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Jul. 19th, 2004
Proper type update
Jul. 19th, 2004 12:35 pmHave been coughy and sneezy all weekend. Well, actually was sniffing a lot at work last week, but it really hit me over the weekend. Luckily the wonders of Lemsip were at hand to sort me out. ( But you don't care about that. )
It being my Mum's birthday, I stayed in Ilkley to celebrate. We went to Saltaire and watched a DVD. Then I spent about 24 hours on my little old computer. It's up and running Windows 2000 currently, and the wireless LAN card is being all recognised and everything. ( Bla bla bla )
Have scanned random encounter, and transferred it from the scanning machine up to my PC by an elaborate process involving Smart cards and digital cameras. ( More about data transfer )
( Random Encounter progress )
If anyone's interested, a lot of my colouring procedure is very similar to that described in Julie Dillon's Manga Drawing Tutorial. I think the main difference is that she's happy to work with a greyscale image, relying on Photoshop's antialias features to find the right edges and blur appropriately, but I don't like that - I find it easier to work with high resolution 1-bit black-and-white scans. It may look nasty up close but it shrinks down real purty. She does have a lot of good things to say on the subject of shadows - basically keep adding more until it looks good - but I think she has a lot more patience than I do. you're lucky if you get a shadow and a highlight out of me.
Right, that's enough out of me. Oh, except, I've noticed![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
arwel's wedding invite said RSVP by last Friday. In case you hadn't guessed from my eagerness to receive said invite: Yes, yes I will be coming.
Oh, yes, one more thing - Maelstrom is this Friday. I have offered to drivemrssshhh over to Manc on Thursday with a view to liftage. I have, in recent days, also mentioned that there will be room in my car for arwel and/or myki. This may present difficulty if all three require space (while Raj is large enough for four manly men, each man does come with a certain amount of luggage). Also I'm not sure on the exact status of the big-ass tent. Did Sam say he was taking all of it or just the poles? Am I having to take the canvas again? What's up with that?
It being my Mum's birthday, I stayed in Ilkley to celebrate. We went to Saltaire and watched a DVD. Then I spent about 24 hours on my little old computer. It's up and running Windows 2000 currently, and the wireless LAN card is being all recognised and everything. ( Bla bla bla )
Have scanned random encounter, and transferred it from the scanning machine up to my PC by an elaborate process involving Smart cards and digital cameras. ( More about data transfer )
( Random Encounter progress )
If anyone's interested, a lot of my colouring procedure is very similar to that described in Julie Dillon's Manga Drawing Tutorial. I think the main difference is that she's happy to work with a greyscale image, relying on Photoshop's antialias features to find the right edges and blur appropriately, but I don't like that - I find it easier to work with high resolution 1-bit black-and-white scans. It may look nasty up close but it shrinks down real purty. She does have a lot of good things to say on the subject of shadows - basically keep adding more until it looks good - but I think she has a lot more patience than I do. you're lucky if you get a shadow and a highlight out of me.
Right, that's enough out of me. Oh, except, I've noticed
arwel's wedding invite said RSVP by last Friday. In case you hadn't guessed from my eagerness to receive said invite: Yes, yes I will be coming.Oh, yes, one more thing - Maelstrom is this Friday. I have offered to drive
mrssshhh over to Manc on Thursday with a view to liftage. I have, in recent days, also mentioned that there will be room in my car for arwel and/or myki. This may present difficulty if all three require space (while Raj is large enough for four manly men, each man does come with a certain amount of luggage). Also I'm not sure on the exact status of the big-ass tent. Did Sam say he was taking all of it or just the poles? Am I having to take the canvas again? What's up with that?