| New for 10/27/98 - Making Tiles from Tubes This
tutorial shows how to create tiled backgrounds using picture tubes.
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| New for 12/22/98 - Making Layered Backgrounds This tutorial
shows how to create tiling backgrounds with overlapping layers giving the feeling of
depth.
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| New for 10/2/98 - Weaving Tweed This tutorials show hows to
manipulate hue maps to get interesting textures from random noise. An Adobe
Photoshop plugin which is part of a demo download is used to produce a tweed effect from
the above texture. Requires downloading the demo from the Adobe site.
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 New for 9/17/98 - Opals 201This tutorial shows another way
to make opals. On the second page is a description of how to create
"enameled" jewelry. Both tutorials require Blade Pro with the presets
being provided in a zip file. Be sure to mouseover the "Welcome" for a
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| New for 9/4/98 - Simple Faceted Gems This tutorial
shows how to create "gems" with simple facets. It includes the Blade
Pro presets needed, and two "master" files for the gems shown at
right. If you don't have Blade Pro, you can still make gems like these in whatever
colors you want by using the master files which are in PSP format.
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| New for 8/27/98 - Creating Buttons for Mouseovers This
tutorial shows how to create buttons with two states. While not for mouseovers,
alone, these are easy to get going with. Also, it shows how to make
"frames" from solid dingbats, and the power of layers and saved selections. This
uses Blade Pro to get that "transparent" look, but you don't neccessarily need
it to implement most of the ideas.
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| New for 8/14/98 - Incised Decorations with Dingbats I'm currently
on a roll with dingbats. This tutorial shows how to use those same complicated
dingbats to give Blade Pro an incised look. I hope others will come up with
improvements and variations for this one.
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| New for 8/13/98 - Delightful Dingbats + Bonus Textures This
tutorial shows how to use complicated dingbats to make decorative elements. There
are also two more techniques for making textures which resemble sand and water..
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| New for 7/15/98 - Interesting Textures I This tutorial shows
how to do some interesting monochrome textures. These are especially useful for
cutout techniques such as those found at the Webgraphics
on a Budget site.
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| New for 7/14/98 - "Reflective Metal"
Its not that easy to see from the example at right, but the background texture looks like
it "reflects" up on the metallic surface. There are some intermediate steps in
this tutorial which are, themselves, rather pleasing effects. Lots to "chew on"
here. Again, thanks to State-of-Entropy
for some inspiration which I managed to turn inside out.
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| New for 7/10/98 - Opals 101 Tutorial
This is my first "published" attempt at creating opals. This is a work
in progress for me. What I really like about what is here are the
"embellishments" I added to the fairly simple opal I created. Looking at State-of-Entropy's Blade Pro Jewels
tutorial inspired me to fashion these settings for the opals.
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| New for 6/18/98 - Creating
Pearls 'I've been wanting to make lovely pearls and other
jewels without an expensive plug-in, so here's one you can do with Blade Pro.
Inspiration, spurred on by Andrew Ronayne's Blade Pro pearl presets, struck. Enjoy.
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| New for 6/9/98 - Quick Border Background Sometimes you just
need a border background in a hurry. Here's how to make one in a few steps that will
get you on your way.
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| New for 6/5/98 - Shifting Light on Gold Tutorial The
effect I'm trying for is a light source playing over a golden surface. There are Blade
Pro settings and a tutorial available for this. |
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| Around 5/22/98 - Stained Glass This is the tutorial which
started the whole thing. I wanted a stained glass that had a bevel and that I could
see through. There are two techniques here. One doesn't have the
bevel and requires only PSP 5. The more realistic glass uses Blade
Pro, as well. |
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