For all the blog fans out there
Ive written a plugin for WordPress, its the Listening To thing on the side of my page. Its not stricktly Word press only which is handy, but it was designed with WP in mind.
You need a few things to use it

An audioscrobbler account to watch
A blog of some sort, preferably WP
Change the php file provided to suit your needs
Setup of writable cache folder for use by the script

To use: place the file into the WP plugins folder and activate it from the WP Admin page. If you are not using WP then use an include(”file.php”) somewhere instead.

To place the script where u want it, simply add the following html/php snippet:

<h2>< ?php _e(’Listening to:’); ?></h2>
<div

Handy feature of photoshop, the render clouds method is actually quite clever, its algorithm to make clouds allows you to sneakily make it tilable,
Make a square canvas with dimensions of 2^n on both sides, eg, 16×16, 128×128, 512×512, 2048×2048 etc
then select a the colours you want to use in the foreground/background box and finally Filter>>Render>>Clouds.
Ei Voila, instant tilable clouds.

How handy is that?

Good day to you all.
Todays lesson will be how to create a funky looking brick pattern a few simple steps.
Heres an example of what we’re aiming for:

This effect is incredibly simple to do, simple do the following:

Create a new layer or canvas
Select foreground and background colours which con trast nicely
Render some clouds using Filter >> Render >> Clouds
Make a patchwork using Filter >> Texture >> Patchwork
Think.. wow, how simple

Changing the values of the Patchwork filter will yield some cool results, it depends on the size of your graphic, but a Square size around 3 and relief around 14 is good for small pics

Heres an example of what you can do with the brickpattern.

Instant Brickwall

Hey all,
sorry the blogs been offline recently, the CS domain went down and i just had to wait it out. I think they’re playing with the servers again. tis the best time of year really.
Anyhow, now i back i shalt blog once more.
Since ive been gone (good song that) ive been mostly playing around with photoshop and imageready to make a pair of animated graphics, one for Rhi as she is so lovely, and one for angharad cos she pestered me for it
take a peeky:

How its done:
Open ur fav pic in photoshop
Make an action which does the following:

Duplicate Current Layer
Shift image hue by +20

Set the action to a keyboard shortcut (mine was F2) and