This may not be Pokemon Go, Ingress Prime, or Jurassic World Alive, were you catch cute/cool critters, be for/against alien matters or catching dinosaurs. But one has to Stay Aware Of Your Surroundings... Even though you're just creating and editing your guides at lightning quick speeds.


Note: This guide also shows and teaches how to make a basic icon/avatar, I didn't tap on all the buttons or experiment with all the features that my drawing app has to offer.

Second Note: Help me catch incorrect information, bad grammar and misspellings. Thanks in advance.

Don't Forget To

These are the basic tools that one needs to make Steam Guides on the go.


Official Steam app

• Windows Phone[www.microsoft.com]
  
• Apple[apps.apple.com]
  
• Android/Google Play[play.google.com]

The drawing apps will help with making Steam guides on the go, you only need one or two. What you're looking for is an a drawing/art app that has similar features to Photoshop (like Medibang Paint Pro).

Medibang Paint Pro (Mobile app)

• Android/Google Play version[play.google.com]
  
• Iphones/Apple[apps.apple.com]

Optional Apps

• Imgflip app - For adding the glorious memes. (Note: The Imgflip Meme app is an Android phone exclusive)

This and some of the upcoming chapters covers how to make an avatar on Medibang Paint Pro mobile app for your Steam guide.



First, ya need to make a Medibang Paint account, that way you can save your projects, especially since you'll be also using cloud saves. Also, if you choose to post art and expand your creative side in ArtStreet, an art site that's like Deviantart, and take advantaged of having Medibang Paint as a main art program in your computer. (Like the brushes will sync betwixt accounts).

I will link my Fire Alpaca SE guide, since if I elaborate on and expand more on tips and tricks here, this guide will take too long. Technically speaking, since Fire Alpaca is Medibang's slightly different twin.

But we'll begin this guide on how to make an avatar for your Steam guide.

You have an idea for a Steam guide, but don't have the idea for the avatar. It's best to have a backup "Placeholder Avatar" to easy ploppings, just to max out time and speed and to keep in your phone at all times.

Example



Don't worry if ya can't draw, as long as ya make a simple Placeholder avatar, like a white background with the words "Steam Guide Avatar Placeholder." You are good to go.




Click on New Canvas to get started.


Note: I made the first Steam guide placeholder avatar from Fire Alpaca SE, the rest are from Medibang Paint Pro. Including, the latest "Placeholder avatar", which I keep for traveling and editing reasons.

Here, you're greeted by this menu.



Ignore the large numbers, I was using it for editing screenshots and doodling.

Click the Edit Button to change the dimensions to the Steam Avatar size (which is 195 x 195 px).


You'll be taken back to the New Canvas menu, click Create and you're ready to go.



Canvas Settings

Clicking on the Gear Cog that's circled here will open up the Canvas Settings,

You now can adjust your current layer, resizing it and other fixings.

Gacha Life will just be here for demonstrated purposes.


To take a screenshot, press the On/Off side button of your Android phone, until a message pops out asking if you want to "Turn off your phone," "Take a screenshot" or "restart."



Press both the side button and the volume up button simultaneously; then quickly release them.


Touch ID

With these models, press both the Home and Upper Right corner buttons simultaneously and quickly release them.

Another is to do the "press and quickly release both buttons" method on the Home and Top Right Corner buttons.

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To find the screenshots, open up Photos and go to Albums> Screenshots.

The Globe, that's located at the lower right-hand corner, will open up a special album of sorts, this is where you can add pictures, other arts, and what have you.





Tapping on the funny Image icon will take you to your phone's photo gallery, this is were you can bring your photos/screenshots/artworks into Medibang.




The camera is were you can take the much needed pictures and instantly upload them to the canvas work area.




To get rid of some of screenshots that ya don't want or need anymore, click on the Trash Can and to clean up. Lastly, to get back to the main menu, click on the icon again.

This is your workspace after creating your canvas.


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This is where your colors, brushes/pens, and layers are located. Even chancing the brush sizes, adding brushes to your collection.

This color bar is another color wheel, ya can switch it to HSV, PAL, and brush/pen sizes with your finger.





Note: If you want more colors, you have to buy them. But Medibang already gives you tons of colors that you can use. Just like how the video making software DaVinci Resolve does things.

If you want to add words to your avatar.

Swipe right and click on the A icon, and then click on your canvas.

