:hover{color:red;}</style> |
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| Small animations
for Eastern
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Try
the "Acme Label maker". It is found here: http://www.acme.com/labelmaker/
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