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Posted: Oct 26 2007, 12:55 AM

The Few, The Proud
The 'Souls Assemblage






Resource Thread

What're you looking for? Someone else has probably found it! Anything to add? Reply and we'll post it on the list. You don't have to have created the resource to add it to the list. Member-donated items are listed with Member-Donated before the resource. Thanks for all the great resources!

Contents:
___ ImagesCanine & Wildlife, General Stock, Lineart, Art
___ DesignGeneral, Tutorials, Fonts & Typography, Generators, Colors, Image Hosting, Image Editing Programs, Coding
___ RoleplayingGeneral, Templates, Names, Writing (General, Errors, Vocabulary)
___ TechnologyPrograms, Browsers, Spyware
___ Real LifeHomework, Other

  1. Images
    1. Canine & Wildlife Images:
      ___ Make sure you abide by photographers' terms of use. Double check to see that they allow the use of their images for roleplaying! Credit your photographers if they require it.
      1. Google image search for "wolf"
      2. Lioncrusher -- Seems to be down, but has always been a most excellent resource; will leave up in the hopes that it goes back up sometime!
      3. Wolf Gallery
      4. The Animal Photo Archive - Wolf
      5. Animal Pictures Archive - Wolves
      6. Wolf Photography
      7. Wolf Howl Animal Preserve -- copyrighted
      8. Wolf Photobucket account
      9. woxys@dA - Wolves
      10. Wolf @ Wikimedia Commons -- many free to use (with terms) images, some public domain images as well
      11. Member-Donated: Jassani's Photobucket -- Donated by Jassy!
    2. General Stock Images:
      1. Public Domain:
        ___ In the case of public domain images, you can use them however you'd like with no restrictions.
        1. Burning Well
        2. Wikimedia Commons
        3. History Picks
        4. Historical Clipart
        5. Gimp-Savvy
        6. Public Domain Image
        7. Old Book Illustrations
        8. Wikipedia - Public Domain Image Resources -- massive list of various places to pick up images in the public domain.
      2. Free License: In the case of "free" images, you often have to abide by the photographers' terms, like attribution -- which is usually just a simple link back. Make sure you abide by the terms if you use an image! Credit your photographers!
        1. Member-Donated: Shannon's Stock -- Donated by Shannon
        2. Member-Donated: Sie's Stock -- Donated by Sie
        3. Member-Donated: Tammi's Stock -- Donated by Tammi
        4. stock.xchg
        5. Morguefile
        6. imageafter
        7. CreativeCommons
        8. stock @ dA
        9. cadyou
        10. Flickr -- Go to the advanced search, scroll down, and select the tickbox to "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content." Also select the second tickbox to look for works that you can modify. You aren't making money off of your roleplay designs, so you needn't worry about the first option.
      3. Pay Sites:
        1. GettyImages
        2. Alamy
        3. Corbis
        4. First Light
        5. Team Husar
    3. Lineart Images:
      ___ Unlike most art you find on the internet, this is stuff that people have posted for completely free use! If you can color, you can color these! REMEMBER, only art that is expressly posted for free use and alteration can be used in this manner! Double check the items' description to make sure the artist really is okay with you using the art! If you're really not sure, ask first. If there's a lineart or feature an artist has produced that is oft-used at 'Souls or seems particularly popular, it has been pointed out from their regular lineart gallery.
      1. Member Donated: Color Your Own Kiritar -- Donated by Kiri! An awesome 'Souls exclusive. ♥
      2. Roleplaying Resources @ 'Souls dA Directory -- A collection of free lineart and etc from deviantART.
      3. Wolf lineart dA search
      4. Wolf template dA search
      5. Lineart by The-Sei-Hound @ dA
        1. Wolf Pelt
      6. Kaylink's Free Lineart
        1. Kaylink's Wolf Maker by Kaylink @ dA
      7. BBA Character Creator -- Thanks to Rachael for suggesting!
      8. Free Art by TheTyro @ dA -- Please note, this artist does ask for a link back! There are a few lovely wolf images here.
        1. Realistic Wolf Template
      9. Member-Donated: Sie's Free Lineart -- Donated by Sie
      10. Awesome Realistic Lineart by Perishmoon -- Thanks to Deb for suggesting!
      11. Member-Donated: Chibi Wolf Lineart -- Donated by Jess
      12. Member-Donated: Female Werewolf -- Donated by Gen
    4. Art:
      Please note that these site showcase personal art. Be sure to get permission from the artist before using art for anything! Some artists allow roleplayers to use their art as character play-bys; other artists do not permit such usage. If you're not sure, err on the cautious side -- art theft can result in a ban from 'Souls!
      1. VCL
      2. deviantART
      3. Side7
      4. FurAffinity

