Rp Tutorials

A second list of period pbs is up at spacebug: Georgian, Regency, Victorian & Edwardian.

Okay. So I've been using GIMP for about two years now and generally as long as I have high quality photos to work with and with a lot of practice I'm fairly satisfied with the outcome of most everything I make. I never try to make anything terribly fancy with it but I feel like if I had the tools I could do a lot more graphic wise.

So I looked into getting Photoshop a while back and I just checked again tonight and it says that CS4 is $700 unless you're upgrading, where it's $200.

So, my question is, for all those using Photoshop did you really pay $700 for it? If not, how did you get your hands on it?

I guess this could go for PSP too, althought that's only listed as $60 on their wesbite, would users of that program recommend it as comparable to Photoshop?

( All the pretty little patterns )

I won't claim that I created the original code for this, or for friending buttons or even inputless friending buttons, but we get a lot of requests for the code so I am posting it here,

Credit goes to my co-mod therepo who brilliantly put this version up originally at gilded_mods.

The Inputless Friending Button!

Friend Add rp_tutorials

( Instructions Behind the Cut )

name here journalname Profile | Threads PB: Year/Group/Etc.:

( castlist w/icons, journals, PBs, & links )

hey everyone names angel. im just curouse i need help making an add for my pan fandom but i dont know where to begin, i seek your wisdom :)

( A tutorial on headers and navigation for s1 Generator )

Really busy atm but here are some questions and requests that need answering for those of you who are awesome and bamf. If you have any more questions, post them here and they'll get answered faster for now.

huali is a total noob when it comes to messing with these journals. (S)He wants to know how (s)he could take the contents of her top post and place it in his/her header instead of his/her obligatory 100x100 icon.

Coding would be nice; (s)he can tinker with that. A tutorial would be even greater! ;D

vitolar would love to see templates for disclaimers for games in general as well as for a character journal. S/He never knows exactly what to put in a disclaimer.

429bullstreet has a question. How does one go about creating a... (s)he thinks it's a custom content page on Scribbld? S/He has an account there and s/he can do it, s/he just would have no idea where to go put that info in.

Any help you guys can give would be great!

Warning! Picture Heavy.
( TUTORIAL; installing s1 layouts )

Colour settings in Mac/PC Photoshop (Elements and CS4) for icon makers:

http://sherlock.insanejournal.com/72952.html

...still very exciting for graphics! Photoshop CS5 is coming out with a super incredibly cool new super powerful image editing engine. I know a lot of what he says is pretty techincal, but just watch the video, I promise you'll be geeking over the future of icon, banner and advertisement making.

The Future of Image Editing.

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( Past and Retired!! )

S1 Layouts good for RPGs and Characters. I post my stuff at kerning but here is a summary of that I've done. I try and keep in mind what I like to use for RPGs and keep them easily customizable.

( Table and Rules )

...okay, I'm apparently going crazy because I could have sworn I posted this last night. I just hope I didn't post it to another community by accident. chalk suggested I dreamed it, which would be nothing new, or that I'll know if I get any ">:| WHERRR IS MAH SNARRY SNUCIUS FIC!!!" comments.

rpsthatdontsuck has gone on indefinite hiatus. Looking for an alternative? Try rpg_elitist. It's a bit new but by no means should that turn you off.

Lately, I've been rather obsessed with CSS (one of the reasons I haven't been around). While I doubt any of you could care less -- or would benefit from knowing -- how to center a drop down navigation list (but in case you do I suggest this article that uses son of suckerfish), I have stumbled some BAMF list of firefox add-ons for web developers among other things that many of you might find come in handy.

35 Absolutely Useful Firefox Plugins For Web Designers And Developers. It's kind of like Christmas for web design geeks. Highlights include the following: window resizer (to see how it would look if you had a smaller screen), lorem ipsum generator, programs that let you see how the page looks in IE and Opera in your browser, firebug (that lets you click/highlight material and shows you what that effects) and CodeBurner (which integrates with it and gives you reference material!), an eye dropper (for selecting colors) that lets you use it in your browser, a code viewer that works like Firebug but easier (it hasn't been updated but there's another version here), a a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage, and even a tool that lets you find unused CSS selectors.



( MORE STUFF )

Type in a name, and The Baby Name Wizard will show you the points in the past 120 or so years in which the name has been popular. It could be especially helpful if you're PBing a character from a previous historical period and aren't sure if the name you have in mind for said character would have been popular during their time period, and it can also even be helpful in determining if you're trying to figure out if your modern character's name is too obscure and/or old-fashioned.

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( Boys and girls! )

Hey mods! I have found an awesome Firefox extension that I can no longer live without. Meet Reminder Fox, it takes the memory out of modding.

This thing is awesome, if someone places a hold, you can right click, set reminder that at 11AM in X number of days, their hold will expire. Need to be reminded about activity checks or group chats? Put it in once, and tell it to remind weekly, monthly or custom it to bi-weekly. It will pop up little alarm/reminders, and you can mouse over the tool to see today's reminders as well as a short list of the upcoming reminders, along with the date they will happen on.

This thing has made my life so much easier.
Nab it here.

spacebug has a growing list of medieval/Renaissance PBs, part of a projected series.

( The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly )

oneandonlypb. A PB community where you suggest PBs for certain fandom (book, television, etc) characters. Fabulous resource! You can join by going here.

Common Errors in English Usage. Great grammar resource.

I'll probably do a tutorial on it at some point, but Erase Your Online Footprint. This is great for making sure no RP stuff pops up when you're applying for jobs.

meta_roundup. Great fandom resources. Has an RP tag.

And some new advertising communities rec'd by fromamerica: oc_friendly_rpg and non_multifandom.

sherlock suggests the British Spellcheck Add-on and LJ-Sec tool for migration. Also: Turning off auto-restart (XP and Vista).

I swear I will update this place proper when I get more time!