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9/4/2005 13:10:34   
Loki
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 Welcome to the Gallery Q&A forum! Here you'll find plenty of guides to the digital arts made by others, but here are some helpful tips to follow when making your own:

When submitting a tutorial, always make sure it's your own work.
Plagiarizing is against the forum's rules and is also frowned upon by the GFX community.

Specify the name and version of the program in the title that the tutorial requires.
(Ex: "[GIMP] How to Brush" or "[PS CS2] Cannon Blast Effect")

Make sure the tutorial has not already been submitted.
Refer to the Tutorial Directory by Acolytic in advance to make sure that yours will be original in content.

All steps should be easily legible/readable.
Assume your audience has NO previous graphical experience. (Try to avoid using "leet speak." Grammar and punctuation really do help.)

Include images of the steps to go along with the text.
Tutorials are so much easier to follow if the audience has a general handle on what should be the desired outcome.

Be sure to give credit where credit is due.
Remember though, the tutorial should be your own work. Getting help for a step or two is ok, but you shouldn't copy the entire thing.

Hopefully these guidelines should get you all on your way to making quality tutorials.
If you have any questions, feel free to send a PM to Grafh, iChar, Nicky, or VampireHSS.

< Message edited by Grafh -- 12/24/2007 9:40:09 >
AQ  Post #: 1
4/17/2007 17:29:52   
VampireHSS
Member

This compilation of guides contains all things needed to start or improve your Digtal Arts/Sig makings and useful resources and tutorials for RPG Maker XP.

Posts Index:
Ultimate Web Resource Guide by Grafh
Graphics Tutorial Directory by _AcOlYtiC_
RPG Maker XP Tutorial Directory by Darklord517

< Message edited by VampireHSS -- 4/17/2007 17:42:40 >
AQ DF MQ  Post #: 2
4/17/2007 17:32:07   
VampireHSS
Member

Ultimate Web Resource Guide
Originally posted by Grafh.

This guide contains all things needed to start your Digtal Arts/Sig makings.

Image-Editing Programs

Programs people use for Digtal Arts/Sig making.

The GIMP - Free Program
GIMP Portable - Free Program. Same as GIMP but no installing needed.
Photoshop - Free Trial for 30 days.
Paint Shop Pro - Free Trial for 30days.
Fireworks - Free Trial for 30days.
Pixia

3D Programs

Cinema 4D - Free Trial for 30 days.
Bryce - Free Trial for 30 days.
Maya
Blender
3ds Max - Free Trial for 30 days.
Houdini Apprentice

Other programs used by the GoCA area.

Flash - Free Trial for 30 days
Paint.net - Free type version of Flash
VectorMagic - BMP images to vector art converter.
SmartMorph
Terragen

Animation Programs

Unfreez
Pivot
MS GIF Animator
GraphicsGale - Animation GIF editor

Game Making

Game Maker 6
Game Maker 7
RPG Maker XP

Alternative Download Link

www.download.com - CNet website for computer programs. Safe.

Tutorial Sites

Tutorials for using your new program.

Pixel2Life - For All Programs (Paint, GIMP, PSP, PS, Flash, ect) - Look here before asking for anyother help.
Good-Tutorials - For Photoshop
Entheos - For Photoshop
Pinoy7 - For Paint Shop Pro
GIMPtalk - For GIMP
BeesKneesFXlications/graphics/gimp/teach%20yourself%20gimp%20in%2024%20hours/ewtoc.html]HUGE GIMP Guide! 24 Chapters![/link]

Brushes

Brushes for your new programs

deviantART - Has brushes for Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, and GIMP. Only place you will ever need.
(Special note, if you like a brush and use it, sign up of a deviant account and fav the brush, this is most helpful to the artist)
GIMP Talk Brush sets - For GIMP only. Helpful link for downloading brushes.

Fonts

Fonts for your new program.

DaFont
1001 Fonts
Free Fonts
1001 Free Fonts


Renders

The images you see in signatures.

GameRenders
Planet Renders
CT Renders
Render World
iphotoshop Might need Photoshop to use images.
http://psdresource.com/psds.php - Need Photoshop to use images

Stocks

Cyclo.ps
Alamy
Stock.XCHNG
StockVault

Free Image Hosting

Needed to upload your images to be used on the forums.

Photobucket (Also for Videos)
ImageShack

Free File Hosting

For hosting just about everything else.

