CSS3 Text Shadows

By Decisive Design | August 22, 2011 |

Text Shadow… pretty! OK, that was a little extreme. But seriously, text shadow can be sexy, and it’s really easy. So stop using images for text in your banners and call-to-actions! The CSS3 text-shadow property shouldn’t be overused, but it allows web designers and developers an excellent alternative to using text, with shadows, as images…

Using the Photoshop Pen Tool to create a Selection & Remove a Background

By Decisive Design | May 5, 2010 |

In this tutorial, I’ll demonstrate a great way to create a selection around an object to remove backgrounds, other objects, etc using the Photoshop Pen Tool. I remember when I was new to Photoshop, selections and cropping, and then I remember how cool it was when I learned the Pen Tool and Quick Mask. I’m…

Backup Your Databases!

By Decisive Design | April 7, 2010 |

This guide refers to phpMyAdmin based databases that are commonly the back end for popular content management systems (CMS) like WordPress and Joomla Yes, it happened to me. So… I was clearing out my web server files, databases, etc, to make room for the new website coming online, and I forgot to make a copy…