It’s my personal opinion that silver is one of the hardest materials to faithfully render in any vector program. In this tutorial, I’ll show you a neat – and fairly easy – technique for creating a basic embossed silver jewelry-style effect.
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InMotion Hosting rocks my socks. Seriously. They rock my pants off.
After wading through a sickening miasma of forehead-slappingly horrible hosting services, finding InMotion was like coming home to a basket of warm, buttery, PHP5-enabled muffins. It’s like the part at the end of the book where the whole adventuring party is back in the same tavern they started from, and the thief is all, “This story may be over, but our adventure has only just begun!”
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In keeping with the technophile tradition of finding ever-more-convenient ways to perform already-way-too-easy tasks, I’ve put together a quick list of 10 super-useful keyboard shortcuts for navigating around Inkscape.
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You’ve probably seen Photoshop prompts that ask you whether or not you’d like to rasterize your text, shapes or layers. Hard to give Photoshop an answer when you don’t know what rasterizing is, exactly. The Wikipedia article on the topic is unusually unhelpful, stating, “Rasterization or Rasterisation is the task of taking an image described in a vector graphics format (shapes) and converting it into a raster image (pixels or dots) for output on a video display or printer, or for storage in a bitmap file format.”
Riiight… So let’s see if we can clear that up for all you Photoshoppers.
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One night, many moons ago, I stood in one of L.A.’s then-wierdest, now-defunct clubs waiting for the next band to be just as bad as the last one. It wasn’t. They were awesome. They were so awesome that I immediately spent the rest of my money on merch, fell madly in love with the bass player, and swore to defend their honor in the face of all foes, using the power of Greyskull as my weapon. It was more than a matter of a cute boy wearing hornrims. It was a magical teenage moment bursting with the warm, fuzzy indie softness of knowing, just knowing, that we were going to be able to say “we saw them before they got big”. The band broke up 2 months later.
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