December 05, 2008 cartab's blog

WebTech#3 - Server Security and Hardening

Hello everyone, thanks for tuning in to my 3rd article in this series. Well, at this point we have MySQL

Featured Tutorial

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended
3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended
The new Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended is about to be released, it was announced already and among the new features there is one really special that is the Repoussé. This new feature or tool will allow us to create 3D objects extruding texts, selections, paths and layers masks. It's a really powerful tool and I had the chance to try it and now I will share with you one of my first experiments with it.

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week #145 by David Mascha
Wallpaper of the Week #145 by David Mascha
The wallpaper of this week is an image created by David Mascha, a designer and digital artist from Vienna, Austria. David work as freelancer primarily in the fields of art, illustration, fashin, interior design and advertising for clients such as IBM, Hennessy, K2 Snowboards and The New York Times. For more information about David Mascha visit his Web site at http://www.davidmascha.com/ Desktop Version

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion: Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age
Book Suggestion: Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age
The book suggestion of this week is a very inspiring one for those in love with vintage typography, it's called Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age. It's definitely a book for when you need some extra motivation and inspiration. About the book Elegant, quirky, fluid, brutish, ostentatious— a visual resource of cursives and other typefaces that resemble handwriting.