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Posted on 07/03/06 9:01:25 PM |
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trinityofone
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Re: A Readerīs Tutorial Section
Paul. That's not necessarily true. To resurrect an old analogy; Jamie Oliver may write fantastic books on cookery but could he build a gas oven? _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
Posted on 07/03/06 9:15:06 PM |
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maiden
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Re: A Readerīs Tutorial Section
More to the question could he stick his head in one after he built it 
But actually you're quite correct, David. Most people have heard the expression "Those who can - do. Those who can't - teach." Whilst I can put together a fairly interesting and easy-to-follow tutorial it doesn't necessarily follow that I'm a brilliant montager and I know I'm not anything special and that's what it needs to be able to do both. Steve not only can he create stunning montages he can also teach people how it's done and that takes a special talent few of us have. _________________ mad as a badger and twice as furry |
Posted on 07/03/06 10:16:44 PM |
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Bob
Expert Expressionist Posts: 130 Reply  |
Re: A Readerīs Tutorial Section
Hosting the images separately is a recipe for broken links. Sooner or later images will be deleted -- either by the user or by the hosting site. You can see a perfect example of this if you browse the older Friday Challenges -- many of the images are gone. PDF files are an ideal solution. The images are always present with the text and you can print or download and keep handy tutorials that you find useful. The tutorial can easily be created in a word processing application and most current ones include the capability to create PDF files. If your's doesn't, the free Open Office Suite (http://www.openoffice.org) does a great job and runs on many operating systems. The PDF files could be submitted using the existing forum interface. I'm not familiar with the forum software, I don't know if the 100KB limit can be separately changed for PDF files. If it can, this would be an ideal solution. |
Posted on 07/03/06 10:42:50 PM |
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tank172
ThreeDee Thriller Posts: 692 Reply  |
Re: A Readerīs Tutorial Section
Thanks, Bob. Another solution for creating a tutorial, is to make it in Photoshop... *Open a new letter sized document, fill the page with the tutorial If you run out of room, click CTRL N and set to Letter sized. *Repeat the process until the tutorial is completed. *Save the files and close them all with Photoshop still opened. *Click File, Automate, PDF Presentation...select the files, place in the correct page order, and click Save. I do this all the time with JPEG presentations...but haven't tried other formats. Not too sure about calibrating file size, either. |
Posted on 07/03/06 11:58:08 PM |
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trinityofone
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Re: A Readerīs Tutorial Section
Unfortunately, there is no distinction with the upload limit. Flickr is a good host for images. Linking is a no-nonsense task and it's free to sign up. _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
Posted on 08/03/06 09:23:44 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: A Readerīs Tutorial Section
Thanks for all your suggestions, everyone. I'll set up a Reader's Tutorials section this week, and try to make the process as easy as possible! |
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