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How do I request a critique from other members?

You request critiques and feedback on your work in the forums. There are several different forum categories - such as watercolor critiques, oils critiques and so on. Choose whichever is most applicable to your artwork and "start a discussion".

There are two methods for asking for critiques. You can simply add a picture to your forum post, or you can paste a link to a picture in your gallery. Which is best? You decide...

Click here to watch this short video demo of both methods


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How do I add links to forum posts

When you are adding a new forum post you'll see a series of icons just above the text entry box that look like this:


Add links to forum

Click the link icon (circled in red) and a box will pop up asking you to enter the address (URL) of the page or site you want to link to.

The link code will now be added to your post and the mouse cursor will be flashing between the two arrows like this:


Copy link to blog

Just add some text between the arrows - whatever you want the link to say i.e. "Click here" or "Here's my blog entry". Whatever you type here will be the link text that appears underlined in blue.


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Can I add videos to forum posts?

Absolutely and it's very easy! You can add a video from say YouTube or Meta Cafe (or any video sharing site for that matter)

Simply go to YouTube for example and find the video you want. To the right you'll see a box with some embed code in. Simply copy and paste this into your forum post and presto... the video will appear!


Add video to blog

At YouTube, highlight the code circled in red, copy it to your clipboard (press "Ctrl" and "C") and then paste it into your blog entry ("Ctrl" and "V").


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