Elie Khoury

I couldn’t take a better shot with my camera because I was running low on batteries, the photo ended up a little bit blurry. I would like to thank my brother Rami, Elie Haddad and Michel Sfeir.

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I woke up minutes ago, and logged in to the Woopra Forums to see what happened in my absence. I got freaked out when I saw someone advertising his eBay auction “Woopra Invitation Code”.

How should we react? There’s nothing we can do about it since we don’t know which invitation codes the seller has. Is it that bad? I think it’s cool . This shows the enthusiasm of the Woopers! As I’m writing this post, the last bid is 15$.

Let’s see where it stops.

In this tutorial, I will explain how to draw a simple text reflection on a shiny floor. We’ll be going through important techniques that I use frequently like patterns. By the end of this tutorial, we will have the following result:

Let’s start:

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Few days ago, I was playing with Photoshop and ImageReady, and I came up with something really delicious . I was trying to make an animated Display Picture or Avatar for Windows Live Messenger 9 (which supports recently animated avatars). So I mastered an amazing technique that I’m going over step by step below. Note that this is an advanced tutorial because it involves the usage of Pen Tool, Layer Mask and Tween (ImageReady). Here’s what we’ll be working on

Let’s start:
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Working with patterns can be very easy, yet, very important in the world of web design. Whether you want to create a forum signature, a website header or logo or maybe digitalizing an image, patterns will help you create amazing effects with few clicks. I’ll start by showing you some examples:

Let’s start by defining patterns:
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The last tutorial I wrote was “How to draw a glossy black panel with photoshop”. Now, we’re gonna do something a bit similar but more useful for websites and GUI designers. I’m not going a lot through details, you should be a bit familiar with photoshop. Otherwise, you can check some older tutorials I’ve written on this blog. As usual, I’m gonna show you in the beginning what we will be working on:

Let’s start:
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In this photoshop tutorial, we’re gonna draw a Glossy Black Panel! It’s a nice and simple technique and of course very useful in order to get used to glossy perceptions! You will also learn in this tutorial some nice selection techniques and shortcuts. As usual, I will show you the final result in the beginning:

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In this tutorial, I’m gonna show you step by step how you can remove wrinkles from your skin! Make your mother appear 30 years younger . This is as usual a tutorial for beginners. I searched with Google Images and found a photo for a very cute woman. Let me show you the result first then we will start going through the steps.

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Hey folks,

In this tutorial, we’re gonna draw an old burnt paper with photoshop. This is a step by step tutorial for beginners! if you have anything to add, please write a comment!

Let’s start:

1. File > New:

Width: 450 pixels
Height: 300 pixels
Background contents: White
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In this tutorial we will draw a simple glass ball in the grass! This is a very basic tutorial… Many more effects can be added…

Here we go:

1. Create an image using File > New.

2. Change the colors to: #008aff (Foreground) and #0055e3 (Background).

3. Filters > Render > Clouds

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