Kenja's Newsletter & Updates

The Gift:

The Gifts for this issue are a Stationery with scrolling background & midi, and a wallpaper for Valentines Day. The graphics for the stationery and the wallpaper were created from ground up with PSP 6.0 tubes, various brushes and filters for effect. The wallpaper has a matching Hotbar skin located in the Valentine section. *smile*

Please make note that the gifts are only for actual subscribers to this newsletter and not for visitors to the archive copies based on the net. Gifts are available for a limited time with each issue, roughly about 7 days and will then be removed... so get 'em while you can!

Stationery & Tools:

• I found an e-mail group a few weeks ago called Sexy Stationery Discussion List. This is a group of people who help each other to create stationery for adults. I have not seen any of their creations anywhere, not even on their homepage at Sexy Stationery. You will have to join Topica E-mail List Directory (this is free) and then their list.

• Now here is a useful free program if you want to create your own stationery. This program makes creating Stationery virtually "fool proof" (not calling anyone names here, so please don't send me any hate mail *smile), called Adlor's Stationery Creation Tool V1.1. The program is very easy to use, and made for OE 4 and 5 users. The knowledge of some basic HTML coding would be helpful, especially if you need to look inside the source code to make some final adjustments. The Creation Tool lets you include any kind of sound file (check mark if you are using OE 4 otherwise leave blank), pictures of any format and size, scrolling of background can be adjusted to scroll from any given direction, clicking of the background to start and/or stop the scrolling is an automatic option, and you can even include up to 3 scrolling Status-Bar messages. The locations of the sound and graphic files don't have to be in your stationery default folder on your computer but can be located anywhere to be able to use them. Once you are done you can save the stationery html in the default folder and you are done. Trust me... now anyone can make their own stationery or adjust OE 4 stationery to be compatible with OE 5... and yes it is FREE!

• If you are still not in the mood for making your own stationery, you have always the option of downloading some from one of the many sites on the Internet. DTK Designs Stationery has some very unusual and nice stationery in various categories and also with some special effects like Java FX (i.e. the lake effect etc.)

• Rob's Stationery X Files has also some very nice stationery. He specializes in Movie and People themed stationery. All very nicely done with scrolling backgrounds and midi music. Definitely worth a visit.

Graphic Programs Tutorials:

• Paint Shop Pro is probably one of the most widely used graphic programs. It is easy to use (though not cheap), and offers many built in filters and effects like tubes and frames. Paint Shop Pro Tutorials by Aesthetic Web Creations offers tutorials for PSP version 5 and 6 ranging from the basic stuff up to learning how to use Blade Pro (Pug-in filter) to creating seamless tiles and even how to slice images.

• Another good PSP (Paint Shop Pro) tutorial site is Paint Shop Pro 5 Tips & Tricks (what works for version 5 works also in version 6). Here you can learn anything from the basic to the most involved with step-by-step instructions and pictures. They even have all tutorials available in PDF format so that you can download it and print it or just keep around without having to be connected to the Internet. Very well done and easy to follow.

• Internet Eye Magazine is a large Internet based graphics magazine and they too offer many tutorials for many different graphic programs like PSP, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Poser, Painter, Corel and many others.

• Ulead is another company that offers a good selection of widely used graphic programs like Gif Animator, Web Razor, Cool 3-D, and various others. Of course they too have a good Tutorial section to support their programs as well.

• If you are into Bryce 3 and/or 4 by Meta Creations then I would recommend that you visit their tutorial section, as well as a site called Bryce 4 All. The later site is awesome, because not only do they offer various tutorials, but also textures, pre-sets, skies, a message board, an awesome picture gallery and also models, a contest and so much more. Even if you do not have the Bryce program the picture gallery alone is worth a visit. *smile*

On the Lighter Side of Life -:)

• "Upon the Advice of My Attorney, My Shirt Bears No Message at This Time"

• "Frankly, Scallop, I Don't Give a Clam" - seen on Cape Cod

• "That's It! I'm Calling Grandma!" - seen on an 8 year old

• "Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew Up"

• "I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts -- Do You Want Fries With That?"

• "FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION. It comes bundled with the software."

• "Filthy, Stinking, Rich -- Well, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad"

• "A hangover is the wrath of grapes"

• "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance"

• "STUPIDITY IS NOT A HANDICAP. Park elsewhere!"

• "How long is this Beta guy going to keep testing our stuff?"

• "He who dies with the most toys is still dead"

• "HECK IS WHERE PEOPLE GO WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN GOSH"

• HARD WORK WILL PAY OFF LATER. LAZINESS PAYS OFF NOW!"

• "The trouble with life is there's no background music."

• "IF THERE IS NO GOD, WHO POPS UP THE NEXT KLEENEX?"

• "Two rights do not make a wrong. They make an airplane."

• "Computer programmers don't byte, they nybble a bit."

• "Computer programmers know how to use their hardware."

• "NyQuil: The stuffy, sneezy, why-the-heck-is-the-room-spinning medicine."

• "Quoting one is plagiarism. Quoting many is research."

The Finishing Touches:

I hope you enjoyed this edition of the newsletter, and found lots of useful information. Remember, the next newsletter will be published on or around February 20 th, 2000. If you have any comments or suggestions, e-mail me at

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