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Hi i have been using photoshop for a long time. When i feel like it sometimes i teach noobs how to use it so if you want to learn read these.

Fire Text

okay you want to make some flaming text for like that sig on your mario forum alright. here is how: First you make a new picture okay, maybe about 400 big. Use the typing tool and choose a cool font, not like boring impact and MAKE IT BIG AND RED.

to see the cool flames you need to make the background really dark so make your color black and just do the paint bucket on the outside like this:

now it is ready for some flames so you want to really show that it is hot and the flames are going up so you make a copy of the layer and do a motion blur on it like this:

Change the OpraCity a little if you know how to and then you have to make smoke because wehre there is fire there is smoke so just get the brush tool and make some lines like this:

I don’t have a drawing tablet thing or it would look better but it is good enough to use alright.

Metal (chrome or maybe almuninmum)

so you start with the same image last time but choose a different font cause that last one kinda sucked. it is important to make the the words GRAY this time because metal is gray. I used a future looking font because they use metal in the future:

So it already looks good but sometimes you need to spend more time to be a phtoshop god so make another layer on top and use the gradiyint tool with the chromy colors like this:

okay i forgot how to make it just on the letters so you have to make it sort of transparint and then erase around them alright like this:

you have to make the back black too but i forgot before so do it now:

okay it is almost done but you know the letters need to look 3D so to do that you just have to follow this trick i picked up that i will show you now. Make another layer and type in your word again in the same place. and turn that into a new channle you will use later. get rid of the layer cause you don’t need it anymore, then do the lighting effect filter and you are done.

-Andy

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I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but in the last few years something magical has happened to our beloved internet. More accurately something has changed in the way the general public perceives it. I’m not talking about stories on the nightly news about the thousands of greasy pedophiles all hauling ass in their windowless vans with a busy schedule to keep of molesting every child on the internet ever. No those have always existed and always will exist till the end of time.

What I am talking about is the fact that it is now socially acceptable to be a nerd. Even more shocking is the fact that you aren’t one of the cool kids unless you have a myspace or a facebook. It is almost as if it is seen as acceptable to sit down in front of a computer or have an email address. Is the internet…hip now? Perhaps even radical?

I am going to blame the whole Web 2.0 scam that has been floating around for a while now. That is why I have established the Station Atomica Web 2.0 Oversight and Evaluation Board (myself being the director as well as the sole member.) My goal is to quantify the effects of this development and find out what the heck is up with this crap, because while acceptance of the internet by society at large may seem like a good idea there will undoubtedly be some side effects. For instance I am now able to openly walk down the street wearing my favorite pair of Spock ears and talk about how I am a blogger without being thrown into a vat of acid inside of an insane asylum. We all agree that this is a good thing, but as a result of our new tolerance of nerddom is the fact that somebody can make an entire website detailing their obsession with drawing closeups of cat’s assholes and then link back to catassholegallery.com in their facebook account. And we are supposed to be okay with this.

Station Atomica might be new to the blogosphere, but I don’t think we are too late to hold back the tide of user created garbage that is the hallmark of Web 2.0. Let’s fight the good fight and put those horrid corners of the internet in the spotlight and see what oozes out of them like an especially scabby wound on the already festering tumor that is the internet.

-Andy

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