The font menu pops up and you can type or speak what type of words that will be added to your art piece.



If you want to return to the Font Editor for whatever reason, like changing the font size or make it horizontal, click on the pen.


To get rid of the words, click on the X

The Cog Wheel is to rename your layer.





These Bars will open up the layer editor, where Filter and Layer Management.

Filter

• Filter List
  
• Hue Saturation
  
• Gaussian Blue
  
• Mosaic
  
• Line Art Extraction
  
• Convert Layer

Layer Management

• Merge Down - Which combines two layers together.
  
• Duplicate - This copies the layer of my choice.
  
• Clear - It's to erase whatever I currently have on the layer, it's an instant wipe.

Opacity

Tap the area where the red circle is at, if you want to change the layers opacity.



Slide the bar to the left to make the layer transparent to your liking.


Blending


Tapping on this icon will take you to a menu to change the layer's tone and character.





To prevent accidents, like drawing on a layer that you don't want to touch or returning back to the Font Editor, just lock it.

After selecting the Broken Lines Square, clicking on Inverse will reverse the highlighted area.

It will be safe to erase the background as seen here, leaving the part that you want as seen here.

I am making this to hide those in my Friends List.

I want to add another screenshot to this, mainly outer space with a emo with a red cape, Fierin.



Clicking on the Free Transform icon brings me


to this area where I am greeted with White Squares at the corners of my Fierin image. I click on Set and I am ready to go.




Now that I am back in the workspace canvas area, I can move the corners around at my disposal



Until, I get what I want.

Swipe to the right to go to the Broken Line Square icon, that's where the tools, like the Lasso and Magic Wand, are located.



Circle the area that you want to crop with the Broken Line Square (Or the Lasso, Broken Line Circle or Custom Broken Lines Tool.


If you want to leave the , click on Deselect.

After getting the shape that you're ready to crop, so, tap on the Pencil On A Square and it will open up a special menu, select the Crop and it will crop.




There's a tiny broken line shape acting as a halo.

Now click on Deselect after cropping a satisfactory shape.

Click on Save will save your current progress and you can close the app with a swipe.



When you come back, click on the Previous Project to continue were you left off.




Click on Export Jpeg/Mpeg Files. A message will pop up, if you want your files to be "PNG (Transparent)," "JPeg" or "PNG." Click what ya want, click "Ok" and your piece will be placed in the "Medibang Paint" folder.






Now you're ready to bring these babies to your Steam guide.

After all that editing, drawing and cropping, here's were the big guide stuff comes in.

Open or log into the Steam app. Now this is a very tiny tour, only for guide making purposes.



Your Profile is on the top of the right hand corner.




I am too lazy to make an updated version of this, so, I'm cheating here.

After clicking on your profile, it will take you to this special menu. Once there, click on View Profile.

It will take you to your main Profile scroll down a bit and click on Guides.



You'll be taken to your guide collection, which contains finished guides and the guides you're currently in the process of making.


Tap on the one that you want to continue to work on or create a new guide.

Now to make a guide, tap on the game's "Make a guide", the guide features should appear and you're ready to go.



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To make a guide that's not connected to any game, click on this special link.

Non-Game Steam Guide-Inator

Your guide should appear here, now you can add chapters, type on your finger keyboard, the Medibang/art app stuff, and run as though you are editing in the PC. But on the go.

Memorize the formatting that ya want, because the helpful sheet that pops up on PC when you edit guide, won't show up on mobile.

After all that photo editing and drawing on the go, your photos, fanarts/artworks, screenshots and memes are ready to be uploaded on to your Steam guide.

Clicking on Choose A Screenshot will take you to your Medibang Paint folder which display here.

Though you can go to the other files to find your much needed pictures and screenshots.

Your guide appears like this when viewed from your mobile, right after publishing. This chapter covers is a tiny tour of it.


Note : If you have been rewarded Steam Points, it will show up at the Synopsis area.

Clicking on the highlighted Semi-Circle


Will open up a tiny task bar which shows:


Ya have to scroll down to see

• Guide Index - This contains the chapters of your guide (Or lack of it).
  
• Author Stats - Shows how many readers view your guide and if they faved it.

Edit Basic Guide Information


Where ya can return to change and readjust your guide's synopsis, change languages and categories, to name a few.

