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Oh very nice! One of the members at the club I work at is an avid curler and will be most pleased. I was hoping both the mens and womens hockey teams would win again this year. Everyone here was so happy about the teams successes last time. Not this time around though... When I heard the womens hockey scored the gold I got that good o'l Olympic high! And from what I've been hearing the canadian women are doing awesome at the olympics. Go girls, GO! Go Team Canada! :w00t: :w00t: :w00t:

@Indy! Oooooooh, nice ones Indy! I think I will call her jiggles. That second one had me fooled for a couple seconds. Thought to myself, "Oh for crying out loud. I can't see that one!" :wall: Then of course the lil guy came out and got squashed, hehehe. Most of all I love these last two! I can't believe yah MADE them fer me. You really do care. You really really do! :hugz: Did yah haftah show the 4th one tho? Now mah secrets out, sheesh. Yes guys. Its true... I'm an alien from outtah space! Thanx Indy @RssDragon! LoL, My life as an avatar. Hahaha. I love it! But I lost mah girl! Guess I'll just have to.... Take over tha world! Mwahaha! :thor: Excellent stuff guys!

Wow, sounds very very interesting indeed! ... Unfortunately, as I have just read, it seems as though this is the kind of thing our clan would not need to use. If you have a look at the Terms and Conditions of Ogame.org Section 4: Prohibited actions states that the use of such an application as "OGManage" is strictly forbidden and for many good reasons. I am a strong believer of all players having equal footing and playing a game as is. When playing online games I look for the servers that do not accept cheats. What were they called in Sacred? Hard core? Many of us, hopefully all of us, share this value. Truly we are grateful that you made the time to share this great new toy with us Candyman. Again, thank you very much Candyman and good game! P.S. I hope that if I am mistaken as to the legality of OGManage, someone will correct me.:shrug: Cheers!

Step 8 on page 5: Ok, I didn't know how to do this step before reading this tut and so I'm guessing there are others that might get stumped as well. So here's an explanation for editing the gradient. After following the steps up to 7 on page 5 you will have a layer called "OrbBase" which is a solid black circle. On the top menu go to Layer->Layerstyle->Blending Options GradientOverlay: Copy the info from the tut to your layer blending options box. Now you need to turn that black and white gradient into a black and green gradient. Right click on the gradient to open the Gradient Editor. Now you will see an enlarged version of the gradient with little boxs above and below it. 2 on top and 2 below. In the tut it shows that there are 2 on top and 4 below so we need to add 2 more boxs below. To do this move your mouse arrow just under the gradient until you see it change from an arrow to a hand. Then click. Doing this will cause a new box to appear below the gradient. Do the same to create box #3 and drag the boxs into positions that closely match the example from the tut. Now we need to choose colours. Note that once again the creator has added hex colour #'s which are in red. I think in this case it will be simpler if you choose your colours. You'll get a better feel for things this way as well. The tut is asking you to choose colours for the 4 boxs below the gradient. To choose a colour for a box double click on a box and the Colour Picker will pop up. 1st Box: Choose black 2nd Box: Choose a dark green 3rd Box: Choose light green 4th Box: Choose bright green Now hit "OK" in the Gradient Editor and again hit "OK" in the Blending Options box. Thats it! Now you've completed the second layer and learned a great deal on the process which will be of use in creating the following layers. Tomorrow I will go over the "OrbGlass" and OrbReflex layers. Till then!

