Today we’ll create a wallpaper in Vista style. A black background will be filled with stylish gradients decorated with blue and green abstract curved shapes. The techniques used in this tutorial are scalable. It’s easy to turn the final design into different sizes to fit various monitors. Let’s learn how to do it.

Editor’s Note: This tutorial was originally published in the Czech language at Grafika Online. Grafika have kindly given permission for Vaclav to republish here on PSDTUTS for those of us who haven’t quite mastered Czech…

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If your are experienced with CSS or have coded a website before, you have probably heard of CSS resets CSS resets are chunks of CSS code designed to make life easier on the coder/designer when coding the website. CSS resets are an extremely useful tool in making your site cross browser comptaible. Today, we will have a look at 6 popular CSS reset techniques.

1. Generic Reset

 * {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	border: 0;
	}

The above is the most commonly seen reset, which simply resets the margins, padding, and takes away any default borders (usually on images). A variation of this generic reset can be seen below:

* {
	vertical-align: baseline;
	font-weight: inherit;
	font-family: inherit;
	font-style: inherit;
	font-size: 100%;
	border: 0 none;
	outline: 0;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	}

2. Chris Poteet’s Reset

* {
	vertical-align: baseline;
	font-family: inherit;
	font-style: inherit;
	font-size: 100%;
	border: none;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	}
body {
	padding: 5px;
	}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, pre, blockquote, form, ul, ol, dl {
	margin: 20px 0;
	}
li, dd, blockquote {
	margin-left: 40px;
	}
table {
	border-collapse: collapse;
	border-spacing: 0;
	}

Be sure to carefully note some of the specific margins on the above reset and set them to your taste.

3. Yahoo’s CSS Reset

body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,form,fieldset,input,textarea,p,blockquote,th,td {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	}
table {
	border-collapse: collapse;
	border-spacing: 0;
	}
fieldset,img {
	border: 0;
	}
address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong,th,var {
	font-weight: normal;
	font-style: normal;
	}
ol,ul {
	list-style: none;
	}
caption,th {
	text-align: left;
	}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size: 100%;
	}
q:before,q:after {
	content:'';
	}
abbr,acronym { border: 0;
	}

And you thought Yahoo didnt do anything productive. I am actually a big fan of this reset and have used it in the past with nice results. I especially like the use of the :before and :after pseudo elements, if only IE would support them!

4. Eric Meyers Reset

html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td,
del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend {
	vertical-align: baseline;
	font-family: inherit;
	font-weight: inherit;
	font-style: inherit;
	font-size: 100%;
	outline: 0;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	border: 0;
	}
 
:focus {
	outline: 0;
	}
body {
	background: white;
	line-height: 1;
	color: black;
	}
ol, ul {
	list-style: none;
	}
 
table {
	border-collapse: separate;
	border-spacing: 0;
	}
caption, th, td {
	font-weight: normal;
	text-align: left;
	}
/* remove possible quote marks (") from <q> &
<blockquote> */
blockquote:before, blockquote:after, q:before, q:after {
	content: "";
	}
blockquote, q {
	quotes: "" "";
	}

Eric Meyers CSS reset is my favorite reset of them all, it accounts for nearly all elements and there is even a page dedicated to the most current versions of this reset.

5. Condensed Meyers Reset

body, div, dl, dt, dd, ul, ol, li, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6,
pre, form, fieldset, input, textarea, p, blockquote, th, td {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	}
fieldset, img {
	border: 0;
	}
table {
	border-collapse: collapse;
	border-spacing: 0;
	}
ol, ul {
	list-style: none;
	}
address, caption, cite, code, dfn, em, strong, th, var {
	font-weight: normal;
	font-style: normal;
	}
caption, th {
	text-align: left;
	}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size: 100%;
	}
q:before, q:after {
	content: '';
	}
abbr, acronym {
	border: 0;
	}

A condensed version of the larger Meyer Reset.

6. Tantek’s Reset

 
 
 
 

:link, :visited {
	text-decoration: none;
	}
ul, ol {
	list-style: none;
	}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, pre, code, p {
	font-size: 1em;
	}
ul, ol, dl, li, dt, dd, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, pre,
form, body, html, p, blockquote, fieldset, input {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	}
a img, :link img, :visited img {
	border: none;
	}
address {
	font-style: normal;
	}

Happy Coding!

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Photoshop is great to use for creating quality icon designs. In this tutorial I will teach you how to make a professional, shiny, clean graduation hat icon. The techniques in this tutorial will help you graduate to the next level in icon design.

Create a High Gloss Graduation Hat Icon Design

In this tutorial we will color a black and white photo using gradient maps, solid colors, and the “color” blending mode. Using these techniques, you will be able to hand color any black and white photo in a way that looks photorealistic.

Awesome Photorealistic Coloring Techniques

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