Cetanu

That gradient I made is TERRIBLE. TERRRRRRIBLE. But I'll try your technique, thanks. Any other ideas?

Will someone please tell me why the gradients I use with color are rough and fraggy instead of being smoothly transitional like they used to be? It's incredibly agitating when I'm trying to make a nice quality graphic.

Hey! That's a good tut to Bookmark

Thanks, I'll try that too.

Thank you for being a life saver!!! Not really, but thanks a lot.

Thanks!

Is it possible to run a plugin that will make a circle appear shaded? I am attempting to make the Earth with some effects, but I can't seem to make it darker and lighter on opposite sides. I know Photoshop has that effect.

Okay, I whipped this up. I think I'm getting the hang of Alpha Mask!! I hate it....a little bit. I dunno why. It's not good.... PS The "Your Name Goes Here" is because I am supplying this as a sig for anyone that wants it in another Forum.

Anytime

You could try and add a layer, then move that layer down (so it's below your image) then fill it with black.

Anytime

Yep I forgot to tell you that JPEG will not work. The background will appear white instead of transparent.

I'm no expert, but if you crop something as a circle and you get the checkered background and save the image as PNG or GIF then the checkers will NOT show up and it will look like the circle has no background around it. I hope that wasn't confusing >.> (It will always be a square, it just won't appear that way when you look at it outside of PDN)

Thanks! That might be helpful, but I actually made the thing I was looking to make, I posted a tutorial on it, too. Thanks, again

Hey! Thanks! That wasn't the type of feedback I was expecting. I was expecting more of "constructive-rude" criticism, but thanks I will try and look into those. I think the text reads that way because I used "Outline Object" and I may have increased the radius too far. I'll mess with the left side too. THANKS!