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I am not familiar and have not used CorelDraw, but it I know that it is a worth opponent to Photoshop. Since I received quite a good response for my previous post to Cartoonize your picture, I decided to do some search whereby you could use CorelDraw to cartoonize your picture.

• Cartoonize your picture by Tutorialmix - This uses a Jessica Abba picture to be cartoonize, the steps seems much easier, but result looks like a sketch to me.

Another tutorial I have found is using Photoshop or flash. It is a old tutorial but the result is very appealing.

• Learn to cartoonize your picture by Ink Explotion

This is just a very simple technique, and a one click thing. But it will be useful from time to time.

Sometimes, you face this when you are scanning your pictures, taking pictures from an uneven ground or even some stranger taking your picture may end up like this.

All you need is a photoshop CS2 or CS3. If you can do that with an older version, let me know.

Now you just have to do the following:-

1. File > Automate > Crop and Straighten Photos
2. You may want to crop some of the mess or whitespot.

Source for this Straighten Pictures Tutorial

Web 2.0 style becoming popular, more and more websites is using buttons which are simple, bright and catchy ideas to get readers to click on their buttons or logo. Some of the websites even offer a simple and hassle free method to create your very own cool 3D button. But there is always certain limitation on what type or shape you would like your button to be.

The most flexible way is always to do it yourself with Adobe Photoshop.

You will be able to come out with logo/button just like this:-

The process is very simple. It only includes Rectangular Marquee Tool, Skew, Distort, Gradient and some dragging with your mouse. Within 5-15minutes, you will get a cool looking 3D button for your website.

Learn 3D Button Tutorial

Adobe® AIR™, formerly code-named Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.

Mike Chambers, Danny Dura and Kevin Hoyt now allows users to download their book titled Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide for free.

You could still have the hard copy of Adobe Air from Amazon for USD10.19, but it will not beat the free copy of Adobe Air.

Transform the picture you have on your harddrive into a cartoon. There are times when you would image how would you look in a cartoon. Here is a chance to do-it-yourself with Photoshop.

All you need is :-

1. Tutorial
2. Adobe Photoshop 7 or higher
3. An Eye for detail
4. and Some of your Time

This process is to make your own vector portraits.

Before vector portraits

After vector portraits

Learn how to cartonize your picture.