#IM Tutorial/examples
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Ben:
How about getting some of your more talented and creative IM customers to
put together a tutorial that BBS can sell. You could assign specific
chapters to different people and then offer them a portion of the proceeds
(and/or upgrades) as compensation.
By using outside sources to write the individual chapters (ie: MASKS,
MORPHS, BUFFERS, F/X, etc) you wouldn't have to use your in-house talent
except for editing.
I'd love something that was printed hardcopy with an examples disk, or, (if
you don't think you could sell enough to be worthwhile- or keeping up with
the upgrades would be too difficult) a Bulletin Board version where you
could just download the whole shebang (text) and the images (examples) as
you needed them.
I'd think that a $39.95 or $49.95 retail is about what I'd pay for a
tutorial book with a disk of examples.
Michael
….from the north coast
We're looking at solutions, Michael – tutorials are needed no question, and
I'm willing to edit such a thing… have to see if anyone was interested in
contributing. Big project.
–Ben
>>> "Big project"
Yeah… monumental really, if you want to keep it up to date. That's why I
suggested user submitted chapters. Hope you can do it.
Michael
….from the north coast
Ya know Mike, I have felt the same way about tutorials/examples. I need a
way to get over the hump and really start doing some wild things with
IP/IM, but a few of the concepts in the program are still foreign to me.
Sometimes there is a feature described where after the details of how it
works, I need a statement such as > This feature would be used for…<.
This was done with the description of the new Shadow f/x and I was making
neat shadows in no time. It's is a challenge keeping up with the
state-of-art; and lots of fun. Hey, Ben knows we need 'em…we'll get 'em.
And I too would pay for them, in a second. Later.
John
You will get them, too. :^)
–Ben
GEE, Ben… I'm sure you could find SOMEONE who would be interested in such
a project, IF you could furnish enough INCENTIVE <grin>. Btw, did anybody
tell what prompted my visit to SoCal? <grin again>. Gimme a call and I'll
tell you. The number is 714-253-2828… Ask for the small furry one <grin
for the last time this message>
–Eet–
Eet= Good to see you around again!
M
I think so too! <grin> Tho I'm sure your opinion is far from universal 🙂
Michael,
this does not quite fit into your concept of BBS-financed, chapter-sized
tutorials, but I _do_ intend to share a small tutorial with the larger
world, once the project I'm working on is done. The tutorial will feature
JPG'd images, a text file, and an ARexx macro to describe how I animated a
Make Shine to have a logo turn to gold in a flash of light. (This project
was the reason why Load/Save Mask was added to the latest upgrade, by the
way)
Perhaps other users will follow suit, describing their pet ImageMaster
project.
Blaq!
Sounds great Blaq!
I too, hope others will follow suit.
Michael
….from the north coast