Bullet-resistant car windows look deceptively ordinary, yet every pane is a small engineering project built to catch and slow ...

Transparent fills are areas of color that allow you to see through to the imagery underneath, lending an interesting effect to photos and other graphics created in Photoshop. Even beginners can use ...

PowerPoint doesn't offer a built-in setting for transparent text, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. And you might be surprised just how easy it is to achieve. Transparent text exposes a pattern ...

Paint has been part of Windows since time immemorial, but it's never been able to hold a candle to more robust image editors like Photoshop. It's making an important step in the right direction, ...

The Gimp provides the Rectangle, Ellipse and Lasso selection tools to help you cut out specific parts of a photo or illustration to keep, eliminate or edit. In addition, if you add an Alpha channel to ...

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The big picture: Microsoft continues to add new features to Paint, a program the company had considered discontinuing some years ago. Now, Paint is receiving updates that include some intriguing new ...

There is no cheaper way to generate electricity today than with the sun. Solar cells available on the market based on crystalline silicon make this possible with efficiencies of up to 23 percent. With ...