[Devils Workshop] “WpVeda – WordPress Installation Tutorial Series” and 2 more...

WpVeda – WordPress Installation Tutorial Series
How to Erase the Background Image in Photoshop
Google Scribe: Let Google be your Keyboard!

WpVeda – WordPress Installation Tutorial Series

Posted: 04 Jan 2011 05:30 PM PST

This is a cross-post from WpVeda – our blog on all things WordPress.

Our journey on Devils' Workshop started with on Blogger.com and after we moved to WordPress the founder of this blog ended up starting rtCamp, a WordPress company.

We have many developers, designers and WordPress experts who work behind the scenes and also share their knowledge on our WordPress specific blog –WpVeda.

Among these experts is Nitun Lanjewar, who is the,Technical Head for our Blogger to WordPress migration service. Nitun has written a series of WordPress Installation tutorials. We will see one new post on installation steps everyday.

In this series we will be able to learn in detail, the installation of WordPress on the following hosts.

Godaddy
Hostgator
Bluehost
I Love This Domain
Dreamhost

Best way to keep in touch these tutorials is to subscribe to WpVeda. Consequently you can also follow WpVeda on Twitter.

Link: WpVeda

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How to Erase the Background Image in Photoshop

Posted: 04 Jan 2011 02:30 AM PST

In today’s photoshop tutorial, we are going to learn about the Magic Eraser Tool (E) for removing the background image. In one of my older tutorials, I had explained how to remove background images with the Pen Tool (P).

The background image can be removed by selecting the Magic Eraser Tool (E) from the tool bar. It can be selected by right clicking the eraser tool and choosing the third option.

Next, click on the background of your image. You will see that the similar, solid coloured area gets erased.

With multiple clicks, one can erase similar coloured areas. Although this may not be the perfect way to remove the background, as it works only when the background image has similar, solid colour shades.

We can now add our own image as the background by dragging a new image into the edited image.

The background image can then be freely moved to the desired position. Next, in the layer palette tab, drag the background image layer below the edited image layer as shown below.

The edited image can then be moved as desired.

Try it out yourself and let me know your feedback through your comments

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Google Scribe: Let Google be your Keyboard!

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 10:30 PM PST

It has been 4 years since I have been living in Pune, but I am still pretty unaware about the bus routes the city has. Out of need, I asked a friend today, which Bus should I board to reach Koregaon Park (an area in Pune) and I was not amazed when he said "Google it!". Everywhere we see, its Google which rules the Information World today, however Google has not limited itself to boundaries of technology. It has started programs which are much beyond the technical World and hence we see an example of a Lab feature it has been working on. The name is "Google Scribe".

Let Google type for you!

Google Scribe helps you type by providing you real-time text completion service. It provides you suggestions for words, phrases and even complete sentences based on common findings and popularity. The Google Chrome extension for Scribe enables almost every text field including the email compose box to subscribe automatically to the service. However, the extension options lets you complete modify any setting based on your preferences.

Personal Advice: Enable the third option – "Enable Space for choosing suggestion" as pressing the Enter and Tab keys to select a Scribe suggested word would not be comfortable typing for you.

Links: Google Scribe playfield

Google Scribe Chrome Extension

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