Ooog.

[bladespark]

My arm is sore from using the mouse. I've been editing and coloring comic pages most of the day. I did get some sewing in too, but I decided I needed to get the EOU stuff done. The deadline for this page being tonight and all, and none of my costume deadlines are soon at all, save the wolf plush which is almost done, and I really didn't feel like sewing....

Anyhow, it's colored, but still needs text, and I despise Photoshop, it is THE least intuitive program I have ever used. I taught myself Paintshop over the course of just a day or so of experimenting, but having taken a Photoshop class I still cannot get it to do what I want.

But Paintshop is hiding the setting for jpeg compression quality from me, and the detfault quality is very low, so once I convert something into jpeg I'm forced to use Photoshop on it, or else have it look like crap. So I have to wrestle with this monstrous nightmare of options I do not want and will never use, trying to find the one, common ought-to-be-right-there option I actually need, which of course I can never find. Bah.

Edit: AHA! I have found the settings to screw with the jpeg compression. I can use my precious Paintshop again! And have, for other than editing in some renders that I haven't been given (I'm too lazy to draw more ships at this point) it's done.

Comments

[sphix.livejournal.com]

*ears perk* Comic, you say?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I'm taking part in a collaborative comic venture.

There's a webcomic called Evil Overlords United, I'm too tired to go look up the url for you, that basically goes around "attacking" other comic universes, and then the other comics sometimes respond, and you end up with a collaboration.

They went after El Goonish Shive a bit ago, and the EGS fandom has some ties with the CRFH fandom that I'm part of. The artists of EGS and CRFH both declined to draw a EOU crossover, but we fans decided that the fandoms would defend their comics from the EOU takeover, so we've been drawing comics for the last couple of weeks. A number of other artists have done bits, and I have four pages myself.

It's all complicated, and injoke-y, but fun to do.

[sphix.livejournal.com]

<3! ^_^ Aren't comics just plain fun?

Ghetto program lover anonymous

[lin-chan.livejournal.com]

Hi, my name is Lin and I <3 Paint Shop Pro.

[asciiskull.livejournal.com]

The comic part is fun. Hell is organizing collaboration.

[asciiskull.livejournal.com]

I know I'm weird, but I always found Photoshop easier.

[aoanla.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure you are weird: the majority of artistically inclined people I've met seem to love Photoshop.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Oh yes... this whole thing suffers from lack of good collaboration, I'm afraid. Although I'd like to feel I've only perpetuated minor errors along those lines. (Aka Thal's changing outfit/beardedness)

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I suspect I'm the weird one here. Oh well. 99% of my art is fuzzy and doesn't need anything more advanced than resizing photos, so it doesn't matter much anyhow.