Graphics

Recently we have had an increase of new graphics members. This month's art from veteran and new graphic artists are being displayed here. We have featured a couple competitions; the regular Sotw results, we have included a new pixel of the month competition, and more. Also a couple new additions of Pixel articles. We also have many articles, one of them reviews the new Creative Suite 3 package by Adobe and the new Graphics Tutorial section. There is also an article on Return the Favor and a Featured Tutorial.

Note: All of the graphics displayed on this page are copyrighted by their owners. You may NOT do anything to these graphics, including, but not limited to, using, editing them, or claiming them as your own, without the consent of the owner.

-Cookthechef

Spot the Fakes - By: Goliath Gob

Can you spot all the fakes in this RuneScape picture?

Click the preview thumbnail to see the full Spot the Fake.

Try to find all of the fakes. There are 20 fakes in the picture.

The answers can be found in the credits.

Good Luck!

Return the Favor - By: Cookthechef

It's back! The Return the Favor Program! This program allows members to recieve Comments and Critisism on signatures and artwork in the Rate My Work section. How it works is, one person posts at topic with, "[RTF]" in the topic title. Then those who post in the topic review the poster's graphic and gives Constructive Critisism. Next the person who replied to the topic posts a link to the topic of their own for the previous topic starter to post in it.

This helps many new artists to recieve genuine critisism. You can view the topic here.

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Creative Suite 3 Review- By: Drolleke

Finally Adobe has released the new CS 3 package, containing lots of new features and add-ons. The new Creative suite comes in 4 packages;

-CS 3 Design Premium/standard which contains: Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, Flash and Dreamweaver.
-CS 3 Web Premium/standard which contains: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks.
-CS 3 Production Premium which contains: After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator and soundbooth.
-CS 3 Master Collection that comes with inDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Contribute, After effects, Premiere, Soundbooth and Encore.
*Acrobat reader CS 3 is included in all packages

I personally have got the Design Premium package, just for a few weeks now.
The first thing you notice about the new programs, are the new icons. Instead of the old white with feather (Photoshop) or flower (Illustrator) they now look like this:



They seem to go for simplicity this time.

When you launch one of the new programs, for example, in Photoshop the first thing you notice is that the new version is yet again faster. For intel mac users, the new CS 3 products go extra fast, because they are now intel based instead of power pc.
The layout of all the programs has been revamped with a new look. You now have expandable tabs, which are very easy and handy to use. the expandable tabs panels are also usefull for users with limited screen size.

New Features

Photoshop:
New thing in photoshop are the smart filters, which you can, for example, apply on a text, and afterwards you will still be able to edit your text, whitout loosing the filter effect. RAW camera support is also improved in this version. A new big feuture is the support of 3D moddeling images. you can now import 3D images into photoshop tha are in any of these formats: 3DS or OBJ. the files can be exported for most 3D programs.
Price: $999 for Photoshop extended or $649 for Photoshop

Flash:
One of the biggest updates is that your now able to import .PSD files or .AI files. for instance; when you import .AI (Adobe Illustrator) file, all vector images are kept, and can still be adjusted. Another update is Actionscript 3.0 . This language looks alot like Flex. the Debugger/compiler also looks alot like the one of Flex. Also, it now possible to convert an animation to Actionscript in only 2 clicks.
Price: $699

Illustrator:
Get more work done faster with this new version of Illusrator. Live Color is another new feature, which lets you make a group of color swatches and appely them on a group. Live Color also comes with a color picking tool, similar to that on http://kuler.adobe.com/ .?That way you can make a range of nicly fitting colors.
Price: $599

Dreamweaver:
The new dreamweaver basically work just the same like the old MX/8 version, but adobe impleted some new addons like the possibility to make spry tabs in a few clicks. Dreamweaver automatically writes the javascript and css needed. Drag-n-drop from Photoshop is now also integrated.
Price: $399

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Return of the Tutorial Forum - By: Richman99After Salmoneus upgraded the forums, all the tutorials disappeared, but now they are back! There are many tutorials available to help you learn the basics of a program like GIMP or PhotoShop, add advanced effects to your graphic, or even pick the right text for your piece. The tutorials are great for anyone, if you're a beginner designer looking for ways to make a graphic or even an advanced designer looking for tips and new techniques. You can also help our graphics community by posting your own tutorial.

