SitePoint submitted tutorials

Submitted by SitePoint » Create a cool texture that's kind of grungy, kind of techy, and works really well for collages and backgrounds.

Submitted by SitePoint » An effect that can be used in a variety of different ways.

Submitted by SitePoint » Change your black and white photos to color.

Submitted by SitePoint » Make your website headers stand out.

Submitted by SitePoint » Skip the click, and speed up your work with these shortcuts.

Submitted by SitePoint » Make a flag that actually looks realistic for once.

Submitted by SitePoint » Find out how easy it is to create a quick background using the airbrush.

Submitted by SitePoint » Learn how to draw out a three-dimensional microphone.

Submitted by SitePoint » This tutorial covers that halo effect that you find in so many anime shots and the like. It gives a warm, cheerful feel.

Submitted by SitePoint » Create this detailed Earth shot in a few minutes time.

Submitted by SitePoint » Add a realistic smoke effect to an image. In this tutorial you'll light one up for a kangaroo.

Submitted by SitePoint » Use Photoshop's batch commands to automatically resize a number of images.

Submitted by SitePoint » Make this effect that takes one image and gives it the illusion of being made up of just characters and words.

Submitted by SitePoint » Vanishing Point is a new mini-app within Photoshop that allows you impose a 3D framework on top of any 2D image. With this grid in place, all your interactions (cut, paste, draw, paint, clone, select, etc) behave as if they were in a 3D environment.

Submitted by SitePoint » This tutorial shows you how to make the glass effect like in Windows Vista.

Submitted by SitePoint » Having trouble applying Photoshop's Unsharp Mask filter to your creations? Using the Unsharp Mask can be tricky business, but, as Corrie explains, some good technique, a little patience, and an artistic eye is all you need to sharpen your images to a

Submitted by SitePoint » PHP is a terrific language for the rapid development of dynamic Websites. It also has many features that are friendly to beginning programmers, such as the fact that it doesn't require variable declarations. However, many of these features can lead a programmer inadvertently to allow security holes to creep into a Web application.

Submitted by SitePoint » With the release of symfony 1.0, it's time for those who haven't tried it yet to see what's inside this beautiful framework. Stable, fully documented, and released under the open-source MIT license, symfony is used by hundreds of web sites, including some very large ones (Yahoo! Bookmarks, with its 20 million-strong user base, is built with symfony). If you haven't taken the time to look at the introductory screencasts on the symfony project website, this simple tutorial will lead you through th

Submitted by SitePoint » Social networking sites like Facebook provide site owners and developers with myriad new ways to promote their offerings. Here, David walks you through the many ways in which your apps can interact with Facebook to provide enhanced functionality and facilitate the cross-promotion of your sites.

Submitted by SitePoint » While it certainly makes no attempt to constitute a complete guide to the Ruby language, this tutorial will introduce you to some of the basics of Ruby. We'll power through a crash-course in object oriented programming, covering the more common features of the language along the way, and leaving the more obscure aspects of Ruby for a dedicated reference guide. I'll also point out some of the advantages that Ruby has over other languages when it comes to developing applications for the Web.

Submitted by SitePoint » In this article we'll look at an alternative debugging tool for debugging Rails applications (or any Ruby script, for that matter) while still remaining up-to-date with the latest version of the Ruby interpreter. This tool is even slated to be bundled with future releases of Rails.