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Making a pencil drawing from a photo: take a picture of yourself. use a bright / white background and apply the steps shown in the tutorial! – devvv

Making a pencil drawing from a photo: how do i make this for my self? – jonesrachael

Creating a bloody splatter texture: Nice tutorial. worked like a charm. I did the splatter in blue though, and it looked just as good- not that it looked like blood then, but it was for something i was doing. Anyways for all you people who keep having trouble, you need to create a new layer for the sun thing, then fill it with FG. When you need to "lock the transparency just lock the alpha (its a little block with a square next to it.) It's actually very easy and effective- and it doesn't really matter what size or backround color you have it: i had a white backround with a 450x100 size frame. Still worked like a charm. – jleaf

Create futuristic looking tech pattern: Wonderful! I did whaqt you said as extras, both together and separately. I also messed with the colors. It looks great! Awesome! – Anonymous

A colored swirl of light: Ok, all is good until Whirl and Pinch. My 4 corners have disappeared in the process and the colors are off. Then the gradient isn't a circle and is transparent...not likeyours. So I gave up for the moment. Help??? – Anonymous