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Create a Surreal Matte Painting in Photoshop
A GFX Crew member's advanced Photoshop matte-painting tutorial, gated behind the classic 'reply to unlock' trick.
A tutorial thread posted by [FkN] GodPower, a member of the site's Graphics Crew, offering an advanced-level Photoshop CS3+ walkthrough for making a surreal matte painting, estimated at 4-5 hours to complete. The download/content was hidden behind a reply-to-unlock gate, a common tactic on the forum's GFX Tutorials board to farm replies. Only two brief low-effort replies followed ('unhide', 'ty'), typical of these tutorial-dump threads that existed more to pad post counts than spark discussion.
unhide— amragentxxx
ty— greenguy
The All You Need To Know About Text Tutorial
A hidden GFX text tutorial that everyone just replied 'unhide' to for a week straight.
A GFX Tutorials board post by kennutz shared a text-effects tutorial (credited to ~FlyingFireballs) locked behind a reply-to-unlock spoiler, a classic forum-growth trick of the era. A handful of members trickled in over a few days just to say thanks or beg for the content to unhide, with one confirming they were working in Photoshop CS5. Nothing dramatic here, just a small, quiet slice of the site's GFX/design corner doing its everyday business.
unhide xD— matxa
unhide pls^.^— spraxx46
Simple Avatar Tutorial
A quick GFX 101 post that pulled in the usual crowd of 'ty' repliers and one unimpressed critic
A short, credited (to 'Shiv') tutorial on making a basic avatar, posted in the GFX Tutorials section by longtime member kennutz. The thread itself was gated behind a reply-to-unlock system typical of the forum's tutorial culture, and the replies are mostly low-effort thanks and acknowledgments rather than discussion. One member, DILLIGAF, dismissed it as too basic. A modest, unremarkable slice of the forum's graphic design corner, notable mainly for showing the everyday rhythm of the Art and Design board rather than any major event.
Too Simple.......— DILLIGAF
lets see— GodPower