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Welcome!

Jan 06, 2006 15:57

Welcome to itut, the community that is strictly for tutorials.

If you wish to apply for posting access, please do so here. Please post with the name you wish to post with as well as a link to a tutorial you have done already or 3-6 icons you have created. I will check out your icons/tutorial and let you know if you get posting access. :)

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myrasis February 26 2006, 16:00:03 UTC

myrasis
All my tutorials

Most recent icon post here though it's a huge dump of ones I've had on my comp for quite a while.

obliquity February 26 2006, 16:28:25 UTC

I have to say, my favourite of your tutorials are the ones for the light textures and the lost header one but they are all great. Thank you for applying and posting access is whizzing your way as well as an invite to itutwriters. :)

cadoganxx February 26 2006, 23:30:06 UTC

cadoganxx
a tut

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obliquity February 26 2006, 23:51:46 UTC

Thank you for applying! Your tutorial was wonderful - very simple and very easy to follow. Posting access is whizzing your way as well as an invitation to itutwriters :)

cadoganxx March 19 2006, 16:42:19 UTC

Hi, I don't think I ever got those invitations...?

obliquity March 19 2006, 16:43:06 UTC

Hmm I don't know why they didn't send, I do know I sent them. I'll send them again now. I'm very sorry.

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knittinggoddess March 1 2006, 07:28:24 UTC

kniticons is where I keep my tutorials and icons. The tutorials are here, but my favorites are this one and this one.
I try to use as many visual aids as possible, and when appropriate, to explain why I made a change or the effect I was trying to approximate.
Of my icons, I particularly like

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obliquity March 1 2006, 07:56:37 UTC

To be perfectly honest, I'm very very conflicted on your application. The tutorials you have written are very well done, very easy to follow and the explanations for what you do and why are great. We don't have any gimp tutorial writers here so it would be great to have you. On the other hand, there isn't consistency with the quality of the icons in the tutorials you have written. For example, the two you linked as your favourites are two very different tutorials - both very well written but as well as quality writing we want to see a quality 'product' so to speak - the end result. The 'oh my' icon is much nicer (I love it actually) then the Sisko icon. I think the Sisko icon would be better without the cartooned layer but that is really my opinion ( ... )

knittinggoddess March 1 2006, 08:04:06 UTC

I've noticed the same inconsistency with my output, too. Some of the icons I really liked in the past don't look as good now, and so forth.
But I shall keep writing and working, and I'll reapply when I'm done with this semester. Thanks for the input!

obliquity March 1 2006, 08:05:10 UTC

Fabulous! :) Good luck!

victoriaely March 4 2006, 14:56:31 UTC

victoriaely
My graphics journal is lemon_craze, I have my most recent icon posts there.
I'm experiencing with colors/masks right now :)

The three tuts I've done so far:
one here
other two here

obliquity March 4 2006, 21:27:36 UTC

Hi! Thanks for applying!

I'm going to have to say no for now because I find that there can be some confusion in your tutorials. I really like your use of screenshots in the first one you linked to and was disappointed to see that they weren't there in the other two tutorials. Granted this community isn't strictly for beginners but if you've watched the community you will see that there is either some explanations included with the steps or screencaps to show where in the program we are. Your tutorials are fine as they are, don't get me wrong, but I kind of feel that it would be good to have the first tutorial open while looking at the second and third - so I can see WHERE you are clicking to get to those menu options. I hope that makes sense. :\

If you feel like reapplying later, please do so because the icons you created were very nice.

victoriaely March 5 2006, 15:13:11 UTC

Thanks for the advice :)
I'm not very experienced at making tutorials and it's always good to know what to do to improve them.
Will definitely come back :)

fearstrikes March 6 2006, 21:09:05 UTC

greenblurs
All tutorials here.

obliquity March 6 2006, 21:33:44 UTC

Hi! Thanks for applying!

I'm going to have to say no for now. Your tutorials are easy to read and easy to follow which is good but I am looking for tutorials that have a bit more to them - what I mean by this is a bit more of why you did the step you did rather than doing something else. Even something as simple as "I set this layer to color dodge to brighten the icon". All that said, should you decide to include that sort of thing in future tutorials, you are welcome to apply again. :)

fearstrikes March 7 2006, 02:28:01 UTC

Aw. Well, thank you for the suggestions and your time :)