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CONNECTED PHOTOGRAPHER SITE OF THE MONTH
Create your own Mac-like gel effects
By David Gewirtz

My buddy Steve loves Macs. They're all he can talk about. All you need to do is simply say the word "Mac" and he's off on a run, telling you exactly what he thinks of them.

Given his enthusiasm for all things Macintosh, you can understand how he was excited by a site that he discovered that helps you make "those really cool Mac OSX gel styles that are really popular right now."

The site at My-Photoshop.com has a variety of interesting resources, but for now, we're focusing on the Gel Tab Navigation System tutorial, located at http://www.my-photoshop.com/bydesign/id-tutorials/gel-tab-navigation.html. On this page, you'll learn how to easily create Apple.com-like navigation tabs (please, for the love of God, don't do too many of these interfaces!) and otherwise create great Gel effects.

You can also download a free ZIP file containing Photoshop styles for creating gel effects. In honor of Steve, we decided to use the gel styles to create the oh-so-lovely graphic shown in Figure A.

FIGURE A


We did this because Steve loves Macs so much. Roll over picture for a larger image.

The site's interesting. We found a lot of useful resources there beyond the gel effects, and that's we we give My-Photoshop.com our Connected Photographer Site of the Month award for August.

Product availability and resources
For more information on My-Photoshop's gel effects, visit http://www.my-photoshop.com/bydesign/id-tutorials/gel-tab-navigation.html.

Your site can earn this special banner
Do you know a great site, one that offers great resources for photographers? If so, that site may be eligible for consideration as the Connected Photographer Site of the Month. If chosen, the recipient will even be entitled to display the lovely banner shown in Figure B.

FIGURE B


Is your site impressive enough to be the Connected Photographer Site of the Month? Roll over picture for a larger image.

If you'd like your site to be considered for Connected Photographer Site of the Month, send email to editor@ZATZ.com. Please specify "CONNECTED PHOTOGRAPHER SITE-OF-MONTH" in the subject field of your email.

David Gewirtz is the author of How To Save Jobs and Where Have All The Emails Gone? For more than 20 years, he has analyzed current, historical, and emerging issues relating to technology, competitiveness, and policy. David is the Editor-in-Chief of the ZATZ magazines, is the Cyberterrorism Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and is a member of the instructional faculty at the University of California, Berkeley extension. He can be reached at david@zatz.com and you can follow him at http://www.twitter.com/DavidGewirtz.


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