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You can apply a puppet warp on regular layers, shape layers, type layers, smart objects and even vector masks. Here’s how:

1. Select your desired layer in the Layers panel.

2. Choose Edit→Puppet Warp.

3. On the Options bar, specify your desired settings:

   

   • Mode: Determines the elasticity of the mesh. Distort will give you an ultra-stretchy mesh, while Rigid will do the opposite.

   • Density: Specifies the spacing of the mesh, where small changes in moving the pins result in larger warps. Also a good mode for larger images. Rigid is the opposite and recommended when your object is more stiff, as with human appendages.

   • Expansion: Expand or contract the outer edges of the mesh.

   • Show Mesh: Deselect to display only the pins, and not the mesh.

4. On your image, click to add a pin to an area you want to distort or anchor.

5. Drag a selected pin to warp the mesh.

   

6. To rotate around a pin automatically, select Auto on the Options bar, and drag. To rotate a fixed number of degrees, select Fixed on the Options bar, press the Alt (Option on the Mac) key and position your cursor near, but not over, the pin. Drag to rotate.

   Your degree of rotation appears on the Options bar.

7. You can also do the following:

   • To show a mesh area that you’ve overlapped over another, click the Pin Depth buttons on the Options bar.

   • To select multiple pins, Shift+click on your desired pins. Release the Shift key to drag all pins simultaneously.

   • To delete a pin, select it and press Backspace (Delete on the Mac) or Alt (Option on the Mac) and click over a pin.

   • Click Remove All Pins (the curved arrow icon) on the Options bar to do just that.

   • To select all pins, press Ctrl (Command on the Mac). To deselect all pins, press Ctrl+D (Command+D on the Mac). To hide the mesh, press Ctrl+H (Command+H on the Mac).

   • To exit Puppet Warp, click the slashed circle icon, or press Esc.

8. After you warp to your desired result, press Enter (Return on the Mac) or click the check icon on the Options bar.

If you are planning to start your career into IT, you can begin as User Interface developer.

No previous IT background or programming experience needed.

Below are some of the responsibilties of User Interface Developer:

• Convert web page designs or web applications design into html pages using html/css
• Make use of semantic mark up to create the structure of the page
• Style the page using CSS
• Test the web page in different browsers
• Optimize the pages for different mobile devices

Apart from this basic experience there are a lot of advance techniques and methodology that you learn while working.

It does involves logical thinking, hard work and dedication.
 

First impressions are lasting impressions. Whether you realize it or not, your typography helps to create an experience for users before they’ve even read a word or clicked a button. Typography has the potential to go beyond merely telling a story — it shows the user who is behind the website and what you’re about. The treatment of type creates an atmosphere and elicits a response much the same way as tone of voice does.

You need to ask yourself, what do you want to say and how do you want to say it? Consider the user: What do you want them to feel and experience when the page loads? Typography establishes a mode of communication and, in turn, the personality of the website. The choice of typeface will determine how people respond to your website.

The following websites have very distinct personalities, largely established by the typography. Granted, sometimes they aren’t perfect (unfortunately, performance is often an issue), but they use type to engage the user and generate interest. Good Web typography isn’t just about a beautiful visual treatment, but about speed as well; many designers neglect performance entirely. Please keep in mind that these websites haven’t been tested in old browsers or on mobile devices — that wasn’t the point of this article. Instead, we’ll look closely at interesting treatments and innovative uses of type.

Exquisite Uses Of Type:

Matt Luckhurst
This page is colorful and fun. You are greeted with lovely serif letters — and after a bit, you realize that the seemingly randomly scattered letters spell Matt’s name. It’s quite effective how hovering reveals a sample image of each project; it almost jumps out of the letter. The website shows how type can be used as graphic elements and incorporated into a design. The multicolored serif typeface breaks away from the classic, maybe even sober, idea we may have of serifs.

Playful:

Well, this is definitely playful! The tone of the website is set not just by the look of the typeface, but by the way it’s displayed. It breaks the mold of communication. You would usually see axial typography on printed posters, which can be effective. On this website, the font choice isn’t particularly decorative or playful; it’s a rather simple sans serif. A nice touch is the background pattern, which mimics the reading direction and the movement of the user’s head from side to side as they read the text.

What is Angular Material?

For developers using AngularJS, Angular Material is both a UI Component framework and a reference implementation of Google's Material Design Specification. This project provides a set of reusable, well-tested, and accessible UI components based on Material Design.

• GETTING STARTED
• CONTRIBUTORS
• DEMOS
• CUSTOMIZATION
• API REFERENCE

Installing the Angular Material Libraries

You can install the Angular Material library (and its dependent libraries) in your local project using either NPM, JSPM, or Bower.

Angular Material also integrates with some additional, optional libraries which you may elect to include:

• ngMessages - Provides a consistent mechanism for displaying form errors and other messages.
• ngSanitize - The ngSanitize module provides functionality to sanitize HTML content in Material components.
• ngRoute - Provides a clean routing system for your application.

Theming in angular material uses classes to apply an intention group to a given component. Most components in Angular Material support intention classes as expected, including:

• md-button
• md-checkbox
• md-progress-circular
• md-progress-linear
• md-radio-button
• md-slider
• md-switch
• md-tabs
• md-input-container
• md-toolbar

Directive is very powerful feature of AngularJS. It easily wired up with controller, html and do the DOM manipulations. Angular AngularJS provide very less details about directive. I thought I will cover some of the directive that I used in real projects.

Compile Function :

use for template DOM manipulation (i.e., manipulation of tElement = template element), hence manipulations that apply to all DOM clones of the template associated with the directive.

