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Relaxation by °Tens 1 day 13 hours ago

Relaxation by °Tens 1 day 13 hours ago

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As an animation, Bakemonogatari has a simple, clean art style. But the guest illustrations for the series are anything but simple! So, it's great to see that °Tens took on a more complex illustration and made it his own with vector gradients so fine at points it more resembles painting that vectoring. Do have a look at this beautiful wallpaper!

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$Cr1ms0n-m00n 16 minutes ago
Nailu!

~kittylove 41 minutes ago
Buh bye then and take care

~Yoshimi46 41 minutes ago
Oh well im sure you'll think of something =] but i gtg ttyl!!

~kittylove 45 minutes ago
Heheh. bad thing is i cant even think of anything i want for x-mas!!

~Yoshimi46 47 minutes ago
Haha the stampede is the only bad part

~kittylove 48 minutes ago
Hahah yeah i know right...thats why i've never gone

~Yoshimi46 49 minutes ago
Its crazyyy! i mean people get trammpled by the huge crowddssat 3 in the morning! XD

~kittylove 51 minutes ago
Nope, i dont think i ever have haha

~Yoshimi46 52 minutes ago
Did you go out on black friday??

~Nailu 53 minutes ago
Crimson!

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alienzero's Comments

re-CGing a scan

3 years 5 months ago

"Thanks MuZ and ShiNN. that cleared things a bit. i actually have an anime screencap, would you recommend something specific for that?

all in all repainting seems to be a lot more difficult and timeconsuming than illustrator vectoring..."
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re-CGing a scan

3 years 5 months ago

"Ok, so basically i have quite grainy and pixelated image, it can be compared to the quality of the source of this Tama-Neko's wall. now i want to do quite the same what she did, but have a bit no idea how ;] what do i use for that? smudge tool? smooth tool? complete repainting? if someone could explain to me a non-vecotring re-CG and eventually point to some tutorials i'd be thankful."
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FMA Winry wallpaper needs final comments

3 years 5 months ago

"I wonder what do you use to vector, but if Photoshop, then you know - the pen tool points can bend the lines between them - check any vec tutorial."
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Stupid ? about regarding photoshop

3 years 5 months ago

"Choose from the top menu - image > mode and check which color mode is checked:
grayscale - probably that's what you have, therefore you can apply only tones of grays, no matter what kind of colour you choose from the palette
indexed - gifs and 8bit png files have this - an attached palette of 256 colours or less, you can not apply any different colour then the indexed ones
rgb - 24bit palette, change to this and it will be 'normal'
cmyk - similiar to rgb, but different XD colour palette used mainly for printing

and remember kids -- nothing fixes itself. ;]"
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My first vector Wall (need help with vector)

3 years 5 months ago

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TheSisterPrincess
i am afraid if i submit the wall with this picture will be rejected because admin think i just cut the picture) -_-!


oh please, c'mon. ;] mada mada dane -- there's still a lot more to go. check the walls by grayserg and aim for such vectoring. as for a first piece it is fairly nice. try sometime to make strokeless vectors, the look a lot better.

also, gat @ vectorness group posted a nice cars vectoring tutorial -> tutorial

have fun and keep it up. "
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Virus/Trojan/Etc victim?

3 years 5 months ago

"You remember sasser? now that was one mad bastard. i once was dumb enough to connect to the net to download XP updates _before_ i installed firewall and antivir. well, it took him like 30 second, and puff -- reboot. as far as i remember this was the only time i got a virus or any other unwanted crap. all other violations were caught either by firewall or antivir. i used norton IS, but now i'm trailing nod32 + kerio and i must say they are very good and whats important -- light in resources consumtion ;]"
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What alcochol you drink usualy ?

3 years 5 months ago

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fluxbox
Now that I think about it, it wasn't actually on Christmas. Like the day after.


well, that's a big difference XD but generally i prefer not to drink 'around' christmas. give God what's holy, give King what's jolly. did i just make up a saying? lol.. XD"
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What alcochol you drink usualy ?

3 years 5 months ago

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fluxbox
-> wujczas

Maybe off topic but do you (and family) drink during Christmas? I'm just wondering because I recently aquired some Polish relatives... and um.. yeah. Let me just say theres "christmas" like the dinky American stuff you see on TV, and then there's Polish Christmas! O_O


no, drinking on christmas is a rather shameful custom, and moreover shameful if in Poland -- all in all despite everything we are a Catholic country, and i personally am against drinking during Christmas. but then again i am completly positive about drinkin till death on new years eve so.. this kind of tells ;p

btw, my fav drinks are those which dont go below 38%. and just recently i had a longer session with tequilla, straight non-mixed with salt and lemon and i must say -- man, it's even better than vodka. moreover, we did a 07 bottle for 2 ppl, and yeah, that kind of kicks [though not to death, still not enough i suppose. 1L would suit just fine]"
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Please help me improve this ^_^

3 years 5 months ago

"Vector it! vector it! vector the mecha [and dont use outlines], take the background from the first version, make transparent text, and for gawd sake dont apply blur on text when you have such a big sharp gundam near by ;]"
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Black Lagoon wp

3 years 5 months ago

"Hmm, there's a colored scan of the cover with this pic in the scan section. anyway, you can go for b&w , but man you lack quality XD first of, this wind effect is a no-no. just forget it ;] moreover, i see text on her gun, you should fix that.

all in all - i recommend going for smoothness, sharpness and simplicity, instead of any filters.."
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html help? who knows

3 years 6 months ago

"Well, imagemaps are applied directly onto an image, as they are connected by a parameter within <img .. tag. if you put this image into the background you wont be able to use the imagemap on it -- you wont even be able to use <a href.. on it.

here's a nice site explaining the imagemaps -- [and not only, w3schools cover a lot of stuff --- but not all though..] http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_areamap

using notepad may be ok, but you may want to take the measurments of the map figures using some gfx application like photoshop. then it's just typing in html."
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AMV sources

3 years 6 months ago

"
fullmetalanime
thanks all! The tips that you gave were really great. I just have one more question: how do you get footage off of DVDs?


google for 'ripping dvd' - it's kind of huge subject ;p"
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Movie editing programs...

3 years 6 months ago

"Apple's final cut pro ;]

but yeah, adobe premiere is like photoshop and illustrator - top stuff ;]"
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Wallpaper Air Gear (Third try)

3 years 6 months ago

"The general concept is ok, but you lack quality. first of all, the extraction of the character - very jiggy, actually you should try and vector him. next, the background -- blurred pixels due to probable enlargment - you have to either apply some extensive grunge/brushwork [but i dont know about this stuff much..] or you could try and make an amazing vector out of it..."
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A big problem with PHOTOSHOP :(

3 years 6 months ago

"Look at the layers tool window, you probably have only one layer, moreover with a padlock. the simpliest thing to is to select all ctrl+a and the copy-paste. you should see a next layer to appear. just delete the background layer with the padlock, and there you go, you cutout to transparenct.

[make sure your image mode is RGB or CMYK. greyscale or indexed color wont work. indexed color is with gifs and non-alpha-channel pngs, grayscale is.. rare ;p]"
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