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Adobe Photoshop is such a well known program for graphic design and is used extensively on websites, print and more. Designer Tuts provides free photoshop tutorials covering many aspects of this powerful tool.

We have tutorials explaining the basics of Photoshop and more complex tutorials for the Photoshop experts. Whatever type of Photoshop tutorial you want we’ve got it.

Including some great tutorials on logo design such as our famous sky logo tutorial.

We have recently expanded out of photoshop and into PHP tutorials. Our most successful is a practical paypal ipn tutorial. Vital if you are struggling to work out how to sell online using paypal.

My inspiration for these tutorials comes from many places. This particular one came from the shirt I was wearing at the time.

It has bold yellow and green with the usual RVCA symbols. This is built over a background of repeated RVCA logos.

To follow the tutorial you will need to download a suitable font. I chose Eurostile which has also been used in the past for the famous fcuk branding.

Read how to create an RVCA shirt

The top 12 really useful Paypal IPN web pages as selected by Designer Tuts.

The Paypal website itself is obviously one of the best but we have dug down to find the most useful of their vast collection for those of us wanting to just concentrate on Paypal IPN.

We also have a good collection of articles, tutorials and code snippets by some of the top IPN sites around.

Have a look at @merseyinternet/paypalipn for a list of Paypal IPN experts

Read the Top 12 Paypal IPN Pages

How to Sell Downloadable Products with Paypal IPN

Note: Paypal has redesigned its layout recently so my videos are now not quite right. Sorry!

I’ve been experimenting with Paypal IPN for some time now and I’ve had in the back of my mind that I wanted to put all the different Paypal tutorials I’d written together into one big explanation of what you need to do to sell downloadable products. When I tried this I realised there is just too much information for one tutorial.
So I’ve created a series. And despite my frog like voice I have decided to give video tutorials a go.

See the tutorial

If you are looking for a good keyword competition tool then look no further than Market Samurai. It is simply the best for finding out about competition within your niche. It does this by listing the top 10 websites for your chosen niche keyword phrase in an easy to read table. You can choose to display onpage (e.g. page titles) and/or offpage (e.g. backlink) factors together with a huge amount of related data.

You can also go deeper into finding out what the competition is doing right which hopefully will give you some ideas on what you should be doing with your website. Market Samurai will do a PR analysis of all the links to each of the top 10 sites together with a an anchor text analysis of these links. A vital feature a good Keyword Competition Tool.

An option I find really useful is the ability to specify that you want to concentrate on a specific part of the world e.g. UK when you start a new keyword research project, an option lacking in some keyword competition tools I have looked at.

The best thing I can recommend is that you download the Free Trial from the Market Samurai site and have a look for yourself.

Just to let you know this page contains affiliate links (I gain financially from my recommendation if you subsequently purchase)

In this Flame Tutorial, I will explain the use of basic Photoshop shapes to create a life like flame. It is a single flame rather than a raging fire. You will start with a custom shape and after a few simple steps finish off with repeated use of warp transform to give that typical random like flame effect.

Read the flame tutorial here

This tutorial explains in some detail what you can do to get the most from a Paypal Buy Now button. There are many options available to you and I include example code where possible. Paypal has some really good documentation on the subject so I have also included links to their site.

Read the full tutorial here

Instant Payment Notification is better known as Paypal IPN and is Paypal’s interface for handling real time confirmation of purchases.

A typical use for IPN is where you want a customer to pay for a software download but there can be more to it than that and the IPN interface provides a wealth of options some of which I will go through in this article.
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