My birthday (06/04/2007) just passed last few days and the second day actually is my best friend’s birthday (07/04/2007), my friends decided go to Umbai, Melaka eat seafood for celebration of our birthday.

This place quite romantic and suitable to couples for dating. Haha! It is also one of the famous traveling place in Melaka. If you mentiond “Umbai” this place name, everybody will know this is a place to eat seafood.

I don’t know what are these food name, but normally called “Ikan Bakar“, “Sotong” and “Lala” in Malay Languague. The fish something like cook with stew after frying, there are very delicious food. If you come to Melaka, remember come to Umbai. You will never regret!

My friend has given me an example of the picture and asked me about how to make the text look like transparent in the picture just like picture that she showed to me. Although it is not exactly 100% same as the picture that she showed to me, but I think as long as the feel is there already good enough, more or less there are same.

Before I start to write down the steps, just take a look on this picture. This picture is snapped at Genting Highland in Kuala Lumpur, it seem like dinosaur which engraved on the stone. To me, it is an good art. OK, let get started how to create text with Bevel and Emboss Style as below.

1. Open an picture by clicking File > Open
2. Choose Horizontal Type Tool (T) and type your text on the picture.
3. Right Click the Text Layer that you have type just now, Choose Blending Option. (Layer Style dialog box will be displayed)
4. Tick Drop Shadow option (you can do any adjustment on the shadow based on your requirement)
5. Tick Bevel and Emboss, please refer to the following adjustment on the layer style (refer arrow), then click OK after finish.
Style: Emboss
Depth: 700%
Size: 5px
Soften: 2px
Shadow Mode: Multiply (You can change your desired color here)

6. In the selected Text Layers panel, there is a drop down menu on the top right of the panel, this is used to set the opacity for the layer, now set the Opacity to 50-60%. Done!

It is very easy to create bubbles, just a few simple steps as below:-
1. Create a new file File > New or open a file File > Open.
2. Make a blue color background by choosing the a blue foreground color and filling the canvas using the Paint Bucket Tool.
3. Make a circle with Elliptical Marquee Tool. You can press Shift key to make the circle round.
4. Use Dodge Tool. Select Brush as 29 or more depending on your bubble and Range as Highlights and Exposure as 50%.
5. On the left corner of the bubble drag the Dodge Tool four times in the same place to give the highlight in the bubble.
6. Make gentle strokes around the bubble with the dodge tool to get the effect as per picture.
7. Press Ctrl + D to deselect the outline of the circle.

Wow! Genting Highland’s Spinner. Last month I went to Genting Highland with my family and friend, it was so excited when my mum said want to go to Genting because I have been long time not go there for fun. Unfortunately I didn’t play Spinner because when the time I want to play, it was rain and the Spinner force to stop working until the rain stop, but when the rain stopped, I have no time to play already because I want to go to Casino. It was very fun when I saw them shout in the sky, something they are flying in the sky. Haha! Anyway, I promised myself I will play Spinner for the next trip I go to Genting Highland. Yeah!

Location: Millennium Square, Genting Theme Park
It’s a whirlwind adventure that’ll take you to breathtaking new heights of excitement! So hop on and get ready for the spin of your life!
Features: 48 individual seats; Oscillates and tilts; Rides can rise up to 8 feet; Minimum Height Requirement: 107cm

Ride Facts: Type of Ride Thrilling and fun; Country of Origin Italy; Manufactured By Zamperla; Speed 3.5 meters / second; Duration 90 seconds; Weight 5000 kg; Total No. of Coloured Lights 1500 pieces

This picturen taken in Genting Highland’s Theme Park which is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I saw the flowers very colorful and nice looking, then I simply snapped this picture using my Mobile Phone N73.

I’m using this picture to create a rain effect and the following show the step how to create rain effect for your picture.
1. Open an image and create a new layer by clicking on the fifth icon below the layers panel. The default name of new layer is Layer 1.

2. With the new layer selected, Go to Filter > Render > Clouds and change the opacity to 63%. (This is present on the top right of the layers panel)

3. Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise (set Amount=60; Distribution=Gaussian and tick Monochromatic)

4. Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur (set Angle=73 and Distance=10)

5. In the Layers panel which Layer 1 is selected, there is a drop down menu on the top left of the panel, this is used to set the blending mode for the layer, now set the blend mode to ’screen’ mode. Now you can see the different of the image.

In the past few years ago, actually I already know this website. Nothing to talk about other things pertaining to this website, I simply want to share with you about the design of this website because I like it a lot.

A very creative, clean and colorful website, vianet.it - New Media Design, using JavaScript and DHTML to design their website. I was thinking that they have used Adobe Illustrator to draw the cute cartons. Although it look simple but it is with full of good imagination and creativity of creating the cartons.

Nothing much information in this website, all their contents are presented in one page, this is one of the part that I like because I’m quite admired the way how they have done for the visual presentation of the website.

Just take a look and learn how to design a website with less contents but with creative way. I believe that you can learn something from there.

Today, we will going to learn how to change a photo to a front page magazine image in Photoshop and give your photographs a beautiful sheen or glazed effect!

The artist in this picture is my favorite male Taiwan singer, Lee Hom who borned in USA. music has been described as eclectic, intelligent, imaginative, and emotional. A proficiency in a multitude of different musical instruments and strong roots in classical violin, jazz piano, and Broadway-style musicals seem to enable him to dance effortlessly between musical styles. “Music,” says Leehom, “is my most comfortable language. In any language, be it French, Chinese, Jazz, or Hip-Hop, it is what you are trying to say that is most important.” Quoted once as saying that his “main goal is to inspire young people,” Leehom’s fundamental beliefs that “music can change the world” and that “the children are the key to our future” provide him with the fountain of contagious energy that rubs off on everyone around him.

1. Go to File > Open to locate your photo.
2. Filter > Blur > Gaussion Blur (set the pixel to 7.0)
3. Press Ctrl + Alt + F to open Fade option. (change the Mode to Screen and Opacity=100%)
4. Again go to Filter > Blur > Gaussion Blur (this time set the pixel to 8.0)
5. Again press Ctrl + Alt + F to open Fade option. (this time change the Mode to soft light and Opacity=100%)