Many of us now offer a streaming option for our podfics. And because I had posted a tutorial on how to embed Google's media player, there are a lot of us that used that code to get our streams.

A couple months ago the Google hosting on that player started to become unstable, causing most of our streams to become broken. Thanks to a fix found by argentumlupine, ( Read more... )

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...wait, you mean you DIDN'T realize that a 3300-word tutorial/tl;dr session about tagging podfics in iTunes was missing from your life?!

Don't worry, I fixed that.

Oh god, this is legit 100% paraka's fault. GO BLAME HER.

I thought some of you might be interested in a post I made last week about how to stream your podfic, over at podfic_tips. I also made a follow up post to
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1. The Basics (Part 1)
   
2. The Basics (Part 2)
   
3. Base Images
   
4. Cut-Outs
   
5. Coloring & Contrast
   
6. Text
   
7. Advanced Techniques: Masks, Blending, etc.
   
8. Complete Cover Walkthrough
   
9. What makes cover art good or bad? A discussion on composition.

So, now that you've all had a bit of time to play around with your chosen graphics program, time for some basic terms and concepts ( Read more... )

1. The Basics (Part 1)
   
2. The Basics (Part 2)
   
3. Base Images
   
4. Cut-Outs
   
5. Coloring & Contrast
   
6. Text
   
7. Advanced Techniques: Masks, Blending, etc.
   
8. Complete Cover Walkthrough
   
9. What makes cover art good or bad? A discussion on composition.

Since there seems to be sufficient interest, I'm going to go ahead with my series of podfic cover tutorials. Note that these same ( Read more... )

(I promise this is the last time I'm going to spam the community today! XD ( Read more... )

Note: This post has been in the works for over a year. Thanks to general_jinjur and aphelant for their help along the way and to lunchy_munchy for motivating me to finally finish it. ♥

Go here to hear this meta read aloud by the wonderful knight_tracer!In podfic meta discussions, it periodically comes up that some people want to leave feedback on podfic but just aren't sure what to say. This ( Read more... )

Hey all! I've created the first of a series of tutorials for garageband users (sorry windows peeps!)

( Youtube Tute under the cut! )