Imagine your Grandmother’s delight in receiving a personalized postcard from you that has you and your brother’s picture on it, or your wife’s smile when she sees the postcard you made from your honeymoon vacation photos. If it’s done right, sometimes a home made card means a whole lot more besides “I’m broke” or “I’m corny”, if it’s done right it can be a great to show that you really care.
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Need a screenshot of a website/web browser, but you don’t want to use Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefix, or Safari? No problem, just make your own directly in Photoshop.  You see it all the time on TV and in movies: fake operating systems running fake browsers.  It’s actually extraordinarily simple to do.  Here, let me illustrate those techniques for you, and ou’ll be well on your way to your own fictionalized browser for use in your TVs and movies… well, more like your websites and ads.
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The iPod is one of the best selling portable music players of all time, and those sales numbers are only going to increase with the new iPod Nano, which brings video down to the Nano product lineup. In this brief tutorial, I will show you how you can easily make your own iPod Nano in Photoshop for use on your website, blog, etc.
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