Neon Effects


  1. In Photoshop, open girl_portrait. jpg from the cover CD. Create a new adjustment layer, and select the Levels (Cmd/ Ctrl + L). Set the Output Level white to 130.
  2. Open neon lines_1.jpg from the cover CD, and use the Hue/ Saturation controls to make it black and white. Use the Rectangular Marquee tool to select one of the lines.
  3. Using the Move tool (V), drag this selection to girl_portrait.jpg. Change the blending options to Screen. Transform the layer using Cmd/Ctrl + T, and start to rotate it. Right-click (Cmd + click) to choose the Warp tool.
  4. Now you’ll see a six-section grid section on the layer, which allows you to move every section or every point. Let’s move it so it matches the one seen here. Click Enter when done, and add a layer mask onto the layer. Start brushing the layer mask, by using black to erase. For a smooth effect, try setting the Brush Opacity to 10 per cent.
  5. Duplicate the latest layer by hitting Alt+Cmd/Ctrl+J. Start painting the layer mask by using black to erase, again setting the brush opacity very low. Select both layers and merge them (Cmd/Ctrl+E); don’t be surprised by the black areas. Change the blending options to Linear Dodge and repeat this until the girl is entirely outlined.
  6. Still using the same selection from neon lines_1.jpg, start warping again, using this image as an example, using the warping position to trace the detail on the ear. Duplicate this layer, place the shading of the ear and start warping again.
  7. Now for the hair. Import the selection from neon lines_1.jpg again, change the blending options to Screen and try warping it so that it looks like the above right image. Use the Eraser tool to take out any unwanted lines. Duplicate the layer – we’ll still need this layer for another part of the hair. Start warping around this layer to fill in the hair.
  8. Open neon lines_2.jpg and make a new selection (see Step 02) to fill the body section. Don’t forget to set the blending option to Screen, and start warping again around this layer. On this layer, add a layer mask to erase unwanted sections of the image.
  9. Duplicate the layer (Cmd/Ctrl + J) and start warping once again. Repeat this process until the black areas have been reduced. Select the layer on the body section and merge the layers. Layer mask to erase unwanted sections, and set the layer’s opacity to 70 per cent.
  10. Let’s fill in the face. Return to neon lines_2.jpg and make a different selection. Copy this into the main image over the face and start warping again, starting around the nose. Duplicate the layer, move it to the side slightly and continue warping. Merge the layers.
  11. Now it’s time to start adding colour. Merge all of the warp layers together (not forgetting to set the blend mode to Screen). Add an adjustment layer, selecting Gradient. Let’s set the gradient from dark blue to bright blue, set Style to Linear and Angle to 180°. Make another Adjustment Gradient, this time merging from medium green to bright green.
  12. Customize the colour by making individual adjustment curves. Adjust the Red, Green and Blue channels individually, rather than adjusting the RGB marker.
  13. To create the particle effect, make a selection from neon lines_2.jpg and start warping outside the figure. Open neon lines_3.jpg and make a selection; place this over the girl’s hand. I also added some particle effects on the final images, on a new layer, using the Brush tool. Set the brush’s Tip Shape, check the Shape Dynamics and set the Size Jitter to 100 per cent. Check the Scattering, and set Scatter to 1,000 per cent. Now start brushing the layer in smooth lines, varying the size of the brush. When you’ve finished brushing, add a mask to erase unwanted particles.
  14. This source from www.area105.com

Poker History


The history of poker or Hold'em pokeri is a subject of debate. One of the first games to integrate known betting, share classification, and plays the card of deception was the 15th Century German Pochspiel Thursday. Poker is the game as Persian Nas, if there is no detailed description of TO before 1890. In the 1937 edition of Foster's Complete Hoyle, RF Foster said: "The poker game, played as the first in the U.S., five cards to each player twenty-one package of maps, is without doubt the game of Persian TO". In 1990, some historian David Parlett game, to deny that the concept of poker is a direct derivative of the AN. There is proof poque a game, a game similar to French poker, it was in the region, where poker would have emerged. The name of the game was probably the Irish Poca (Pron Pokah and texas hold'em) ( "Pocket"), or even the French poque, Texas pokeri, which fell from the German insisting to brag, as a bluff "switched on. "Beating". But it is not clear whether the origins with poker games with that name. It is commonly referred to as the common ancestry with the Renaissance of the first game and French Drilling. The game has English (formerly Bragg) went clear of Drilling and integrated mistaken (though was known, the concept in other games at that time). It is quite possible that all these games more influence on the development of poker as it exists today.

English actor Joseph Crowell pointed out that the game was played in New Orleans in 1829, with a set of 20 cards and four players who are in the hands of the player is the most valuable. Jonathan H. Green 's book, an exhibition of art and misery of the game (GB Zieber, Philadelphia, 1843), describes the spread of the game from there, after the rest of the country by the Mississippi Riverboats, where the game is a -- Joint time. As she set out to the north along the Mississippi River and west during the gold rush, you think, to be a part of the border pioneering spirit.

Shortly after this difference, the full 52-bridge English-card was used and the flushing water was introduced. During the civil war, many additions have been made, including poker, Stud Poker (five cards variant), and the rights. Others have in the development of the U.S., as the Joker (around 1875) and the Department of lowball poker pot (about 1900), and the card for poker games (approx 1925). The spread of the game to other countries, particularly in Asia, is often in the U.S. Army. The game and the poker jargon have become important elements of American culture and English culture. These stereotypes and phrases, such as the hole in ace, ace of the round, asked me blue chips, a call of deception, Flow, High Roller, the dollar, poker-face, battery, to ante up when the chips are, Joker, and others are in the conversation, even from those who do not know of its origins at the poker table.

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