Forum Feedback and Tutorial Requests

What's this? Stickie re-organisation in the Tips and Tutorials Forum?

Once you're over the initial shock I'm sure you'll all agree that the existing Tips/Tutorials Request thread was at best redundant and at worst misleading. This thread will therefore take over it's role as Tutorial Request thread but in a far more informal manner.

There is no point in pretending we have a thriving tutorial-request-taking community. Recently there have been a lot of decent tutorials but the existing structured method of requesting tutorials was pointless for a forum with this low level of activity.

That leads nicely on to the second (or should I say first) function of this thread. That of a feedback thread where you guys can suggest and discuss what improvements you would like to see in this forum. I see no reason for it to continue in it's current state just because "it always has".

If not create a thriving community, I hope we can at least turn this forum into a useful resource with links to tutorials, brushes, fonts etc. from both other sites and the G&A community itself.

Any thoughts?

I think this would be a good start. I could probably help out with the font download and extract, and maybe add a tutorial if necessary. But yeah, I think this could be a bit more organized so that more people could access more tutorials and access their programs better.

Well I started (about a month ago now) a complete basic GIMP tutorial (which was very lengthy too), but I didn't really get into it. I will attempt to continue it sometime though.

Good suggestions Aphex, I completely agree. You'll have to mention that the .PSD's are for showing obviously as I imagine a lot of newer users would rip layers.

If you don't want us to get stocks from game and planet renders then where do you recommend we get stocks from?...Btw I like all the ideas

I'm wondering, too, if we could also give resources for image uploading? I know Photobucket is a good one for banners, but I'm sure there are others. Image Shack, Imageox, and there are at least two sites that I know of where you can upload .xcf and (probably) .psd files as well.

Just my two cents because I was inspired by the thread that growli posted on a vector brush tutorial, and the tutorial came out small on Photobucket even when zoomed in.

quote DiaoDawn

I'm wondering, too, if we could also give resources for image uploading?

There already exists a thread for Image Hosting Advice. I don't think we need to completely repost G&A help threads into Tips and Tutorials.

Once people have found a good host they tend to stick with it rather than shopping around, I can't see people struggling with image hosts - apart from growlitheking apparently.

Try this or maybe this.