What happens when you’re tasked with “beautifying” a web site? Or when you need to spruce up a document to add some colour? In both cases, the graphics required don’t even need to
be done by professionals, just good enough to be close to professional quality. The graphics aren’t even the main focus, nor will they make or break a deal.
What you need is an easy way to come up with something moderately good. What you need is Paint.NET. After you’ve set the software up (it’s free), draw some rectangles on the canvas.

Then use the Radial Blur effect

Set it to say 10 degrees

And you’ll get this

Or you can experiment with the zoom effect

Set the zoom amount to 30

With the zoom result below

Maybe you’re in the artsy mood for twisting

Set the twist amount to 20 and the quality to 5

And the final result

Ok fine, so they don’t look like much. But they can fill in the space for a top right corner of the web page or something. Or as an unobtrusive background of some header text. You can try using block colours, but they really look terrible. With some imagination, you can create some nifty graphics. Go to the tutorial forums of Paint.NET and get some ideas!
The standard cubic Bezier curve is given by
Many programmers I know graduated either with a degree from computer science or obtained a professional certificate in programming. Yet simple programming errors or lengthy solution constructs still exist. These programmers only know the how, but not the why. Given a math graduate and a computer science graduate, both with similar academic results, you’re better off hiring the math graduate.
I have discovered a rather surprising fact about my fellow programmer colleagues. Some of them, hate, programming. They go through the day writing code, copying and pasting where appropriate, crushing bugs and then go home. Their distaste for writing code has blinded them to the notion of creating programs to help them in their work. They will only create a program for a project, and not create smaller helper programs to ease the work.








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