Which reminds me, I need to find a fan awards site for Marvel fandom (or Thor/Loki) so I can nominate her superb Loki banners. I was stunned to see her base image for my favorite of her pieces was a shot of the actor at a comic con - wouldn't have guessed in a milliion years.
I'm kinda more the slash and burn artist, I think.
I love this description! I could stand to adapt some of that, to be quicker and less "plodding" I think - I get overfocused on whatever I'm working on and forget the whole. With a banner this isn't so bad but on a 20in20 icon set? It's why I end up with 100 images when I only need 20 and still don't have a cohesive set at the end. (Like this round - how could I have submitted that set and NOT noticed that I was all but missing green in the rainbow?)
Remember when you told me to master blending and I thought you meant the "blend" (smudge) tool in Photobucket? Oh my gosh I had no idea what you meant - or how much fun it would be! Dodge and burn OTOH are tools I haven't really learned yet much less mastered. Have you done a tutorial on those tools yet, or can you recommend a tutorial elsewhere? I'm not really using PSE on our computer yet but I know enough now in ipiccy that I can usually translate the information.
I do love me some light leaks - amazing how handy light leaks and textures are for covering all sorts of sins and stitching a piece together.
I do not know what it is, but looking at a posted image, I can see things I missed staring at it in Photoshop.
I have the same problem. I'll look at images in the slideshow function of PB, and sometimes pick up things that way, but there's always something I seem to miss. (And it always feels like something glaring to my eyes.) I'll check out DA, thank you, I hadn't thought of it before.
Photoshop lets you take snapshots along the way, which is brilliant because even leaving the layers in tact you sometimes can wander away from your original idea and need a way back without actually starting over, which when you got dozens of layers, is just a big pain.
This I look forward to doing, it sound brilliant. I have a couple of pieces I'm working on now that I realize I made an error with, or want to redo slightly but didn't save copies in ipiccy at a particular step.
It's like writing. You need to build in an 'edit' time for your image. :D
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Date: 2014-12-01 02:54 am (UTC)Which reminds me, I need to find a fan awards site for Marvel fandom (or Thor/Loki) so I can nominate her superb Loki banners. I was stunned to see her base image for my favorite of her pieces was a shot of the actor at a comic con - wouldn't have guessed in a milliion years.
I'm kinda more the slash and burn artist, I think.
I love this description! I could stand to adapt some of that, to be quicker and less "plodding" I think - I get overfocused on whatever I'm working on and forget the whole. With a banner this isn't so bad but on a 20in20 icon set? It's why I end up with 100 images when I only need 20 and still don't have a cohesive set at the end. (Like this round - how could I have submitted that set and NOT noticed that I was all but missing green in the rainbow?)
Remember when you told me to master blending and I thought you meant the "blend" (smudge) tool in Photobucket? Oh my gosh I had no idea what you meant - or how much fun it would be! Dodge and burn OTOH are tools I haven't really learned yet much less mastered. Have you done a tutorial on those tools yet, or can you recommend a tutorial elsewhere? I'm not really using PSE on our computer yet but I know enough now in ipiccy that I can usually translate the information.
I do love me some light leaks - amazing how handy light leaks and textures are for covering all sorts of sins and stitching a piece together.
I do not know what it is, but looking at a posted image, I can see things I missed staring at it in Photoshop.
I have the same problem. I'll look at images in the slideshow function of PB, and sometimes pick up things that way, but there's always something I seem to miss. (And it always feels like something glaring to my eyes.) I'll check out DA, thank you, I hadn't thought of it before.
Photoshop lets you take snapshots along the way, which is brilliant because even leaving the layers in tact you sometimes can wander away from your original idea and need a way back without actually starting over, which when you got dozens of layers, is just a big pain.
This I look forward to doing, it sound brilliant. I have a couple of pieces I'm working on now that I realize I made an error with, or want to redo slightly but didn't save copies in ipiccy at a particular step.
It's like writing. You need to build in an 'edit' time for your image. :D
Yes, that's it exactly!