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About Me Member Director IsEveryoneThisLost22/Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 4 Years
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I know, right?

Thu Apr 30, 2009, 9:16 AM
I was so about to post some stuff. Then I sent the photo-manip to a friend to get some feedback. I saw it on their monitor and realized that it looked like crap.

Apparently my monitor smashes blacks. I played with my contrast and gamma settings, and I couldn't fix it. (a side effect of using a 5 year old computer I suppose)

if you're not familiar with the term basically levels near black all become black. Which means that on my monitor everything looks fine, on yours however some of what I see as black will be grey, or a dark color.

With photography, or digital painting this would be less of a problem as all the colors would originate from the same source, but doing composite work of 3 or 4 photos it sucks. (basically one or two of the photos never went to black, where as the other two did. making the ones that did not stick out like a sore freaking thumb and completely defeating the point of compositing them in the first place.)

soooo... yeah. Anyways I've started checking devArt again regularly, and hopefully soon I'll be able to afford a new computer (soon as in within a month or two I hope) and then there will be all sorts of madness to be done. (I also plan on getting a tablet at that point in time.)

  • Mood: Neutral
  • Listening to: Deftones
  • Reading: Galapagos by K. Vonnegut
  • Watching: a shitload of movies
  • Playing: Dead Rising
  • Eating: Burritos
  • Drinking: too much

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Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Columbus
  • Interests: Writing, Movies, Music, Photoshop
  • Favourite movie: The Departed
  • Favourite band or musician: mewithoutYou, Brand New, Five Iron Frenzy, Lovedrug, Modest Mouse.
  • Favourite genre of music: Digressive Rock
  • Favourite poet or writer: Kurt Vonnegut
  • Favourite photographer: Kil1k, Mysterious Tremendum, Jack, Laura, Charlotte...
  • Operating System: Lepoard
  • MP3 player of choice: iTunes
  • Shell of choice: Conch
  • Wallpaper of choice: http://www.deviantart.com/view/17985186/
  • Favourite game: Super Mario World
  • Favourite gaming platform: Super Nintendo
  • Favourite cartoon character: Jacob The Terrible from Afterlife (this cartoon doesn't exist yet, as i'm stil writing it.
  • Personal Quote: Maybe if I make enough people smile, someone will say something nice about me in my eulogy - Me
  • Tools of the Trade: hp photosmart 635, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word

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:iconalovelyhumanwreckage:
>.< didn't* /fail today

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we were simple once
where now revolves
a minefield of qualia
:iconalovelyhumanwreckage:
..did mean to hit send.

continuing.
Did you use some sort of stock to recreate the borders around the pictures or something? It looks legit.
It's really amazing. =]

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we were simple once
where now revolves
a minefield of qualia
:iconiseveryonethislost:
If i recall correctly, I think I just made a multi-layer template in photoshop. No stock involved. Just some selection tool, and coloring black with some square holes in the middle, with the photos on the layer below.

I'm glad you enjoyed them!

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I'm just sitting here

waiting for the stars to shine through...
:iconalovelyhumanwreckage:
I attempted to do one on my own.
I kind of just saved one of the comics opened it in Corel PSPx2 and took out the photos in it with selection and basically created a template from that.

So it kind of worked.
I posted it if you want to look at it.
I'm not sure how i feel about it though.
any tips would be appreciated.

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we were simple once
where now revolves
a minefield of qualia
:iconalovelyhumanwreckage:
Your softer world is absolutely stunning.

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we were simple once
where now revolves
a minefield of qualia
:iconclancyy:
i love a softer world.
-watch-
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:iconhinithil:
:poke:

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God makes the shots - I just take the picture. :milk:

-If ever you come near
I'll hold up high a mirror
Lord, I could never show you anything
As b.e.a.u.t.i.f.u.l as you
(.mwY)-
:iconsnak-stock:
Thanks for the watch!

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Stock rulez:
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