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By airhead,
Posted on: 2009-09-03 10:54 in Multi-Media Fan Creations

 

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Just a reminder, I'll be broadcasting on Livestream at 10:15 EST, tonight.

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Egh have to cancel tonight. Livestream is borked again and I can't get any sound. Will try to have it worked out for next wednesday.

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I'm sad that you had to cancel, but secretly enjoying that I didn't miss anything.

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Hey guys,
Been too busy to get the livestream thing worked out. Was going to do one tonight but I'm going to wait till next week.

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:<

http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Massacre_Melanie -the original Fire/Dark Corruptor -
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=115217
The Guide to BURN

 

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Lol sorry Suichi, last week was my birthday so I had too many things on my agenda.

I'm going to be doing a Livestream tomorrow (Wednesday) night at 10:15 EST. I'm working on several things so I'll maybe talk about a couple of them.

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happy birthday!!!

 

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Birthdays mean two of my favorite things. Presents and spankings! If you're really lucky, they're both related to the same thing. :3

http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Massacre_Melanie -the original Fire/Dark Corruptor -
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=115217
The Guide to BURN

 

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It was last Friday Kheldarn, thanks

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Well, It didn't click with me that the new update was being released today and that people are likely going to be playing it.

I'm still going to go ahead with my livestream, if no one shows I'll just record myself working. It'll go live in about an hour:
10:15 pm EST, www.livestream.com/bwbabble

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Despite having it on the night of the new update release, I still had a few people show up for my Livestream presentation last night. Thanks peeps!

If anyone is interested in checking out the ondemand recording--for most of it I'm discussing a Feral Kitty commission I'm working on. There's information on creating custom brushes in Photoshop, particularly things to help create textures like fur. There's more discussion of using masks and adjustment layers to make quick changes. And also some brief discussion of movement lines in the composition.

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Meant to ask you during the livestream but I got another phone call, how big do you work? 300dpi at around what by what in inches on average?

I tend to work small. 300dpi at an average of 8x11 inches and it's not working out so well. Everything gets grainy zoomed in. I don't want a single project to take up half a gig though. Not until I replace my busted large capacity HDD. My small fast one is generally for my programs, not my files.

 

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Actually, most of the time I work at the same resolution. 300dpi and 8.5 x 11. The image I was working on last night was 11 x 17 @300dpi.

If you zoom in and things are grainy, that could just be a factor of the brushes you are using. Try this: zoom in and try to paint a clean line with an appropriately sized brush. If you can't then you have a problem. If you can, then it's actually more of an issue with your workflow.

For one thing, Photoshop seems to have problems calculating antialiasing values at certain magnifications. So look at the image at a certain zoom--say 33%. Does the image look off? If so, that means the program is having issues resolving the antialiasing--say don't work at that magnification.

I find that really hard edge brushes give me really jagged lines zoomed in. I shy away from the airbrush settings but I generally use a brush that has a fuzzy edge.

Also try that trick I showed you with having the second window to the image open at a different magnification. That way you can work zoomed in and avoid jaggedness while still seeing the big picture.

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Just tried that with a variety of brushes and they all come out pixelated. Even at 200% you can really see it or at an off ratio zoom like 33.3% so I am guessing I have no antialiasing? How do I get it? I have CS2.

 

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Here's a screen grab of the picture I was working on last night at 200% zoom. This document is 11x17 @ 300dpi. I assume yours is more jagged?



Not sure what to tell you. What kind of tablet are you using?

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Actually, no. That is right where I am at. It must be because I'm working on a picture with two characters, so they are smaller and I was zooming in until they were as large as yours.

That's a relief, because I was just about to really mess with some settings in photoshop. Thank you for the help.

 

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I'm closing in on 20k pageviews on my DA page. Any suggestions on how I should commemorate that landmark?

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You could comment on the steps of the commissioning process from an artist's POV, what you expect to get in information and references, what your interaction will be during the process, things along those lines that might help those new to commissioning work from artists would find useful.

Or, you could just post it in my thread here instead.



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Originally Posted by FrozenDeath View Post
I'm closing in on 20k pageviews on my DA page. Any suggestions on how I should commemorate that landmark?
Do a piece with some characters of people that regularly post in your thread, visit your DA page, and/or watch your livestream. *waggles eyebrows*

 

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Any requests for my livestream tomorrow night?

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wanna give a fix a try? I got a piece that well. . . . isn't "right"

 

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Ok do you have it posted somewhere? Or do you want to send it to me?

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