There are a number of other places on the web with excellent advice for budding image manipulators, I'm sure you'll find loads if you just do a search with the name of your software and the word Tutorial.  Also, be sure to check your list of newsgroups; I know I've gotten lots of help in the comp.graphics.apps.paint-shop-pro group.

(THIS LIST IS OLD, OLD, OLD!!!!  I MAKE NO APOLOGIES.)
 

A Master List that Will Blow Your Mind:
http://www.detfig.com/Links/
Detfig is the true master - there is everything you might be interested in here, you could easily spend the rest of your life (or at least the rest of the year) following all these links.
(Looks dead)
 

For General How-To's, and tutorials:
These are in no particular order, and I can't honestly say I've visited all of them, but they do come highly recommended by other folks in the newsgroup.

http://www.designsbymark.com/pstips/index.shtml

http://www.disdatdesigns.com/tutorials/index.html

http://www.putertutor.net/paint/newuser.htm

http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/extra/blrbpsp_1jet.htm
http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/extra/blrbpsp_2fwks.htm
http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/extra/blrbpsp_3leaf.htm)
These three are all great tutorials on masking.
 

Where to get the pictures to manipulate?

There's the newsgroups, of course:
news:alt.binaries.multimedia.xena-herc
news:alt.binaries.pictures.tv.scifi-fantasy
 

And, here's a little summary I put together a while ago.
The three pages I visit the most often, that have the highest-quality 
caps, are 

Mike Quick's page at 
http://www.mikes-images.com/
Mike is the god of all, Most High.  He has scans, caps, wallpapers he's done, wallpapers other people have done, and a great links page.  He's got caps from seasons 2-5, though not all eps.  Because Britain likes to keep TV viewers on the edge of their seats...[grin] 

And for scans, visit Kindred at 
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/drive/ybp17/
he's also got a bunch of his own cool art  (Kindred, I want that font!!!  On the Xena splash page!!  Neat-o!)
(Might be dead, the redirector works, but it sends you to limbo.)
 

and just because I think it's cool: 
WarGoddess has lots of pictures of Kevin Smith at various conventions at http://devoted.to/smithy  Though she's also got a flash animation on her opening screen that is cute the first time. 

Uhh, I think that's all I can easily pull out of memory right now, due to excessive familiarity...[grin]  but hang around the newsgroup, and watch for addresses in various people's signature lines. 

Just be sure to note who you get your stuff from, because it's important to give them credit.  Either make a separate folder for each person, or put their name or initials in the filename (lots of them do, anyway.).

Or, you could go back, to the main Xena page.

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