http://www.micohono.com Graphic Design, Programming, and Tech Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:09:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In this tutorial I will show how to make things shiny in illustrator, this is the easiest way I know of. First make your shape however you want, I will be using a star for this tutorial, like below. Next take the pen tool, make it so theres no fill, and draw ... http://www.micohono.com/2007/12/easy-way-to-make-gloss/ Here you will learn the basics of the C++ Programming language. To start off you must know that we are using the C++ that uses the Win32 Console, not graphical interface. Table of Contents: 1. Variable types 2. Library headers 3. input/output Variable Types Here is a list of the most common variable types, you will learn ... http://www.micohono.com/2007/12/beginners-complete-guide-to-c/ There are various ways to fix the problem with someone choosing the same 'displayname' as the admin, The way I did so is change it so the comment author e-mail matches the admins e-mail. So instead of if($comment->comment_author ==$userdata->display_name) ?> You would put if($comment->comment_author_email == "admin@email.com") { ?> And thats it :) Just choose ... http://www.micohono.com/2007/12/comments-by-admin-fix/ In this tutorial I will teach you how to create code boxes similar to the ones you see in my post, which are quite similar to code boxes you see on forums and message boards. These are quite simple actually all you need to do is create a class for each ... http://www.micohono.com/2007/12/create-codeboxeswarnings-in-wordpress/ About time for another tutorial! This tutorial will teach you how to make a nice vortex type image in Photoshop. For this tutorial you may want a stylus unless you are good at drawing almost full circles with the mouse. Alright to begin, Start with a canvas size 550px by 550px ... http://www.micohono.com/2007/12/vortex-in-photoshop/ My long and promised tutorial has arrived. Fully code your website in Valid CSS and XHTML! For this tutorial I assume you have basic knowledge of HTML. We will be making the website as previewed here. To Download the template images for this tutorial click here. This tutorial will take about an hour ... http://www.micohono.com/2007/11/fully-code-your-site-in-css/ Tetris image made in 3ds Max and Photoshop, didn't come out as well as I wanted but I think I'm done messing with this image for a while. Rendered in 640x480 Resolution took about 30 minutes to render...3ds Max isn't optimized for vista yet I suppose :cry: http://www.micohono.com/2007/11/tetris-revolution/ While waiting on my next tutorial, here are some photo's I took in my yard earlier today. http://www.micohono.com/2007/11/photos/ It was suggested to me to have icons next to my title that represented what the post was about, ex. a post for illustrator would have the illustrator logo next to the title. And so I have done so. Now in this tutorial I will show you have to make it ... http://www.micohono.com/2007/11/icons-by-your-post-title/ This tutorial we will learn to make an abstract/glassy equalizer in Photoshop. Begin with a canvas size 700x360 and black background. I assume you know the interface to Photoshop in this tutorial and most of the basic functions. We will start off with the easy stuff, Begin with using the rectangular tool ... http://www.micohono.com/2007/11/create-an-abstract-equalizer/