When I redesigned this website, one of the features that I neglected to include was the Tutorials section. This was probably a bad idea, as I’m pretty sure that the majority of the traffic coming into the site was from links to those tutorials. I was asked if they will be re-integrated into the new site design.

Well… no. While the information in the tutorials is solid enough, the organization is not as clean or as useful as I would like it to be. Also, the way I’ve laid out and coded the pages does not easily allow me to rearrange the way the information is presented. It’s all hard-coded HTML and very kludgy, as not only did I not know CSS at the time (ha!), but I barely knew HTML and was really flailing around in Dreamweaver to get it to look right (please, please don’t look at the code). As a bit of a kicker, while all the fundamentals are still valid, I’d like to modify it to reflect upgrades in Photoshop.

Since it needs to be completely reorganized, and doing so is not high on my priority list, it is unlikely that the old tutorials will find their way into the new site any time soon.

But that doesn’t mean I have to take the old ones DOWN. So here they are, but beware — some links will be broken and may mesh weirdly with the rest of this site.

Ye Olde Tutorials

Ah, and for those who don’t know, these tutorials cover:

• Eliminating blue Col-Erase from line drawings
• Understanding print and screen resolutions (DPI)
• Preparing line artwork for colouring
• A really useful method for creating colour schemes that are flexible and easily changeable
• Probably some other fun things.