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Trick or Treat by °chanelqueen17 1 month 2 weeks ago

Trick or Treat by °chanelqueen17 1 month 2 weeks ago

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After months of work, chanelqueen17 has created a gorgeous scene of Alice and Oz from Pandora Hearts, using scans that didn't even feature both characters together. Even after spending so much time on matching the details of the characters to their new looks, chanelqueen17 didn't stop there and went all out on the background too! This wallpaper definitely needs to be seen!

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ShoutBox

~Loleta 2 minutes ago
#(u_u)# emoticon.........For some unknown reason, every tinme I come here, and comment on this ShoutBox, people on this site tend to ignore me and leave a huge time gap between me and nothing.... Am I really that hated :=[ emoticon ~?

`Ali3n 2 minutes ago
Yes.

~Loleta 14 minutes ago
Oh?

`Ali3n 25 minutes ago
A point and click adventure flash game ^^

☆Bantam 28 minutes ago
What is tht?

`Ali3n 35 minutes ago
Have anyone here played Machinarium yet? :)

☆Bantam 39 minutes ago
No kittens, definately fail

~Loleta 45 minutes ago
...........................

~honokatsukiyomi 53 minutes ago
http://failblog.org

`Ali3n 55 minutes ago
I'm stuck in Machinarium :(

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nuniko's Comments

Haruhi, 3rd Attempt

3 years 4 months ago

"
It took me a couple days of experimenting with vectoring, but I think I got it down.


If you vectored this, you wouldn't have those white stuff around the scan. What you did is extract, and you didn't quite do it properly. I learned how to extract from this tutorial. Check it out, it might help.

Also, everything is too...well, lateral. Either too horizontal or too vertical. Try rotating the girl a few degrees and see if it works. And move her to the right a bit, but not quite in the center. See if that works too."
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ANIMEPAPER V4 BUG REPORTS

3 years 9 months ago

"Do we still get papers for submitting wallpapers? I submitted a wallpaper, but I did not receive papers for it. I deleted it (out of utter stupidity), and I got fined 100 papers. I submitted it again, but I still didn't get papers. :/"
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Do Ghosts Exist?

3 years 10 months ago

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Whoa!that's the scary one,why don't you just move out??


Already did. My family and I moved out of there almost ten years ago, but not because of the ghosts or anything. It was because the house was so old it was close to falling apart. XD

Did your parents encounter that too??


Yep, more often than I have. :p"
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Do Ghosts Exist?

3 years 10 months ago

"


hey??how can we grow up in a house that used to be a military clinic/quarter,and believe in ghost?Does the ghost of the DEAD soldier walk around and talk to you?


LOL!!!!!


I grew up listening to conversations about Japanese invasion, wives left behind, sisters turned into comfort women, and other random things. I also grew up listening to the sound of guns being cleaned, screams of agony, and someone scratching/knocking on the walls of my bedroom.

And yes, I did encounter a ghost of a dead soldier. So go LOL all you want. :)"
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Do Ghosts Exist?

3 years 10 months ago

"It's a fact that ghosts exist. Grow up in a house that used to be a military clinic/quarters, and you will believe in them."
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Anything else to add/change?

3 years 11 months ago

"Um...are those motion lines I see on the iris? :/ Looks rather odd because the lines are vertical. Go to http://www.n-sane.net/tutorials/crystalcleariris/index.php. You don't necessarily have to follow this tutorial, but it could give you some ideas.

Other than the weird lines on the eye, everything looks great, methinks. ^^

"
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Finishing touch/effects for your wallpaper

4 years 1 month ago

"It all depends on the wallpaper you're working on. If you're working on a wallpaper right now, show us the work in progress so that we could give you tips."
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Whats your favourite gun?

4 years 1 month ago

"I like handguns. X3 Good ol' .45 caliber for me. I used to own a 1911, but I had to leave it in the Philippines. Glocks are cool, but the triggers are so long that I drown in my snot before I could fire at my target.

.38 caliber revolvers are nice, too. :D"
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Stop my confusion???

4 years 1 month ago

"Screen caps and manga scans are okay. You might have to do a lot of painting/reCGing, so that the images' quality would be good enough for a desktop wallpaper. And when describing your work, you will have to mention that your reference is a screencap/manga scan. Give the original artist credit. :)

It's nice to know that you're a programmer. It would have been more convincing if you took your time to spell, though. =/"
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Rey za Burrel wallpaper

4 years 1 month ago

"I think Photobucket compressed your file. Try http://www.imageshack.us. The file size limit is 1024KB. If ImageShack still compresses it, then you'll have to compress the file. When you save in Photoshop, use "Save Web As" instead of "Save." Then save at 60-70% quality.

To be quite honest, I don't think this will be accepted in the gallery. You may or may not have put effort into this, but the background looks like something you whipped up in less than 10 minutes. I would advise that you do more than applying filters on your background. Filters aren't bad, but it's not good when you overuse them. Try using stock photos, brushes, and textures. Don't limit yourself to filters. :)"
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Extraction questions

4 years 1 month ago

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Oh, image wand and free-hand selection aren't the best tools for extraction...those are not vector tools. Vector tools give much better quality to the scan and they include the pen tool in Photoshop. With the pen tool, you trace the outline of the scan, then go to the 'Paths' section and click on 'Select'. For a more in-depth tutorial, google 'How to Use Pen Tool in Photoshop'. It's a really great tool that's easy to use and will guarantee you much better results and quality.


