Yay.. I'm not sure textures is the word... well... I really want to now how people do in their banner to appear that textures in the back like, for example, the ice in arwen's hair in the forum up! I know nothing about textures.. are them for photoshop?? where are they? how can i Get'em?? Upss... too many questions... know, know...

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Textures are anything that give your graphics "texture". Alot of people just use pictures( I believe Arwen used a wintery pic) and set them on top of their graphics at a low opacity maybe putting erasing here and there. Hope that helped!

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She could have used a brush too maybe.

Let's see, textures are...well let me give you an example banner that I can point to:



Okay, in this this banner, the texture is the pink in the background. I used a pink color with a texture called 'fine grain cloud'. As far as finding textures, just google them. There are tons out there to get. fyi, the rose and swirls were done with brushes.

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It can be used as SM and Sapphire said, but you can also put it on top of a picture and put it on "Screen".(I learned that from Oro! )

Here is an example:

Without texture:


With texture:


To make it look like Arwen's hair in the forum banner, you take a picture and put it semi-transparent over her hair like Sapphire said.

(I got the texture here)

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thanks a lot!!!

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Hybrid-Genesis has lots of awesome testures, as does The Magic Box (currently on hiatus, ought to be back up soon).

44 Suburbia has some nice ones too (warning: the layout (and language) isn't really... very... well... Yeah.)

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wow, these websites are really good!! thank you!

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Wow, people actually make use of my tutorials... weird.

They can also be set to overlay, darken, lighten, multiply... almost anything. Depends on how dark/light your image is.

I hope no one from outside the forum is reading this, some of them stalk me about how I do my graphics...

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Soft light is what I set it to the most though screen as Keyodie said is pretty...
Another good site for textures is http://sky.ti-fi.com....maybe we need to start a texture directory...

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^ Mmm! That's another of my favourites

http://www.ofthesky.net/tre-xture.html

Is also one of my favourites, as is http://www.1greeneye.net/textures/

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Ororuthiel: Lol, I just got back from there!

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i think she could of used a stock photo also..

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Yo ho, haul together, hoist the colors high... Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never say we die

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Oohh, that's a good idea *goes off to start one*

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That's a great idea

Here's another good site: http://brunos-honeypot.net

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