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compilerbitch) wrote2005-01-20 10:05 am
compilerbitch) wrote2005-01-20 10:05 am
So that's OK, then.
So I'm healthy, not slovenly after all.
In other news, I've been learning Photoshop and Illustrator. I'm reasonably impressed with both. Previously I've used the likes of Paintshop Pro, Xara and (more recently) Gimp, but I have enough of a need to do lots of diagrams that I don't really have time to mess around. I gave up on Inkscape -- lovely though it may initially appear, it wasted me a lot of time. Grr. *slap*
OK, so here's my first attempt with for-real Photoshop:
Click here for the full resolution version -- warning -- it's huge (6000 x 5000 pixels) -- you can read the name on the back of the yacht quite clearly.
The image is not quite what it initially seems. The bottom of the scene is a panorama constructed from about 6 or 7 separate images, colour/brightness corrected and stitched together, and the sky is actually from a completely separate photograph. I had to modify one or two things very slightly -- the railing in front of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
doseybat doesn't in real life stop near her, it actually runs right along the top of the concrete, but it didn't match up properly between some of the photos that made up the panorama so I painted it out. I've just invested in a reasonably decent tablet (a Trust 6" by 8" thingy with a pressure sensitive pen and a 3 button mouse), so I'm finding this a far superior interface in comparison with my usual use of a mouse or one or other of my Touchstream keyboards.
Next up will be redoing all the artwork for my paper in Illustrator, so expect one or two things to get posted here as that happens.
To follow up on another post, I've decided to go with the triangle inside the rounded rectangle. I know it lost the vote, but my co-author wants that version, and a bunch of async types in the lab also voted that way, so who am I to argue? :-)
In other news, I've been learning Photoshop and Illustrator. I'm reasonably impressed with both. Previously I've used the likes of Paintshop Pro, Xara and (more recently) Gimp, but I have enough of a need to do lots of diagrams that I don't really have time to mess around. I gave up on Inkscape -- lovely though it may initially appear, it wasted me a lot of time. Grr. *slap*
OK, so here's my first attempt with for-real Photoshop:
Click here for the full resolution version -- warning -- it's huge (6000 x 5000 pixels) -- you can read the name on the back of the yacht quite clearly.
The image is not quite what it initially seems. The bottom of the scene is a panorama constructed from about 6 or 7 separate images, colour/brightness corrected and stitched together, and the sky is actually from a completely separate photograph. I had to modify one or two things very slightly -- the railing in front of
doseybat doesn't in real life stop near her, it actually runs right along the top of the concrete, but it didn't match up properly between some of the photos that made up the panorama so I painted it out. I've just invested in a reasonably decent tablet (a Trust 6" by 8" thingy with a pressure sensitive pen and a 3 button mouse), so I'm finding this a far superior interface in comparison with my usual use of a mouse or one or other of my Touchstream keyboards.Next up will be redoing all the artwork for my paper in Illustrator, so expect one or two things to get posted here as that happens.
To follow up on another post, I've decided to go with the triangle inside the rounded rectangle. I know it lost the vote, but my co-author wants that version, and a bunch of async types in the lab also voted that way, so who am I to argue? :-)
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As for the dust mites, perhaps that explains why I mysteriously developed allergies around the time I started making my bed everyday?
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Anyway, that's my excuse so I'm sticking to it! :-)
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