RapidShare
Megaupload
YouSendIt
SendMeFile
Ripway
Exoload
SaveFile


If you need anymore help (I.E. the tutorials did not have the information you needed) ask in the Gallery Q&A area. You will find even more tutorials and people willing to help you out. Link http://forums2.battleon.com/f/tt.asp?forumid=79 . Check the Graphics Tutorial Directory for helpful tutorials, which is located on the post below this one.

Thanks to SadJoker and others that made this possible

< Message edited by Grafh -- 11/4/2009 20:58:34 >
AQ DF MQ  Post #: 3
4/17/2007 17:33:30   
VampireHSS
Member

Graphics Tutorial Directory

Due to the large amounts of tutorials and other resources that members give to the Gallery, this is no longer undated.

To make it easier for everyone, you can pull up all tutorials and resources yourself.

To do this, you need to change the Viewing Filters of the Gallery Q&A. The following is how to go about this.

When on the Gallery Q&A page, you will see the Filter look like this:


Now to view all the Tutorials and Resources, change the filter to look like the following:


That will pull up all the FAQed threads in the Gallery Q&A area. All tutorials and Resources are tagged FAQed to prevent them from being deleted and make them easy to find.

Thanks
Grafh

< Message edited by Grafh -- 12/1/2008 19:46:20 >
AQ DF MQ  Post #: 4
4/17/2007 17:35:18   
VampireHSS
Member

RPG Maker XP Tutorial Directory
Originally posted by Darklord517.

As people in the GoCA and the Gallery Q&A are finding it hard to find good tutorials for RMXP RPG Maker 2004 etc, i am composing a list of Tutorials that are very useful

To do this can people please help me along with this.

If you also find ways to make kince HUD layouts and text messages then post them here.

Just please make sure to post who made the tutorial or script, graphcis etc as i don't want to get banned for Copyright problems etc.



RMXP Tutorials:

Creation Asylum
RMXP



RMXP Scripts

Good Place For Scripts, whether its writing one or requesting one made




RMXP Graphics, Battlers Sprites etc

One of The Best Resource Sites There are for RMXP
Battler Graphics
Tilesets
Has some Good Resources
A good place but unfortunately needs you to register
An incredibly good place for Graphics and Sprites!
Lots of Tilesets
Tons of Resources
Sprite Heaven!
Resources, Get your Resources!
Click about on the links to the left, i don't understand them either but some of them have great resources
Lot's of Characters, if you like star wars then go here!
RMXP Resources
Resource Heaven!
I don't get the writing either but they have some nifty Graphics
Face Maker



RMXP Music

http://www.vgmusic.com/

http://www.findsounds.com/

http://www.midishrine.com/index.php

http://www.tam-music.com/freemidi/rpg2000.html



Credit

Credit to:

I_AM_SO_EBIL
All the Websites Above
Enterbrain
Santa Samurai
Darklord517 (for posting the original topic)

< Message edited by Nicky -- 8/25/2007 22:46:00 >
AQ DF MQ  Post #: 5
4/21/2008 7:04:18   
nolraitru
Member

Q&A Threads
MS Support thread
Paint.NET Live Q&A
GIMP Support 101 Q&A and Help
GIMP Support 101 Q&A and Help II
Photoshop Q&A Thread
Flash Q&A Thread 5
Pivot FAQ ~ Ask and Answer

< Message edited by Nicky -- 12/14/2008 18:55:05 >
Post #: 6
7/23/2008 21:09:52   
Grafh
Jade Rose


 Common Questions

How do I add fonts to "_____"?
To add fonts to any program you are using, click on one of the following links based on your Operating System.

Windows 2000, XP, and Vista - http://www.ascendercorp.com/fonthelp/fonthelp_windows.html
Mac - http://macapper.com/2008/02/21/how-to-install-fonts-on-mac/

How to I add a link to my sig?
To add a link to your sig, or another image. The forums use the following format. 
[link=LINK TO WEBSITE][img]YOUR IMAGE[/img][/link]


I downloaded "_____", and its a WinRAR file.
You need to download WinRAR, its like WinZIP that you already have, but just a different program.

You can get it here. http://www.download.com/WinRAR/3000-2250_4-10007677.html (Free Program)

What font does Adventure Quest use?
AQ uses a font called " Black Chancery", which can be downloaded from DaFont.

Where can I get a "AE character, item" template?
Sadly you are going to have to make your own. Game templates are not released to the public.

< Message edited by Grafh -- 3/10/2009 18:59:39 >
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