Marilynx

I will emphatically check the author's website, because I very much liked the font you used in your tutorial! And I will also check your second site. I'm gonna lose my mind with this. I have learned that for physical covers, one need 1800 x 2700, 300 dpi, plus a suitable bleed, and MAY need wrap around for the whole book. But for e-books, they want it in a ratio of 1/1.6, 300 dpi prefered, also with a .25" bleed. Once I learn your tutorial, I have a feeling that I am going to be doing it so many times I will have the darn thing memorized!2-3 times for each book -- and there will be 7 books in the series! (Geeze, I wish I were a clever programmer who could figure out how to automate this! Because seriously, I like this letttering effect better than almost anything else I have seen!)

If I can find the right backdrops and a commercially usable font (really liked the one you chose, but noted that someone asked about using in commercially in 2016 and apparently never got an answer!) I hope to use it for the covers of the books I have been working on. Still trying to get the right DNA -- may post about that elsewhere. But no matter what I've tried, from Text Formations to other tricks has given the lettering for the cover the right kind of boldness to stand out. This may.

THis is SUCH a cool technique. I am not sure I understand all of it, but have DL the effects packages -- already had Boltbait's, of course -- and figure out where they go. I know what I want to use it for... I just hope it will work.

Oh, great! I will go see about adding it in. Thank you!

Well, the metal-making part of it is still my favorite method for acquiring it. I know that there is supposed to be a metallize in the newer PDN, but I do not really like the way it comes out. It appears that just "Glow" can have the same settings as FASTGLOW, so I am going to experiment with that. Currently working on a silver Chinese dragon done ouroboros fashion, with a black pearl in the middle.

Thank you! Apparently, it does still work.

I was doing something with BarbieQue's Jewelry Making Tutorial. It calls for Fast FX Glow in Step 10. This is an older tutorial, so is this add-on still around? If not, what can I use instead?

I did manage to get Dynamic Draw to work... but it appears that in order to change colors, you have to go out and then come back in again?

Thank you. Sorry for disappearing. First anniversary of my husband's death.

I don't understand. I can't get at the brushes, They're in that .abr file that I can't open. So I can't navigate to them. I think this mess is why I gave up on added brushes before. I don't understand it, and I don't know what I need to DL or what to with it if I can find it.

I never put ANYTHING on the desktop, and wouldn't have the faintest idea how. THe programs I use regularly are on a toolbar at the bottom of the screen. There are three files in the ABRviewer zip, the .exe, a .exe config, and a miscutil.dll. I thought I read in the thread that ABRviewer was no longer needed?

Well, I have tracked down ABRviewer, but I don't know what to do with it. Where to put it, how to open it and use it.

But what program did you open it with? PDN will not open it.

Well, I found this topic, which looks like it might have different brushes to make things easier. However, I have munged that up. (I suspect the paw of a Dachshund in the issue.)

Yes, I have placed it in the Filetypes folder, after unzipping. (I read this entire thread before I started.) This is the Zip as I DL it from www.brusheezy.com. I opened the zip and removed the file. But somehow, after I put in the same folder as the dll, it got permanently associated with being opened by PDN, and I cannot undo that as far as I can determine. Working in Settings, It wants me, not to REMOVE PDN, but to select something from the MS store to substitute for PDN, and the choices it offers me do not look like anything that would open this type of file. Retouching_Brushes.zip