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Simple Sta.sh Tutorial by namenotrequired, literature

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Simple Sta.sh Tutorial

What is Sta.sh? Sta.sh is a new system for submitting art to dA. You can find the link in your 'submit' menu. Why use it?Main advantages are that you can submit deviations faster, from more places (currently with apps for android, iPhoto, mac, iOS, etc., as well as from email and FTP) and you can keep them private if you want. You can then share it only with those people you want - for example to ask their opinion before submitting it to your gallery. How to submit?Submitting basically happens in two parts. Upload the file Image- and other filesSubmit files from your computer by clicking

A Complete Guide to dA News by namenotrequired, literature

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A Complete Guide to dA News

A Complete Guide to dA News If you can't see the preview image well, click here for the full size. Overview What are all those numbers? Some Relevant FAQs Tips to Writing an Article Some helpful links What are all those numbers? All numbered items in the screenshots above explained one by one. Find the News page! As you can see I have the News button in my sticky menu. How this looks can differ from person to person depending how you customised it. If you didn't customise it at all, go to your mouse to the deviantART logo to the left of the top menu, and hoover over the down arrow next to it. A drop down menu will appear – unde

Literature Thumbs Tutorial by namenotrequired, literature

Literature

Literature Thumbs Tutorial

Literature thumbs Overview; Introduction What are thumbs? What are these different lit thumbs and when do they show? What makes the default lit thumb show up? How to set a preview image How to set a lit author tag Mature content on my deviations Browsing mature content tl;dr Introduction I find people wondering about this time and time again so I thought I'd put together a tutorial explaining the different literature thumbs, and most importantly, when which one will show up (and thus, how you can choose which thumb you get)! Many of you will already be familiar with much of the information under the first one or two points but to

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Ryriclan

Aug 16, 2017

I've found that when transferring text from a doc to sta.sh, all of the bold and italics is lost and it makes me have to manually comb through the entire pasted block of text in sta.sh, which is incredibly time consuming and frustrating.

Any suggestions?

CowardlyWolf

Mar 23, 2017

I'm looking foe some help. I want to upload a pixel art drawing that I did with firealpaca to make it my profile, but when I try to add it says that the picture size does not fit the required size but I look online and it says if you want to make a profile picture for deviantart use the measurement 50x50 pixels, so I did but it still wont work! do I need to save it a specific file or something?

Lac2004

Dec 3, 2016

what art program thats free should i use please help

You could try Krita.

An amazing easy to use one that i think that you should try out are Firealpaca or Metibang, they are both made by the same person so they are very similar, its easy to use and you can customise it to your liking and they are both compatible with Mac and Windows, and is very easy to learn how to use with some tutorials. BUT NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK OF THAT OR ANYTHING IF SOFTRONIC IS IN THE NAME, ITS A SCAM! GOT IT! okay good luck.

Tranniedae

Edited Aug 22, 2014

Hello, I'm an aspiring writer/cover artist who is new to DA and I was wondering if someone could help me out. I'm trying to figure out how the little things that people have on their profile saying commissions and trades and such are open/closed/on hold work. Could someone help me out, please? I'd be grateful.
Thanks :3