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Internet users have wider choice of browsers when it comes to surfing the net. It is our responsibility as designers and developers to ensure that websites we’ve created are compatible for most of the commonly used browsers these days. That leads to a simple yet critical question – what browsers are our visitors using? According to w3school, commonly used browsers are Internet Explorer 7 & 8 and Firefox with Safari and Google Chrome gradually picking up. But the figures might vary from site to site, depending on its niche. It’s best to get the demographics from your site metrics, Google...

In this tutorial, I’ll show you several quick and easy techniques for retouching portraits using Adobe Photoshop.There are entire books written on retouching portraits—many books in fact. This tutorial does not aim to substitute all that information. Rather than spending a lot of time on many individual steps in retouching photos, this tutorial aims to provide a quick overview of several techniques.We’ll be working with this photograph: We won’t focus on theory so much as applying different tools from here on out.Arrange your workspaceFor the most efficient workflow, it may be worth your while to get in the habit of...

With the launch of the new Adobe Suite of programs comes the long awaited Adobe Photoshop CS5. Packed with new features to speed up your workflow it truly is the most advanced edition of Photoshop to date. One of the new features we will be looking at today is called Content Aware. This feature allows you to quickly fill in a selection with surrounding content making it look like a part of the original image. In this case we will choose to remove a person from a photo, this can be done in less than five minutes. With the...

Here is the second video in my series of blog posts on how to use Google Webmaster Tools. If you want to see the first video, check out the first post: How to sign-up to Google Webmaster Services and click on the appropriate link. Enjoy! P.S. I will create screen shots, but that will have to wait until another post. Technorati Tags: Google, webmaster, tools, webmaster-tools, webmaster tools, google-webmaster-tools, google webmaster tools, marketing, blogging, online, free tools, web development, seo, keywords, webmaster, google,...