Cartoon Your Face in Photoshop - Tutorial

To create a cartoon effect for your photo follow the steps in this tutorial. Here is what we are about to do:

Step 1

Open your image in Photoshop! Goto Filter -> Artistic -> Poster Edges.

Step 2

Select the magic wand tool  and eliminate the background. You may need the lasso tool  in case the background is complicated.

Step 3

Now you need the magic wand   again to eliminate the face colors and details.

Step 4

After that Goto Filter ->; Sketch ->; Graphic Pen.

Step 5

Next you need to select the Lasso tool and eliminate the dots and details that appear. 

Finally it should look like this.

Step 6

Apply color #ef6536 to the background. Apply color #fbd954 to the face and skin. Your final image is ready.

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Simple File Upload in C# .Net

Here are a few simple steps you can follow to upload files in C# ASP.Net using the File Upload Control in Visual Studio:

Step 1:

* Create the file upload control in the design view. The ID of my control is "File1".

Step 2:

*Here is the code to upload a file.

protected  string   uploadFile(string userid, string oldFileLocation)

{

    if (File1.PostedFile != null && File1.PostedFile.ContentLength>0)

    {

        string fn = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(File1.PostedFile.FileName);

        string SaveLocation = Server.MapPath("Folder") + "\\" + userid + "_" + fn;

        if (!fn.EndsWith(".doc") && !fn.EndsWith(".pdf") && !fn.EndsWith(".docx"))

        {

            return "Invalid File Type!";

        }

        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(oldFileLocation))

        {

            System.IO.File.Delete(oldFileLocation);

        }

        File1.PostedFile.SaveAs(SaveLocation);

        return "File Uploaded!";

    }

}

Note:
*I have used "userid" to ensure that uploaded files have unique names.
*I have created a folder "Folder" to save files into.
*I have added a check for the format of the uploaded file. You can vary the valid file type.
*I have also done a check to delete the existing file for that user.

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2010 Summer Internship

I just finished with my Summer Internship at a Software firm: Prosix Softron Pvt. Ltd. 

The last 6 weeks of work were very interesting. I worked in C# ASP.Net to design web forms for several projects undertaken by the company. I learned to use Ajax and SQL as a part of development of online software systems. I gained knowledge about the important aspects of network security and learned to use various Visual Studio tools for the purpose of login, file upload, file export, report generation and many other. I worked in Visual Studio Environment with SQL Management Server. It was a great learning experience both at the personal and the professional level.

Prosix Softron is an IT Services and Solutions provider established in 1988 in Lucknow, INDIA and now having it’s offices in Noida, Delhi and USA. Prosix has a wide ranging experience of application of Information Technology, involving software development, bulk data handling, sale & support of licensed software and hardware, facility management & application re-engineering. Solutions from Prosix have been widely appreciated in domains like Financial Institutions, Manufacturing, e-Governance, Railways and Defense.

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Emergency Management System - CS2103

CS2103- Software Engineering was a very interesting module i took in my Year 1 Semester 2 of NUS life! This module teaches the basics of the process of software development and involves a major group project to be completed in a team of four people. In my year of study the project given to us was implementation of an Emergency Management System (EMS).

My group comprised of me and my three friends all year ones. Initially we felt that the module might be difficult to manage as we may face tough competition from the rest of the cohort which comprised mainly of year twos and above. However, as the semester progressed this module turned out to be interesting and manageable.

We used C# in Visual Studio 2010 beta, PHP and SQL to code our project. What I realized after taking this module is that Software development is more than just coding. We spent countless nights figuring out the workflow of our system, defining key terminologies and logically refining our system.

Though our Iteration 1 was pretty bad and we ended up with a "fair" grade, the way we picked ourselves from then on, is something I really feel proud of. We came back with a finished logical design of our system and a cool Command User Interface in Iteration 2 which was appreciated by our invigilators. This filled us with confidence that the battle is not over yet and we could still get ahead in the race.

After a period of 13 weeks what we produces as a team was something really good ( in the sense it was more than what we had expected from ourselves at the start of the semester). I recieved with an A Grade for this module. Really satisfied with how things went regarding this module. I am really thankful to my team for their super support and understanding (*hint* only they know what I mean here ;))

Here are a few screen shots of our K4 Emergency Management System:

Main Login

Admin Panel

Dispatcher Panel

Do contact me if you wish to know more.

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Photoshop Kills

I did layouts for SHaddup (Sheares Hall monthly gossip magazine, a product of the Sheares Hall Publications). Just wish to share a couple of them that i really like:

Shaddup#4 - Left Page

Shaddup#4 - Right Page

Shaddup#5 - Left Page

Shaddup#5 - Right Page

-Photoshop Kills ;)

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SHout-For the Shearites Out There!

The Sheares Hall portal "SHout" is for the Shearites to be updated with the hall activities and to know more about the upcoming events. It is managed by Sheares Hall Publications and is under the technical supervision of the Sheares Hall IT team. 


As the Design IC of the IT Team 09/10 I was given the task of revamping SHout. This was my first experience with Content Management Systems. The website is built with Joomla. 


For those hearing it for the first time: "Joomla!" is an open source content management system platform for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets as well as a Model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework. It is written in PHP, stores data in MySQL and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization. 


The entire project was a fun and learning experience. Though I did not get paid for it but the appreciation I received for my work is truly satisfactory. I feel proud to have contributed to my hall with this web portal. Take a look here:

Sheares Rocks!

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