http://kleinmim.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] kleinmim.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] theartshow2012-02-25 05:32 am
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Work at your own pace

Wow, I can't believe I'm done. This was HUGE, but it was also incredibly cool. Loved this challenge. I could basically do whatever I wanted, go wild, but had the prompts to guide me. So I really like some of the things I created here.

So lately I love those tumblr graphics - somehow 500x500 is exactly the right format for me to work with. I'm bad at making icons, and wallpapers are too big so I don't really know what to do either, but tumblrs - I can suddenly work with effects I was never capable of using. Yay!





yellow


intense


four squares


romance


angelic


regret


hair


negative space


green


upside down


evil


emotional


close crop


family


sky


glasses


badass


friendship


silhouette


cold


profile


heart


lyrics


black & white


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[personal profile] luminousdaze 2012-02-25 10:43 am (UTC)(link)
Good job! I like all the SPN stuff.

[identity profile] kleinmim.livejournal.com 2012-02-25 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
thanks :)

[identity profile] taxcha.livejournal.com 2012-02-29 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
tumblr graphics are addicting to make!
great job on finishing a blackout bingo :D

I love your coloring in yellow, and nice composition for black and white :)

[identity profile] kleinmim.livejournal.com 2012-02-29 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
They absolutely are! The only thing is that for a while now only made my graphics for land comms, and now I'm realizing that at least most of my gifs are way too big for tumblr (not too much you can do wrong with a 500x500 pic, though, thankfully). When I finally started actually posting stuff yesterday I had to resize everything... (especially the lyrics one!!) I so should have gotten Photoshop CS5 ealier, it makes my life so much easier.

Thank you! :)
And congrats on the blackout to you, too! I thought this was one of those challenges where you see how many points you could get and I really couldn't NOT finish the whole thing :D

[identity profile] taxcha.livejournal.com 2012-02-29 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
But you know tumblr has upgraded their limit to 1 MB per gif, right?
It was super painful when the limit was only 500KB, I had to make tiny little gifs just to maintain the quality.

And yes so much on CS5, before discovering it I used to make gifs using 3 different softwares, so much work.

Yes, I loved this challenge too! It was a lot of fun and I love challenging myself to make better graphics or attempt styles I've never tried before. Points are nice, too, lol!

[identity profile] kleinmim.livejournal.com 2012-02-29 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I know! Wow, I didn't even know it used to be 500 KB, no way I could make that. I use waaay to many frames, that's my problem. :P

I just used GIMP to animate my gifs before (and an older Photoshop version to edit the graphics), and as far as I know you can't influence what it does to your image quality... I even felt stupid making gifs because I thought there had to be a better way. Saved every frame individually, and when something looked wrong (which it did most of the time because of the extreme color reduction without dithering) I basically had to start over. Wow, I'm looking forward to my new life with CS5 now :P
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