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The Tutor's Tutorial - part 1
Published: 2007-06-17 19:47:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 27306; Favourites: 332; Downloads: 666
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We need more tutorials. Sit down. Write.
Maybe even try to submit it to =photoshop-tutorials ?
If you got 10 secs to spare, please drop a comment.
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because you suggested that i should, i decided to comment . . .
but there's really not much for me to say. just that i love it and might actually eventually get around to making a tutorial. maybe.
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Haha - well trust me, I appreciate it all the same! 
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Thank you so much for writing this. It's going to be very useful when I write my tut. Really appreciate the time and energy you spent on doing this. Bless you.
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You're very welcome. The main purpose was to nudge other people into writing tuts or give them some help on the way, so I'm vrey happy that you found it useful! Do leave a link when you're finished ^^
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Congratulations! Your tutorial (both parts) has been featured in our latest news article and on our profile page. Thanks for helping the dA community improve!
- The *Critique-It Staff
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Gah. Been such a terribly hectic month; didn't see this before now.
Thanks for the feature
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Wow, this is great, and very educating!
I haven't written any tutorials yet, but I'm thinking about it. And this is a great guide to it! Thank you so much for this! <3
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Your wonderful Resources have been featured here.[link]
Thank you for providing the gallery with such awesome Resources.
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I'll be sure to reread this if I ever make my own tutorial. :3;
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Great tips and info! Must be helpful for those who are making a tutorial! I enjoy it. Thank you. 
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Heh, that's great to hear 
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Ah, good, I'll definitely be looking back at this when I make tutorials in the future. Thank you for the tips! This is very well made.
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it's like writing a speech about writing speeches. ahhh the good ol days.
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lol... glad you noticed the irony
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Ah! Thanks for making this!
I was told I should make a tutorial for how I color not long ago and so far I've made two failed attempts at making one. This might just help me out.
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I hope it does 
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hehehe this was a fun read
Nyeah, I have read a few tutorials during my time here, and even before. The reason I don't write them is because I don't think I'm at any level to teach people anything.
Anyway
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Oh? I thought I saw some great comics work in your gallery
Anyhow, thanks alot for commenting.
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The whole thing - Genius
Great work! Especially like the ending and the way you were consistent with your own advice.
Great work. +Fav
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Thanks alot, both for the fav and the comment.
Heh, I try to be consistent. I can still see some typos, though >.< I'd fix them, but so far no one's pointed them out yet and I don't have space to unzip the psds on this comp
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DA needs a proper tutorial submission process, so authors can submit them in text form to be viewed- WITHOUT the need to download an archive of files.
I would be submitting a few, but having to dump them up in image form, or just compressed archives isn't fun at all
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In the past this was possible, but when v5 came about it looks like they tried to intelligently restrict which file types where allowed around deviantart.
I've put a request through to have this feature back, hopefully we'll be able to submit txt/html into tutorials again soon
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Makes me wanna write a tutorial. It'll take days to figure out what I should do a tutorial on. Jeebus.
This definetely helps! I have never written a tutorial in my life because I felt like I couldn't explain anything. Now with this I can totally do one.
Bookmarkin' this.
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It took me a year with Photoshop before I tried making a tut on a signature that I made... and when I first started it was hard to stop
I'm glad you found this helpful. If you make a tut, feel free to link me - I'd really like to see what people make.
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awesome! I've always been thinking of making some tuts on shading templates but I wasn't very sure how to present it.
Now I have a great tut to follow on making a tut! thanks so much <33
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Hey, no problem - feel free to link me if/when you make that tut
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lol... thankies - glad you agree
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That's way cool.
Thanks for going to the effort.
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It was a pleasure- thank you!
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hey! just so you know! there's a typo on the "tutorials" subsection of "types of tutorials"!
in the subsection, 'instructions' has what I assume is an accidental extra 's' in it!
I just thought you'd wanna know!
also, besides that... good work! i like it when i can read a tutorial! and it's presented aesthetically!
so... rock on!
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"I like it when I can read a tutorial" - that made me laugh out loud 
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hmm... maybe in the next photoshop! since new versions come out what feels like every four months XD.
glad i could be helpful
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Yay, i like this. Ive thougth about this before, just lazyness never let me make one lol. I hope this inspires others
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Me too
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It's funny that your tutorial purports to teach about "fonts" and punctuation but you use hash marks instead of true quotation marks. Sorta lessens the credibility.
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strange that you should say that - I've learned english at school as a foreign language, seems I have been taught wrong: the use of " is perfectly okay for quotes, I've never heard about anyone having to use << >>
but then again, I doubt that a tutorial gets more readable one way or other. I really think you should think about priorities more and be less nit-picky.
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That's fine. I am just conveying to you the attitude that prevails in the graphic design industry. I am not trying to knock you. But hash marks were never okay for quotes. They mean two different things. You can't substitute a comma for a period because it looks sorta the same. No professional will agree with you on this. I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry, but why are you conveying this "attitude that prevails in the graphic design industry" on a tutorial thhat is meant to incite deviants to write more tutorials for other deviants that will actually be read? I think it's kinda rude to be so nitpicky when no-one ever said something had to be perfect - I mean, have you ever tried to read one of those tutorials that go without dot or comma for whole paragraphs and that throw in a bunch of typos and sentences that "end in midair" for good meassure? We have that kind a lot around here and it was time someone said that those are freaking hard to read and understand. If it's not too much to ask, please consider where we are and who the audience is before making such comments.
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You mean marks like " instead of << >> ? I doubt many would put much weight on that, and I don't really care. 
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Lack of attention to detail like that is fine but you shouldn't be writing tutorials on topics that, by your own admission, you don't know much about. That's the only point I'm making. Teaching kids bad habits isn't exactly a great idea.
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(pant...pant...pant...pant...pant...pant...) 
What an elaborate tutorial there. I'm surprised I didn't find this sooner. This seems like one of those documents that °jark , °matteo , or $spyed should have uploaded on the very first day (or whenever DevArt started allowing tutorials to be uploaded, anyway).
Of course, like all tutorials, it was a bitch for me to download on my crappy 56K connection. 
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Hey, it's not that odd you didn't find this sooner - you commented on it 1 day after I uploaded it 
Just a note in case you want to download more tuts from me in the future: normally I compress the tuts into zips 1-2 days after I upload the originals, for people with slow connections
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By making this, you've made me very happy. Every tutorial writer/maker should read this. I can't remember how many tutorials I've looked at that have had me thinking 'I didn't get any of that' or 'I wish I could understand this through the l33t'. Good job.
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I'm glad you think so. I've had my share of those tutorials too
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