Wanted: Tutorials, articles or ideas!

[IBBoard]

OK,I'll make this a sticky in case people feel they have time to contribute things other than textures, or if they can make things sound simpler than I do (which I'm sure isn't hard!)

If you have any tutorials or articles - how to do things like making a previously non-teamcolourable area teamcolourable, how to make certain effects, whatever - then please either post them or email them to me We're always willing to take contributions, and the bigger the range of authors and tutorials, the better the contribution back to the community.

[IBBoard]

OK, minor change to the topic - ideas are now accepted!

If you feel that something isn't described well enough anywhere, then please post the topic here and I'll see what I can do in the way of a tutorial, or what other people can do. I know there are a few areas that people have problems with when they first skin, but I can't think what they are or what kind of tutorial I can make for them! I want to add more content to make the site even better, but without the ideas I can't do it

[IBBoard]

Hmmmm, no ideas from anyone else yet Oh well, I've come up with one of my own already It's quite specific, and seems obvious to me, but then I've worked with skins a lot.

The new tutorial, for those who don't watch the Skins@HWT News page (shame on you!) is Making non-team colourable areas teamcolourable.

I have an exam first thing tomorrow, but I might try and make a quick sister tutorial of how to make an area non-teamcolourable soon. I'll include the quick way and then the clean way that tidies up after yourself

[MadMaffMan]

Nice work with the tutorial, in it you mention.

'The circle selector and polygon lassoo-type tools are the best choice for the tattoo.'

Now i dont know about anyone else but as i'm self taught the one thing that does confuse the hell out of me is all the different tools that PS6 has. I expect that i do things the hard way when things like this polygon lassoo tool would make my life much simpler. Hows about a tutorial explaining the tools and the best use for them.

I took me ages to get the hang of things like masking, and alpha layers are still very hit and miss with me. I had a full head of hair when i started out at this, now look at me.........



P.S. Good luck with the exams.

[IBBoard]

Thanks, exam is in 1hr 15 and counting

As for the tools, I purposefully didn't use their 'real name' in Photoshop because they're probably Photoshop specific and it was meant to be a generic tutorial I can try and document some of the tools and techniques, though, although I've never used masking yet!

[MadMaffMan]

Masking is the main way i move things from layer to layer, it's the selection tools that i don't know how to use. The help file with PH6 isn't the best ever made either which doesn't help.

[IBBoard]

To move between layers, I just select (with background set to white or black as appropriate) cut, go to other file and paste

Exams are over now, so I should be working on my final year project, but a break is needed first and hopefully more tutorials will be produced I'll get your skins up shortly as well, although first me things I need a nice ham sandwich