Heheh, I was thinking it was a tutorial on how to model fingernails/thumbnails.

My solution: just upload the thing to Imageshack or any other hosting service - they'll make the bbcode for you.

a tutorial on modelling thumbnails?!

but seriously this should be something that all artists should know and use (to some extent). think of it as knowing how to matte your own pictures for a piece of traditional artwork. or continue being lazy. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] do ImageShack or other sites like that let you specify the size of the thumbnail?

TUTORIAL NEWS FLASH!!!

currently the images for this tut aren't showing up because they were hosted on SNemmy's cottage and i'm not sure if he plans to move over to gamespy or whatnot.

UPDATE!!!
i have moved the images over to photobucket and MoP has edited my original post to include the new links. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Gravedigging alert!

I just clicked on this again for old times sake, and i noticed you compressed the shit out of those pictures. You've heard of gif, right? Or perhaps better yet (sometimes), png?
You have something like 5 colours in that picture, if we're to ignore the gradient of the titlebar and aa on the red brush-strokes.

I just really wanted to reply to tell people *not to listen to Jzero though, i hate that, heh. These absolutely nondescript artsy thumbnails can be quite a drag after a while.

3 months later.... [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

1) get you image.

2)open your paint program. (i'm using photoshop)

3)open your image.

4)go up to 'Image':


5)go to 'Image Size'


6)click on constain proportions and change 'pixels' to 'percent'. set the percentage to something like 25%:


change to:


7)press 'OK'.

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