Entry tags:
(no subject)
All right, so as of now, there will be no more crossposting to LJ. One of these days, I will go through my LJ and delete all my extremely personal crap. Everything else will stay up. All my content has been imported to DW, so I'm not losing anything. I feel good about this way of handling it, so yay. Thanks to everyone who gave input!
I've been talking to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tinny about icons, and because I was stuck on my fic, and quite enjoyed the new Doctor Who episode, I made some 10x01 icons.
Crit, feedback, comments, all welcome!
Has anyone been watching Line of Duty? I'm mostly watching it for Paul Higgins, who played Jamie on The Thick of It. His English accent is painful. He's trying so hard, but as someone on my dash on Tumblr said, it's like watching undercover Jamie acting like he imagines Englishmen act. His character on Line of Duty is an UTTER CREEP, though, so I'm having some discomfiting dissonance with how much I love Jamie and how much I hate ... I think his name is Hilton? ACC Hilton. Blech.
Thandie Newton is playing the lead, though, and she's great. I had a huge crush on her back when she was playing Dr. Carter's girlfriend on ER. Her character on Line of Duty is a bit shady, but man, I know where my sympathies lie. Everyone else on that show is even more of a creep. Oh, gritty British crime shows.
I've been talking to
tinny about icons, and because I was stuck on my fic, and quite enjoyed the new Doctor Who episode, I made some 10x01 icons.| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Crit, feedback, comments, all welcome!
Has anyone been watching Line of Duty? I'm mostly watching it for Paul Higgins, who played Jamie on The Thick of It. His English accent is painful. He's trying so hard, but as someone on my dash on Tumblr said, it's like watching undercover Jamie acting like he imagines Englishmen act. His character on Line of Duty is an UTTER CREEP, though, so I'm having some discomfiting dissonance with how much I love Jamie and how much I hate ... I think his name is Hilton? ACC Hilton. Blech.
Thandie Newton is playing the lead, though, and she's great. I had a huge crush on her back when she was playing Dr. Carter's girlfriend on ER. Her character on Line of Duty is a bit shady, but man, I know where my sympathies lie. Everyone else on that show is even more of a creep. Oh, gritty British crime shows.
no subject
The lighting is excellent, and your masking is very good, too.
Thank you! I'm using the quick mask modus and my drawing tablet to mask, and it's such a luxury. I don't even remember how I used to deal with doing it on the touchpad--especially hair is so much easier when I can just literally color in the areas I want!
I'm happy to hear you like my lighting. I'm at constant war with lighting both in graphic design and drawing (and filming, back when I used to do that). You can do so many cool things with light, but it's so hard to get it right! So I'm especially pleased that you think it works here.
Is a sample copy layer like "make new from visible" in GIMP? If so, THANK YOU for telling me that exists in Photoshop (which yes, I do use PS), that's the one thing about GIMP that I really miss. I'm good on everything else; I know how to do those things--but that's really useful. I agree with your concrit about artifact blurring, but I never thought of just slapping the entire icon on as a new layer, blurring, and then masking. I always try blurring in the layers, but that gets really messy really fast.
I'll have to give that command a try! And I have to admit I don't know how to use actions in PS. Are they like macros in Office?
no subject
Man, my tablet broke years ago, and I never bothered to get a new one. But I wish I had one for hair painting. That's such a bitch with the touchpad. I mean, touchpad is better than mouse - I love using the touchpad - but pressure sensitivity is just sorely missed when trying to paint hair. *sigh*
Is a sample copy layer like "make new from visible" in GIMP?
I don't know GIMP, but that sounds like it? In PS, it's called "Stamp Visible" (Alt-Ctrl-Shift-E). I use keyboard shortcuts for everything.
I always try blurring in the layers, but that gets really messy really fast.
I do that with the original base layer, too (copy, sharpen, then mask away the too sharp stuff), but a lot of artefacts appear around text, and those you can't fix on the text layer itself. So there is no choice but to smooth them out at the very end. I hate stamping, but it's the only thing that really works in that case, so. *shrug*
I'll have to give that command a try! And I have to admit I don't know how to use actions in PS. Are they like macros in Office?
Yes. I'll give you my action set with the Blur action in it. There are a ton of others in it that you probably won't need, but hey. :) Just don't let them confuse you.
no subject
I do, too, usually, but they're always so complicated in PS. Why four keys, Adobe? "Stamp Visible" sounds like "Make New from Visible" in Adobe speak, so that's probably it. Yay! I love that command.
I agree, though, that making a new layer and working off of that isn't always great ... what if you decide that you want to do something else, after all? Then you're stuck with the stupid stamp layer. Blergh.
The stamp tool itself I like a lot, though. I made this thing on tumblr using the stamp tool like a brush, and ... well, I guess you can kind of see it, but since it's a shoddy nineties movie poster aesthetic, it actually fits within the look. Though I always stamp on a new layer, just in case ...
I'll give you my action set with the Blur action in it.
Cool! Thank you. I'll check it out and see if I can figure out how to use PS actions ... :D