Ketika Putus Asa Dalam Menulis

Mungkin bagi pemula rasa putus asa muncul ketika menemui hambatan dalam memulai menulis. Hambatan yang muncul yaitu kurang percaya diri, takut salah, memvonis diri tidak bisa menulis dan lain-lain. Apa yang akan kita lakukan saat kita putus asa? Teruslah menulis. Kita boleh putus asa tetapi kita tidak boleh berhenti. Seperti halnya nasehat yang mengatakan:”Teruslah berjalan meski kamu dalam keputusasaan.” Tulislah apa yang ada dalam imajinasi, perasaan dan pengetahuan Anda. Meskipun Anda dalam menuliskan itu semua penuh dengan ketakutan akan pendapat orang mengenai ide-ide Anda, takut ditertawakan, takut salah, tidak percaya diri dan sebagainya. Yang penting Anda tulis dulu.Ini hal yang sangat berharga. Sehingga Anda akan lebih mudah dalam melakukan perbaikan-perbaikan seiring dengan bertambahnya pengetahuan Anda. Maka banyak membaca, diskusi dan merenung atau melakukan refleksi diri akan sangat membantu.

Putus asa biasanya bermakna negatif. Putus asa biasanya berhenti dan menyerah dari aktivitas yang membuat kita putus asa. Te
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Hati-Hati: Produk Kedelai Belum Tentu Menyehatkan

Kedelai merupakan sumber protein tinggi, rendah lemak, dan harganya ‘murah meriah’ sehingga bisa terjangkau oleh rakyat golongan ekonomi lemah. Kedelai salah satu sumber pangan yang digolongkan dalam daftar ‘superfood’, yaitu makanan yang mengandung fitonutrisi yang tinggi, yang memberikan faedah bagi kesehatan. Di Indonesia kedelai diolah menjadi tahu, tempe, susu kedelai, taoco, maupun kecap yang merupakan makanan sehari-hari yang sehat dan murah sehingga mempunyai ‘trade mark’ bahwa makanan dari kedelai adalah makanan rakyat, terutama tahu, tempe, dan produk lainnya yang bahan mentahnya dari kedelai.

Kedelai: Sumber Protein Nabati yang Tinggi. Di negara-negara maju di Amerika Serikat dan Eropa tahu, tempe, susu kedelai, dll. menjadi makanan istimewa, terutama bagi kaum vegetarian sebagai pengganti asupan protein dari hewani. ‘Tempeh’, demikian kata untuk tempe dalam bahasa Inggris, sangat populer sehingga banyak resep yang membuat kita tertarik untuk mempraktikkan resep-resep dari menu Mexico, Amerika, Eropah, misalnya: tempe burger, pesto and tempeh quiche, lemon risotto with tempeh, tempeh chimichurri
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Tutorial Photoshop Make a Glowing Text

Tutorial Photoshop Make a Glowing Text - Step 1 First download this file to install the font: http://www.dafont.com/tr2n.font . and install the font
Open a new image in Photoshop, take as 500px size 215 and fill the background it black.
You can also retrieve the image that I used to start above.

Step 2 Take the text tool with Tron font you just installed, set first color as a blue sky (here: # 00f6ff).
Type the text with a size of 85 pt.

Step 3 Then go to the menu: Layer> Type> Create Work Path

Step 4
Create a new layer and hide the previous (click on the icon with the Å "it), take the brush tool and the blue color (here: # 00f6ff). Take the default brush with a size of 4 pt.

Now go to the Paths tab of the Layers window, right-click Work Path and click Stroke Path.

Check that it is the brush tool is selected and click OK.

