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You should make better stars. Just plain noise doesn't quite do it. Nice blur effect behind the guys though.

I think we should have a button 101 topic, like the stone 101 topic.

I really like this.

I start out at 300x300, and end up at 300x300. Thanks. TEE AYCH EX. :wink:

Thanks HELEN and Gamerworld. Double update special today. I have made 25 Smallpapers. 25 more and I reach my goal of 50! 8)

Thanks everyone.

Holy poop. Barkbark the PPPPPPyyyyyyPPP looookss soooo cooool!!! This is now one of my favorite plugins ever.

You should rate/give comments on the above picture before you post one.

Nice cracking person. Really cool.

Double post ha ha.

Post the how your planet looks at this point, because I don't understand what you're saying very well.

That's pretty cool. It could use some more color, and the splatter stuff is cool. EDIT: 700th post. :wink:

The see through effects are really really really cool. Write a tut on it!

Well, I'm gonna scrap this comp if nobody makes anything in the next 24 hours.

Well, there's a nice tutorial to it now. viewtopic.php?f=37&t=31876

:o Wow, thanks Possum, Gamer_World, Darkshock, Helen, and yellowman!

I love them all! Just the style I like... no joke.

Ha, thanks. Was it easy to follow, because I made this up completely as I went.

Nah, just the brush + drop shadow.

How to Make Sexy Glossy Text You'll need the alpha mask plugin for this. 1. :AddNewLayer: Make a new layer and write some text in some color, it doesn't matter at this point. 2. Duplicate the layer and go to Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. (Or press Control + U.) Make the lightness all the way down to 0. Then use a transparent gradient (from the bottom to the top) to make it look something like this: 3. Duplicate the original text layer again and press Control + U and make the lightness all the way up. Use another transparent gradient (up to down) and make it look something like this: 4. Make another new layer and set your tolerance to about 70% and select the line tool. Make the brush width 2. Draw a line, curve it a bit, and fill the top in. 5. Go to that layer's options and make the opacity less. 6. Now, this part is a little tricky for some of you noobs. ( :wink: ) Here's where the alpha masking comes in. Go to your original text layer, press Control + A, then copy it. (Control + C) Make a new image with the size it's already in. (It should be the size of your original image.) Make a new layer, and paste. (Control + V) 7. On the background layer of your new image, fill it with black. Go to your new text layer and go to Hue/Saturation again and make it all white. 8. Flatten this image and save it as "mask.png" You'll need it in a sec, so remember where you put it. 9. Now, go back to your cool looking image. Go to the highlight layer; the one with all the white that's transparent. Use the alpha mask plugin, and load the "mask.png" Your image shouldn't look that different, unless you weren't on a white background. But, what you just did was very important. You took away all of the white that wasn't on the text, and if you didn't do that your text would look something like this: It might be hard to see, but the white highlight is around everything, and not just the text. So anyway, you can be done now, or you can change the color of stuff and spice it up. [/shimmy] XJ14

I didn't use dents. BTW Here's the fixed images.

Gah, I just used a bad host. Sorry. I'll fix them up tomorrow, because I have to sleep.

It seems like after using some in my wallpaper comps, people use them more.

Thanks Helen. Super update:

Oh, I see them now. I guess they're okay, but could we see some originals so we know what you did exactly/how much you changed it?