Rp Tutorials

manolos
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Hello! So, I've just returned to wonderful realm of roleplay after a fairly extended leave of absence, and am currently trying to get back into the swing of how to do things pertaining to HTML coding and such. I used to be accustomed to creating all of my own graphics on Adobe Photoshop, however again, because I've been gone for so long I've seemingly forgotten how to navigate my way through the program!

I recently downloaded Photoshop CS5. I've browsed through several of the tutorial pages provided by this community, which have been immensely helpful, but what I'm really looking for in particular are tutorials on how to make fairly simple, clean, but refined and nice-looking profile/bio images, icons. etc. Here are a few of my OWN examples, only I can't seem to remember what my method was!

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And also here are a few icons I found just for good measure (NOT mine, all credit goes to their respective makers!): one. two. three.

I'm sure if I spend enough time messing and browsing around I'll eventually figure it out, but if anyone could be of any assistance/help, offer some tips, or in general point me in the right direction of some useful tutorials I would appreciate it a TON! Sorry if this got a little long-winded, I hope I got my point across. :)