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Latest update: January 26, 2008 (4:09 P.M. [-5 GMT])

Hey guys. I finished this thing a couple days ago and have posted it on another site, but since you guys are my 2nd family I was like, "zomg i shood post it on WL too :-O"...So yeah. I spent most of my non-academic hours on it, so enjoy y'all. ^.^

It's not even complete, but I thought I'd go ahead and get this much out here. I'm sorry with the lack of advanced tutorials in both the GIMP and Photoshop sections, they're very difficult to find. I will definitely be cleaning this up very soon, I'm sorry for the clutter.

Before this begins, I want to point out that almost (90%+) any Photoshop tutorial can be used for GIMP (and vice versa). I have included both a Photoshop and GIMP sections for the sake of convenience, however.


Synopsis of this list:

Intro:
1. Various resources
2. Animation/”Other”
3. Fonts
4. Brushes

Photoshop:
5. Getting to know Photoshop
6. Beginner tutorials
7. Intermediate tutorials
8. Advanced tutorials

GIMP:
9. Getting to know GIMP
10. Beginner tutorials
11. Intermediate tutorials
12. Advanced tutorials

Cinema4D:
13. Tutorials

Intro

1. Various resources:

For tutorials/renders/C4D's
For tutorials/renders/C4D's
For tutorials/renders/backgrounds/text/brushes
To upload your artwork so you can display them on the net
To upload your artwork so you can display them on the net


2. Animation/”Other” (personally, I discourage animation in signatures the majority of the time, but it can be really handy when making avatars):

How to incorporate a video into your signature (animation)
How to create realistic fire (animation)
Writing animation (animation)
How to make snow (animation)
How to make a simple, but cool avatar (Other)
How to make glowing lines with the pen tool (Other)

3. Fonts (credit to Wiired for these):

Dafont
1001FreeFonts
PCfonts
Mantex
WebFontList
Fonts'N'Things
FontFrEaK
AcidFonts

Others font sites found by myself worthy of mention...

Clipart
DSG4
FontFile
Chank
MyFonts
FontMonster


4. Brushes (credit to Wiired for these):

VBrush
Dubtastic (for brushes, scroll down, find “Resources & Tutorials”, and scroll down again; this place is also good for stocks)
Itsuji
FreePhotoshop
PhotoshopBrushes
PixelChick
Brushes.500ml
WebSoup

Other brush sites found by myself worthy of mention...

DeviantArt
BrushFed

Photoshop

5. Getting to know Photoshop:

Beginners Guide to Photoshop
Understanding the blending modes
How to create custom brushes
How to use clipping and layer masks
Learning how to effectively incorporate text
Photoshop shortcuts



6. Beginner tutorials:

Outstanding tutorial (recommended)
Good tutorial
Good tutorial
Great tutorial (recommended)
Good tutorial for 1st timers
Short tutorial, nice outcome
Great tutorial (recommended for 1st-timers) (thanks to Close)
Great tutorial (thanks to Close)
Short tutorial, very nice outcome (recommended for 1st-timers)
Nice tutorial
Oustanding tutorial (recommended)
Great tutorial (recommended)


7. Intermediate tutorials:

Great tutorial
Outstanding tutorial (recommended)
Outstanding tutorial (recommended) (thanks to Close)
Nice tutorial (thanks to Close)
Very nice tutorial
Nice tutorial
Short tutorial, great outcome
Nice tutorial
Outstanding tutorial (recommended)
Great smudging tutorial (thanks to Close)
Nice tutorial (thanks to Close)
Great introduction to vector sigs (recommended)
Good vector tutorial
Short tutorial, fantastic outcome
Nice tutorial
Great tutorial
Good tutorial
Weird, but cool photo-manipping tutorial
Great tutorial
Great tutorial
Good tutorial
**Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 (overall, a great tutorial)**


8. Advanced tutorials:

Great tutorial
Nice tutorial
Nice sprite sig tutorial
Nice tutorial
Outstanding tutorial (recommended) (thanks to Close)
Great sprite sig tutorial
Great tutorial
Nice tutorial

GIMP

9. Beginners guide to GIMP: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article..._gimp.html


10. Beginner:

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Full...880-1.html
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/A-Sp...233-1.html
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Naru...888-1.html
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Maki...610-1.html
http://forums.supercheats.com/topic.php?topic=61471
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Liqu...422-1.html
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Poke...756-1.html
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Curl...728-1.html


11. Intermediate:

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Full...768-1.html
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Peng...820-1.html
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Defa...874-1.html
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Muse...207-1.html
http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2007/3...aux125.png (thanks to Sneaux125)
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Sth0...400-1.html
http://planetrenders.net/forums/index.ph...&hl=Vector
http://awacsthunderhead.deviantart.com/a...t-51529734
http://awacsthunderhead.deviantart.com/a...t-51777962
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Curl...373-1.html
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Fran...227-1.html
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Line...329-1.html


12. Advanced:

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Ryu-...389-1.html
http://deadpaul.deviantart.com/art/Veal-...l-56359264
**http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/2933/...al1an7.png
http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/3031/...2tp2.png**
http://dark-wolf-33.deviantart.com/art/D...t-48533854

Cinema4D

13. Cinema 4D tutorials:

http://www.imagehustler.com/1207/1199500475.jpg
http://www.celoxdesign.net/free-cinema4d...text/id/67
http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutoria...rial/28028
http://simplegfx.net/forums/showthread.p...7#post1807
http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutoria...a-4D/23582
http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutoria...Head/26652
http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutoria...aint/10614

** Double asterisks mean that the links enclosed within these boundaries go
together.

Thanks,
Tyler

P.S. Please PM me for the following reasons:

• Invalid link
• Misleading tutorial
• Grammar fixation (typos, spelling mistakes, etc.)
• Ways of improvement (tutorials [or anything else related to GFX] you think would be useful; I will give you due credit for anything I add)
• Difficulty of tutorial suggestion (perhaps I put a beginner's tut in the intermediate section, shoot me a PM and we can discuss it)

Thanks again,
Tyler

This should be stickied. :O


Nice job once again, Ty.

Thanks Mark. I'd get on MSN, but gotta head to sleep. Night.

Nice collection.
Thanks for taking the time to write it all down for us. xD

Kudos to you SSBB lover for this awesome list.

<3

Gawd bless you!

Thanks for the love everyone, very happy you guys appreciate it. As mentioned in the OP, I'll periodically be updating/cleaning the list...so always check back. And don't worry, I'll put the "latest update date" so you can just click, and see if you've missed anything. Thanks again, everyone.

*EDIT*

Updated.