My brother wrote a very simple Photoshop tutorial that can turn your photo into pencil drawing using Photoshop. Click for more detail.

It is really important that you should change your password immediately when you logged in your wordpress panel for this first time after fresh installation of your Wordpress. To change your password, click admin link next to “Howdy” text message in upper right corner of your Wordpress panel Or type yourblogaddress.com/wp-admin/profile.php in browser address bar.

You can change Color scheme of your admin panel, First name, Last name, Nickname, Display name which is used for author name is blog post, contact information, etc in Profile section. This is a Wordpress newbie series. I will keep posting like this tutorial in future.

Videos from Common Craft show make us easier to understand the complex technology by explaining with screenshots and simple English. Some of the videos such as Rss in Plain English, Blogs in Plain English and Twitter in Plain English are really noticeable. Now they released the new video Web Search Strategies in Plain English that explains about searching in web. It is worth the watch.

The method of Tilt-shift is to focus on a single part of the photo and shift (blur) the other area. I am a huge fan of Tilt-shift and have been learning for a while. Tilt-shit lenses are too expensive for me and of course, I don’t have a professional camera too. But we can get the tilt shift photo with the help of Photoshop. There are so many Tilt-shift tutorials using Photoshop out there and we can learn and create our own ones. See the Tilt-shift photos below which I did in last week.

Tilt-shift photos

Tilt-shift resources

• Tilt-shift photography
• Tilt-shift Photoshop Tutorial: How to Make Fake Miniature Scenes
• Tilt-shift Photography Photoshop tutorial: Miniature Faking
• Tilt-shift miniature fake photos group (Flickr)
• 41 Amazing Tilt-shift miniature faking photos
• Tilt-shift photography comes to advertising

After successful logged in your wordpress, you’ll see the wordpress dashboard. Wordpress Dashboard includes Write, Manage, Design and Comments panel.

Write

Write panel where you can write new post, page and link (blogroll).

Manage

Manage panel where you can manage posts, pages, categories, Tags, Media, Importing posts from wordpress xml file or other blogging system.

Design

Design panel where you can change or edit your themes uploaded in your server under wp-content/themes folder.

Comments

Comments panel where you can handle all the comments such as deleting, editing and marking comments as spam for your posts.

The rest are Setting, Plugins and Users. Wordpress dashboard displays all the information like Recent comments, Incoming link, News feed from Wordpress Development blog, popular plugins from Wordpress plugin directory and other wordpress news.

In my last post, I explained how to install Apache, php and mysql on windows using Appserv. Now I’ll explain how to install wordpress.

Download Wordpress

First, download the zip from wordpress Download page. http://www.wordpress.org/download/

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Installing Apache Web Server, php and MySQL individually on Windows is not easy task. Because it might takes long time time to make so many configurations to work well such as editing in .ini setting, httpd.conf and many services and extensions used by Apache, php and MySql.

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