Lost you can purchase Ill, or any Adobe, or Macromedia, etc program for a GREATLY reduced price… you get the “educational” version which is a special priced version reserved for full-time students. I purchased photoshop 5 for $225.00 (norm retail was like $600.00) - totally legal, and totally sweet.
Peace
225 is still expensive for me though 
If I had that much money I would buy a Wacom before Illustrator, I wan’t one of those more 
I know what you mean Lost…
One of the toughest things starting out is affording the tools to do what you want to do.
I still suggest the 90 day trial of FW… it really does work like Ilustrator, as far as drawing is concerned…
Plus, if you point it to your PS plug-ins, you have access to those as well… Nice if you have a slug computer like mine…
Rev:elderly:
My computers not a slug, but it could definitely stand to use more RAM, specially running winXP (I only have 128MB).
I am going to download that trial of FW, just haven’t gotten around to it
I really want a Wacom… I was thinking about asking for it for christmas, but it is too expensive and I don’t ask for anything expensive (or anything at all) for christmas.
Just the opposite for me…
450 MHZ, but 512M RAM… every slot is full… doesn’t even have a case, just a frame… to turn it on, you touch 2 wires together…
I named it Frankenstein…
Heck, it works,
Rev:elderly:
OH,
I like the green grass better…
But the b&w is cool too…
did I confuse you more?
:beam:
Rev:elderly:
Lol, I have a 733mhz or something like that, with 128mb ram. It is really good, until it runs out of ram and starts lagging.
No you didn’t confuse me more, I am leaning towards the green one, but I am still balancing on the wire. Haven’t fallen on the choice yet.
The green grass is definitively the best!
But I still think that it would be better if it was in between the neutral and the green, something like your footer.
If you´re having trouble to get there, send me the grass image and I´ll gladly do this for ya.
=)
Alright… you people are never satisfied…LOL
Well anyway, I gave the grass one more shot, I realized what I was doing wrong with the colors ('doh!, it was a stupid mistake, I am ashamed of myself). Anywho, I came up with this next version, and I love it, it is my favorite one out of all of them, hands down, but if I use this one it comes at a cost. That cost is being that this grass bottom takes twice as long to load as the the other two It takes approximately 20 seconds on a 28.8 (which would make this the biggest file size of an image I have ever used in an interface…lol).
Anywho… You can tell me if you think its worth it by viewing it here…
SPLASH PAGE THREE (Another Try)
the grass in the splash page looks like hulk to me.:-\
the grass color in your footer is perfect, try to do like that.
no no no, this is it! I love this one, althogh the file size is a bit big, its most deff worth it! How did you get the color?
I actually like #2 best so far…
a little more “artsy” rather than realistic…
IMHO
Rev:elderly:
IMHO? what is the meaning of this?
In my Honest (or Humble) opinion.
Sheesh you people are NEVER satisfied. Oh well, I can’t remember the color values I used for my footer, and I am not experimenting with every shade of green…lol.
If I get it I get it, if not, then not.
lost:
you asked! 
at least you are getting feedback… some of us have to beg for it… :beam:
It’s tough being your own client…
Rev:elderly:
Lol, I did ask… but now I am starting to think I am going to have to do millions of colors for my grass and have people choose…LOL.
I did want to go for the effect in my footer, but I can’t get the right shades 
Bah… I will keep pressing for the shade in my footer, but make no promises. Besides, in the end it is my choice anyway :evil:
Just to ruin it all, I think the original one (#1) looked awesome 
Looked unique… (to me)…
I vote #1… so there… :pirate: Yar!!
Lol, well at least SOMEONE liked my first one the best
I really like all of them to be honest, this is going to be hard choice for me in the end.
Hmmm, maybe I could just write a random javascript image displayer that will change the color of the grass everytime…lol, that would solve ALL the problems (just kidding).
lost, open up the grass image in your footer and use the eye dropper tool…
It doesn’t work like that unfortunately 
See, the grass is generated through a background/forground color jitter.
This means it takes your background color, and your forground color and randomly creates shades of it for the grass. There are also other settings such as brightest jitter, hue jitter, etc.
So the color on the blades isn’t the actual colors I used ::sigh::
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