This is an archived tutorial from the kirupa.com legacy collection. It covers software that may no longer be available, but it is kept online because the ideas still hold up.
While tutorials and articles make up a good portion of the information found in this site, there is a more dynamic side that you may have been unaware of. That would be the online web-forum (kirupaForum) where individuals can post and receive answers to technical questions, participate in design "battles", or just relax and have fun communicating with the thousands of members from around the world who make use of the forums on a regular basis.
The series of articles on this page were written primarily to place a lot of the forum's oft-asked general questions and features into a more readily accessible form with images and explanations from someone who uses the forums a little too much!
Note
If you are familiar with how to use a web-forum, you can skip the first few pages and just read the Guidelines and Having Fun pages instead.
Since this article covers a lot of material that may not be useful to all users, I have divided the information into categories.
Navigation:
If you don't feel like using the above navigation, simply click the next section links to linearly progress through these articles.
Just a final word before we wrap up. What you've seen here is freshly baked content without added preservatives, artificial intelligence, ads, and algorithm-driven doodads. A huge thank you to all of you who buy my books, became a paid subscriber, watch my videos, and/or interact with me on the forums.
Your support keeps this site going! 😇

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