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... )

This site shows a clear victory for Obama, breaking it down by issue/question and voter affiliation. This site shows it as basically a statistical tie (Obama has 1 point on McCain, but there's a +/-5 point error margin).

Personally, I thought that from a debater's POV, McCain won, since he was on the offensive (putting Obama on the defensive) most ( Read more... )

I've noticed Mac users mentioning in various places that ♥ shows up as a vertical line in Firefox (like so: |). I know if this were happening to me, I'd go out of my MIND with craziness. So, smashfantastic asked me to find a fix for it the other day, and since I'm nice like that, I agreed to do it ( Read more... )

Alright, I think that subject is sufficient enough warning ~.^ (You know, in case it was unclear before, or something XD)

For those of you who were not previously aware of the situation, there was an issue with fanwanking/anti-Wincest flaming in the original version of this post at wincest, which carried over into the cross-posting supernatural_tv, resulting in ( Read more... )