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Mar. 27th, 2003 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rubahEh, I should stop going to the dollz shops in sigs galore. They always depress me. And even more now, since Nick is replacing all the picture links with text ones to save space. Gah, it's so awful that he's having to do this:/ but I know it'll be better, but I almost think that not having MH all the time but it looking better is preferable to a more plain MH that is up much more often.
Anyways, about the dollz. I know I'm not an expert, but I'd like to think that if anything, mine are properly done. I know I can't blame them for being beginners, after all, I've been into this for over a year, but it just makes me mad that people would go to people that have less experience, put less effort into, and have less-quality in file typeness over me. So what if I don't do them immediately. I doll when I'm in the mood. And most of my stuff I feel proud of, because, I suppose, I can. Some of them are much better than others, and I'm still learning new techniques (burn, dodge, and noise are my favorites at the moment), but when I look at other people using websafe colors, with the white backgrounds, and with burning on the edge of a selection showing, I can't help but think 'And you let *that* get through? Without trying to overcome it?' I experimented a while when faced with the problem that when selecting something on a higher layer, the lower layers would be mixed in when using the retouch tools, and I solved that with a combination of selecting and layer transparency locking. Doesn't work perfectly, but it makes it a lot better. And the backgrounds, I know matt taught me that a long time ago, but people only have to ask. Might not be too keen on telling them, but I'm sure someone would, at least.
Bleh, I'm just jealous.
Anyways, about the dollz. I know I'm not an expert, but I'd like to think that if anything, mine are properly done. I know I can't blame them for being beginners, after all, I've been into this for over a year, but it just makes me mad that people would go to people that have less experience, put less effort into, and have less-quality in file typeness over me. So what if I don't do them immediately. I doll when I'm in the mood. And most of my stuff I feel proud of, because, I suppose, I can. Some of them are much better than others, and I'm still learning new techniques (burn, dodge, and noise are my favorites at the moment), but when I look at other people using websafe colors, with the white backgrounds, and with burning on the edge of a selection showing, I can't help but think 'And you let *that* get through? Without trying to overcome it?' I experimented a while when faced with the problem that when selecting something on a higher layer, the lower layers would be mixed in when using the retouch tools, and I solved that with a combination of selecting and layer transparency locking. Doesn't work perfectly, but it makes it a lot better. And the backgrounds, I know matt taught me that a long time ago, but people only have to ask. Might not be too keen on telling them, but I'm sure someone would, at least.
Bleh, I'm just jealous.
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Date: 2003-03-27 04:51 pm (UTC)