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I am trying to make a kind of "we miss you" card for a friend where all of the characters of our favorite movies have come together to say "we miss you!" (OK it's cheesy, but still...) I figure i'd cull the images from screens I can find on GIS and shop em together.... Know where I can find a good tut for this?
Thanks
Pretty much all you do is zoom in, use the lasso tool to outline the character you want to remove from a picture, and then copy and paste it into your collage. It's slow, but it's the only way I'm aware of to do it.
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/blrbps_3aleaf.htm
I had a question myself. I just picked up Drawn on the Right Side of the Brian. I was thinking about starting a newbie thread where I post lessons from the book and anyone that wants to follow along with me can. Any objections to this?
Assuming you have an image to burn and a screen on which to burn said image, the image is placed onto the screen, and you rub a chemical into the two with a cloth so that the plastic dissolves and becomes one with the screen. It's sort of toxic so you should do it in a well ventilated room. After this is done the ink can be applied to the screen.
If you have a local Blick or Utrecht, ask there, because they will have stuff for you.
And further more, why does the ImageReady save optimized feature save gifs like this:
I save gifs using Photoshops save for web feature and they look fine.
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Asking if there was anyone who could whip up a tattoo design for me? It's pretty simple for the majority of it, but my hands are retarded unless i'm holding a guitar.
PM me please for the details!
Is this a paying job? I think this bit of information alone will get you more (or fewer) replies.
I dunno. If it's a simple design for me the satisfaction of seeing my design actually embedded into someone's skin would be payment enough!
I thought the standard response regarding tattoos was, 'go to actual tattoo artist and have them design it...since, you know, that's their job, and they know what works as a tattoo and what doesn't, and will be the one putting it on your skin eventually anyways so you want to make sure they're good enough with art that they won't fuck it up.'
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I might be wrong, but I always thought marker work was done over photocopied art, which is marker-proof?
I've done at least 4 tattoo designs for other people (and one for myself), and there's never been any complaint from any of the tattoo artists, and I've had some compliments passed on to me as well. I'm sure they do some editing to suite their own style, but to a certain extent they really do what you ask them to unless it's really impossible in the medium.
You're the customer, get what you want because sometimes the tattoo artist likes one thing, you like another. Don't get what the tattoo guy says just because he says so. Bring in the picture of what you want, EXACTLY what you want and work with the artist from there.
I've done flash before as well (one tattoo artist gave me some free inkwork to make some custom designs for him), and if an artist is any good at all he'll be as adept at translating something you bring to him as he is at doing his own stuff.
That said, you still want to make sure the artist doing your work actually IS good - make sure you ask to see his portfolio of finished work, both his own designs and designs by other people.
Someone also suggested that while I am looking for some samples of art, I myself should post some of my writing samples! Here is a clip from a James Bond short story that I wrote, "Love is A Loaded Gun"
Your other option is to use colors over very light pencil drawing, then ink with black when you're done.
Check out Gallery 2.
http://gallery.menalto.com/
If your webhost uses cPanel, you can load Gallery or Coppermine from Fantastico. It's pretty straight forward to use and does what you describe.
I get this screen
But I'm not sure what info the put where.
I got the CSS to display my custom bullet by doin this:
However, should I set up an order list, it also displays with the bullets:
I tried setting the image attribute to the UL tag rather than the LI but that resulted in randomly disapearing bullets in the UL
Is there a way to set a LI tag that follows the UL and then another one that follow the OL?
ul { list-style: none; } ul, ol { font: 8pt Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; } ul li { background: url(bullet.gif) left center no-repeat; }That should make all uls and ols have no list-style, whilst only list items appearing in unordered list have the background.
Edit: The reason only one bullet was appearing is because you've set the list element itself to have the background appearing once in the center-left position. So if you drew a line around the whole list, and placed an image at the left-center point that is where your background image is.
To get the custom bullet point style you need to apply the background to each list item as above..
Double edit: Man this is a really late reply so you've probably aready figured this out..
Triple edit: Dear God, don't use pt for font! Don't even use px! Em's and %s are the most accessible and generally friendly.. Learn to love them!
