At least it's better than using the Smudge tool in Macromedia Fireworks 8 to get rid of splotches in a sky... I wasted two weeks trying to get rid of that! Not to mention, it was only for a tiny grade... >///> Ah, well, now I can make flames with my knowledge of that tool... And, I can do some nice shading, as evidenced by my submission, "A Nice Hevdra".

Oh, your right your smudging on "A Nice Hevdra" looks great ^^, but I really don't think croping is going to be as useful as smuding. I've learned one useful thing from it though, your never supposed to center something completely, your supposed to leave negative space on either side of the main focus of the picture, at first I didn't think it'd make much of a difference in the picture but wow it makes the entire picture so much more appealing.

Right. And, I've learned that you can't really screw with autoshapes in Fireworks. It screws with you.

lol I've never used Fireworks, how does autoshapes screw with you?

"Changing sub elements of autoshapes may cause them to behave unpredictably."

*touches shape, jumps all over the screen* "back off man, I'm a triangle I'll stab you" :P

=Stabs the triangle and it turns red.= WTF!?

oooo you really pissed off the triangle now *triangle grows a mouth and starts eating your files* :P

Luckily my files are just yiff. And one of you.

lmao so nothing thats too hard to find again hmm? :P

Right. Just look a li'l more on FA. Plus. =Closes Fireworks.= Yay! Not to mention, I could've made a triangle by deleting the corner of a rectangle, or doing the pen tool.

I personally just don't like using the pen tool to make shapes, luckly my autoshapes don't mess with me, cause if they did.... then again I mainly use photoshop to edit photos so it's not like I really need it

I can't do any editing really, but how I work is pretty okay.

your too modest :)

Nah. It's true. My skillset's in just doing things by paw.