Week 83

Well, I'm back again. Just can't seem to get around to doing the tuts here. I really prefer email announcing things coming into my OE mailbox. I don't like having to go to the web to read the mail. Sorry to be negative, but anyway - I suppose it works better this way.

Tutorial 1

Making a Gradient Rainbow

http://www.aestheticweb.com/tutorials/rainbow.htm

I made another rainbow recently for another group. I've made tubes of both of them.

Tutorial 2

Fading Masks

http://www.jasc.com/support/learn/tutorials/archive/paintshoppro/mask4.asp?pg=1

I've done these fading masks before. Think Linda had a tut in one of her classes for this. Here's the first one:

On this second one I made a mask using a rectangular gradient as suggested in the tut. Then I put a rectangle in the center of the top layer and did a delete. Then I cut out the stork (?) from the original and pasted him as a third layer with my watermark as the fourth layer.