YKK Graphics Tutorials

Welcome to YKK Graphics Tutorials. This community was founded by chibihalo. Here you'll learn how to create fun graphics for Livejournal, personal websites, and forums. You'll also get a better understanding of the basic tricks used in Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Animation Shop, Image Ready, and Gimp. Using these programs alone or together you'll be creating neat looking graphics to show off to everyone you know.

The aim of this community goes beyond just teaching you how to make fun graphics. The aim of the community is to give you the average user of these popular graphics creation programs an easy to follow and gramatically correct tutorials. After muddling through several well thought out tutorials that were hard to read it became the aim of the maintener of this community to make tutorials that make sense.

YKK Graphics Tutorials is not a place to get icons, banners, and web graphics. It is not a place to download fonts, brushes, gradients, or textures. Those are things you will learn to make through this community. This is not a community for making fun of people who do not understand the tutorials provided. Remember everyone at one time was a beginner. While this community will provide tutorials on how to understand some of the basics of the Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, and Photoshop families of programs it is not a general help community. We will, however, point you to helpful communities that will be more than happy to give you help.

So sit back, open up your program of choice, and have fun making graphics.

* No swearing.

* No images that could be considered pornographic. People who access this community are more than likely minors and people at work.

* Do not openly advertise your communities and journals. Please apply for affiliation.

*If you have overly large images please use a link to them for those members using a slower connection.

*Please let people know if your tutorial is graphics heavy. Not everyone who is a member is able to afford a high speed connection.
When You Post:

* Keep your tutorials in the default font and size.

* Be kind to the members of this community and their friends pages and use an LJ-cut when posting tutorials.

* For better ease of cataloging the tutorials please use a title for your tutorial that states what you will be teaching and for what program the tutorial is for.

* If a tutorial is translatable or not please mention this. Not everyone will have the same programs you use.

* The Use of Net Speak when posting and replying to questions about your tutorials is prohibited. Tutorials should be easy to read and understand.

* There are no stupid questions.

* When asking a question about a tutorial please state as much information as possible. It will help the tutorial maker know if you don't understand something or if the issue is related to the version of the program you are using.

* When replying to a question asked about a tutorial please be kind and courtieous. Everyone learns at their own rate.

* General comments on tutorials are welcome. Do not put down the tutorial maker or tell them you know how to do it better. If you know an easier way to do the same thing then please apply for posting access.