Check out the tutorial forum here.

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Featured Tutorial - ABC to Manipulation - Tutorial By: Red

Featured by: Prashanna

Red, also known as Eil, had spent many days on this detailed and helpful guide to photo manipulation. This tutorial also includes two interviews, a list of recommended brushes, examples from 26 different artists, and many more helpful features to help you with photo manipulation. This tutorial had been featured on many major art websites including deviantart.com and gamerenders.com. This tutorial had been dedicated to the graphics community here at Sal's for Valentine's Day to "those who've commented on my work, given me constructive criticism, given me much needed help when I pester them for it, encouraged and inspired me."

You can find her tutorial here:
(Warning very large image sizes.)
http://runescape.salmoneus.net/forums/inde...howtopic=114297

For people with slower computers, you may download the tutorial or view it in thumbnails, here:
http://eilorendil.deviantart.com/gallery/

In the second link you can also download a .psd of one of Red's photo manipulations to help you out even more!

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Pixel World 4 - By: Richman99 After the extraordinary success of Pixel World 3( featured in Issue 5), Stringaling has decided to take over and create a brand new world! Once again this will take place in a brand new made world, with 6 races. Having started Pixel World 4, Stringaling, Andyana, Anon Joe, Auron, Pandaloo, and Bunny Kit Maker Kingy are the leaders of each of the 6 races. So, why not join today? It's going to be fun, and boy I can't wait to see how well this world goes! To view the new topic, click here.

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Grand Pixel Competition - By: Richman99 The Grand Pixel Competition is running from March 2nd to June 15th. Great pixelers on the forums make new pixels and enter them into this contest. Thunderthigh's, a respected pixeler, came up with this fabulous idea. He with a panel of unnamed judges will decide who the winner is, and the lucky winner is crowned with the title of Sal's Best Pixeler! If you love pixeling, and haven't entered in the competition yet, I suggest you sign up. Don't be worried that great pixelers are entering, put all your effort in the pixel and proove Sal's that you are the ultimate pixeler! Sign up here.

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Sal's Worm - Article By: Steve In the Decemeber - January edition of the Sals Paper, the graphics section had an article on the Sals Graphics Worm. Since then, the graphics section has created nineteen more great pieces of art to add on to their previous work. Here is a small preview of some of what was added this month, but make sure you go check out all of their great work on the Sals Worm Website!

Large Piece of the Month

On Sal's, we had nominations and a vote for the Large Piece of the Month.

Congratulations to Arrogance!

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Signature of the Month

We also had nominations and a vote for the Signature of the Month.

Congratulations to Zellychan!

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Pixel of the Month

This Issue we have a new spot to feature outstanding pixel artworks, which had also been voted for.

Congratulations to Anon Joe!

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Competitions Results - Put Together By: Drolleke

SoTW means Signature of the Week, competitions that are (usually) held every week at the Graphics Section that determine the best signature out of the ones submitted, by votes.

SoTW 16 - Theme: Musicians
First Place: Celtic (10 votes)


Second Place: Simplicity (9 votes)


Third Place: Ashish (8 votes)



SoTW 15 - Theme: Cartoon/Anime Characters
First Place: Celtic (11 votes)


Second Place: Cookthechef (6 votes)


Tie for Third Place: .Cinnamon, Gothic Blood, Toxidity (4 votes)

SoTW 14 - Theme: Freestyle
First Place: Cookthechef


Second Place: Stab


Third Place: The Hamlet

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