CAN'T SLEEP MY EYES ARE BURNING

ZOMBIE USER 17345 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 17345** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:41 pm

I've seen better.
<small>MUCH better . . .</small>

Astral Blaze · Post by **Astral Blaze** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:45 pm

ImpousVileTerror wrote:I've seen better.
<small>MUCH better . . .</small>

Up, close, and personal I take it? *Goes off to mentally flush corrupt images*

Superlance · Post by **Superlance** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:00 pm

Ack!
Old server isn't working, so no one on Boardy's stuff is working!
Even though I'm on YDK, I still have another site I can use; YAY!

I just made this wallpaper a few days ago; and it turned out much better that I had hoped for: http://fbanimation.xepher.net/fyreBG1280x980.jpg

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 12:11 am

That does look nice, how did you do the background?

Superlance · Post by **Superlance** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:00 pm

I opened Photoshop with a blank image.
I colored the entire thing white, the clicked 'View' then 'View Grid'.
I took a screenshot of the grid (print screen button), then pasted it onto a layer behind my image. (all the space behind my character was erased before this).
Then I used the 'Glowing edges' filter on the grid.
Then I duplicated the grid layer, and made one white, and one black; putting the white one on top, and reducing the opacity to 20% or something like that.

To make the circles and lines; I just used a basic line tool; and the circle tool, and then used an eraser 30px smaller than the circle was to erase the center of the shape.

EDIT: Oh, yeah; almost forgot.
The squares were made with the square tool, in black and white; then the layer was set to 'soft light'; and placed between the white and black grid layers.
The red and organge line thing was made with a screenshot of Windows Media Player's Bars and Waves vizulization, 'Scope'.

Jops · Post by **Jops** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:06 pm

Congrats, it's really a cool work!

DEVO-Bot · Post by **DEVO-Bot** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:44 pm

That looks really awesome. Do you remember what sound file you were listening to when you took the screenshot?

Nishichi27 · Post by **Nishichi27** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 2:03 pm

Ooo, I love the way you did her middle-red-skirt-thingy!

Superlance · Post by **Superlance** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:53 pm

DEVO-Bot wrote:That looks really awesome. Do you remember what sound file you were listening to when you took the screenshot?

Uh.. Nickleback?

Anyway; I have PSD file with the thing on it; so I can give it to you if I can find it; if you want it.

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:02 am

Of, I forgot to ask: what software did you use to paint her, Sortelli?

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:09 am

Paintshop Pro 7. Nothing that couldn't be done with Photoshop, tho.

Well, the background was packaged with Paintshop...

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:14 am

My guess was Flash. How did you make the outlines colored? Or you drew directly on PSP?

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:46 pm

Well, if I wanted to make outlines coloured, I'd:

-make another layer above the lineart.
-set it to screen,
-draw the colours, with big brush- it would only be visible in places where the black lines were.
-merge the two layers.

(or instead of merging the layers: I'd put the actual colouring (areas) above the both layers, and set it to multiply.
The outlines colouring would still interfere with the background, so I'd rather merge the two layers.)

Superlance · Post by **Superlance** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:13 pm

I color my lines, but I make them so thin that you can't really tell...

I have a tutorial about the magical art of line coloring here: Color the lines!
Note: This is a Photoshop Elements tutorial.

Oh, yeah; here's the sound wave thing I used on my wallpaper if anyone wants it: http://fbanimation.xepher.net/sound_wave.jpg

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CAN'T SLEEP MY EYES ARE BURNING

Meh.

Re: Meh.