  2. Design Resources
    1. General:
      1. Member-Donated: Tammi's Resources -- seems to be down. tammi?
    2. Image Editing Tutorials:
      1. List of Photoshop Image Tutorials
      2. Graphics Learning Center @ RPG-D -- many awesome tutorials
    3. Fonts & Typography:
      1. dafont
      2. Absolute Fonts Archive
      3. 1001fonts.com
      4. Spekaing in Styles: Web Safe Fonts -- Pay attention to web safeness in the fonts you choose for your tables.
    4. Generators:
      1. Bgpatterns.com
      2. Repper: pattern designer
      3. Brilliant Buttonmaker
      4. StripeMania
    5. Colors:
      1. Color Pallete Generator
      2. Color Blender
      3. Color Scheme Designer
      4. kuler
      5. List of Colors
    6. Image Hosting
      1. Graffiti.net
      2. Imageshack
      3. Photobucket.com
      4. Sixpop
      5. Tinypic
      6. supload
    7. Free Image Editing Programs:
      1. GIMP
      2. GIMPshop -- GIMP modded to look like Adobe Photoshop
      3. ArtRage
      4. Iaza.com -- Powerful online image editing/conversion tool
      5. Inkscape
    8. Coding:
      1. Notepad++ -- If you still code in Notepad, you're seriously missing out!
      2. HTML and CSS Table Style Wizard -- Great for tables!
      3. CSS Font and Text Style Wizard -- Great for styling fonts and so forth if you don't know CSS!
      4. lissaexplains -- Excellent beginner's guide to HTML and some basic CSS.
      5. w3schools -- Excellent general resource and reference guide.
      6. Dave's HTML Guide
      7. Draac.com
      8. HTML Goodies

  3. Roleplaying Resources
    1. General Resources:
      1. Word Count Tool
      2. Plotting Hints
      3. Big List of RPG Plots
      4. Character Building Workshop
      5. Character Archetypes
      6. Character Flaws
      7. Fiction Character Chart
      8. Character Trait Chart and Personality Components
    2. Table, Postlog, and Template Codes:
      1. Karmencita's Table Templates
      2. Post Template Resources @ RPG-Directory.com
      3. Member-Donated: Apple Postlog Icons by Chelsie
      4. Member-Donated: Tears, Bones, & Desire -- Donated by Sie
        1. Character Sheet 1
        2. Old Character Sheet
        3. Character Sheet 3
        4. Post Log
        5. Pure CSS Tables
        6. Scar Tutorial
        7. Very Simple Character Archive -- Donated by Sie. There's a doHTML and a BBcode version of the VSCA, and there's also a second post log, both the skinnable type and the blank text type.
      5. Member-Donated: Inventory Icons -- Donated by Sie.
      6. Member-Donated: Family Trees -- Donated by Sie.
      7. Member-Donated: Profile Skinning Guide -- Donated by Sie.
    3. Character Names:
      1. Behind the Name -- Awesome and easy to search. Reccommended!
      2. Surnames @ Behind the Name
      3. zoope.com
      4. kabalarians
      5. seventh sanctum
      6. 20000-names.com
      7. Babynames.com
      8. Low Chen Australia's BIG List of Names
      9. The Name Generator

