hehe, pretty amusing Dogma. i've considered adding some blood to mine, but after seeing l'ignorante's excellent job with the hollow necks, i'm not so sure. another update to come…

This is the best challenge yet! Keep 'em coming! I love it! l'ignorante's especially! That is awesome! <edit> Here's what I started with, if you're interested. &a…

Here's something I did after a company picnic quite a while ago. Sort of works for this, since I had to fabricate the tree behind my boss's head so he could do his dance of joy... …

Wow, game-set-match! (The blood was already on the racket, wasn't it?) Thank you all for the nice comments! I have to admit it did take me longer then just the lunch-hour to make. …

I've made my image a bit more screen and modem friendly. And iTomato, nice one, but the blood is a bit cartoony, I would like to see some hanging entrails in that! --------------…

I wasn't going to do the blood, but with the racket being so red already, I thought why not.. The arteries and blood are a little cartoony, especially on the head, but I think it …

Ok, so I went a little crazy with the blood, but who could resist with a challenge such as this... -click for full-size animated version. Trees are hard, BTW. I had most of i…

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That's funny, I just switched to Illustrator. I was just frustrated by the layers management in Freehand. I may go back to Freehand for 10 in OS X. But somehow I prefer Adobe all o…

I gotta admit that is is a bit of a pain to keep switching back to that weird little pointer to make the handles appear in Illustrator. Freehand has the upper "hand" there for sure…

I originally learned illustration software with Freehand several years ago. Since that time I have switched to Illustrator. The main reason I switched was that I was having trouble…

I like Illustrator... I think most people will tend to like and use the program they "grew up with." I also use both Freehand and Illustrator and will freely admit that each prog…

Oh well.......I'm not sure what your problem in color seps is, I've been doing spot color seps from Freehand since it was Aldus and have never had a problem printing out my films. …

I am also intending to upgrade from PhotoDeluxe. Based solely on what I've read, it's my understanding that LE is based on Photoshop 5, whereas Elements is based on Photoshop 6. It…

Quote: Originally posted by zigzag: It's also my understanding that LE didn't offer any hand-holding and had a steep learning curve, whereas Elements provides more hand-…

The handholding stuff isn't in your face like PhotoDeluxe - it's there if you need it - I think it's just a little on-line manual type of thing that sits up in a window if you want…

Quote: Originally posted by screamingFit: One thing that is bonus is the panoramic stitching abilities. Other than Apple's old (but still usefull) QTVR, there's nothing…

I probably mispoke. Elements doesn't do QTVR, it just does photostitching - but this is what I use QTVR for anyway. Sorry if what I said was misleading. And, this feature is not…

FWIW, I just read two extremely favorable reviews of Elements in Shutterbug and eDigital Photo magazines. Judging from the reviews, the hand-holding features are only there if you …

I get my PS tips in the mail, almost daily. Don't know if they're usefull for anybody here, but I can post some. 1 Create high contrast grayscale imagery in Photoshop Open an RGB …

Preview the color of your text Because you have to highlight your text in order to change its color, it's difficult to view your results until after the fact. To get around this, …

I just signed up at www.actionxchange.com ( has over 1000 PS actions to download). Does anybody know it, is it any good? Looks kinda interesting.