Example: disable all element in a DIV

1. app.directive('disableContents', function () {
2. return {
3. compile: function (tElem, tAttrs) {
4. var inputs = tElem.find('input');
5. inputs.attr('ng-disabled',tAttrs['disableContents']);
6. for(var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++) {
7. }
8. }
9. }
10. });

Link Function:

Use for registering DOM listeners (i.e., $watch expressions on the instance scope) as well as instance DOM manipulation (i.e., manipulationof iElement = individual instance element).

Check Valid email on textbox blur

1. app.directive('validEmail', ['$dependency', function ($dependency) {
2. return {
3. require: 'ngModel',
4. link: function (scope, element, attrs, ngModel) {
5. element.bind('blur', function (e) {
6. if (!ngModel || !element.val()) return;
7. var currentValue = element.val();
8. var regex = /^[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~.-]+@[a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?(\.[a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?)*$/i;
9. if (currentValue && !regex.test(currentValue)) {
10. ngModel.$modelValue = '';
11. element[0].value = '';
12. alert(INVALID EMAIL);
13. }
14. });
15. }
16. }
17. }]);

You can use directive in all scenario where you want to manipulate DOM elements.

HTML Colors 

Three Options to define Color
1. Color Name - red, blue, green
2. Hexadecimal Code - Example #7FFFD4
3. RGB - RGB (31,205,197)

Every color is made up of three colors: Red, Green and Blue.
You can choose from millions of colors for designing your web pages.

AliceBlue F0F8FF
AntiqueWhite FAEBD7
Aqua 00FFFF
Aquamarine 7FFFD4
Azure F0FFFF
Beige F5F5DC
Bisque FFE4C4
Black 000000
BlanchedAlmond FFEBCD
Blue 0000FF
BlueViolet 8A2BE2
Brown A52A2A
BurlyWood DEB887
CadetBlue 5F9EA0
Chartreuse 7FFF00
Chocolate D2691E
Coral FF7F50
CornflowerBlue 6495ED
Cornsilk FFF8DC
Crimson DC143C
Cyan 00FFFF
DarkBlue 00008B
DarkCyan 008B8B
DarkGoldenRod B8860B
DarkGray A9A9A9
DarkGreen 006400
DarkKhaki BDB76B
DarkMagenta 8B008B
DarkOliveGreen 556B2F
Darkorange FF8C00
DarkOrchid 9932CC
DarkRed 8B0000
DarkSalmon E9967A
DarkSeaGreen 8FBC8F
DarkSlateBlue 483D8B
DarkSlateGray 2F4F4F
DarkTurquoise 00CED1
DarkViolet 9400D3
DeepPink FF1493
DeepSkyBlue 00BFFF
DimGray 696969
DimGrey 696969
DodgerBlue 1E90FF
FireBrick B22222
FloralWhite FFFAF0
ForestGreen 228B22
Fuchsia FF00FF
Gainsboro DCDCDC
GhostWhite F8F8FF
Gold FFD700
GoldenRod DAA520
Gray 808080
Green 008000
GreenYellow ADFF2F
HoneyDew F0FFF0
HotPink FF69B4
IndianRed CD5C5C
Indigo 4B0082
Ivory FFFFF0
Khaki F0E68C
Lavender E6E6FA
LavenderBlush FFF0F5
LawnGreen 7CFC00
LemonChiffon FFFACD
LightBlue ADD8E6
LightCoral F08080
LightCyan E0FFFF
LightGoldenRodYellow FAFAD2
LightGray D3D3D3
LightGreen 90EE90
LightPink FFB6C1
LightSalmon FFA07A
LightSeaGreen 20B2AA
LightSkyBlue 87CEFA
LightSlateGray 778899
LightSteelBlue B0C4DE
LightYellow FFFFE0
Lime 00FF00
LimeGreen 32CD32
Linen FAF0E6
Magenta FF00FF
Maroon 800000
MediumAquaMarine 66CDAA
MediumBlue 0000CD
MediumOrchid BA55D3
MediumPurple 9370DB
MediumSeaGreen 3CB371
MediumSlateBlue 7B68EE
MediumSpringGreen 00FA9A
MediumTurquoise 48D1CC
MediumVioletRed C71585
MidnightBlue 191970
MintCream F5FFFA
MistyRose FFE4E1
Moccasin FFE4B5
NavajoWhite FFDEAD
Navy 000080
OldLace FDF5E6
Olive 808000
OliveDrab 6B8E23
Orange FFA500
OrangeRed FF4500
Orchid DA70D6
PaleGoldenRod EEE8AA
PaleGreen 98FB98
PaleTurquoise AFEEEE
PaleVioletRed DB7093
PapayaWhip FFEFD5
PeachPuff FFDAB9
Peru CD853F
Pink FFC0CB
Plum DDA0DD
PowderBlue B0E0E6
Purple 800080
Red FF0000
RosyBrown BC8F8F
RoyalBlue 4169E1
SaddleBrown 8B4513
Salmon FA8072
SandyBrown F4A460
SeaGreen 2E8B57
SeaShell FFF5EE
Sienna A0522D
Silver C0C0C0
SkyBlue 87CEEB
SlateBlue 6A5ACD
SlateGray 708090
Snow FFFAFA
SpringGreen 00FF7F
SteelBlue 4682B4
Tan D2B48C
Teal 008080
Thistle D8BFD8
Tomato FF6347
Turquoise 40E0D0
Violet EE82EE
Wheat F5DEB3
White FFFFFF
WhiteSmoke F5F5F5
Yellow FFFF00
YellowGreen 9ACD32