    4. Writing Resources:
      ___ Improving your writing is an integral part of roleplaying here at 'Souls. Many of these links can be extremely useful, from refining your style to avoiding common errors. Check these pages out!
      1. General Resources:
        1. Alpha Dictionary -- Though this is a dictionary, they have a lot of useful content, including a "good word" list/dictionary.
        2. Google Dictionary
        3. Sparknotes Style Guide
        4. Dictionary.com Resources
        5. Creative Writing @ About.com
        6. Writing Dialogue
      2. Common Errors:
        ___ The more silly errors you can avoid, the better! For example, many people use the phrase “it didn't phase him at all.” This isn't actually correct! There are lots of nuances in the language that aren't so obvious, and many of these errors are pervasive. The media uses them often, and they are common in everyday speech. You can seriously impress someone if you use the proper homonym or avoid a nonsensical cliche!
        1. Most Common Errors
        2. More Common Errors
        3. Cliches to Avoid
        4. Commonly Confused Words
      3. Vocabulary Expansion: From virtualsalt.com's introduction, you should build your vocabulary for “shades and degrees of meaning,” “exactness of meaning” and “clarification of a concept.” This is absolutely true, but take care to avoid thesaurus abuse, and make sure the word you're trying to use means what you think it means.
        1. Words to Know
        2. Synonyms for Students
        3. Unusual Words
        4. More Unusual Words
        5. Even More Unusual Words
        6. Still More Unusual Words
        7. Words for Said
        8. Latin Words -- Latin expressions that persist in English are often misused.
  4. Technology
    1. OpenSource/Freeware Programs:
      1. OpenOffice
      2. Avast! AntiVirus
      3. AVG AntiVirus
      4. Miranda IM -- A multi-client IM program. You can run AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and many other protocols at the asme time. Reccommended!
      5. Pidgin -- Multi-client IM Program
    2. Browsers:
      1. Mozilla Firefox / Mozilla
        1. Awesome Add-Ons
          1. Adblock Plus -- Great for your sanity, seriously. Never see an advertisement again.
          2. MeasureIt -- Great for designers
          3. ColorZilla -- Great for designers
          4. FireFTP
          5. Gmail Notifier
          6. NoScript -- Make your Firefox even safer.
          7. Lazarus: Form Recovery -- Never lose a post again! Great if you type your posts into the browser window!
          8. Stylish -- Use a custom CSS stylesheet. This is helpful if the website you're viewing is unreadable for their "stylistic" reasons.
      2. Google Chrome
        1. Awesome Add-Ons
          1. Adblock Plus
          2. ColorPick
      3. Safari (Mac)
      4. Netscape
      5. Camino (Mac)
      6. Internet Explorer -- Not reccommended
    3. Spyware Cleaners & Pop-Up Blockers:
      1. Ad-Aware
      2. CCleaner
      3. Spybot: Search & Destroy
      4. Window Washer
      5. Google Toolbar
      6. Panicware Pop-up Stopper Basic
  5. Real Life
    ___ Yeah, I guess everyone has to go back there at some point, huh?
    1. Homework:
      1. Homework Tips @ About.com
      2. Homework Help @ About.com
      3. Homework Help @ Discovery.com
      4. Homeworkspot.com
      5. EHomeworkHelp.com
      6. FactMonster.com
      7. HomeworkHelp.com
      8. Homework Help @ InfoPlease.Com
      9. GradeSaver.com
      10. SparkNotes.com
      11. HistoryChannel.com
      12. NationMaster.com
    2. Other:
      1. GetHuman.com -- Customer service shortcuts for many popular companies. Awesome if you want to skip through twenty minutes of talking to a robot.
      2. Readability -- Because some of us blind old farts can't read the post tables you whipper-snappers use anymore!
      3. Freecycle.org -- Refined dumpster diving.
      4. poor_skills -- Because a lot of us are broke college students. 8D

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