How do folks create awesome looking forum pages and mod pages? With fantastic fonts and icons and images and stuff?

There are some really well designed mod pages out there, but I haven't a clue as to how to make it happen.

Take care,
DKR

Photoshop, php, html, javascripts, css.

If you are referring to mod pages such as the ones on Skyrim Nexus then the authors are just using fancy text formatting and some images created with Photoshop or some other image editing software.

I'm not sure what your question is exactly, do you want to know how people do these things or do you want to learn how to do them yourself?

Are you referring to non-Nexus mod sites? Some of those are pretty impressive.

I'm referring to mod pages like Tytanis for example. Or even JaySus Swords mod page. I really feel dumb, I have trouble posting pictures on here alone. The link just shows up. Anyway, I think I'd like to learn how to put cool graphics into forums posts and things.

This forum doesn't allow pictures to be linked directly into posts.

This, and time.

Say it with me---Adobe Photoshop is Magic and anyother photoshop type software .

While I think PS certainly is useful, Corel is generally more flexible in what you can and can't do. I'm surprised more people don't use it, really.

I think you're underestimating Photoshop a bit there

I'm not talking about plugins and third-party support. At its base, PS is quite rigid. There are lots of things that are much easier and faster to do in Corel than they are in PS.

Could you give me an example?

I used to play with both PS and Corel ten years ago, they are two different concepts. PS leans towards artist works while Corel leans towards engineer base. I remember the time when PS didn't have the, was it Bael's curve? and Corel could control each object and its behaviours without interfering each others or messed up something else.

Well, as an example, resizing and reshaping layers is a lot (a lot a lot a lot) easier.

When you copy-paste something, the commands for rotating, stretching (just one corner, two corners), tilting (one side, two sides) and resizing the layer are all right there at the corners of the layer; all you have to do is left click the layer to bring up different options for it. Say you have a photo of a street lined with buildings, and the perspective from which the photo is shot is head-on. Now, what if you want to change the perspective so that it looks like you're viewing the street from more of an angle? In Corel, all you have to do is tilt a side of the photo. This resizes the individual pixel columns of the photo gradually, from original (non-tilted side) to larger or smaller (tilted side). Then all you have to do is crop the white space that's been produced out of the photo. And voila! -- you have yourself a photo of a street lined with buildings, viewed from an angle.

I can't even begin to fathom how I'd do this in PS.

I'm actually not even totally sure how I would do in PS half of the things I do in Corel.

Too, Corel is more user-friendly. It's as WYSIWYG as possible. PS is quite difficult to grasp.

I haven't seen the Corel software in stores that much, usually I've seen Adobe Photoshop Elements being sold more then anything. I have APE 8 (It's what I use for cartooning and making my avatar) and I still haven't scraqed it's full potentual yet.

It seems to me that the problem is that you haven't used PS a lot

All of what you described is possible in Photoshop with ease using the transform tools.

Photoshop's just like Paint only with a couple of extra bits tacked on.

A bit.

I've used PS as much as I've used Corel, actually. How many more clicks is it to do the same thing? Is it as WYSIWYG? Is it as easy to understand what all of the functions do? Corel's interface is intuitive, PS's is not. That's the main difference, I guess.

It just seems like there are always a few extra hoops I have to jump through in PS in order to arrive at the same end as I would in Corel.

Three mouse clicks will enable any transform tool you want, and yes it's WYSIWYG like every single tool in Photoshop

PS isn't intuitive? I guess that's a matter of opinion for but me it was extremely intuitive and easy to use. It has pretty much every feature you could wish for built in so whenever I wanted to do something that I had no idea how to do I would just take a quick look at the list of tools and filters and I'd usually find it within seconds.

Photoshop is the industry standard when it comes to photo manipulation, and with a good reason. It's extremely powerful. I don't think even Coral has the same raw image processing power as PS.

There is a given "IMO" in there, yes.

I understand that PS is the industry standard. Windows is also the standard, for most things. I think PS is relied on too much, that's all, and that people should venture away from it sometimes to see what else is on offer.

I have to go tinker with the Transform tool, now.

I like to use Adobe Fireworks when messing with graphics and stuff.