just ignore and let this one die

Next goals:

1) 1,000,000 views
2) have this become an old thread then someone necro-posts to it months later
3) spend the next 100,000 posts debating necro-posting to it

all pretty. i still like your everyday skin best!

layers. EVERY thing is it's own layer. you'll grow to love it. i promise!

OMG! the chitty chitty bang bang car. i love that movie, and i love your new toy! congrats!

eta: oh, i see Eli already announced it was the CCBB car. good call, Eli.

oh no! i didnt have that problem until you said that. now i am SINGING it out loud. i imagine this will occur subconsciously all day now.

playing D&D is gonna be the least of this guy's problems.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/27dungeons.html?ref=todayspaper
"In an opinion issued on Monday, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit rejected the claims in a lawsuit challenging a ban on the game Dungeons & Dragons by the Waupun Correctional Institution in Wisconsin.

The suit was brought by a prisoner, Kevin T. Singer, who argued that his First Amendment and 14th Amendment rights were violated by the prison’s decision to ban the game and confiscate his books and other materials, including a 96-page handwritten manuscript he had created for the game."


I wonder if he can make his saving throw vs. surprise sexxors in the shower room?

Fun car, Dakota - but did you notice the steering wheel is on the wrong side?

No it isn't. It's made by British Leyland.

NOBODY understands all of Photoshop. It's a world unto itself. I am learning to like Layers, except that all too often I create one I don't want when using the Text tool, and I do NOT understand Masks. (I know what they DO, just not how to make them do it.)

And I haven't even TOUCHED the 3D tools, which is why I bought the upgrade to CS4 in the first place.

Seven, those skins are all cute. I especially like #2 and #3, but you'll have to tweak your lips a bit to get them looking like your original self. The upper lip's a bit thinner with the new skins.

He's a beagle? OMG, and all this time I thought Weston was a Bagel! Must've been a typo.

Heh, I just found out that the car plays the song if you click on the rear bumper!

does it take passengers?

I know about layers but they don't seem to work the way I want to as well. I'm trying to making a logo, and yes I know I should probably be using Illustrator so it's a vector rather than a rasterized image but one crazy program is enough for me atm. I don't seem to quite understand how to use masks either, although I conceptually understand what they do. I wanted to retain all the layers so I can easily play around with the colours and such but I couldn't seem to be able to figure out masks last night so I just merged all the layers and cut stuff out but I know it was a bad way of doing it. Meh I'm getting hives just thinking about it but perhaps I'll try again tonight :/

Yup! Room for four, including the driver.

Josh, when you merge layers, save that file with a new name. then *undo* and save your PS file with all the layers in place, so you can easily go back and mod it as needed layer by layer.

Ya that's what I've been doing although it bugs me that with the effect I want, I can't seem to achieve it without merging layers first. I did pick up an interesting tip though. If you ctrl alt shift e, that will create a merged layer on top of all the existing layers you have.

Aughhhh! Now I'm singing it too, and I haven't even had my coffee yet.

If you want to merge just some of the layers:
1) Save the file.
2) Make copies of the layers you want to merge by dragging them onto the little piece of paper icon at the bottom of the layers thingy.
3) Then hide ALL the other layers by clicking on the little eyes.
4) Then do Layer > Merge Visible (this is probably your Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E).
5) Rename your shiny new merged layer.
6) If all worked correctly, save again.

Thanks for brekkie, Mo. I only see half a cup of coffee, so here's more for everybody:

I had Photoshop on my old computer. Never used it except to crop. Could not bother to get myself to try to figure it out. Well, I did try out the clothing templates first. When a tutorial I found for the templates said to do something, and showed, with arrows and everything, what to do next, and I didn't have that "thing", whatever it was, I tossed in the towel and realized it wasn't for me.

I feel that way about Blender. Ugh.

I wanna try to learn Blender too but I hear that is worse. I'd also love to learn Mandarin. Not enough time in the day or enough synapses unfortunately :/

My new work pet-peeve...
People that request a read receipt on every single email they send.

Oh, lucky me, I will be learning Mandarin soon... wish I felt your enthusiasm for what seems to be a near-impossible language to learn.