As a newbe, this is great, I was hoping I would find a manual one of these days, even in draft.

Bummer, I ordered the magazine.

Have you gone to the DAZ web site and looked at their tut's?? I have only worked with ver 4 and a newbe at that, but I believe the body parts are modified using sliders.

I haven't used the program One Perfect Resize. I have used a freebee that, IMHO, is incredible. Irfran View can down size an image in just about any way you can think of. Porpotional, percentage, length, width, preserve aspect ratio and a whole bunch more. It  works with a kazillion different formats.

I found it very interesting, the only other motion comic I have seen is the Watcher. Colors were good, sound was excellent, graphics were good. for me, the sceen changes were to fast, no time to take in any details. on a scale of 1 to 10, (1 being lowest) I would give it a 7.5 to 8.

There is another excellent animation program that is inexpensive and has been around for years called Anaimation Master. www.hash.com , their forums are fantastic and their support is great.

One of my most favorites A:M's is Killer Bean http://amfilms.hash.com/search/?search_id=killer+bean&search_type=search_videos&x=41&y=15

Hash also great tutorials, at least check them out.

Hi Stacey, I will admit I am a bit confused. Whe I click on an artists homepage, that will take me to the Artist Page, if I click on the artists name I go to the Artist Gallery. I tried finding my Artist Page, so far I have only found the Artist Gallery. Is the Artist Page a subscription page??

I think you have made a great decision and I agree to the extent that the computer world can seem like a rip off, having been in it since before PC's were a glimmer in anyone's eye. If you get behind and upgrade or two or three big whooping deal, as long as you are satisfied with your work. If you have clients and they want you do do something you can't, then you can decide if you want to upgrade.

You have the ability to draw, paint and photograph, then the computer is just a tool like a brush or pencil. Use it that way and you will grow. I don't know if you are familar with BJHook (http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2142602 ), I believe he uses all the tools for his creations and does (IMO) a fantastic job.

At any rate Good luck, and god speed!!!

A small suggestion from me, please don't go with XP-64. Been there done that and virtually no body supports it. I went back to XP-32 till Win 7 came out.

eBay is a good source for pricing, I have never been screwed on hardware, nearly everyone has a return policy.

I got my ASUS Crosshair gaming motherboard for about half price, with a dual core AMD processor. At the time it was about the best for speed with an AMD. ASUS also had one for Intel (which was faster). I am still using it even though ASUS is now up to Crosshair Formula 4. I am not a gamer, I got the board for its speed and flexability.

Good luck with your future endevors!!

OK...I have tried Chrome, and IE 8, there is NO link to go back to the "Old Home Page". There are no menu's on the left side of my screen, there are no options when I click on the "Menu" button.

Looking at eBay, there are 3 motherboard configurations. You said that that you have a PCIE slot so that narrow's the options down. I can't find a picture of the inside of your (mini ?) mid-tower case. As Gareeee said this card will use the PCIE slot and cover your remaining PCI slot. With that in mind you will have to add extra cooling or both the CPU and video cards are going to over heat, giving you worse performance that you are getting now.

Just from a personal point of view, your Dell Optiplex GX745 does not suck. It was built for a specfic purpose. Your knowledge and abilities have out grown that purpose. Yes it is agravating, but is really not Dells fault. The type of Dell you sould be looking at now would be the XPS series, which is a higher end desktop. Don't put much more money into your GX745, as I am willing to bet you will find the processor and or RAM will be your next bottle neck.

Well it has been a couple of days, whats the skinny on your system?? Did you find a higher wattage power supply that fits?? Is CS5 behaving it's self??

The problem with most name brand computers (Dell, HP, Sony etc) is they make their systems propriatary. If you can, or if you can get someone to help, build your own system, it is a whole lot easier than you might expect. Yes it will probably cost more, but then you get exactly what you want; speed, memory, hard drive space, optical drives, the works. And now there are a lot of kool looking cases. All the parts are super easy to upgrade, you can replace a 500 watt power supply with a 750 or 1000 watt, and not worry about having to buy a whole new system.

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That was a very good tutorial...thanks