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4 Free High Quality RSS Feed Icons pack

In this post we present 4 free high quality rss feed icons pack collected from deviantart.com as this is a best graphic website around, these packs are free to use for both personal and commercial purpose, so enjoy these free icons and design your webpages.

Simple Web 2.0 Icons

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free rss feed icons

8 High Quality Free Wordpress Themes

In this post i have collected 8 free high quality WordPress themes, these themes have been manually selected by me, these themes are free to use for both personal and commercial purpose.

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Colorful Shining Text Effect in Photoshop

In this short tutorial i will show you how to create shining text effect in adobe photoshop with simple background, i hope you will learn something new from this tutorial.

here is my final Result of this text effect:

adobe photoshop shining text effect tutorial

Step 1

Create a new document, use the size you want, it doesn’t matter, (I have used 500×300) and fill it with dark gray color, #222222

shining text effect in photoshop

Step 2

Now create new layer and name it “Text”  place your text in this layer,

photoshop shining text effect

Step 3

right click on this layer now and choose blending options > Gradient overlay and use colors setting which are given below,

photoshop image shining text effect

Step4

Duplicate this Layer and name it “Dupliacted Text”

now choose “Dupliacted Text” layer and goto Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set radius to 31.7
you will get something like this

shining text effect in photoshop

Step5

Now choose the layer “Text”, right click on it and then goto blending options , tick on inner glow and press ok,

create shining text effect in adobe photoshop

Step 6

choose the background layer (which you have filled with dark gray color, #222222) and goto Filter > Render > clouds and then Filter > Render > Difference Clouds,

create shining text effect in adobe photoshop

Step 7

working on the same background layer, goto Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set Radius to 30.0,

create shining text effect in adobe photoshop

after setting Gaussian Blur effect, goto Filter > Stylize > Glowing Edges and choose this setting,

create shining text effect in adobe photoshop

now you will get something like this,

create shining text effect in adobe photoshop

Step 8

Now goto Filter > Texture > Craquelure and use this setting

create shining text effect in adobe photoshop

Now your Result will be like this,

create shining text effect in adobe photoshop

Step 9

Now working on the same background layer goto Filter > Render > Lense Flare , Choose 50-300mm zoom and set brightness to 77%,

if you want to create a shadow for it then simply choose the layer “Text” and duplicate it again, flip it vertically and decrease its opacity,

create shining text effect in adobe photoshop

if you like my tutorial then simply leave a comment or if you want to ask a question then you can simply ask it here,

Create a Text Rollover(Hover) using CSS

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create simple text which change its color on roll over . I assume you have a basic knowledge of HTML, and know what CSS is. If you have any questions please leave comments in this post with your email and i will try to solve it.

First of all open a new notepad file and make a head tag,

then you need to add a style tag in order to give your text a roll over effect

<head>
<style type=”text/css”>

Now, assume that we have a link with blue in color and we want “red” as its rollover color so we have to use this code,

<head>
<style type=”text/css”>
a:link {
color:#0000FF;
}
a:hover {
color:#FF0000;
}
</style>
</head>

Now, if you want to change the color of visited link then add these lines in the above code,

a:visited {
color:#336600;
}

this will change the color of visited link to green.

similarly if you want to show a background color on rollovering then simply add this code in a:hover area,

background-color:#0066FF;

for example:

Our code is:

<head>
<style type=”text/css”>
a:link {
color:#0000FF;
}
a:hover {
color:#FF0000;
}
</style>
</head>

Add <head>
<style type=”text/css”>
a:link {
color:#0000FF;
}
a:hover {
color:#FF0000;
}
</style>
</head>
in a:hover to show background color on rollover

so our final code will be,

<head>
<style type=”text/css”>
a:link {
color:#0000FF;
}
a:visited {
color:#336600;
}
a:hover {
color:#FF0000;
background-color:#0066FF;
}
</style>
</head>

now, in order to add underline on the link on rollover, then add this code in a:hover too

text-decoration:underline;

so the final code for the rollover link must be look like this,

<head>
<style type=”text/css”>
a:link {
color:#0000FF;
}
a:visited {
color:#336600;
}
a:hover {
color:#FF0000;
background-color:#0066FF;
text-decoration:underline;
}
</style>
</head>

you can also give other effects on the link like , text get bold on rollver, font size change on rollover, font style change on rollover  by adding these lines in a:hover.

font-weight:bold;
font:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:16px;

This is just a sample of what you can do using CSS, to learn more about CSS or to ask a question or request a tutorial then kindly contact me.