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Skinning the Zazzle Sidebar

With Zazzle’s “Advanced Store Customization” system it’s possible to do a heck of a lot with your gallery/store there. But it can be confusing at the beginning – so here’s one very simple sample of something many people want to do right away: skin the sidebar!

How to Reorganize Your Zazzle Sidebar

An example of how the building blocks in Zazzle’s store sidebar can be rearranged.

How to Add a New, Custom Page to Your Zazzle Store

A tutorial that gives step by step instructions on how to add a completely new page to your Zazzle store – it’ll show up in the sidebar menu just like any of the standard pages, and can contain your own custom content.

Adding Sections, Sub-Sections, Subsection Image Links & Breadcrumb Trails to a Zazzle Store

Not for the faint of heart, this is a tutorial contained in an example store.  It demonstrates a system of sections and sub-sections that looks and feels like a Cafepress style store, with section images and a breadcrumb trail.

Making Displacement Mapped Terrain with World Machine and 3DS Max

I test drove the free version of World Machine, a height map generator for building realistic landscapes, and documented the process for you in this review/tutorial.

Making of – Warrior Tools

This is a previously unpublished article I wrote for 3dLuvr.com after winning one of their 3D art contests; it gives an overview of the steps I followed as I made the image that won the contest. Some information about displacement mapping for terrain, and other challenges in the project.

Canyon Tutorial for 3DS Max by Peter Ã…sbergThis is a great introduction to using displacement maps in terrain, and the real eye opener for me was the way the author uses vertex color maps to mask the terrain styles in his displacement. I went on to abuse that idea pretty heavily.Smart Terrain by Cristian “Freespace” Alexandru Ciocotisann

Another 3DS Max tutorial on using displacement mapping to create terrain.

That Wicked Worn Look

A four part series on making distressed, aged effects in Photoshop.

Worn, Painted Metal Surface by Arild Wiro

Nice tutorial on painting weathered, painted metal textures; just the thing for that Rodney Copperbottom robot you’re working on.

Boris the Spider (3DS Max)

Big-brained Andy Murdock shows us how he uses Maxscipt to animate a multi-legged creature walking. Take heart; there’s a downloadable file.

Foxvox’s Unofficial CafePress Premium Shop Owner’s Guide & FAQ

If you’re setting up a POD shop a Cafepress, the thing you’re tearing your hair out about is probably in here.

Tutorial: Working With HTML in Your Premium Shop

…and if it wasn’t, then it’s probably in here, instead.


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