This time of the year is not just about Hallowe'en. I am loving the sugar skulls used to celebrate Day of the Dead and present a selection of images to act as inspiration with a difference for the end of October.

Now that we’ve looked at the tools available to use for cloning in my previous article, I suggest a few tips to avoid those terrible mistakes that appear in Photoshop Disasters.

Photoshop cloning has been a necessary evil for me over the past few years, why I had difficulty I will never know.   However I have recently had to get my hands dirty using a variety of methods for a single client, and am fast becomin a fan of these easy to use tools.  So now is as good a time as any to create a series of Cloning 101 articles.  The first of which is an overview of the different tools to hand.

So the new Linked-In iPhone app went live last week. Some bloggers seem to hate it! Me - I kinda like it...

Social Media is a large and complex topics, however I will be breaking this down into manageable chunks over the coming months. As a simple introduction I thought we could dip our toes in with an overview of some of the main layers of Social Media and how best to use them.

Recently I was updating a site which was originally create back in 2008, when I came across a nasty little problem with the formatting of my CSS.  It took me a while and I had the joy of returning to first principles as IE8 was causing a headache with the box model.

Having worked with Joomla for several years now I am always on the lookout for components which will make my life as a developer easier when creating and installing a Joomla system for a client. Most of the components which I list here are free, however some have a nominal fee which I believe is fully justified by the functionality they provide.

No Time to Plan for Disaster Recovery?

It may seem a strong way to define replacing a laptop but for me if I lost mine it would be a disaster.  It wasn't until I was planning to upgrade to a new laptop this year that I realised that I had no idea what software I needed to install or where the disks were.  I regularly back up the data but my ‘Disaster Plan’ suddenly seemed woefully inadequate…

So what has been happening at Fiery Phoenix which caused the blogs to dry up?  Well it has been an interesting and at times stressful year both personally and professionally.

Is it simple to create a flexible versitile and controllable dotted and dashed stroke in Illustrator PS4?

Yes! And what's more you can have total control of both the size and spacing of the dots/dashes. Try the following to see just how simple the process can be.