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Jul. 20th, 2004 04:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azuriteHave I mentioned how much of a PAIN IN THE @$$ Photoshop is? Because it is. I love it, but it's a pain in the ass. I hope my Intro to Comp Graphics course will help me solve some of the constant issues I have with the program. To outline:
Today I was working on skins for Dragonfayth. They're primarily based off the bluepurple skin that is offered with eFiction. There's a very nice background (you can see it if you look at DF now) with this cool beveled square thing going on. I tried to mimic it-- gradient overlay, layer overlay... no good. So I decided to try making the background myself.
I started with my gradient-- a nice blend of blues and yellow. Very summery colors, and if I can get DF finished by the end of August, it'll be perfect! Anyway, so I found a pattern that, when used as a Bevel and Emboss Texture Overlay, it looked great! Only problem was these LINES going down the middle... I tried Filter/Offset, but that didn't help any. Blurring, smudging... none of it worked. The problem is that on one side of the image, there are these *shadows* that I can't seem to get rid of. The last row of blocks on the right is not the same as the first row on the left-- which means when I use it as a background, you can see the "seams." Does anyone know how to help? /.\ I'm desperate here...
On the plus side, I'm having success with the icons... I've developed this sort of rainbow-colored set that I might end up using. They're 75x75, and are embossed using a Style that's predefined in PS7. All I'm doing to change the buttons is alter the color, the text (obviously), and the image (again, obviously). Thus far...
There's still Drabbles, MSTs, Multi-Chaptered Fics, Poetry/Songs, and Round Robins to do... so I'm wondering, if I make this entire set, what characters should I use for the remaining categories, and what color should their backgrounds be?
The images I've been using are *.gifs from the various video games that have been released-- mostly Forbidden Memories, but a few from other games (Eternal Duelist Soul, I think). I have Bakura, Dark Yuugi, Yuugi, Teana, Pegasus, Sugoroku (Grandpa), Heishin, Kaiba, Jono, Ryuuzaki (Rex), and Shimon Muran. If anyone wants to donate more, then feel free!
The one thing that's pissing me off in the creation of these icons is this snapping of text thing. If I have a block of text (say 'Realities' at the bottom of the icon) and I change it to say something else (say 'Fanfics') and I want to center it, it keeps snapping back to where it originally was. I turned Snap and Snap To off, so I don't know why it's doing this. It usually takes me about five or six tries to get the text where I want it, all because of these dumb "snaps." Does anyone know what's happening?
...Okay. So I've got it set up so that the category images I've made thus far display for all the categories in every skin. The default skin is bluepurple, and when you first create an account, eFiction is the default skin after logging in. You can change all this good stuff in your account settings.
Though we're still in "broken" mode at this point, I invite all interested authors to set up an account now... and, those interested in helping me moderate (esp. specific categories... see further down), let me know.
I listed all the categories up above, but you can also help me with News, Skins, or other areas of the site that might need the er... more genteel touch than someone like me? If you'd like to apply for a mod-job, let me know which categories you're interested in staffing for.
Yep. So without further adieu, SIGN UP FOR DRAGONFAYTH at http://azurite.incandesce.org/drfa
I know it looks a bit narsty right now, but we're going to fix that soon... ^_^ and by we, I mean YOU AND ME, right? *grin grin*
Today I was working on skins for Dragonfayth. They're primarily based off the bluepurple skin that is offered with eFiction. There's a very nice background (you can see it if you look at DF now) with this cool beveled square thing going on. I tried to mimic it-- gradient overlay, layer overlay... no good. So I decided to try making the background myself.
I started with my gradient-- a nice blend of blues and yellow. Very summery colors, and if I can get DF finished by the end of August, it'll be perfect! Anyway, so I found a pattern that, when used as a Bevel and Emboss Texture Overlay, it looked great! Only problem was these LINES going down the middle... I tried Filter/Offset, but that didn't help any. Blurring, smudging... none of it worked. The problem is that on one side of the image, there are these *shadows* that I can't seem to get rid of. The last row of blocks on the right is not the same as the first row on the left-- which means when I use it as a background, you can see the "seams." Does anyone know how to help? /.\ I'm desperate here...
On the plus side, I'm having success with the icons... I've developed this sort of rainbow-colored set that I might end up using. They're 75x75, and are embossed using a Style that's predefined in PS7. All I'm doing to change the buttons is alter the color, the text (obviously), and the image (again, obviously). Thus far...
- Priest Seto - Alternate Universes - Golden Yellow
- Prince Yugi (you read right) - Alternate Realities - Ocean Blue
- Anzu - Challenges - Pink
- Honda - Continuations - Scarlet
- Haga - Crossovers - Orange/Vermillion
- Jounouchi - Oneshots - Kelly Green
- Mai - Songfics - Violet
There's still Drabbles, MSTs, Multi-Chaptered Fics, Poetry/Songs, and Round Robins to do... so I'm wondering, if I make this entire set, what characters should I use for the remaining categories, and what color should their backgrounds be?
The images I've been using are *.gifs from the various video games that have been released-- mostly Forbidden Memories, but a few from other games (Eternal Duelist Soul, I think). I have Bakura, Dark Yuugi, Yuugi, Teana, Pegasus, Sugoroku (Grandpa), Heishin, Kaiba, Jono, Ryuuzaki (Rex), and Shimon Muran. If anyone wants to donate more, then feel free!
The one thing that's pissing me off in the creation of these icons is this snapping of text thing. If I have a block of text (say 'Realities' at the bottom of the icon) and I change it to say something else (say 'Fanfics') and I want to center it, it keeps snapping back to where it originally was. I turned Snap and Snap To off, so I don't know why it's doing this. It usually takes me about five or six tries to get the text where I want it, all because of these dumb "snaps." Does anyone know what's happening?
...Okay. So I've got it set up so that the category images I've made thus far display for all the categories in every skin. The default skin is bluepurple, and when you first create an account, eFiction is the default skin after logging in. You can change all this good stuff in your account settings.
Though we're still in "broken" mode at this point, I invite all interested authors to set up an account now... and, those interested in helping me moderate (esp. specific categories... see further down), let me know.
I listed all the categories up above, but you can also help me with News, Skins, or other areas of the site that might need the er... more genteel touch than someone like me? If you'd like to apply for a mod-job, let me know which categories you're interested in staffing for.
Yep. So without further adieu, SIGN UP FOR DRAGONFAYTH at http://azurite.incandesce.org/drfa
I know it looks a bit narsty right now, but we're going to fix that soon... ^_^ and by we, I mean YOU AND ME, right? *grin grin*
