Weborum Webmaster Forum > TUTORIAL ARCHIVE - tutorials & scripts to save you scouring the internet. Please feel free to add your own. > Graphics tutorialsWelcome Guest, Register to Remove this Message!
Web HostingEvery webmaster who wants publish their website has to put it on a hosting account, which are provided by hosting companies. Hosting a web site put in layman's terms, is making a website available on the internet. Technically web hosting involves having a server or servers in a datacenter which provides the servers with high speed connectivity, reliable power, ventilation and technical service. Each datacenter ofcourse provides different services and has differing facilities. The web host mainly focuses on keeping the web server in good running order, making sure all software is up to date and protected against intrusion. What types of hosting are thereThere are many types of hosting out there, the hosting package you need will be determined by your site. Most people start off with a smaller hosting package in terms of hard drive space and bandwidth usage. As your site grows then your hosting package will need to accomodate this.Also if you use a specific type of programming then you will also need to find a host that meets your needs in that respect. Most people go through the stages of starting off in shared hosting (many sites sharing a server), to a reseller hosting package (normally has more disk space, more bandwith and the ability to create several websites), then to a VPS host (where you have a virtual private server, which behaves like a dedicated server but you are still sharing a server, just with less people), and then on to a dedicated server (where you have the whole server to yourself. |
Guest Message © 2008 Dev Fuse
  |
 add flames to your text / images |
 Apr 25 2004, 01:27 PM
Post
#1
|
|
 Professional newbie  Group: Admin Posts: 7200 Joined: 8-October 03 From: in the backroom counting up your visitors Member No.: 4  |
Fire effect, a very easy way of giving your text or an object some flames.
Open up a new document and set the background to black and type in your words (in white)  Duplicate the text layer and then hide the original one by clicking on the eye next to it in the layers palette. Go to Filter - Stylize and choose wind  apply the wind twice from the right and then twice from the left, you should get something like the following:  now rotate the canvas 90º clockwise (image - rotate canvas) and apply the wind twice from the left, then rotate your image back 90º counter clockwise, you should now get this  Go to filter - distort - ripple and apply the default settings Now go to filter - blur - guassian blur and apply the default setting. Go to image - mode and select greyscale, accept flatten image. Next go back to image - mode and select indexed color, then choose from the same menu - color table, from the drop down menu choose black body:  Ok we pretty much have our flames now:  Now change the image mode back to rgb and then type your text again, giving it a yellow outer glow from layer - layer style - outer glow  this should be your result:)  optional effect - shadow text, at end duplicate text layer, remove outerglow - edit transform - flip vertical, move it down with the move tool, rasterize the text in layer - rasterize - type, finally go to edit - transform - distort and distort it to get the desired effect 
-------------------- Get Tough - Take photoshop by the horns - photoshop tutorials
whatcounter.com - free hit counter - quality stats about your website rivalled by nothing else. TinyShortURL - Free URL shortening service myIp.weborum.com - What's my IP ? sms.weborum.com - Free US sms messages for Weborum members |
 |
 
|
|
Apr 25 2004, 01:57 PM
Post
#2
|
|
 I'm not drunk! ;D  Group: Members Posts: 1682 Joined: 31-January 04 From: Bentley College Member No.: 7 |
Wow, I thought it would look cheezy... That looks really good, thanks Leo.
--------------------  , yeah, that's the name of the game. |
|
|
|
|
Apr 25 2004, 02:43 PM
Post
#3
|
|
 Facetious Group: Members Posts: 2402 Joined: 3-February 04 From: NC Member No.: 12 |
Very nice leo
 Have you submitted to good-tutorials? -------------------- |
|
|
|
|
Apr 25 2004, 03:37 PM
Post
#4
|
|
 Danny Boy Group: Members Posts: 1577 Joined: 18-February 04 From: Virginia/DC Metro Member No.: 17 |
pretty cool i can do some of those steps in Fireworks MX 2004 not sure if i can do the whole thing though
--------------------  if i ever forget to respond to something pm me lol :) |
|
|
|
|
Apr 25 2004, 04:04 PM
Post
#5
|
|
|
Professional newbie Group: Admin Posts: 7200 Joined: 8-October 03 From: in the backroom counting up your visitors Member No.: 4 |
cheers, not bad ain't it
 havent submitted it yet but will do. Not sure if you can do all of it in fireworks -------------------- Get Tough - Take photoshop by the horns - photoshop tutorials
whatcounter.com - free hit counter - quality stats about your website rivalled by nothing else. TinyShortURL - Free URL shortening service myIp.weborum.com - What's my IP ? sms.weborum.com - Free US sms messages for Weborum members |
|
|
|
|
Apr 25 2004, 05:31 PM
Post
#6
|
|
|
Danny Boy Group: Members Posts: 1577 Joined: 18-February 04 From: Virginia/DC Metro Member No.: 17 |
I can do the wind effect in fireworks it has that feature it may be possible to do it in fireworks im gonna see if theres a way.