Step 5 Return to the Layer tab, double-click the layer that you create will appear mergers options and click the Outer Glow option and set it as below:

Step 6 Click on Inner Glow this time and set it as below. (Attention: the color is not white but beige)

Step 7 Duplicate this layer Layer> Duplicate or Layer> Duplicate

Step 8 Now we will remove the style applied to the layer that lies underneath (normally the first set), for it right click it and select the style clear option. Then return to the Path tab of the Layers palette and remove the path this time. Return to the layer tab and then press Ctrl + T. slightly closer now both sides toward the center, like this:

Step 9 Now Decrease the opactité of this layer to 80%, then choose Create a new text as Centry Gothic font and set text as below:

Step 10 Type the text you want, double-click the layer to go to the blending options then click Gradient Overlay and set the gradient like this:

And here's the final result:

Photoshop Tutorial: Make a Blue Star Effect

Photoshop Tutorial:  Make a Blue Star Effect - This photoshop tutorial is not so hard to achieve but rather long + or - 14 minutes

 Step 1: Start by creating a new document, 500 by 500 pixels here. Take the paint

and fill the black background. Then create a new layer and take the gradient tool and the tool bar above, and isolate diamond and take as a first color "white" then take as white fades to transparency in the bar above (left of the diamond ). And by holding down the Shift key made ​​of stars everywhere on your image.

Step 2: Now go to the menu Filter> Distort> Polar Coordinates and select Rectangular Polar.

Step 3: Now duplicate your layer and each time you duplicate, make a 90 degree rotation by going to the menu: Edit> Transform> Rotate 90 degrees clockwise , make it 4 times.

Step 4: Create a new layer and fill it with blue color code is # 0673F9 and move this layer to color mode. Now images of 2 layers, apply a bevel effect stamped with the default options and outer glow and set the parameters as below (white color).

Step 5: Now on the other 3 layers, apply a whirl effect for that go to the menu: Filter> Distort> Tourbillon , take value as 316 degrees.

Step 6: Now duplicate layers containing ALL the stars and apply them a gaussian blur of 10 this go to the menu: Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur , Hint: Duplicate the first layer and then the Gaussian Blur effect then duplicate the second and press Ctrl + F to produce the effect you will go much faster.
Step 7: Now create a new layer and Take the line and set the tool as below:

Step 8: Now draw lines 5 and apply a Gaussian Blur of 6.5 pixels. You must get this:

Step 9: Now go to the menu: Filter> Distort> Contraction , and apply a value of 100%. Then go to the menu: Filter> Blur> Radial Blur , rotation settings: Normal / size: 21.

Step 10: Now go back on the layer with the black background and go to the menu: Filter> Render> Halo (50 -300 mm Height: 100 in the center of the layer).
Stay on this layer and go to the menu: Filter> Aesthetics> Find Edges , and then press Ctrl + I on your keyboard to invert the colors. And still on this layer go to the menu Filter> Artistic> Plastic Wrap : Intensity 5 / Detail: 7 / smoothing: 12.

This photoshop tutorial is over. I hope it will help you advance ... and here is the result below.

A Simple Color Correction Photoshop Tutorial

Photoshop Tutorial - Often we made ​​the photos are dark and dull. This can happen for various reasons, such as you are photographed in bad cloudy weather, at night or in a dimly lit room. And of course, looking at pictures on a monitor or print them, you are simply frustrated and no matter how you tried to pick the aperture and shutter speed the result of your exposure is poor. But do not worry, because in this tutorial on Photoshop , you'll learn how to improve your photos in just a few steps!

A Simple Color Correction

The beauty of this lesson lies in the fact that all these steps are very simple to understand and almost universal for all the photos. In a simple example, we analyze with you such processing steps as framing and fix horizon, enhance the contrast and brightness using the curves, creating a bokeh effect using texture mapping, and improve clarity. What let's get started!

For example, I chose this photo cat Snowball:

Result:

Note : digress. For processing this picture, I used Photoshop CS2. Why is that? The first is now officially Adobe allows you to download and use Photoshop CS2 absolutely free! I wrote about it here . For beginners, it is just a fairy tale. Secondly all the tools are present all the necessary tools as permissible in the version CS6. So let's have at last begin to adjust the picture.


