In October’s edition of Neat Stuff, we’re going to be taking a look at some of the unique - and sometimes odd website layouts from around the web.

Over the past six to twelve months, there’s really been a transition from traditional, clean layouts to a somewhat grungy feel around the web. These sites seem to have a warmth and naturalness to them that just isn’t possessed by a traditional website.

Last week we covered the “Camera RAW” function in Photoshop, this week we’ll be covering another one of Photoshop’s least known options - the ability to automatically stitch together panoramas using the Photomerge function. While CS3 doesn’t support full, 360 degree panoramas, the soon to be released CS4 does.

What? You didn’t know that Photoshop CS4 was being released? You can read more about CS4 right here.

In part two of our seven part series called “Design your desk”, we’re going to be looking at the creation of your computer’s horsepower - The Tower - or in this case, an iMac. As usual, this tutorial will cover everything from drawing the basic shape, to shading and shadowing.

Stay tuned for next week’s Design your Desk article, when we’ll be looking at the creation of a laptop - more specifically the creation of a white Macbook.

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One of the coolest things about Photoshop is Camera RAW, but yet it’s one of the most overlooked - most people I talk to don’t even know what it’s for. In this article we’ll go over how to take a bland RAW image and turn it into something awesome using Camera RAW

In this third and final installment of our “Create a Maintainable Wordpress Theme” series, we’re going to be looking at the meat of your theme - the PHP template files. These files are the files that Wordpress uses to fill your site with content, so getting the job done right is important.

In this new 7-Part “Design Your Desk” series, we’ll be looking at creating all the different elements that reside on your desk. Starting up with Part 1, we’ll be looking at designing your viewport into the world of Photoshop - your monitor.

This tutorial covers outlining the basic shape, texturing, shading/shadowing, adding reflections, and much more. In part 2, which will appear next week, we’ll be checking out the creation of your computer’s horsepower - the tower.

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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a cool depth of field effect in Photoshop, as well as adding a lighting effect to draw more attention to your “in focus” object. Useful for advertisements, teaser shots, etc.

It’s been a couple weeks since we launched, and I want to update you guys on what we have planned over the next few weeks. As well, I have a couple questions about what you’d like to see in terms of content and content frequency.