PE: dA Related Collaboration Contest IIWelcome to deviantART Related's "The Collaborations Contest II", powered by #communityrelations. You will have two months to work with a partner in creating a dA Related deviation!Ways to enter:1. Work on your own. Basing your entry on an existing dA Related deviation (eg. find a visual suggestion and create a browser script to make it work).2. Collaborate with another artist on a piece in one medium (e.g. make a stamp or deviantID together).3. Work together to create two related deviations (e.g. a gallery skin design, and the coded version).Submission Guidelines The contest will be open to all mediums within the deviantART Related category, including deviantART Tutorials and
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Be My Valentine Art Exchange!Valentine's Day ExchangeSend Your ValentineIt's time to get out the glitter and glue, candy hearts and flowers, because Valentine's Day is here!The Valentine Exchange is here! We asked you to create valentines and submit them to the Be My Valentine category. Now, it's time to send your love-filled deviations to your deviantART friends, family, and secret admirers! Starting today through February 16th, the "Send a Valentine" button has been activated on deviations in theBe My Valentine category, so you can send your custom creations and valentines made by others. Love is in the air!HOW IT WORKS
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TUTORIAL FEATURES II - Paint Tool SAI SAI or Easy Paint Tool SAI (ペイントツールSAI) is a lightweight raster graphics editor and painting software for Microsoft Windows developed and published by SYSTEMAX Software. The painting application is available in both Japanese, and an official English translation. An unofficial fanmade translation for the software also exists. It can be purchased directly through the developers' website,and purchases through PayPal are now also accepted in addition to the BitCash and TelecomCredit payment systems that have been available for Japanese users. Paint Tool SAI is available on Microsoft Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8. SAI Official Web site (Japanese) SAI Official Web site (English)FEATURESI would like to take this opportunity to feature and promote a few tutorials that I've fo
info about photoshop actions and previewsHere is a feature about photoshop actions.When making photoshop action previews to preview a photo effect:Use your own images or use stock images.Do not browse the web for celebrity images.Use non-edited photos, because that's kind of the entire point.UploadingMake your own actions. Do not play through somebody's actions and then add to it or adjust it your way, and then upload it. Make your own. Tutorials on how to install/use actions: Tutorials on how to make actions: ---There are many amazing stock images that work well as an eye-catching preview (also depends on the effects you create for it, as well as the entire layout for the preview. I just keep a simple preview without fancy texts) You want people to be able to look at