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Last week you wanted soloable incarnate content and this week you're throwing in the towel and asking for a crafting solution. Stick to your guns for more then a couple days.

Hmmm....

I just checked the "End of the Line" badge info on Paragonwiki since I thought that badge mentioned the Freedom Phalanx members Lady Liberty and BaB saved the train. My memory was in error since the badge doesn't mention Freedom Phalanx at all.

I must have gotten that badge and the Phalanxer badge mixed up.

My load times when first logging into the game are insanely long. Every other load screen (into missions, character select) goes by super fast though.

Does this mean we have to wait an extra 2 weeks for our Vanguard Packs?

I'm sure veterans of the Suggestion and Ideas forum have seen the idea for Buzzsaw Melee dozens of times. The whole idea is you attach spinning and very very sharp disks to your hands and then you chop up your targets with the speed and grace of claws, or maybe the whole set is slower if more powerful attacks like Battle Axe and Mace are used.

There have been a couple of characters in comics that used BM. The most popular is


I don't have any idea what powers a Buzzsaw Melee set would have, maybe it's just a real good Claws alternate animation idea. Either way I've done a couple mockups of what a Buzzsaw melee set could look like.



Scorpio is using his power over the air to manifest the Buzzsaws.



Mother Mayhem is using my idea of a buzzsaw melee tier 9. The buzzsaws get really big and then an animation like whirling hands plays.

I think that would be cool.

I have a magic Ipod

Lion-O has something on his upper right shoulder. I wonder if we are getting some new robotic arms that are animal parts.

After reading that Rob Liefield link I can't look at someone wearing a turtle neck and a big jacket and not think of Liefield.

To me it the guy on the left looks like he has manticore hair.

I hope this is just a teaser of the teaser we are going to get tomorrow.

With Valentine's Day right around the corner it's time for the couples of CoH to take to the dance floor. I'm looking for 4 Real Life couples that play CoH to volunteer for this project. Maybe you and your true love will be dancing the Foxtrot, performing a Waltz, maybe, just maybe you'll be breakdancing.

All I need from those couples that want to participate is for you to copy and paste the saved costume files of your favorite alts or "mains" into this thread. Please paste the costume code inside [code] tags.

I've already found one couple, EnnVee and her man. That leaves 3 more spots for 3 more lucky couples to put on their dancing shows and boogie down.

For Pisces I used a pair of quick white circles and the Motion Blur to imply velocity.

For Tellus I used the quick circles and the Vanishing Point filter. The Vanishing Point filter is sorta like Skew on crack. It's going to take some practice.

Open an 800x800 document. In the Layers Tab click the New Fill button (its in blue) and select Gradient.



Make sure your settings are as below. The proper gradient probably won't come up, In blue you'll find the drop down menu to choose the correct gradient.



Choose the circled gradiant.



Now you've just filled your document with a new Fill Layer. Circled in Black is our gradient but it needs to be rasterized before we can shape it the way we want. Circled in Red is a Layer Mask. Normally I just drag the Layer Mask to my trashcan but we are going to need it in a second to finish the rainbow.
To the Right of the Layer Mask right click and choose Rasterize Layer.



Grab your Move Tool (Crtl V) and resize the top and the bottom of the rainbow but leave the rainbow touching the left and right sides. Experiment with thickness but it's hard to mess this up. When you have the size you want hit Enter to commit to the shape change.



We need to add a filter to turn this rectangle to a circle. Go to your Filters Tab and go Distort - Polar Cordintes.



Make sure you have Rectangular to Polar selected and click OK.



So we have a full circle Rainbow but I only need the top half. There are many ways I can delete the half I don't need but I want the bottom of my rainbow to fade slightly. We are going to use the Layer Mask to do this.

1. Click inside the layer mask.
2. Make sure your foreground color is black and your background color is white.
3. Pick your Gradient Tool. The Gradient Tool shares a button with the Paintbucket Tool. Right clicking allows you to swap back and forth between them.
4. From the Gradient drop down menu choose the Black to White Gradient.
5. Make sure you have the Liner Gradient selected.



Now that we now everything is set up for this Layer Mask we need to start our gradient. The black dot in this photo is where we want to start the gradient. We want to hide the rainbow starting at the point it starts to circle back on itself. We want the Gradient to head straight up. If you hold down the Shift Key you'll only be able to draw a gradient in a straight line. You can keep repeating this step over and over till you get a look that works.



If everything went right you should be looking at half a rainbow with a soft fade at the bottom.



Even if you don't need Rainbows I hope someone can make use of the quick circle technique and understands the basics of using a Layer Mask to make part of an image transparent.

Do boosters normally go on sale on a particular day of the week? Or is any weekday a possible day for it to go on sale

He's playing a Troller in the first shot.


He opened with fire cages and hit Overpower.

I'm hoping Snarf is going to be more like Lassie then 80's Snarf. The less talking the better

One of the best tips I've ever gotten about Photoshop was to set up a light source on my top most level that would act like an overhead lamp. In the real world, if you're detailing your Warhammer models, or you're a beader and you're making jewelry or you're making your own flies for fly fishing, you want to be working under a bright light so you can see what you're doing. When working with layers in Photoshop you're going to want your workspace to provide more then enough light to see what you're doing.



For example here's a screengrab of a Tellus from the game. As you can see it's a real dark image, and at some point I'm going to have brighten it before I can use it for anything. The trick is to not brighten the image itself until the last couple steps of your project. You can head to image/adjustments/color-brightnesss and lighten the image up right off the bat. The problem is you may end up losing color information and contrast that you may want to have during the final steps of your project.

I'm gonna show you a quick and easy way to get a layer to act as an overhead lamp so you have a properly illuminated workspace.



First step is to create a new layer and all you have to do is click the that little button my arrow is pointing at. Now the layer is blank so we need to fill it with white.



I'm showing my toolbar in this photo, and the yellow circle show which colors you have loaded. Black - White is the default color setup and to quickly fill my new layer with white I just need to hit ctrl + backspace. As you can see I now have a solid white layer above my image. We now need to change the blend mode of this solid white layer so it illuminates the image and doesn't hide it.
*Alt Backspace will fill the new layer with the foreground color (in this case black), Crtl Backspace will fill a selection with the background color (in this case white)



Making sure the solid white layer is selected, go up into the blend drop down menu and pick Soft Light. This blend mode will flood any layers below it with a soft diffused white that will really brighten up an image.



In this image I've deleted a lot of the white layer on the left side of the image, just to show you the difference this makes. The nice thing about using a soft light layer like this is you can turn the visablity of that layer on and off with one click, and at the same time keep the original color and contrast information for later use.

If you've ever taken a picture of something with your digital camera and you wish you had used the flash, try this technique. You can adjust the opacity of the soft light layer if the artificial flash is too bright.

Hopefully my simple trick isn't too confusing.

I'm hoping for either a [Bunny Hop] or [Chicken Run] in the near future.