Skill Level Standard for Tutorials.
Many tutorial authors came together to come
up with
a rating system so that we might help the users of
Paint Shop Pro tutorials know what level of skill
they
will need to complete the tutorials. The standard of
rating skill is offered to any Tutorial Author
that
wishes to use it.
It is our hope that it will help both authors and
users.
Below you
will find a scale to use as a guideline to rate
tutorials. If you have any questions please email me! .
Buttons
are provided for each skill level. You may use
these or make your own to match your design,
please
link buttons to......
http://www.byastro.com/skills/skillstandard.html
Right click and select "Save As" Save to your own
hard
drive, do not link directly to buttons on this site.
Whisper was gracious enough to
colorize some buttons
for us. Just click on her name above to see them.
Thanks Whisper!
Paint Shop
Pro guidelines to rate skill level of tutorials.
Scale is from 1 thru 10+ & double rating
1 thru 4
Beginner Level
1 & 2 Beginner.. Tutorials with precise instructions,
step by
step with lots of screenshots detailing where tools are
located.
From the basics of understanding the tools of PSP, using
tubes,
exporting tubes, saving images, adding borders, making
tiles.
High Beginner
Level
3 & 4 High Beginner.. Working with PSP filters,
learning
basics of layers, backgrounds & buttons, simple frames,
bevels, cutouts, saving options, simple selections,
precise
instructions for step by step with lots of screenshots,
detailed path of locations of filters & tools. Use of
Deformation tool.
5 thru 7
Intermediate Level
5 & 6 Intermediate... continue with layers, adding
plugins,
working with simple selections, mask, filters, frames,
basic preset
vectors shapes, experimenting with brushes, making
simple tubes.
Working with preset patterns and gradients
High
Intermediate Level
Level 7, High Intermediate.. simple preset vectors,
simple
node manipulation, shadowing with airbrush and Gaussian
blur,
simple animation's, working with more tubes, making your
own
selections. Making your own patterns and gradients.
Plugins and filters.
8-10+
Advanced Level
8 & 9 Vicious Vectors, (We decided was a good name for
them! *L* )
Writing your first tutorial, harder vectors,
manipulating
nodes and changing node types, Vector text, Working
with lots of layers, more advanced shading and
shadowing.
Begin working with freehand tools making such things as
lines, smiles, strands of hair, freehand simple bows,
and
hangers, using different textures, patterns, filters,
plugins.
Experimenting with creating simple tubes, Harder
animations containing more frames, Use of
Retouch Tool.
Over the Top
Advanced
10+ Advanced.. Anything that is not covered in the
above.
using shadowing to make realistic faces, hair, skin/body
tones,
extensive use of filters and plugins, freehand drawing,
painting,
making hard tubes, beizer curve. Maps, Image Slicer.
Making your own mask, detailed animations.
Double
ratings...
Some tutorials should have a double rating. Example..
if
a tutorial uses both selections and vectors it would be
double
rated. One rating set to the skill level of selections
and
another set to vector level.
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