Tap on Preview Guide, just to see how it's gonna appear like and to catch the last minute mistakes, as well as the ones that require basic self-proof reading.



After the tweaking and what tiny polishing one can do, it's time to publish your guide.



Swipe to the right and tap the Publish button. Then boom, boom, your guide is finish.

These are the tips that don't require chapter long tutorials.



There's even an option to use a special stylus for your drawing endeavors.

Making guides on mobile isn't a fool proof replacement for making them on PC.

Note: I use my fingers for all my Steam guide making on the go needs, so, I don't know how to do all that stylus syncing and calibrating. Maybe in the future, I can expand a bit.

Steam Points



Valve's new in-game currency system is optional to the Trading Cards system, SPs can obtain them by various means. One of which is making a Steam guide.

Here's what you can do with the Steam Points:

• Beef up your profile, like increasing your show cases, buying backgrounds and avatar profile borders.
  
• Reward others for community participations, like their forum posts, forum comments, Steam guides, Steam Workshop contributions, reviews or just having a cool Steam profile. (Note: You can even reward morons Steam Points , there's special SP reward icons made just for them).
  
• Having extra cool emojis and stickers that you can use for making comments and for Steam Chat usage.

According to the Steam Showcase this anime girl Fire Alpaca profile background is "Rare." But I redeemed it with Steam Points.

Note : Get enough Steam Points, then you can redeem them for ultra-rare items from a game/art software that ya own, like some profile background or emote. Ya can even get snazzy items from games/art softwares that your friends own.

Optional: You can join special clubs, like Rats In A Blanket , if you have certain Steam Points redeemed stuff. Doing this will increase your guide's chances, if said guide isn't for a popular game or advertise it in your socials.

PC

• Everything to make a guide is there.

Mobile

• Can't move the guide chapters around.
  
• Guide creating and editing is easy on the go for the most part.

PC

• "Lightweight"
  
• All of the stuff, like paint swatches (I mean "types of colors" to those not familiar), are there.
  
• You need to buy the Remove Ads to get rid of them (No need for upgrade to Premium).
  
• Can post art works to Art Street.

Mobile

• The number of layers that one can go up to is base on how much.
  
• Very, very few stuff, like color swatches, are locked behind microtransactions/in-app purchases.
  
• Syncs with it's main PC.
  
• Syncs brushes/Pens.
  
• Mostly a mini-version of the main drawing program.

Note: I am not sure, if you can do Kritia, Fire Alpaca, or even run a video production software on your phone via Steam Link.

This guide will go a bit in-depth of how to use Fire Alpaca, who is Medibang Paint's twin. If you know how to use FA, then you know how to use MP.



https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2251792228


https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2759105267

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2366742957

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2854820155

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2859744006

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2898820839

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2916636029

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2883102902



Here's where all of my guides, including this one, are located.

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2361061329

And the family unfriendly version

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2812378320

• Official Steam mobile app
  
• Medibang Paint Pro app
  
• Fire Alpaca SE
  
• My Mobile Phone
  
• Intuos Comics (Wacom Tablet)
  
• Gacha Life (By Lunime)

• Medibang Paint Pro (Mobile app)
  
• Duolingo
  
• My android phone
  
• "Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet Max Modem!" (Phineas And Ferb episode)
  
• Pokemon Go
  
• Steam website (PC)
  
• Official Steam mobile app
  
• Line Friends Official app/ Big Hit Entertainment

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2690514311

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2691203505

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2618805855

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2901175412


The Crying Anime Girl[imgflip.com]

Take A Screenshot On Your IPhone[support.apple.com]

Maybe I'm An Idiot, But I Had No Idea On Steam Mobile Swiping From The Right You Could Search Discussions (Reddit)


Fire Alpaca SE/Steam Showcase[www.steamcardexchange.net]

Steam Mascots

Origin Of Steam's Mascots? (Sir Roderick Bodkin's Happy Friends Club! Group)

Medibang

I Was Charged Twice For Medibang Premium[medibangpaint.com]

Do You Need An Official Account To Purchase "Medibang Premium?"[medibangpaint.com]

What Is Cloud Storage?[medibangpaint.com]

Can I Buy A Paid Version And Remove The Ads On Medibang Paint?[medibangpaint.com]

Here's the Steam Guide Go guide in other languages.


You are here.


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When I restart my Spanish lessons.