Collis Ta’eed at PSDTuts has a tutorial on rendering flames on text in photoshop.

Flames are particularly hard to render in Photoshop, but in this tutorial I’ll show you how to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match. We’ll render the look on a nice dark background with a gorgeous text effect to complete the image.

Jump to the flaming text tutorial here. They have lots of other tutorials and how-tos there as well.

We all love free don’t we? I don’t mean free as in, you found an old fish tank or toilet seat but free as in useful, something that’ll make you better at something. CreativeTechs has a list of free books to help build your business, design better, be creative and more.

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What if there were no stop signs… and a major corporation was charged with inventing one?

Six Revisions has a list of 12 websites to help you learn Flash and ActionSript. I’ve been a big fan of some of these but a couple are new to me.

1. kirupa.com

2. gotoandlearn.com

3. gotoAndPlay()

4. Adobe – Flash Developer Center

5. Flash Kit

6. ActionScript.org

7. Flash and Math ActionScript 3 Tutorials

8. Flash Tutorials on Pixel2Life

9. Flash Perfection

10. metah.ch

11. LukaMaras.com

12. Flashmagazine

Source: Six Revisions – 12 Websites To Help You Learn Flash/ActionScript.

As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison. Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles, a point that had not emerged before the photo was used on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers as well as on BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com and many other major news Web sites.

Read the whole thing at theNYTimes website.

Chris Coyier has a post at CSS Tricks telling us All About Floats. He tells us about collapsed parents, push down, clearing and overflow and how to get around these nasties. Looks to be very informative.

From: CSS Tricks