Based on your code I worked this out:
Also, good looking out on the font size issue! I left it on pt in this example, but I'll get on that.
I often see artists (mainly comic book artists and cartoonists) using a blue pencil to do their layouts prior to inking, since the blue doesn't come through on a photocopy, or can be easily isolated and elminated from the image in photoshop. My question is, what are these blue pencils? Are they just regular colored pencils? Colored pencils aren't really eraseable, so I've always assumed that they're something different...but I can't seem to find any information on them online (every artists site who talks about using them never seems to call them anything other than "blue pencils"...I haven't seen any specific brand or type mentioned).
So what exactly are they, and where would I find them?
they call them Col-Erase
I found them at office depot, but not at any art supply store.
You know, I actually saw those at an arts & crafts store, and I thought those might be the ones. But, I figured that it was something that I would be able to buy individually, or in a pack of just those blue pencils. I didn't want to have to buy the whole set for just the one pencil.
Edit: I just realized looking at that link that those are 12 packs of all the same color. Cool, maybe I'll just order some from that site then. :-)
I'm assuming that the color called "non-photo blue" would be the one I am looking for...
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i actually just use the straight blue ones, not the specificly non photo blue ones. I hear they are waxy, and dont smooth out as well as the normal ones, but ive never really tried them
Yeah, I just figured that out. :P
I may actually be going by an Office Depot later today in my travels. I'll pop in and see if they have them in stock, otherwise I'll probably order them from that site.
And thanks for the quick replies! :-)
I've seen regular colored pencils sold individually...but not the eraseable ones.
Wacom Graphire 6x8 - $200
Wacom Intuos 6x8 - $320
I want to know if theres really a big difference between the two, the graphires and the intuos, before I spend an extra 120 for the same size tablet. Thanks a lot guys.
I'm just curious, I hear people say that a lot. Specifically, what is the difference between the two that would make the Intuos more suitable for professional work? I'm not in the market for one...I actually have an Intuos2 that I bought a couple years ago and paid way too much money for considering the amount of use I've actually gotten from it (I do plan on remedying that situation soon and actually learning how to use the damn thing effectively...).
I've got mine doing grayscale at 600 dpi and I'm getting this...
this graininess is present in everything I scan and it's driving me nuts. Google is also no help on this subject. Anyone have any ideas? I don't mind fixing it with post processing or something (or even if I need a new scanner)
Well, I guess the difference would be whether you're getting paid or not but I guess "professional" is an incorrect term. There's more pressure levels in the Intuos models. This generally doesn't mean much to most people. Then Intuos brands have the touch strips for quick scrolling and they have more quick buttons. This helps you work more quickly without having to go back to the keyboard all the time. The Intuos comes with a better pen and supports pen tilt. So, the tablet can tell at what angle your pen is sitting. This is helpful for airbrush settings and stuff. It also comes with more pen nibs for different feelings when you're using it. It's generally a better device. Of course, that's why its more expensive.
The Graphire is meant to be a more consumer friendly option that is cheaper. There's less features and The actual design of the device is made for it to be more fun than the Intuos models.
What I meant when I said professional or hobby was that if you plan to use it all the time then go for the Intuos because it's definitely worth the price on it. However, if you're just looking for something to play around with then you might want to just go with the Graphire since there's not much of a reason to get all the extra stuff that comes with the Intuos.
It's like when people ask which software they should purchase to do digital art. Most people will say Adobe Photoshop. However, that's an expensive piece of software to actually buy for yourself. So if you're just getting into digital art as a gas or something to pass time you might want to just go with Gimp or something relatively cheap unless you just have oodles of money lying around...or live in Hong Kong or have "access" to the good stuff.
http://www.wacom.com/productinfo/differences.cfm
You can turn up the contrast or fiddle with the "levels" (if you have Photoshop or something)...
Yeah, you can actually see the texture even on the parts of the paper that have no graphite on them at all.
I'd probably recommend switching to paper with a smoother texture. I actually like to use regular old printer paper for a lot of my sketches for that very reason. That and it's cheap. But there are plenty of higher quality drawing pads available with smoother paper as well.