100% Photoshop from Scratch
No photos, scans, 3D or Illustrator used in this image - I won a Guru award for this image at the PhotoshopWorld Convention 2002 (1st place Illustration), also got Macworld Finalist and its appeared in several books and magazines - scroll down for more views.

Sometimes you might notice photos taken (particularly with digital camera) are not as nice as you expect them to be when it’s viewed on your monitor. Here’s a little Photoshop trick I used often to enhance the photo colors, making it livelier overall.

Here’s a sample image taken with digital and camera opened up in Photoshop, you might think the color here is fine but you’ll see a difference when we compare this and the final output later.

 n terms of creating a website (corporate or personal) it don’t have to be coded from scratch anymore. That means you probably don’t have to start from a blank .PHP, .CSS or .HTML document. Thanks to many kind and generous designers / developers, high quality web templates are distributed freely over the Internet.

Mendes was born in Miami,[1] to Cuban-American parents and was raised in Los Angeles by her mother after her parents' divorce; Mendes has said that her mother "suffered so much to make my life OK" during her early years.[1] Her father was a car salesman and her mother, also named Eva, is now an elementary school principal. She is the youngest of four children (she has two sisters and a brother). She was raised Roman Catholic and aspired to be a nun.[2] As a child, Mendes was teased about her "buck teeth".[1]