Step 1 - Fix the horizon and framing
Some pictures are littered with the horizon, and with the extra objects captured in the frame. To fix this you need to use two tools:

Transform Selection (transformation tool selection)
Crop (Crop Tool)
Of these two tools, I wrote a separate lesson: Cropping photos where everything is painted in detail and described. However, let us briefly review their principle of operation again.

To use the tool  Transform Selection , you must first make a selection of the canvas by pressing the keyboard shortcut CTRL + A.

Remember : without a selected object, you can not activate a transformation tool.

You will notice that appeared around the canvas dotted lines. This is our selection. Now you can activate the tool  Transform Selection  press the key combination CTRL + T : Pay attention to the selected point. With these points, you can stretch the image. But now we just need to rotate the image and align horizon. To do this, move the mouse pointer off the canvas. The cursor should take the form of two arrows. Now hold down the left mouse button and rotate the picture: Now we use the tool Crop to crop and trim all excess. This tool, you can activate both the palette and with the power of the hotkey C: Remove the selection by pressing CTRL + D and pulling point, crop area, as shown below: Then press  Enter :

Step 2 - Increase brightness using Levels

Now let's make our picture brighter and more contrast. To do this, we can use the adjustment layer Curves (Curves), or simply a tool Curves  (Curves).

For this image, we will use the tool  Curves  (Curves), but first make a duplicate of the base layer by pressing the keyboard shortcut CTRL + J:

Then press CTRL + M to activate the tool:

Experiment with the curve as long as the image is brighter and lighter. Raising a point of the curve up, you increase the brightness, dropping point down, you make darker tone. That's what I got:

In most cases you will need to create multiple points on the curve, as in this case. For more information about the curves you can know here .


Step 3 - Create the highlights and shadows in the eyes and remove defects

In this step, we give the cat eye expression. To do this it is best to use two tools:

Dodge Tool
Burn Tool

Select the  Dodge Tool  (Dodge) and its settings, set Highlights (Light). Thanks to this tool will only affect the highlights:

Now try to make a glare in his eyes brighter:

Then activate the tool  Burn  (Burn), and its settings, set the Shadow (Shadow) to the shading effect affects only the dark areas. Darken some areas in the eyes:

In addition to the eyes, I also darkened the cat's nostrils. Let's remove the defects in the eye. In this case, it is more convenient and the easiest way to remove defects from the conventional instrument Stamp (Stamp). But to do it as efficiently, you need to lower the opacity of the effect of the instrument in its settings.

Select the tool  Stamp  (Stamp), and in its place the parameter setting Opacity (opacity) value of 25%

This tool allows you to use a texture from anywhere on the canvas. To select the texture, hold down the ALT key and click on the area next to the eye:

All textures selected now release the key and a few mouse clicks zaretushiruyte "dirty" area:

Do the same thing with the other eye:

Step 4 - Sharpening

Now the picture does not look as clear as would be desirable. But Photoshop allows you to correct this deficiency. The method that will be presented here in my opinion is one of the most successful and correct, because it is more flexible and moreover, does not "destroy" the image in contrast to the filters.

To get started, connect all layers by pressing the key combination CTRL + SHIFT + E. And then make a duplicate of this layer (CTRL + J)

The first layer and change the blending mode to Overlay (overlap)

Then apply the filter Hight Pass ... (color contrast)

In the setting of the filter follows the contour. Adjust it so that the contours have become a little noticeable, but be careful here not to be overzealous. You will immediately see the result of adjustment definition. When you are satisfied, click OK, and then connect all the layers into one by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + E.

Step 5 - Creating the effect of bokeh

The final step, we give a picture mood creating bokeh effect. You can use a variety of textures, such as this picture, I used a texture that's out of this set . All you need is to add a texture to the canvas:

Then, change its blending mode to Soft Light (Soft light) and slightly lower the opacity: You can use the eraser to erase the part of the texture on the body of the cat. Then you can slightly increase the brightness in the same tool Curves.

That's all. Remember that these steps are universal for almost all images. Now that you know the sequence of actions and the necessary tools. I hope you have found for themselves something useful. Ask questions, subscribe to site updates are added to the social network, and put Like all good to you.