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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.

How to Sell Downloadable Products with Paypal IPN

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 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.
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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.

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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.
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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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How to Beat the Hackers

There are many schemes out there to stop people changing your links but in my opinion there is only one worth considering – the “htaccess technique”. It does require a certain level of technical expertise to set up but its not that difficult and this tutorial will take you through the steps needed.
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Subcultures like Goths and Emos perhaps need to express themselves more than the average person due to misconceptions and criticisms leveled at them. Photoshop is a useful tool for showcasing the Emo or Goth image and for creating artwork that speaks to the creativity of these groups.

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