-------------------- if i ever forget to respond to something pm me lol :) |
|
|
|
|
Apr 25 2004, 06:21 PM
Post
#7
|
|
 * legend * Group: Moderators Posts: 5148 Joined: 31-January 04 From: The Valleys Member No.: 8 |
nice one leo
i really must start work on a new tutorial -------------------- [http://www.joe2torials.com/] Your guide to (X)HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, Photoshop, Web Management, Accessibility, Standards, Semantics and much more...
[http://www.rough-draft.co.uk/] My NEW webdesign portfolio. Read my Weblog. |
|
|
|
|
May 28 2004, 02:26 PM
Post
#8
|
|
|
Danny Boy Group: Members Posts: 1577 Joined: 18-February 04 From: Virginia/DC Metro Member No.: 17 |
well this response is a little late but oh well better late than never....
i didnt get the 'same effect' in fireworks but i got pretty cool results nonetheless. Check it out 
Attached File(s)
-------------------- if i ever forget to respond to something pm me lol :) |
|
|
|
|
May 28 2004, 02:33 PM
Post
#9
|
|
|
Facetious Group: Members Posts: 2402 Joined: 3-February 04 From: NC Member No.: 12 |
pretty cool dan
-------------------- |
|
|
|
|
May 28 2004, 02:37 PM
Post
#10
|
|
|
* legend * Group: Moderators Posts: 5148 Joined: 31-January 04 From: The Valleys Member No.: 8 |
more kind of a lava effect really, but good nevertheless
-------------------- [http://www.joe2torials.com/] Your guide to (X)HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, Photoshop, Web Management, Accessibility, Standards, Semantics and much more...
[http://www.rough-draft.co.uk/] My NEW webdesign portfolio. Read my Weblog. |
|
|
|
|
May 28 2004, 02:44 PM
Post
#11
|
|
|
Danny Boy Group: Members Posts: 1577 Joined: 18-February 04 From: Virginia/DC Metro Member No.: 17 |
-------------------- if i ever forget to respond to something pm me lol :) |
|
|
|
|
May 28 2004, 02:46 PM
Post
#12
|
|
|
Danny Boy Group: Members Posts: 1577 Joined: 18-February 04 From: Virginia/DC Metro Member No.: 17 |
yeah that first one kind of does look like lava actually or thermonulclear meltdown
the second one looks better. -------------------- if i ever forget to respond to something pm me lol :) |
|
|
|
|
May 29 2004, 11:40 AM
Post
#13
|
|
|
Danny Boy Group: Members Posts: 1577 Joined: 18-February 04 From: Virginia/DC Metro Member No.: 17 |
heres a third type where the flames kind of shoot outward from a centralized area.
Attached File(s)
-------------------- if i ever forget to respond to something pm me lol :) |
|
|
|
|
Jun 11 2004, 07:36 AM
Post
#14
|
|
|
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 11-June 04 Member No.: 146 |
Thank you for posting this thread. I found this site on
 and find it a useful resource in my quest to learn web design.P.S. Don't haze me cause I'm a N00B By the way all those pics are sweet! This post has been edited by BADDIST1: Jun 11 2004, 07:37 AM |
|
|
|
|
Jun 11 2004, 08:52 AM
Post
#15
|
|
|
Professional newbie Group: Admin Posts: 7200 Joined: 8-October 03 From: in the backroom counting up your visitors Member No.: 4 |
Welcome aboard baddist1
hehe, don't worry, we're "n00b" friendly  , all our tutorials are geared to help the beginner advance in web site design and marketing May i ask what search terms you found weborum under? i like to keep track of how it's doing in the search engines and which keywords it appears for Leo -------------------- Get Tough - Take photoshop by the horns - photoshop tutorials
whatcounter.com - free hit counter - quality stats about your website rivalled by nothing else. TinyShortURL - Free URL shortening service myIp.weborum.com - What's my IP ? sms.weborum.com - Free US sms messages for Weborum members |
|
|
|
|
Education News |
Quality UK Web Hosting |
Check your Pagerank & backlink popularity | Hosting Reviews |
| Lo-Fi Version Photoshop Tutorials |
Time is now: 23rd November 2008 - 04:25 PM |