Step 5. on page 4 Ok, So here's an explanation of step 5. which is on page 4. I'm going to assume that the previous steps are understood but should you have questions on the previous steps feel free to ask. Tips: 1. You'll be doing a fair bit of copying of information and if you go too fast, like I did..., you may miss an entry. Take your time that way you're less likely to miss something. 2. If you fit both the tut and photoshop onto the screen together so you are able to see both windows it will make copying over info a lot easier. What I did was sized the tut window to take up 1/3 of the left side of the screen and fit photoshop into the remaining 2/3s. Height wise/up and down. 3. If you plan to do this tut over a period of days make sure to save your work as a .psd file so as to preserve the layers of your project. All the work done on this page is done in the "Blending Options" box which you open from the menu at the top of the screen. Menu: Layer->LayerStyle->Blending Options. Drop Shadow box: Simply copy what it says in the tut into your "orbBorder" layers Blending Options box. BevelandEmboss: Again copy all the info in the tut into your Blending Options box. Once you have done that look for the light and dark grey graphic that is beside the words "Gloss Contour:". Beside the graphic you will see a drop down arrow. Click this to see a list of grapics and choose the one that matches the graphic that the tut is showing. After you have selected the graphic it will replace the original graphic that was sitting beside the words "Gloss Contour". Right click on this graphic and the Contour Editor will open. In the Contour Editor you will see a wave that has the same shape as the graphic you right clicked on, but much larger. In this case I did not need to make any changes to the wave bacause when I opened my Contour Editor it was already the same as the tut. If yours is different from the tut then simply "click and drag" the squares of the wave until all the squares are in the same positions as the tut. Whew! Its actually much easier doing it than explaining it, haha! Contour: Which is just under BevelandEmboss in the Blending Options box. This one is a quickie. Same thing as we did a moment ago only this time the kind of graphic we need isn't in the the drop down list so we'll have to make it. We'll use the default graphic to start with which is the first graphic in the drop down list. Its exactly half light grey, half dark grey each of which are triangles stuck together to form a square graphic. Now with said graphic in place right click on it to open the Contour Editor. Now you should see an enlarged version of the graphic. Have a look at the tut and match it as close as you like. It doesn't need to be exact. To do this simply click and hold down the left mouse button on the bottom left square of the graphic and drag it up to closely match the tut example and hit ok. Voila! Note that on most Photoshop versions you get a preview of the changes you are making AS you are making them. With this in mind, watch your OrbBorder while you are dragging that little square up to see the changes. Instead of duplicating the position the tut is showing, you could drag that little square all over the place so that you can get an effect you like/prefer! Satin: Copy all the info from the tut into your Blending Options box. In this part you see info typed in red, on the tut example, beside the colour selection box at the top: This is the # for the hex colour. The creator of this tut wanted to be precise in this particular case so lets oblige her. Click on the colour box. This will open the Colour Picker. (Now I know it actually says "Color" and not "Colour" But its Colour damnit! ) Emmm, sorry bout that... At the bottom-middle-ish part of the "Colour!" Picker, heh, you will see a box with 6 digits insde it. This is where you can add 676666 Now we need to choose a contour for Satin. Click on the drop down arrow to open the list and choose the contour that matches the one in the tut. Once chosen, open the Contour Editor by right clicking on the graphic. Now with the enlarged grahic in the Contour Editor box the tut tells us... Frankly I have no idea why this is needed and so who am I to argue. So, there are 5 squares attached to the line in the Contour Editor. When you click on one of the squares an option appears just below. The word "Corner", with a check/uncheck box, appears. Checkmark this option. Do the same for all of the squares there. If the squares move a tiny bit when you click on them don't worry too much about it. It won't make a huge difference. GradientOverlay: For this one simply copy over the info then click the the drop down arrow across from the word Gradient and choose the gradient that matches. There you have it! You have just completed the 1st of 4 layers. In the next post I will explain how to make your custom gradient that is to be applied onto your second layer called "OrbBase".

Hey erialc. Wow, you don't waste any time! I had a look at your gradient tool and the tool seems to me to have the same options as the one shown in the tut. The only difference I noticed is that your gradient style is set to linear whereas the tut has it set to reflected: Across from the word "Style" there is a drop down arrow. If you push that you will see an option for reflected. Also, your scale is set to 100 where the tut suggests 150. Hope that will help! I'm off to give it a try! P.S. I just discovered that on page 4 there is no explanation as to how to open to the "Contour Editor". Heres how: Whenever you see a grey wave graphic next to the word "contour" simply right click on the graphic and the contour editor will open. P.P.S. Ooooook, so I finished the tut and discovered that in a couple of steps you need a moderate to advanced level of photoshop knowledge. Never fear! I've got lots of tips to help you guys get thru those nasty bumps in the tut which I will share tomorrow. For now, here is what I ended up with... Catch you later!

Alright guys heres a tutorial that erialc had lieing around that I thought was uber cool! So the idea here is that we work together on the tutorials. Some of us may get it to work properly and some may not quite get the effect they were hoping for and so we'll help eachother out as best we can. Once your satisfied with the end result, which doesn't need to be perfect btw, I would like you to post and share your work. Admittedly there are some necessary things that need to be learned in photoshop as a novice but I figure lets start off with something fun! Though, novice be warned, we do need to learn some important things like "colour management"... Ugh, booooring. Even I have yet to understand this fully but its imperative to understand as it dictates the outcome of the colours in your final saved projects ie: jpgs or gifs. But that is for another day. Today we have fun and get ourselves an O so cool orb! Have fun and share! Cool Orb Tutorial Link!

