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MEDIA TOOLS |
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Adobe® Reader® 6.0 is free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on a variety of hardware and operating system platforms. |
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Flash Player from Macromedia. This plugin allows your browser to access the power of Macromedia Flash components embedded in websites and documents. |
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Shockwave Player from Macromedia. This plugin allows your browser to access the power of Macromedia Shockwave components embedded in websites and documents. |
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Authorware Player from Macromedia. This plugin allows your browser to access Macromedia Authorware components embedded in websites and documents. |
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Quicktime Player from Apple. This plugin allows your browser to make use of Quicktime file formats embedded in websites and documents. |
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VIDEO TUTORIALS |
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The first video tutorial for KIWIreviews, "How to Submit a New Product". This tutorial was made using Adobe Captivate. NOTE: This is an executable file for the Windows platform.
Version 2 : March 2009 : Updated to include new features. |
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INSTANT MESSENGER STUFF |
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A selection of Six 600x420x24b Jpeg images that can be used as backgrounds for messenger-type windows, such as MSN Messenger. Created especially for KIWIreviews by one of our members, these artworks are a selection from his works. |
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MODS FOR ASSORTED GAMES |
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Fable : The Lost Chapters |
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A custom set of tattoos you can apply to your character. Follow the directions included with the game, and overwrite the default tattoos (found in your 'My Documents' folder) with these files. You character will then gain the ability to turn sections of his body blue, and gain a flaming handprint on his chest, and a Dark Hunter on his back. Best suited to characters with EVIL alignments. |
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U.B. Funkeys |
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A work-in-progress DataSheet on the hit new craze, U.B. Funkeys.
This datasheet will tell you about the worlds, the characters, minigames, special items and quests, and lots more.
Last modified: 22 November 2012 7:34am |
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v3.1 - This is a PDF file designed to be printed in colour at A4 size.
It is a complete checklist of all known UB Funkey characters up to and including the following sets:
Series 1: The First and Second Waves
Series 2: The 'Funkiki Island' expansion
Series 2.5: The 'Speed Racer' movie tie-in expansion
Series 3: The 'Dream State' expansion
Last modified: 22 November 2012 7:36am |
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Heroscape |
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Janus Delta - A custom mapset for building a playzone. File contains 5 layer-maps and a photo of the finished playzone. Designed to use the land tiles included with the Master Set 'Rise of the Valkyrie'. |
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Basin Lake - A custom mapset for building a playzone. File contains 8 layer-maps and a photo of the finished playzone. Designed to use the land tiles included with the Master Set 'Rise of the Valkyrie'. |
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A4 Hex Grid Sheet : PDF : Suitable for small maps, this sheet has approx 285 hexes on it, in a 19x15 array. |
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A3 Hex Grid Sheet : PDF : Suitable for larger maps, this sheet has approx 594 hexes on it, in a 27x22 array. |
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IMAGE TOOLS |
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"Necessity is the mother of all invention" There was a need for a reasonably small colour-&-resolution calibration image, so this was quickly whipped up. We offer it freely to you, should you find the need for it. It covers elements of colour balance, horizontal and vertical moire banding, RGB saturation and hue balancing, grey gamut, and antialiasing on multiple diagonal angles. |
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SKUNKLABS LIQUID MEDIA STUFF |
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CUSTOM FONTS |
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A customised 'kids handwriting' font. Fully freeware, please feel free to redistribute this as far as you want. Please read the README.txt. |
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PHOTOSHOP STUFF |
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Tutorials
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Quick and Easy Waveform
A quick Photoshop tutorial that will teach you how to make a rough-n-ready sound waveform image, for use in, well, basically anything you can dream up. |
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Repairing Sunburnt Photos
A fast way to repair old sunburnt greyscale photos, bringing back the detail and making them ready to reprint or restore. |
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Cut Out the Coloured Pencils
Take those old schoolbook sketches and scan them in, clean them up, and produce some new slick art from them. |
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Outbound Meteors
Blown up a planet lately? Want to really capture that debris-filled moment? Why not make yourself an exploding cloud of meteors! For a number of creative uses, you just use your creative juices. |
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Lens of Sunset
Make your very own sunrise/sunset scene, complete with solar lensburn. Can be used as a basis for you to experiment with. |
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Natural Textures 1 : Quick Woodgrain
There's never a handy plank of wood when you need one, so why not make your own! With this tutorial, you can make a woodgrain in 5 easy steps, and with 1 further step alter it to become any wood you need, from pale ash or pine, to mahogany or redwood. The first in my Natural textures series. |
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Woodbranding
Now that you can make wood, how about branding your initials|face|logo|whatever into it? This quick little tutorial will show you how in just 5 easy steps. Well, 4 easy and 1 medium step at least. |
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Perfect ProdPix
A quick and easy walk-through on using Photoshop's "Save for Web" option to get perfect Product Pictures for submitting to this site when you list a new product. |
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Quick 2d Barcode
A quick 4-step tutorial on how to make 2d barcodes. |
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Stylish Backdrop
Ever wanted to make a simple but stylish backdrop to place objects on... here's how to do it in less than 5 minutes. |
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Natural Textures 2 : Quick Marble
The second in the Natural Textures series, this tutorial will show you how to make marble in 2 minutes flat, in just 4-5 steps. |
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PopDotz Pix
After seeing this effect on a fastfood restaurant's placemat, I decided to work out a fast way for anyone to make the same results. Enjoy... |
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Brushes
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Splats
A set of 10 Custom Brushes for Photoshop. These are liquid splats, suitable for ink spots, drops of paint, or bloodstains... whatever artistic use you can dream up really. |
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Grunge Clouds
A set of 6 Custom Brushes for Photoshop. These are abstract grunge patches suitable for rust, ooze, slime... whatever you can dream up. |
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Buildings 1
A set of 5 custom brushes, made from pictures of buildings around my home town. More to come if these prove popular. Thanks to the creator of this tutorial for sparking such an interesting idea. |
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Graveyard 1
A set of 8 custom brushes, made from pictures of graveyard monuments around my home town. More to come if these prove popular. Thanks to the creator of this tutorial for sparking such an interesting idea. |
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PAINTSHOP PRO STUFF |
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NZ Coins - Set 1
A PSP-v7 Picture Tube containing a selection of Authentic New Zealand coins. Heads and tails, all current denominations as of 2004, plus some commemorative designs. |
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NZ Coins - Set 2
A PSP-v7 Picture Tube containing a selection of Authentic New Zealand coins. Heads and tails, all current denominations for the new issue currency of 2006. |
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Paperclips
A PSP-v7 Picture Tube containing a selection of variously coloured paperclips. Could be used for clipart, unusual borders, etc. |
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