Fanworks Floating Stickys

[Sayara]

This thread will be a helpful guide on gaining tricks, tips and other resources for creating anything in the realms of Fan. If you find anything that you'd think would be great to add to the thread please send me a PM. As per with any other floating sticky, bumps are allowed in moderation (In example, asking a question related to the topic in an older thread.)

Essential Links:

Forum Rules (http://www.pso-world.com/faq.php?myfaq=yes&id_cat=9&categories=Forum)
Who To Contact If You Have Issues (http://www.pso-world.com/viewtopic.php?topic=66004&forum=6&16) (Site Related sticky)
Fan-Art Gallery (http://www.pso-world.com/gallery/)
Fan Fiction Library (http://www.pso-world.com/fanfic.php)
Fan Media Theater (http://www.pso-world.com/download.php?cat=Fan+Media+Theater)


Digital Art:

Layer guide for Photoshop 7+ by Jared_T (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78037)
Guide to Quickmasking in Photoshop 7+ by Sayara (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109420)
Guide to Layermasks in Photoshop 7+ by Sayara (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124152)
Guide to Colored outlines in Photoshop 7+ by Sayara (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=163704)
Guide to Magic Wand tool in Photoshop 7+ by Axel3792 (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2405049)
Digital Art tutorials by qoxolg (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2668356)
Tutorials by Jared_T (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2863181)
Youtube tutorials with Shinureal (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=218210)


Art Technique:

Body Tutorial with Shapes! by Sayara (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=184008)
Face Tutorial by Sayara (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=189947)
IFX- Strike a Pose by Warren Louw (http://warrenlouw.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2p3au1) (DevArt resource)


Fan-Fiction/Role Playing:

Plotline guide by Elvendar (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73920)
Fanfiction guide by KaFKa (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43591)
The Art of Fiction - a guide to assist your writing by SpikeOtacon (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=191614)


Misc. Tutorials:

Kodiax967's Nifty Guide to Signatures How-to (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23622)
Wearable Beast Ear tutorial by haruna (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144438)


Resources:

Artist Galleryspot (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2668368)
DeviantArt's Resources Gallery (http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/) viewer discretion is advised, results may vary.
Gimp tutorials by DeviantArt's Artist Hospital (http://artistshospital.deviantart.com/art/Gimp-Tutorials-96051171)
IStockPhoto (for stock photography, models, mannequins etc.) Pay to use free to try (http://www.istockphoto.com/)
MangaSTUDIO EX tutorials (http://manga.smithmicro.com/d_tutorials.html)
pixelate's photoshop url guide (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9952)
Photoshop tutorials from DeviantArt's Artist Hospital (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/24705903/)
PSOW Reference Materials (http://www.pso-world.com/download.php?cat=Reference+Materials)
PSO Fonts from Fringes of Algo (http://www.psalgo.com/boards/phantasy-star-online-fonts-vd244.html)
RP Character Bank (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=185365)
SAI tutorials from DeviantArt's Artist Hospital (http://artistshospital.deviantart.com/art/Paint-Tool-SAI-Tutorials-130275466)

Programs:

GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)
Manga Studio (http://manga.smithmicro.com/)
Paint.net program (http://www.getpaint.net/)
PaintTool SAI (30 day trial vers.) (http://sai.detstwo.com/sai/)


The old one (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66108)