Hey all. I'm making this poll to determine if the graphix I've put into the forum is taxing you all. Please keep in mind, when you make your vote, that some days are worse than others for internet upload speeds. Cheers all!

Oh you rock erialc! :hugz: I've been wanting to do this for a while. Broadband here.

Heya folks. Did some tinkering around with photoshop tonight and ended up with some half decent buttons to make the forum more our own. Just a few more buttons to change... Hope you likes. Feedback is more than welcome.

Thanx guys! Glad you likes it! Hopefully it isn't too much of a hassle to view. I'm learning as I go and so I'm not sure yet what is TOO big as far as file size goes. Also I have yet to learn how to compress my work so that viewing/uploading for you all doesn't take too long. Once I do learn how to tho... Watch out! I'm eager to take on bigger more complex projects! Woo Hoo! If anyone thinks whatever I make may be taking too long to view pls let me know so that I can develope an idea as to what is TOO big. Regarding file size that is. I'm hoping that we'll have a living, breathing forum so to speak. Animated background, rollover bottuns, nifty pips and so on.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Mah Chocci Milk! *Chases erialc around tha forum!*

1. CHOCOLATE MILK! Mmmmmm 2. Hot Chocolate 3. Milk *heh, startin to see a pattern here* 4. OJ 5. coffee 6. Mango juice 7. vodka OJ mix 8. ginger ale and OJ mix 9. coca-cola 10. tea Did I mention CHOCOLATE MILK?!?!

Heeeeey Indy! Glad to see you back in action. We missed yah! Never ever do that again! *Chains Indy' ankle to tha bar*

Eve looks amazing! My sister played it for a while. Showed me the universe layout and its just unimaginable how HUGE it is! Those creator folks put a massive amount of work into that game. I would rate that game as "HIGHLY DANGEROUS" to your life in general as it would suck every moment of it. I'd never wanna stop playing it! The radio station idea would be great. I've looked into it some and I think its possible to get a channel goin at no cost.

Ah, your very welcome mah friend. hope it brings you good fortune. Or at least some balance in your life.

Heya gintukas. Heard you were lookin for an avatar. Well I happened to have one lying around that I think would be perfect for yah. Feel free to stick it into yer profile if you like it. Cheers! Schot P.S. If you'd like some help uploading it, just give a holler. http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/8753/gintukas3ym.gif

Hey There Moonfrost. I picked up Guild Wars as soon as it hit shelves here in Montreal, Canada. Quite the immersive game. The ambient music and particularly the graphics are fantastic. Those two things as well as the level of interaction you had with other players were the things I really enjoyed about the game. Have fun!

LOL! Aweshum! We may have to open a XXX rated section for the continuation, hehehe.

Our most honorable leader and creator of our home. He worked hard for the forum and not much more than a month later here we all are. Cheers! :drink:

Hey cool. Lotsa lotsa faces. Hmmmm... Wonder if I could make a photo album of some sort... Another project to add to my pile!

Well heres an expression that I really never understood yet used so many times. Its fairly common in Canada and US. Atchou! "gesundheit" Pronounced: Guh-zoon-tite Thanx to this thread, now I know... Its a magical word that battles evol spirits! :yikes: Hehe, GESUNDHEIT!

Definitely Poltergiest for me. Wow! What an amazingly freakish end! The spider like ghoul, the pool of dead. OMG! Could you imagine falling into a mud filled, under construction, pool and as you struggle to get out grotesgue corpses begin floating to the surface. Believing all the while that at any moment any or ALL of them might moan and grasp at you! YIKES! Then there was the clown, the tree and the magots. Ooooh do you remember the magots?! That is/was the #1 most horrific scene I do believe I ever watched. Would you guys like me to explain what happened? Now that I'm thinking of it I do believe Poltergiest is the #1 horror movie on my chart and probably always will be. Was never ever cheesy and the imagination that went into it was incredible.

Oh wow! MORE peeps! More the merrier as the saying goes. Great to have you Ctulhu and Gintukas. Welcome to the family. :rambo: :drink: :rambo:

Heya Pocy. Welcome Welcome Welcome.