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usedHONDA

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  1. This has been requested so many times in the past. I made a poll about it in Feburary/March of last year (it was like 60% for and 40% against), but Rick didn't want to. He says to register to deviantART and post your stuff there. At the time I didn't agree, but now I see his point. dA is a much better place for posting art. You get better critisizm and hundreds of people get to see your artwork (more than the 30 PDN users we have here). It only takes 3 minutes to register, and so worth it! Because of my registering to dA, I'm getting in a magazine for making a cursor pack there (what? I had to bring it up!)

  2. Sometimes, you have simple vector images, where fonts like Times New Roman or Franklin Gothic are the best, and other times, you have some radical image with lots to look at and you use a tiny 6-pixel-tall bitmap font, and other times where you want the text itself to be the focus of the image, so you use something from DaFont. Otherwise, use either Calibri, Segoe, or Verdana.

  3. What my idea of a custom brush would be is a .ZIP (renamed to .PCB or something)that contains bitmaps of the brush (in .PNG of course) and some sort of text file that contains the brush's source code (for how the brush will blend, how it reacts to a certain speed of cursor movement, color changing, ect.). With a simple yet flexible system like that, be sure that you'll be able to convert PS's brushes.

  4. Though this is getting off topic, I'll extend it one post (and hopefully end it, too).

    As I've said once or twice before, I've tried to make a font in a typeface editor, and it's extremely tough work. You have to design every letter with precision, making sure that your letters are readable and that your characters are following the same style. It's not just "Let's make some lines, antialias it, and make it a TrueType!" It's more like:

    "Okay, let's make some concept sketches of what this can look like... well, that sucks. Let's do another.... that's better, but the serif on the "b" is a little too exaggerated... okay, now let's make it." *another 2 months goes by* "It's done! Let's put it in the Vista daily build!" *a few more months pass, 2 weeks before Vista's launch* "What?!?! They took the font out? How dare they! Let's put it on Fonts.com and sell it for $300"

    Then, hundreds of people buy it, a few of them Torrentize it, and the developer(s) work on another one for Windows 7.

  5. How has that got polar inversion in it?

    It uses a bit of every corner in this:

    aheadbyusedhondanh1.jpg

    It was originally a typical-looking polar inversion until I cut and pasted the corners in a new layer and flipped them all so they're all in the top-left corner, then I used layer blending to make the colorful fractal-like effect you see. Then I added the border, text, and Dark Samus to make it a little more exciting.

    Maybe later I'll try to recreate it and post the polar inverted wallpaper before I flipped and cropped it.

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