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Silver ipod mini<< w00t I also got a wacom tablet and adobe ps cs upgrade. Oh yeah... I also got an ice-storm of the century for christmas. (At least for Holmes county, Ohio.) I also haven't had electricity since wednesday and probably won't for a couple of days, or up to a week. But, I've been running my computer off of a generator occasionally, so I guess I'm doing all right. I'm over at my uncle's house right now. The way that the ipods are designed is just amazing, definately somethign to get if you can afford it. While it dosen't play wma files or some other formats, it comes with itunes which will automatically convert files to a format that you select. (AAC is the default.) I've been listening to the ipod for the last few days, and the sound quality if amazing, and the volume is perfect also. (As in, it gets loud enough ) A flash-based player is a good buy if you want to smaller size. I guess that my opinion is just a little biased because of how amazed I am with the mini ipod

MP4 is just the mpeg video format..WAV is a high quality but huge filesize format for sound, not compressed I think.

Use both Adaware and SB S&D. Be wary of any other free spyware removers.

I don't know if I'm jsut being stupdi and not doing it right, or what, but I can't. I'm using ace ftp 3.

And he crapped... And he crapped... and he crapped...(Strongbad)Yeah, I've known about that site for what, 2 years? 1 1/2 years? I don't know.

You know, I really could get into this discussion, but, I really don't feel like it. If it's to the point where you believe this, then I feel that it is basically pointless to argue here. When a golf tour is forced to include women, then... well... I don't know. There's people who argue that men and women aren't different, but yet, we are, whcih is why some things are the way that they are.

Chrsitmas Break coming up, wednesday will probably be the last day I'll be here until Jan 3rd I believe. I'm assuming that this is ok and everything, I just want to make sure that you know for whatever reason.

I'm too stubborn to use tutorials... Here's a simple one for ps, just for the heck of it. Start out with a new pic, I'd reccomend 1000x1000. Choose two colors that are mostly bright and sort of close to one another. (i.e., red and orange, pink and red, yellow and orange, or even closer if you want.) Go and Filter>Render>clouds. (>>Optional but reccomended step<<) Filter>Blur>Radial Blur> I'd say a setting of 40-60 or so for the blur. (Quality: Best unless you have a really slow computer) Now, Filter>Stylize>Chrome Don't touch anything, and then go to image>fade chrome and choose the blending mode color dodge. (opacity would usually stay@100%,) This effect and ow well it works depends a loto n the oclors you pick, their brightness and the differencei n them. I came up with this yesterday, so I haven't had much time to play around with it and come up with somethign good.

I'll need to know what you want... Explain to me what you need, and I'll try to come up with something. Either pm me here, e-mail me (kcoblentz@adesign.trap17.com), or post on my forums at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

I'm 15, so I guess that that means that I can't do an interview, but I may have some graphics hidden away on my hd that I wouldn;t mind having on there, but I;m not sure about that. What kind of graphics, exactly though? As in, what type?

I'd love to have illustrator for the vector capabilities though. But for $500 (or $350), I can't get that right now. I will hopefully be getting ps cs upgrade here soon though... Is the best way to use the pen tool to just create a path and stroke it, then fill it w/ whatever? This has worked all rigth for me, but it's a little limiting. I don't have a great need for the pen tool currently, but iut sure would be nice to know how to use it better. I'm mainly working on printwork right now, I guess.

This is what actrually works... I foudn this out in win 95 about 6 years ago, when I just messed around with the operating system for the heck of it. (I learned a lot though.) Not if you create them at the correct size initially. I believe that it is 64x64, although I am not sure about that. Also, png and gif files support transparency, so if you create it using transparency and then convert the extension liek that, it should work out all right. I believe that I have done this before, although I am not completely sure.

I'll need to know what you want... Explain to me what you need, and I'll try to come up with something. Either pm me here, e-mail me (kcoblentz@adesign.trap17.com), or post on my forums at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

I believe that the thunderbird is just the core for some anthlon cpu's. I have an AMD 3500+ (939 socket, so if I want to get, say, a fx-55 or something it's easy ) w/ 1 gb dual channel pc 3200 ddram, 19" viewsonic perfect flat monitor, MSI ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 mb, cheacp 80 gb hd, 16x DVD burner and a 52x Cd-rw drive. This all cost me $1250 about 2-3 months ago, really good price for what I got. I'm also running xp pro, but I already had that before I got the parts to build the computer. And xbox, most people consider the pc to be ibm-style computers, if I'm thinking correctly right now. Mac's don't qualify then.

Demon Hunter- "My Heartstrings come undone"Hammertown- "Nothing and No one"Staple- "Red Brushstrokes wave goodbye"Showbread- "Matthias Replaces Judas"As to why... It's just listening to them, I can't really explain it.

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ or http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Not a great site for people w/ 15 inch monitors, but oh well. I just got the forums up as well, so join them if you want to.

Becca, do you have illustrator?

I didn't really create it with sa violent mindset, I made it in a more artistic way. This is how I've been doign a lot of my work lately, moving more into an artistic view instead of whether it's cool or something.

Why would you go and buy psp, when photoshop is far better, and the cs upgrade is what, 170$ or so? I have ps 6, but I am buying the cs upgrade here within the month probably. And those sigs are nice for just starting. Your current sig is far better than the ones you posted though.

Same questions here too... But I can do the graphics design and marketing part. I could re-learn vb 6 if I have too also.

Hey guys, when you post about Xisto, try to make where it dosen't look like spam. Please. This will probably not help Xisto at all, as people will see it as spamming and not even bother cominh here.

If you need help with making a banner or whatever in photoshop, I guess that I could help you.

ahhh... If only I spent more time on sigs, but I see them as mostly pointless so I don't waste much time on them. Well, actually... I think I can say no to it . I think that the fact that it's a gif with that specific animation detracts from the quality of the sig, and it's also a little big. It also looks like oclor burn was used, and it didn't really work too well, but that's just my opinion.

I'll post some tutorials of my own here soon, once I get the time to make some I guess.

"Learned" how to use email? wow... Our school is better with that, teaching us things such as ps, basic html, flash (I believe), and stuff liek that. Of course, you can't take it until you're a junior or a senior, which sucks. And as far as flash goes, I have flash mx on my computer but I don't understand it too well. I mostly use it to create ai files to import into ps. (because I don't have adobe illustrator.)