Archive for October, 2007

Paypal IPN: receiving instant payments in your web application.

This paypal ipn tutorial explains how to use Paypals IPN system with a simple single item purchase. Instant Payment Notification allows you to integrate your PayPal payments with your website’s back-end operations, so you get immediate notification and authentication of the PayPal payments you receive. The main use of IPN is where your website needs to know immediately that payment has been made. For example you might have sold something that you will then make available for the user to download.

There is a lot of information on the Paypal website which is worth looking at but the following paypal ipn example will show you in detail a real world example of how to use it.

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Create a United States Flag

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to create an American flag in Photoshop, quickly and easily.

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hope you like it.

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Jimmy Hendrix Signature

There’s nothing like a signature creation to brighten up your day and brush up on your skills.

This is an in depth tutorial made for beginners that will show you step by step how to compose a well structured signature for all of the beginner GFX’rs out there.

This tutorial touches on a range of skills in photoshop, designed to exercise your photoshop skills.

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Creating Emphasis In Your Photos

emphasis 5When you take a picture on the spot, you can’t instantly pick out exactly what you want and make it stand out exactly how you want. That’s where image editing takes over. In this tutorial, we will teach you how to place emphasis on certain objects to make them stand out vividly. This includes adding brightness/contrast to certain colours on the focal point, adding obvious factors to improve your visualization to your audience, and other techniques, natural or artificial.
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