Quick and dirty wood texture

This tutorial is about making a quick and dirty wood texture using Photoshop’s Fibers Tool, for beginners to advanced users alike. A wood texture can be used when creating organic web interfaces or if you are 3D modelling wood objects. This is probably the shortest tutorial ever, but I believe the end effect is pretty…

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Legit part-time work at home jobs

Here is my list of truly legit part-time work at home jobs that could prove very beneficial for those of us in the freelancing field or someone looking to earn some extra money apart from their primary job. Although I filtered out some obvious fraudulent ones you should always remember the famous adage “If it…

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Tech Support Cheat Sheet

I was inspired by this XKCD comic to recreate the cheat sheet in HTML, with the functionality to translate it and edit the text. Dear various parents, grandparents, co-workers, and other “not computer people”. We don’t magically know how to do everything in every program. When we help you, we’re usually just doing this. You…

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Make VLC remember audio and subtitle tracks

If you’re an avid anime fansub’s watcher like me you may have come across this problem. You enqueued a couple of episodes to watch, audio on Japanese with English subtitles, but as soon as you get to the next episode the audio has reverted back to English and the subtitles are gone. You can fix…

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Complex selections made easy

With Adobe Photoshop CS5 it is very easy to select intricate image elements, such as hair, for refinements, compositing, or placing in layout. Eliminate background colour around selection edges, and automatically vary selection edges and perfect masks using new refinement tools. I will be removing this woman from the blue sky background:

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