This of course applies only if you have Photoshop.

Paint Shop Pro has an equivalent of Photoshop's pen tool, although I've never used it. But it does function like Photoshop's pen tool, so yes, it is possible to vector in PSP. For a good PSP vector-style tutorial, go here.

I hope this helped. :)


EDIT:

About your problem with downsizing, if you meant resizing the image's dimensions, make sure you are resizing in Bicubic mode. That will keep your pixels from doing anything weird. Now if you meant downsizing the image quality, whenever you save as a jpeg, save it only at 60-70% quality. The image quality will still be good, but there will be a large decrease in file size. That would be good for people with slow connections like me. ^^ Paint Shop Pro has great compression tools. If you use Photoshop, use "Save" only if you are saving Bitmaps or PSD's. For jpegs and/or gifs, use "Save For Web" and save at 60-70%."
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Tutorials and Resources

4 years 1 month ago

"http://www.plantea.com/garden-photos-thirds.htm

Not exactly a tutorial, but it explains the Rule of Thirds. Now say goodbye to your focal points lacking focus."
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CCS Wallpaper

4 years 1 month ago

"
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Y'know I don't think you should shy away from posting stuff like this in the gallery. It looks pretty good to me, and doesn't really need session zero level help.


But isn't it great that she posted here first to see if she can improve it? Really, I admire that. :)

You already know about the issue with Sakura being overlayed. And I'm not too sure about the outline. =/ Please do correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you stroked Sakura at 2px. Why don't you try stroking her at 1px (make sure the outline is in a different layer)? Then duplicate the outline layer, gaussian blur the duplicate at 1.8-2px and set the blending mode of the duplicate to overlay or hard light? I'm not sure if that's going to work. Artists use that technique to smoothen out their line art, so I thought it was worth suggesting. ;)

Also, I think it would be nice if you nudge Sakura to the right a bit, just so she gets a bit more focus. Here is an explanation of how Sakura gets more focus by moving her a bit.

I hope this helped. Your wallpaper looks great. Keep it up. ^^"
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It was rejected...

4 years 1 month ago

"I don't know what you're trying to achieve here. Did you want a postcard/stamp look on your wallpaper?

I would suggest you get rid of the low-opacity image in the background. Low opacity images as backgrounds tend to show lack of technique/ideas. I would suggest using textures and/or manipulated stock photos for the background instead. Don't be afraid to use more than one texture. Layer different textures and play around with the blending modes.

If you can make the brightly colored scan bigger, please do so, so that it would be easier to focus on it. It would also be nice if you actually do something to the scan, not just make the edges pretty.

I hope this helped."
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can someone tell me how to make tones

4 years 1 month ago

"If you need manga screentones, go here. For a tutorial on how to use photoshop to put screentones on your line art, go here.

I hope that helped."
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eh?

4 years 2 months ago

"Smexy drawing as usual, Evols.

By the way, what version of OC do you have? I have 1.1. Me hates it. I don't want to download the free trial of the latest version because I'm too slow to finish something within a month. >.>

Wishing Kalico the best of luck! <3 emoticon"
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Nana wallpaper

4 years 2 months ago

"I'd vote for either 1 or 4. No text, please. :)"
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Kingdom Hearts

4 years 2 months ago

"The idea's nice, and you were right on placing the light at the bottom. But I suggest you change the background entirely. I don't know...it looks overfiltered. You could try redrawing the wings so they would really look like they're a part of Sora, unless you want them to look like fairy dust.

You can certainly do better than this. =/"
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Beauty secrets

4 years 2 months ago

"For dark eye circles: cucumbers do NOT work. Use raw potatos. They have the potassium that you need to remove dark eye circles. Bananas would work too, but potatos are less messy. ;)

Before exfoliating, soak yourself in warm water. This will open your pores up. Exfoliate. Rinse with cold water (to close your pores). Plus, the cold water will shock you and make your circulation better. :P


EDIT: Slice a potato, then put the slices on your eyes. For best results, sleep with potatos on your eyes (use an eye mask, or anything to tie those potato slices to your eyes, so it won't go sliding all over the place)."
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Do you like being alone?

4 years 2 months ago

"Yeah, I'm quite a loner. It's not that I don't like making friends or I don't like working with other people. It's just that I enjoy my own company, and I tend to do my work better when I'm alone. :)"
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Math

4 years 2 months ago

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Does anyone hate maths because of the factor> teacher?


That's usually the case. I was a Math tutor once (my university has this department where students can ask for tutorials from paid student tutors). Most of the students I tutored went to me because they couldn't understand their professors' explanations, so they end up teaching themselves Math, which is difficult for a lot of people. The other students I tutored just disliked their teachers for personal reasons, so that hindered them from learning anything from their teachers. I don't know exactly how that hindered them, but it did."
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Math

4 years 2 months ago

"Math certainly isn't my best subject, but it's my favorite. I'm taking Electrical Engineering so I don't really have much of a choice but to love it. =____=

I don't know if it will work for you, but try pretending to like Math. Yeah, it sounds crazy, but it worked for me and a lot of other people I know. :)"
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Wallpaper Thieves

4 years 3 months ago

"I often take ripping as a very pathetic form of praise. Sure, it's annoying when other people get all the praise for it, but it doesn't take very long before someone finds the ripper out.

Which is why, kids, you should keep PSD's of your wallpapers. :)"
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